There are separate notes for mobile (https://forums.plex.tv/t/android-mobile-beta-release-notes/) vs TV (https://forums.plex.tv/t/release-announcements-android-tv-beta/).
Thanks Iâm aware, I was really wanting to know if anything had changed or 8.32 is still the planned release
It has been decided when the demuxer will be in the Android TV beta. Yes, it will be announced when it is. I canât say what version it will be though.
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It would just be nice if there would be some feedback from your side. I have addressed various points and sent logs but until today none of you has commented on it. You really donât have to wonder that less and less people participate in such tests if you donât take them seriously and want to solve the problems that are undoubtedly present with them.
@thomy22 I only recently got involved in this thread so I donât know if anyone had looked at your logs before. I took a quick look and from what I saw, it appears it is transcoding because direct playback failed. For the constant spinner, looks like the video is constantly trying to seek 30s ahead until it hits the end of the file where it errors but doesnât stop.
Are you able to reproduce this consistently with a specific file? It may be the way the file is encoded. Can you make a sample of that file, see if it reproduces the error, then provide me that sample?
Hi! Nice to see the app being continuously improved.
The stable version crashes randomly after 15 to 30 minutes for me when playing larger files, so I tried this version to see if the problem went away, but unfortunately it didnât. 
I posted logs for both the stable app and the nightly if you would like to compare the two:
Hi guys , is this implemented in latest android beta? 8.31âŠ
Only on mobile.
Where did you get the information that the new demuxer is in the mobile version?
There were never any problems with the mobile version, at least not from my side. But always only with the Sony TV or the Shield where I had the problem and most in the forum write only from these devices.
It would fit to Plex that you do something like that, because the support is once again terrible. For weeks no feedback or new test versions. That this happens with so many devices constantly is really an indictment.
plex staff have stated it
Iâm with you there. Iâm pretty certain the Plex app broke for Sony TVs and Shield devices just about a year ago. A solid year of following threads on this forum hoping against all hope that weâd get an app that works as well as it once did.
So watching now how itâs getting fixed for all the devices that didnât have these issues in the first place is a bit annoying, I have to say.
the mobile and androidtv apps are essentially the same (just with different frontends) so it make sense to test on the one with least impact first - which is for mobile
nothing really annoying about it, plex are actually doing something right for the first time in properly testing something before releasing it more widely.
I agree with you when it comes to new functions. Proper testing and slow careful integration makes a lot of sense.
But here we are talking about a problem which makes all Sony TVâs almost unusable and that as many have already written not like the sound problem currently for a few weeks on Samsung TVâs that is only a few weeks present, but that you can no longer start 80% of the files or if then only with extreme effort by trying X times and starting over and over again. And this is not just for a few days / weeks but for more than half a year. For months the programmers have done nothing at all and said again and again that they could not reproduce the problem, although numerous users like me have sent log files constantly. Now that they have obviously finally found the problem, they have been waiting for 3 months to finally implement it.
Sorry but for me this has nothing to do with a good service but simply with the fact that one wants to have certain devices probably deliberately not good usable. Probably the people of Plex have shares of Nvidia or Roku to move the users through the back door to buy such devices and then profit. Otherwise, it is for me not to explain why again and again (Iâve been around for almost 10 years and have gone through this many times with many devices) happens.
The worst thing is that you hardly get any information from the programmers. You try to help with logs, information and ask questions and you are just ignored. Iâve written it a few times but Iâm sticking to it. Plex is just shamelessly lucky that there is no viable competition that does it better. Otherwise thousands would have left long ago and they have been mercilessly exploiting this for years and only doing the bare minimum.
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Until PLEX realizes they need to either hire a full-time dev team or make the clients open-source, itâs just going to continue to be a nightmare. PLEX started out as the BEST software to play our local media⊠it has turned into a 30-armed monster and none of the arms seem to know what the others are doing.
I was half-excited when this ânightlyâ build that focused on fixing major issues surfaced two months ago. Still waiting for a 2nd ânightlyâ build and literally none of my questions have been answered. I may try it out every few months to see if they miraculously recover, but Iâm moving on and not holding my breath.
i am not vouching for anything but try emby or jellyfin. At leat you get proper response from devs
Looks like the new demuxer has gone into the 9.1.x beta for Android TV - according to the release notes anyway
The latest beta Plex for Android 9.1.0.31720-beta with the new demuxer seems to fix the frame freezing at startup issue. I will keep testing.
I installed it, and so far so good. Havenât tested extensively though.
Yep, and it still has the âAutoplay Nextâ bugs that have plagued all of these new demuxer builds. Sigh.
Iâm no longer seeing the âplay nextâ problem on the new beta (9.1.0.31720).
