We’re introducing a great upgrade in terms of video playback experience to our iOS and Apple TV apps! Up until now, we relied on Apple’s AVPlayer for video playback. That was a simple solution, but very limited in many aspects. However, now we’ve added support for mpv : the same higher-quality video …

Released new betas for iOS v5.8 (15736) and tvOS v1.36 (10823) with the following changes: Improved performance of the new player. Fixed support for mov_text subtitles. (iOS only) Added support for double-tap to zoom. (iOS only) Fixed issue with synced videos that would play with no sound. (iOS on…

Released new betas for iOS v5.8 (15818) and tvOS v1.36 (10896) with the following changes: Fixed support for PCM, MP1 and MP2 audio tracks. Fixed bug where playback could start with black screen but audio. (tvOS only) Fixed MANY issues with remote control, added ±10sec gestures, etc. (iOS only) Fi…

Released new beta for tvOS v1.36 (10914) with the following changes: Fixed huge performance issue with videos without seek thumbnails (specially noticeable in Apple TV 4K). Fixed issue where all episodes would have the show art in the Season screen.

Released new betas for iOS v5.9 (16047) and tvOS v1.37 (11119) with the following changes: Fixed many crashes when stopping playback with the new player. Fixed crashes with certain HEVC video files. Fixed problem with wrong tone-mapping algorithm. Added support for VC-1 codec in devices that can p…

Released new betas for iOS v5.9 (16054) and tvOS v1.37 (11125) with the following changes: Fixed an issue where VC-1 would not direct play for some users. Thank you all for your feedback!

Released new betas for iOS v5.10 (16399) and tvOS v1.38 (11467) with the following changes: (tvOS only) Initial support for HDR content played in HDR displays with the enhanced video player. Remember to set the Display Type (in the app settings) to either Auto or HDR if Auto doesn’t work. Fixed st…

We’re still working on the stuttering issue with HDR playback, it’s more challenging than we anticipated. Because of that, we decided to temporarily disable HDR with the enhanced video player until this is fixed. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Released new betas for iOS v5.11 (16550) and tvOS v1.39 (11615) with the following changes: Added Live TV support to the enhanced video player. Added support for deinterlacing videos with the enhanced video player. Enhanced Video Player uses System’s Subtitles & Captioning settings. Fixed crash af…

Over the last few releases, you probably noticed some small improvements in the enhanced video player: Improved subtitle support Now it plays transcoded and remuxed streams (that requires Plex Media Server 1.15.2), reducing the amount of scenarios where video needs to be transcoded. This is the fi…

Early access for Plex Pass users to new Apple TV & iOS Video Player

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sergiou87 December 13, 2018, 8:42pm 8

We found a problem with VC-1 support, you can expect new builds shortly… sorry about that!

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Early access for Plex Pass users to new Apple TV & iOS Video Player

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