I’m going to ask a lot of newbie questions. I set up plex on a windows PC to stream to an nVidia shield TV a while back and use it occassionally but mostly stick with my oppo for streaming because I’m more used to it. The plex has a MUCH richer menu system and great database info on the movies not available on the oppo though. There may be a way to get plex to operate more like what I’m comfortable with but just haven’t figure it out either because of my playback device or lack of effort on my part.
One of the features I love on the oppo is FF (and rewind) 1x, 2x, …5x. I like being able to flip ahead a few seconds to many minutes and see the moment by moment play so I can go back to play at exactly the right moment. Currently my shield (the way I’m using it) only flips ahead about 30 seconds at a time. Also I don’t know how to get it to move foward large amounts without clicking it many times and have it lurch forward, try to play then lurch forward again and so on and so forth. I would love to be able to get a more disc like fast forward and rewind experience if possible? Does anyone know what I can change so it does this?
Plex has no other method of scrolling through media. It MUST use 30s forward or 10s backwards, other than moving around using the progress bar as FordGuy stated.
Mobile (touch-friendly) Plex apps allow you to double tap the left or right side of a screen to do 10s forward or back, which is handy sometimes.
Thank - that is a very sorely missed feature - probably my number one item I miss from my other streaming solution. Do you think this feature could be programmed as a feature in the future or is a limitation that can’t be overcome?
Is this something specific to the Shield build? On my Fire Stick, while watching a movie, if I just tap the >> or << button, it advances 30 seconds or rewinds 10 seconds. If I hold the button, it continues to move forward until I stop it. I don’t have to open up the screen controls and move to the progress bar.
I don’t know, it’s up to the devs. Honestly, I like it this way. I got used to Kodi allowing jumps, as players aren’t really that good at doing smooth FF or RW in their software. This skip method is much better, though I do wish they’d adopt Kodi’s feature where the more often you tap a button within a second, the further it jumps.
I was just saying that those buttons have two functions and you don’t need to go through the extra steps using the ring to get to the progress bar in order to FF/REW at other
I just don’t know if that’s unique to the Fire Stick build or if’s a universal feature.
I think the issue with the way that Plex does FFW/RW on Android is that if you hold the buttons to seek, I would expect the OSD to pop up so you can see the video thumbnails and see where you are fast-forwarding to. That is the way the Roku does it - even if you are only jumping in 30 second clicks - it immediately brings up the video thumbnails so you aren’t “flying blind.”. It is annoying that you have to go through extra steps (and then have a really small thumbnail on top of it all.)
That, mixed with the fact that if you hold the FFW/RW keys without bringing up the progress bar, the UI will continue to show the number of seconds you are skipping (I don’t know about you, but I have no idea what 4,050 seconds corresponds to, so I have no clue how far I am skipping ahead.)
Oh, also, Plex client on Roku has 1x, 2x, 3x FFW/RW, etc… So it’s definitely possible. Just one of many feature parity issues across Plex clients.
