I don’t consider desktop clients as much more portable than a ShieldTV, and yet there’s a need. Unfortunately unmetered and fast enough internet isn’t available everywhere yet.
I can see sync for a laptop device being a popular request, as that is a device you can easily use in a portable / offline situation without needing extra screens / devices / power, where as an Android TV is more of a fixed / stuck by your TV device.
Usually but the Nvidia SHIELD TV is a small enough device you can carry it around in a very small backpack. The device’s footprint is very small. This alone makes it’s portable enough to have a use case for sync in my eyes for any business person staying at a hotel for example.
I don’t consider desktop clients as much more portable than a ShieldTV, and yet there’s a need. Unfortunately unmetered and fast enough internet isn’t available everywhere yet.
I can see sync for a laptop device being a popular request, as that is a device you can easily use in a portable / offline situation without needing extra screens / devices / power, where as an Android TV is more of a fixed / stuck by your TV device.
Usually but the Nvidia SHIELD TV is a small enough device you can carry it around in a very small backpack. The device’s footprint is very small. This alone makes it’s portable enough to have a use case for sync in my eyes for any business person staying at a hotel for example.
Especially the 2017 16GB model. Its actually smaller than my 2013 Nexus 7 tablet.
I don’t consider desktop clients as much more portable than a ShieldTV, and yet there’s a need. Unfortunately unmetered and fast enough internet isn’t available everywhere yet.
I can see sync for a laptop device being a popular request, as that is a device you can easily use in a portable / offline situation without needing extra screens / devices / power, where as an Android TV is more of a fixed / stuck by your TV device.
Usually but the Nvidia SHIELD TV is a small enough device you can carry it around in a very small backpack. The device’s footprint is very small. This alone makes it’s portable enough to have a use case for sync in my eyes for any business person staying at a hotel for example.
Exactly. I bring my shield to the camper for rainy days, and on vacation…
MVC Support. I know, I know, that would require nVidia to expose it first, and they have no interest in doing it. I can dream, right?
When refresh rate switching is enabled, don’t switch back to the default refresh rate every time you stop playing content. Instead, defer until you play another piece of media that requires another rate, or the app exits. This would be nice to avoid a lot of screen flickering when watching a bunch of bonus features in quick succession, or for TV auto-play of the next episode, where it’s likely all the content is at the same frame rate.
Show track names for audio and subtitle tracks. I know the server has and exposes the info, since my Samsung Blu-ray player displays it. This is super nice if you have the main audio track, an audio description track, and a commentary track (or two). For subtitles, I have movies with as much as regular English, SDH English, commentary subs, commentary SDH, and trivia/bonus feature tracks. Most of this content is not discoverable, because you just assume if there are multiple tracks, they must be either commentary in the case of audio, or SDH in the case of subs.
MVC Support. I know, I know, that would require nVidia to expose it first, and they have no interest in doing it. I can dream, right?
When refresh rate switching is enabled, don’t switch back to the default refresh rate every time you stop playing content. Instead, defer until you play another piece of media that requires another rate, or the app exits. This would be nice to avoid a lot of screen flickering when watching a bunch of bonus features in quick succession, or for TV auto-play of the next episode, where it’s likely all the content is at the same frame rate.
Show track names for audio and subtitle tracks. I know the server has and exposes the info, since my Samsung Blu-ray player displays it. This is super nice if you have the main audio track, an audio description track, and a commentary track (or two). For subtitles, I have movies with as much as regular English, SDH English, commentary subs, commentary SDH, and trivia/bonus feature tracks. Most of this content is not discoverable, because you just assume if there are multiple tracks, they must be either commentary in the case of audio, or SDH in the case of subs.
MVC support isn’t down to Plex. It’s down to Nvidia so has no place in this list.
Refresh rate switching I agree with so will add.
Tracks names - this is really a Media Server problem, not a client problem as Plex seems adamant in not providing the information embedded in our files so again not really a place for it in this list.
I’d like to see auto-logoff of the currently logged in user, e.g. after some inactivity, or when the screensaver kicks in.
Similar to how Roku logs the current user out after some time.
We have two adult accounts with PIN’s, and three manged accounts, two for kids, one for guests. The managed accounts have age and library restrictions set, the adult accounts none. My kids manage to watch restricted content because the currently logged in user is never logged out.
Compared to the Roku UI, the Shield UI makes switching accounts very difficult, would be good to simplify user switching as well.
I’ve seen other users ask for this, I’ve asked myself, never received a solution, hopefully adding it to feature requests helps.
MVC support isn’t down to Plex. It’s down to Nvidia so has no place in this list.
Yes, as I said, with a grin.
Refresh rate switching I agree with so will add.
Tracks names - this is really a Media Server problem, not a client problem as Plex seems adamant in not providing the information embedded in our files so again not really a place for it in this list.
Do you have solid info on this? The client on my Samsung UHD Blu-ray player, and I believe older Samsung TVs can show the track names. If the server can’t already provide it, how are they getting it? If I view info on a file in Plex Web, it knows the track names, it just doesn’t expose it as a first-class element in the UI.
MVC support isn’t down to Plex. It’s down to Nvidia so has no place in this list.
Yes, as I said, with a grin.
Refresh rate switching I agree with so will add.
Tracks names - this is really a Media Server problem, not a client problem as Plex seems adamant in not providing the information embedded in our files so again not really a place for it in this list.
Do you have solid info on this? The client on my Samsung UHD Blu-ray player, and I believe older Samsung TVs can show the track names. If the server can’t already provide it, how are they getting it? If I view info on a file in Plex Web, it knows the track names, it just doesn’t expose it as a first-class element in the UI.
The solid info is the fact you can’t see the information in PMS because Plex isn’t utilizing it. It may have utilized it at one tim but it’s not anymore and that’s a damn shame.
This was a movie I added yesterday, with PMS 1.7.2.3878. PMS definitely has the info. I’m not at home to take a picture of my Samsung Blu-ray player still showing it, but given the dearth of updates to that device, I doubt it has disappeared.
This was a movie I added yesterday, with PMS 1.7.2.3878. PMS definitely has the info. I’m not at home to take a picture of my Samsung Blu-ray player still showing it, but given the dearth of updates to that device, I doubt it has disappeared.
Last time I checked there wasn’t a Plex app for Samsung bluray players. Using DLNA isn’t using Plex.
The point is that Plex doesn’t currently display the audio track names in PMS so it won’t extend to clients.
You need to check again, then. I have a Samsung UBD-K8500, which definitely has a native Plex app. (My other, older Samsung Blu-ray player, doesn’t have one). I’m not using DLNA. And technically PMS does’t “display” anything. You’re thinking of Plex Web, which is really just another client. And don’t assume just because Plex Web doesn’t show something that it’s not in the PMS API (or the MediaInfo XML in this case - which I can clearly access off my server, meaning any client could access). Case in point - Plex Web no longer distinguishes between DTS and DTS-HD, but as you can see in the screenshot I already posted the media info for that file lists the “ma” profile for the audio track, and on my Shield TV it will display as “DCA-MA”. Of course, I agree with your sentiment that Plex seems to be removing details like this from the UI in general, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Android follows Plex Web and starts showing “vanilla” DTS in an upcoming update, rather than DCA-MA that it shows now.
Oh OK well that client is news to me. I’m not disagreeing with you! They are dumbing down the interface for noobies and it really bugs me. DTS does not encompass every form of DTS. It’s stupid.
I’m sure it’s in the API but they just are being very selective about what they are showing which drives me crazy.
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Oh OK well that client is news to me. I’m not disagreeing with you! They are dumbing down the interface for noobies and it really bugs me. DTS does not encompass every form of DTS. It’s stupid.
I’m sure it’s in the API but they just are being very selective about what they are showing which drives me crazy.
I agree with you on all points here. My point is that if it’s in the API, it’s up to the client (in this case Android) to display it or not. And the Android TV client does have some points for being geared towards the AV enthusiast - it still shows DCA-MA, and bitstreams (on Shield TV at least) lossless tracks (I think I saw somewhere that PMP lost support for decoding lossless tracks, and only decodes the core streams now). So a feature request to show more information – that PMS already exposes – in the same vein is entirely appropriate for this thread. The MVC feature request is not appropriate, because there is a known dependency on Nvidia, which will likely never happen (and I knew that when I posted it, and thought I put enough of a qualifier on it for people to realize the request was tongue-in-cheek).
