Feature Request Megathread for SHIELD TV - Join in!

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@danjames92 said:

@HRSCR said:
Request 4K UI for compatible devices, in my case Nvidia Shield.

Are you sure it’s not already rendered at 4K?

Shield upscaling at 4k but the quality is not good, plain backgrounds looks bad.
There’s no justification for the text either

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@HRSCR said:

@danjames92 said:

@HRSCR said:
Request 4K UI for compatible devices, in my case Nvidia Shield.

Are you sure it’s not already rendered at 4K?

Shield upscaling at 4k but the quality is not good, plain backgrounds looks bad.
There’s no justification for the text either

The backgrounds look bad because their generated by the transcoder most of the time which creates awful colour banding. It’s particularly noticeable via Plex for Kodi.

Will add to list.

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@“- NaDs” said:
A feature I would like to see,

Imdb rating as decimals instead of percent.

For example show as 7.8 and not 78%

Does the API allow for this?

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@danjames92 said:

@HRSCR said:

@danjames92 said:

@HRSCR said:
Request 4K UI for compatible devices, in my case Nvidia Shield.

Are you sure it’s not already rendered at 4K?

Shield upscaling at 4k but the quality is not good, plain backgrounds looks bad.
There’s no justification for the text either

The backgrounds look bad because their generated by the transcoder most of the time which creates awful colour banding. It’s particularly noticeable via Plex for Kodi.

Will add to list.

Thank you

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@danjames92 said:

@“- NaDs” said:
A feature I would like to see,

Imdb rating as decimals instead of percent.

For example show as 7.8 and not 78%

Does the API allow for this?

Not sure, I know iOS app and plex web read as decimals

Plex web

iOS

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@“- NaDs” said:

@danjames92 said:

@“- NaDs” said:
A feature I would like to see,

Imdb rating as decimals instead of percent.

For example show as 7.8 and not 78%

Does the API allow for this?

Not sure, I know iOS app and plex web read as decimals

Plex web

Thanks for the pictures to prove it’s possible, will add.

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I think some of these requests become much easier if we could get an updated version of the ExoPlayer. Last I remember seeing, we’re on r1.5.16. Currently, r2.4.3 is the latest release…

So my request is a r2.1.x (or higher) version of the ExoPlayer!!

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@johnny15 said:
I think some of these requests become much easier if we could get an updated version of the ExoPlayer. Last I remember seeing, we’re on r1.5.16. Currently, r2.4.3 is the latest release…

https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/blob/dev-v2/RELEASENOTES.md

So my request is a r2.1.x (or higher) version of the ExoPlayer!!

Actually the current app has a 2.x branch in it used for decoding live TV and software decoding AAC_LATM with plans to expand to other codecs.

For any playback outside of live TV, the 1.5.16 custom ExoPlayer is used.

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That’s interesting but can you confirm how you know that? I haven’t seen any references to ExoPlayer 2.x in any of the release updates. It is a fairly significant jump for Plex.

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@johnny15 said:
That’s interesting but can you confirm how you know that? I haven’t seen any references to ExoPlayer 2.x in any of the release updates. It is a fairly significant jump for Plex.

Exoplayer1 doesn’t allow seek in live streaming, not sure it even allowed live stream at all.

And I remember a dev confirmed somewhere that is used for the audio decoding as mentioned, just don’t remember where.

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@johnny15 said:
That’s interesting but can you confirm how you know that? I haven’t seen any references to ExoPlayer 2.x in any of the release updates. It is a fairly significant jump for Plex.

Yes…

I use Live TV. If you turn on the stats about transcoding it shows ExoPlayer 2.x.

Also live tv wouldn’t work well on 1.5.16 and a dev confirmed it’s ExoPlayer 2.x and support for other codecs than AAC_LATM is coming in software decoding.

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@KarlDag said:

Exoplayer1 doesn’t allow seek in live streaming, not sure it even allowed live stream at all.

And I remember a dev confirmed somewhere that is used for the audio decoding as mentioned, just don’t remember where.

I am aware of the limitations of ExoPlayer 1.x.x but I hadn’t seen any confirmation of ExoPlayer 2.x anywhere else so I wasn’t sure if Plex had hacked something into their older version of the ExoPlayer. Thanks for confirming about the audio decoding.

@danjames92 said:
Yes…

I use Live TV. If you turn on the stats about transcoding it shows ExoPlayer 2.x.

Also live tv wouldn’t work well on 1.5.16 and a dev confirmed it’s ExoPlayer 2.x and support for other codecs than AAC_LATM is coming in software decoding.

Thanks, I’ll have to check that out. The only place I have the beta Plex is on my phone (which doesn’t have any of the TV integration yet) and my Shield…which is in my basement connected to my HT projector setup and gets used mainly for movies. I was tinkering with the timeshifting but didn’t notice the onscreen stats. The timeshifting wasn’t working in the short time I tried it so I went on to watching a movie.

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What do you think about chapters and cast in the info section? I think that needs to be added to the list.

Thank you

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@HRSCR said:
What do you think about chapters and cast in the info section? I think that needs to be added to the list.

Thank you

Yes! At a minimum I would like to see feature parity with the Android mobile app. That is a list looking like this:

Genre:
Director:
Cast: