[implemented] UPDATE to latest Exoplayer (android/firetv) --Listen to your customers--

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There have been several improvements to Exoplayer in the past couple years. Plex has not updated to the latest Exoplayer. Thats why we are voting.

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But Plex doesnā€™t update the ExoPlayerā€¦ Google doesā€¦

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Any app chooses itā€™s own player. Itā€™ts time Plex updates theirs. Good apps do this frequently. You canā€™t just keep the same player for eternity, It becomes dysfunctional. Just like if your browser was from several years ago. It begins to glitch and slow down.

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The ExoPlayer replaced the Old Player last Novemberā€¦ It is the new player
When it was introduced back then it was riddled with bugsā€¦
All the clients that used it were in catch up mode as Google tried to fix themā€¦

The worst one just was fixed, Thatā€™s the interlace problem that crashed the Fire Sticksā€¦
Plexā€™s temporary fix was to transcode all video that was interlacedā€¦

And users have the option to use the old player until itā€™s removed by Googleā€¦

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Amazon was havingtrouble interacting with ExoPlayer, and thats why itā€™s even more urgent that Plex update to the latest player.

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I donā€™t understand that statementā€¦

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Amazons fix already in place, its being released. Plex needs to keep up with it.

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Everything on my Fire Sticks work fineā€¦
Havenā€™t had an issue in 2 weeksā€¦

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Amazons update isnā€™t going to fix plexā€™s subtitle issues.

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Thatā€™s true

But it has nothing to do with the ExoPlayer itā€™s self.
That a Plex client / PMS issueā€¦

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Itā€™s time they update the App/player. Thatā€™s why we are voting. Very little works like it should.

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Do a little research. It has everything to do with the player capabilities.

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This is a voting thread. Letā€™s not water it down with confusion.

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The broken App in almost every way, needs an update.

Vote at the top of this thread.

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No confusionā€¦

If you want go look at the Google ExoPlayer issue tabā€¦ there are currently 401 open issuesā€¦

And the latest Plex client is 8.5.1.19778 and thatā€™s only a few weeks oldā€¦

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Ask plex how old itā€™s version is.

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Perhaps you are missing the point completely though my original post and following posts make it very clear.

We all know exoplayer, the core player in the Plex app, is not made by Plex but Google. Plex chooses to incorporate that specific player into their app and custom modify things to suit their platform. Loads of updates containing fixes and improvements have happened since Plexā€™s last update. What we are saying is that at the very least that same exoplayer within their Plex app needs to be updated to the latest version released and or better still swapped to a much better player altogether. Not that hard to understand really.

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The ExoPlayer is part of the Android OS downloaded with the deviceā€¦
If you update the OS you get the latest ExoPlayer thatā€™s availableā€¦

If you want to keep up on the ExoPlayer issue check https://github.com/google/ExoPlayer/issues

There is an active thread in the forum on the subtitle issue with users submitting logs and testing fixesā€¦

and Iā€™m done hereā€¦

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Sorry, you are simply mistaken. This thread and others have gone through it all. PLEX needs to deal with PLEX APP issues including the EXOPLAYER version they CHOOSE to incorporate within it. Regardless of anything, PLEX APP uses whatever player and version PLEX has chosen to build their app around otherwise most of us would likely not have an issue using our own choice of player eg VLC or the latest exoplayer instead of the outdated one within the app.

Great.

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Now the Dolby vision support for MKV is also included in Exoplayer dev-v2 branch! So two issues can now be solved :slight_smile:

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