Not many people. Apart from the syncing (which is sooo broken right now), everything it does can already be done in the Web App. Meaning a way worse experience than PMP.
To me, this just looks like a “gesture”.
“Ok we’re killing this, let’s throw them a bone, to at least make them believe that we try”
yep, it’s a pacifier to keep us busy while they kill it completely. It’s just the web app in a windowed package.
I doubt they’ll kill it, at least for a long time. The browser version can’t direct play anything but h264.
Edit:
But Direct Play is near useless on its own, without audio passthrough!
This. Audio passthrough is everything.
Looking at emby now to see if it will work instead.
That is incorrect.
The web client uses whatever web video player it comes with.
The desktop apps continue to use mpv for the backend video playback, just like PMP.
[Full disclosure: I like PMP so I’m not defending Plex, just chatting about the situation]
Plex has plainly stated that this isn’t meant as an HTPC product anymore, which was the primary reason for passthrough. I’m aware that sucks for everyone who currently has embedded/PMP set up and working, that’s not meant as a dismissal of your frustration.
I’m just comparing the new Plex for Windows to PlexWeb, and why Plex is unlikely to dump it in the near term (because it direct-plays basically everything locally). Not that I don’t appreciate why users would be worried about Plex retiring a product after previously releasing it with much fanfare.
I know I am a techie, as many on here may be, but to the non techie, the new app IS just the web app repackaged. Regardless of what is going on in the backend, the front end is EXACTLY the same.
That doesn’t make it correct. I’m only provding correct information.
The fact is, UNO is the frontend being deployed across all clients.
Spreading misinformation (or letting it go unchallenged) is not helpful 
Oh I am completely aware of what Plex has said about it, but that still raises more questions than it answers… Who is the target audience? Who was is designed for?
Anyone using their desktop or laptop to view media. Like I do when I’m traveling. It’s a desktop app for desktop users.
I assume their target is anyone using a desktop or a laptop with speakers who want to play media.
Please do not accuse me of spreading misinformation. And I think you may be being a little too literal here.
To the non techie who doesn’t understand nor care about what is going on behind the scenes, they will simply see what they see. That is what I was stating!
So, what was wrong with the web app for those people then?
Hmmm… Now why would someone want to install a product that “from their non techie point of view” does nothing different than their browser.
It has inferior playback ability (e.g. only h.264). The desktop app has mpv player for the backend (I can play HDR/4K/10b on my MacBook Air for example).
Because they’ll learn the hard way that it does.
They’ll also learn that it’s currently broken, and that it could (and most likely will) be phased out at any moment’s notice.
Or not… My boss has PMP installed on his work PC, still ends up using Plex web. Not for any reason other than that’s what he does.
Just like any other product I’ve used in the past 20 years.
