New Player on the Apple TV

Plex Players Player Betas
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Thanks for finally adding this (maybe I can close my almost three year old post: [Recommendation] Develop a Video Player for the Apple TV 4 (tvOS)). I’m pretty excited about this, especially when the HDR support is added so I won’t need to use other apps to playback my Plex media. A few feedback points right now:

  1. No 10 second jump forward or backward with the Siri remote.
  2. When using my Harmony remotes if I pause I can’t start it playing again unless I used the Siri remote to scrub forward or back and click after scrubbing.
  3. When using the Harmony remote there’s no way to fast forward or rewind.
  4. It says it’s direct playing DTS-HD MA 7.1 audio but I’m only getting 5 channel so I’m guessing I’m only getting the DTS core?
  5. For audio I don’t see anything in the post where you’re planning on direct playing TrueHD 7.1 or DTS-HD MA 7.1 similar to how it’s done in MrMC or Infuse. Is that in the works? Without that you’re still leaving a big gap.
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Thank you so much Plex! This is exactly what i’ve been waiting for years, and was my only problem i ever had with Plex. Thank you for listening to us!

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Yeah. Thanks. Now, how about fixing same issue on nvidia shield?

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Hello @timstephens24

1, 2 and 3 are things we’re working on right now (like, right now :joy:). We wanted to have that in today’s beta but it was impossible, we left it out in the very last minute. Surprisingly, it’s a real pain to handle remote control events reliably in tvOS :neutral_face: We hope we have something soon!

4 is correct, only DTS core

AFAIK 5 is more about paying licenses to support those audio formats. We’re discussing about it internally, but we haven’t taken a decision. Can’t promise anything at this point other than what we have, sorry! :sweat:

Thanks a lot for the feedback! (and patience :sweat_smile:)

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Thanks for the reply! This Thanksgiving I’m thankful for the new Plex player haha.

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With this new foundation we’ll have the ability to improve our format support and will be considering things like this for future improvements. For now, let us know if you encounter any formats where the new player provides a worse experience that the old player!

Happy Thanksgiving :smile:

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Thanks a lot for this :slight_smile:

Does this mean, that you could create a subtitle download UI, which can be used while playing a video, just like in Infuse?

This is the main thing I miss from the Plex Apple TV app.

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Oh my god! This is such GREAT news. Haven’t tried yet but will do as soon as I get home!

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Already exist

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Awesome news!!! Hope TrueHD and DTS MA come, even if they are via some kind of in-app purchase for licenses.

I’m noticing that Mono and Stereo PCM audio transcodes to AAC (tried a few of my Criterion Collection rips). Hope this can come soon, too.

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How do I get this version?..

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You need to be in the beta TestFlight group.

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@sergiou87

You should read the Reddit thread about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/9zd7i1/plex_beta_introduces_mpv_as_video_player_allows/

I know people give the Plex team some hate very often, maybe it’s nice for you to see how much people appreciate this :slight_smile:

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What do you mean it already exists?

You can’t download a subtitle while playing a video in the Apple TV Plex app (you can do it by stopping the movie and using the “More” subtitle function, but that’s not very efficient).

The new Plex player could make this possible :slight_smile:

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Next question. How do I get into the beta TestFlight group?

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Hey @ShaGe !

Can you share logs, XML media info and a sample file with me? More info on how to do that here: New Video Player available in Beta

Maybe the reason it’s transcoding is something different, and then when transcoding it transcodes audio to AAC (for AVPlayer).

Thanks!

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Go here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1CqCFNmyB62K3v63EuaJT8X6zOGKgOeO95fZ8fXda-Cc/viewform?edit_requested=true

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Sure thing. Should get a chance to do that over the weekend, maybe on Sunday. For what it’s worth now, they were audio tracks that are ripped using MakeMKV (no encoding done) and I believe Criterion uses 24bit Linear PCM Mono or Stereo tracks for the older titles. Should have more to share soon!

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Impressive Work, thanks to all.

Thanks:

  • Thumbnails on the seek bark!
  • DTS
  • remote video plays almost immediately.

Feedback:

  • Locally: Seeking works well with ‘Play original quality’ but get the server not adequate before playing with ‘Convert automatically
  • Remotely: Seeking works well with ‘Play original quality’ but not with ‘Convert automatically’

Siri commands:

  • “What did he/she say” goes back 10 seconds
  • “Turn on subtitles” does not
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At the very least it (HD Audio) should come free for Plex Pass users (we already pay after all), but an in app purchase for free users makes sense.

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