@danjames92 said:
People’s definitions vary with word alpha.
Feature complete with all the issues in the known issues thread resolved, I would then consider it a beta and open it up to more users for more wide scale testing for a few weeks but that’s just my opinion. I’m not a developer, just a thorough and excited user.
Then I guess to you, nothing is ever past beta. Hell, there was ‘promised’ gmail features in that still aren’t there, even after they dropped beta (worked in labs, doesn’t work anymore)
That’s quite a high bar to achieve, I’ve never known a single piece of software that solved all the known issues…
The managed user issue is harder than expected, and appears may be a Kodi issue… Still investigating.
I consider this a beta, since its fully functional. Beta’s have bugs. Alpha is core base functionality doesn’t exist. IMO, this is almost good enough for a v1 release right now, but I can’t make that call.
I suppose not. In all honesty, I just want to see every client reach it’s maximum potential as I’m sure Plex do too. After suffering through a solid 9 months of abysmal Android TV client releases where it would stutter and drop frames constantly, I’m sure you can see where I’m coming from. I suppose me calling it an alpha is a little harsh considering the UI is as polished as it currently is. I think if Plex Companion support was there, I would consider it a beta.
I thought it’s a devs job to try and strive to do the best for the client (the software, not the people )?
Speaking of I’ve added a feature request / enhancement on the Github for your perusal / consideration. This one is dear to me and has rubbed me up the wrong way with the way Plex has handled it so far but appreciate your consideration none the less.
@danjames92 asking us to do things differently than how other Plex apps is doing it is pointless, because this is an official add-on. Please don’t create GHI for ‘discussion’ topics such as that in the future. I would prefer you open up a thread here, and ask if you can. And please, if I close a GHI, don’t continually comment on the closed GHI, open up a thread here.
@reddwarfcrew Chapter support is on the list. And it’s not an ‘autostart issue’. It’s a ‘Kodi is buggy’ issue. So if someone knows c++… it’d be useful.
@keithah said: @danjames92 asking us to do things differently than how other Plex apps is doing it is pointless, because this is an official add-on. Please don’t create GHI for ‘discussion’ topics such as that in the future. I would prefer you open up a thread here, and ask if you can. And please, if I close a GHI, don’t continually comment on the closed GHI, open up a thread here.
@reddwarfcrew Chapter support is on the list. And it’s not an ‘autostart issue’. It’s a ‘Kodi is buggy’ issue. So if someone knows c++… it’d be useful.
You made your point perfectly clear on GH thank you. Curious as to why if Plex is going to employ the quite frankly ridiculous decision to maintain all flavours of DTS as DTS, why it isn’t consistent across clients? I guess it’s a question for the Android TV developers.
@reddwarfcrew Chapter support is on the list. And it’s not an ‘autostart issue’. It’s a ‘Kodi is buggy’ issue. So if someone knows c++… it’d be useful.
I did C++ at the Open University… never put it into practice. I’m a VB person.
Even if this app never matures any more and is just kept to work with PMS then I’d be happy :).
So, as a developer I consider software that is not feature complete as Alpha. Once you decide on the feature set you will support for a release then it becomes beta. You strive to fix any/all bugs and then you release. Once released you then look at any enhancements/bugs you missed.
You have to put a line in the sand and say this is your feature set for V1 otherwise you will never get a release out.
I know C++ but haven’t used it in 10 years. How would that be useful?
I would have to agree that this is still alpha. Not because of the quality of the work or the quality of the plugin. If you said what is there now is the feature set of V1 I would say this is even past beta into the RC range. But you have said you plan to add plex companion and some other things before releasing so my definition its alpha. But it really is semantics.
What is now is definitely is MORE than we planned for V1. Plex Companion before public release but we never planned on waiting for companion support for the general public to see it.
But it really is semantics. I don’t control when this add-on gets publicly released, so we’ll just continue on the path we are on, until told otherwise.
@Valdhor Kodi is written in C++, mainly, and since its an issue there, if someone is talented enough to figure it out, it would benefit this project, but that entire platform as well.
@keithah said:
Kodi is written in C++, mainly, and since its an issue there, if someone is talented enough to figure it out, it would benefit this project, but that entire platform as well.
Whilst I understand the code over at Kodi Github it would take many months to get up to speed with the entire project. Unfortunately I just don’t have that kind of time right now. Hopefully someone already on that project can figure it out.
If theres no companion it did not happen!. lol. Or because you made a repo no one noticed. I have noticed a few times the dashboard screens showing the no content message under all the shows and movies.
@keithah said:
What, nobody noticed the new build?! It’s been out for almost 2 days! And no, still no Plex companion, altho it’s being worked on as we speak.
If there was a thread in Release Announcements or in here with patch notes, I would’ve known.
Just about to rip some multipart movies so will test it out.
Not sure how that would help us, unless you mean you mean the adaptive bitrate streaming part? And I hope Plex gets it someday, without, MPEG-DASH is the same usefulness as HLS/etc. But it’ll be tricky, since providers do adaptive bitrate with pre-transcoded media in every format needed, and Plex doesn’t have that luxury.
@keithah said:
Not sure how that would help us, unless you mean you mean the adaptive bitrate streaming part? And I hope Plex gets it someday, without, MPEG-DASH is the same usefulness as HLS/etc. But it’ll be tricky, since providers do adaptive bitrate with pre-transcoded media in every format needed, and Plex doesn’t have that luxury.
I thought you said the adaptive side would help with the handling of seek behaviour when Plex begins to support it in time?
Hell, there was ‘promised’ gmail features in that still aren’t there, even after they dropped beta (worked in labs, doesn’t work anymore)
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