Greetings Plex pros! Welcome to our second annual Fireside in the Forums event! For those of you who don’t know me from last year’s event, my name is Kevin and I’m a Director of Engineering at Plex. This week, I’m thrilled to be here in the forums, along with several other Plex insiders chatting w…

[image] PseudoTV Feature Suggestions Hi everyone! Just hopping in here to call out that this is something of interest for us! We won’t be releasing it soon but it is on our radar and we are trying to make sure that when we build it we make it as good as it can be. Stay tun…

Will you reconsider the Watched vs. Unwatched indicator change or will you at least include a clientside (or better account side) option for that?

Hey @McWanke . We appreciate Plex committing to these annual fireside events and hope good things will come of them. One of the long-standing issues for Plex has been how to manage access to discover features/content for managed users. Plex’s position has been clear on this as articulated perfectly b…

In the last Fireside you guys said you would be more responsive to feedback and work to address some longstanding problems, as well as increasing build quality. I think it is fair to say that overall, you have kept your word, so thanks. Please keep up the good work. My own highest priority remains …

[image] pommesmatte: Will you reconsider the Watched vs. Unwatched indicator change or will you at least include a clientside (or better account side) option for that? Hey @pommesmatte !! :wave: We worked really hard earlier this year to make sure that the watched vs unwatched behavior was s…

One feature that I enjoy is season and episode specific featurettes for tv shows. My two questions: 1.) Will season specific featurettes/extras for a show be adopted to all streaming devices? It is currently on Ipad and IOS products, but hoping that it will come to Fire TV. 2.) Can you add com…

Hi all, thanks for doing this again, just wanted to add few questions to this. Don’t plan to add Dolby Vision profile 8 support to the Apple TV client Can we get an option the the Apple TV to output all audio as LPCM allowing HD audio in some degree to the Apple TV side You mentioned earlie…

The info overlay has not worked on Android TV for the longest time (although there is still the setting to turn it on or off) I think it has been replaced with Nerd Settings, Can the rest of us (Not just Ninjas and Staff) please have Nerd Stats for Android TV: [image] Plex …

[image] McWanke: We worked really hard earlier this year to make sure that the watched vs unwatched behavior was standardized across all clients. That was definitely an area where we found a few inconsistencies. Since this has been released, we have received some good feedback like yours around …

Plex Fireside in the Forum 2024

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McWanke August 26, 2024, 4:18pm 4

Definitely still on our radar! We took a few detours this year to work on improving things like downloads which has pushed back some of our target feature additions, this being one of them. This work along with some key foundational work will unlock a lot of doors for us going forward. Unfortunately this feature won’t be delivered in 2024 but is still on our radar and is a priority for the team!

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