The new player app for Mac and Windows desktop apps can be downloaded from our downloads page
Version# 1.0.0
You can read a bit more about it on our blog
Constructive feedback about the new app is welcomed and can be made in our “Desktop Players” forum category:
- Ensure that the topic is tagged with either
player-mac or player-windows.
- Provide specific details to help us look into things. For instance, if you’re reporting a bug, be sure to add explicit Steps to Reproduce.
Frequent Questions
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What about a Linux version? Right now, we’re focusing our resources on macOS and Windows to ensure they receive the best experience they can. It’s certainly possible that we could expand to support Linux in the future, but for now it’ll be Windows and macOS.
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Will you publish the app in the Microsoft Store? We don’t have any immediate plans to bring the new app to the Microsoft Store. That said, we’ve also definitely not ruled out that possibility. For now, the app is available from our Downloads page as a standard, Windows EXE installer.
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Transparency is one of those balancing acts. Too much and it’s hard to change course. Too little and nobody knows where you’re going.
We’re erring on the side of too much. These are the priorities we’ve heard and are committed to working on.
Last update: v1.15.0
Windows
mac
General
- Manual UI scaling. Familiar Zoom In / Zoom Out / Actual Size options in a View menu
Downloads
- Configurable file system location for downloaded media
Playback
- Subtitle formatting (size, color, position of text based subs)
Future Considerations
We’re listening to user feedback and discussing the following topics. We’ll share more information when available.
- Allow for selection of a larger network buffer
- Audio and subtitle delay adjustments in player
- Configurable video aspect ratio
- Plex for Linux
- Gapless music
- Improved touch screen support
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Version 1.1.0 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac.
This release brings fixes for issues that caused pain to many Windows users. Follow the directions below will score you the update immediately. Otherwise the update will be downloaded and installed automatically through typical app usage.
- Restart Plex. The update will be downloaded automatically.
- Wait 2 minutes
- Restart Plex. The update will be installed immediately at launch. It is an interactive installer for v1.0 to v1.1. This will be improved in updates from v1.2 onwards.
Fixed
- Windows: Application scaling default to system’s display scale, instead of 100%, when the PLEX_SCALE_FACTOR environment variable is not set.
- Windows: Application scaling supports additional PLEX_SCALE_FACTOR values: 2.5, 3.0, 3.5. This better accommodates scaling on UHD screens.
- Windows: Prevent Visual C++ runtime installer from immediately rebooting some user systems after install.
- Windows: Automatic updates will correctly default to non default installation paths for Plex versions > 1.1.0.
- Windows: Automatic updates will prompt for update consent before starting update for Plex versions > 1.1.0.
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Version 1.2.0 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac.
This release brings fixes for Downloading TV and Podcast shows as well as quality of life improvements for Windows users. Following the directions below will score you the update immediately . Otherwise, the update will be downloaded and installed automatically through typical app usage.
- Restart Plex. The update will be downloaded automatically.
- Wait 2 minutes
- Restart Plex. The update will be installed immediately at launch.
New
- Updater: v1.2 -> v1.3 and beyond no longer present an interactive updater on Windows.
- Updater: v1.2 -> v1.3 and beyond automatically start Plex for Mac and Plex for Windows after updating.
Fixed
- Downloads: Corrected “Next X episodes” management.
- Downloads: Ensure media analysis is accurate before download.
- Player: Correct starting playlist playback at an item that’s not the first.
- Player: Corrected downloaded codecs not being used.
- Player: Fixed direct streamed and transcoded playback of already downloaded media.
- Windows: Fixed Alt+Enter not toggling fullscreen.
- Windows: Fixed Plex capturing media keys without active audio/video playback.
- Windows: Fixed back and forward mouse button handling.
- Updater: Installer runs and launches Plex as current user instead of admin.
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Version 1.3.0 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac.
This release continues to improve behavior of the Downloads feature. It also improves our handling of caching during playback and rendering of the UI. Gone is the dreaded black screen on macOS from 1.0 and the poor mouse cursor behavior that landed with 1.2.
Following the directions below will score you the update immediately . Otherwise, the update will be downloaded and installed automatically through typical app usage.
- Restart Plex. The update will be downloaded automatically.
- Wait 2 minutes
- Restart Plex. The update will be installed immediately at launch.
New
Fixed
- Downloads: When playing local media but online, immediately sync play progress to server.
- Downloads: Fixed crash when download destination doesn’t exist.
- Downloads: Fixed external subtitles being missing in downloads.
- Downloads: Fixed attempting to use illegal characters from an album name in a directory name.
- General: Handle the individual play and pause keys (not play/pause toggles) found on some input devices.
- General: Fix mouse cursor not showing hover or text input cursors.
- Player: Improved caching, seeking, and resuming behavior.
- Mac: automatic updates retain code signing.
- Mac: enable OpenGL 4.1 to prevent black screen issues on some systems.
- Windows: detect and enable OpenGL ES version 3 or version 2.
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Version 1.3.1 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac.
Last release, 1.3.0, introduced a regression that caused the first download on fresh installations to fail. We apologize this slipped out, our pre-release testing contains testing on existing and fresh installations going forward.
Following the directions below will score you the update immediately . Otherwise, the update will be downloaded and installed automatically through typical app usage.
- Restart Plex. The update will be downloaded automatically.
- Wait 2 minutes.
- Restart Plex. The update will be installed immediately at launch.
New
Fixed
- Downloads: Fixed incorrect season number displayed for downloaded seasons.
- Downloads: Fixed failures downloading for the first time.
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Version 1.4 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac
New
- Updated web-client to 4.10.0-d598d9212
- Updated plex-media-server to 1.18.0.1839-b2f2111e9
Fixed
- Downloads: Changed references from recordings -> downloads in sync code
- Downloads: Improved download subscriptions involving unwatched episodes
- General: Improve offline support, avoid dreaded “Plex is not reachable” message
- General: Qt has been updated to 5.13.1
- Mac: Catalina support
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Version 1.4.1 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac
Fixed
- General: A user’s Plex Pass features could be ignored if starting the app with
Automatically Sign In disabled
Version 1.5 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac
New
- Updated web-client to 4.18.1-e7350d142-5474
Fixed
- Playback: Fixed subtitle size handling
- Playback: Fixed issues selecting subtitles when video has embedded and external subtitles
- Playback: Updated FFmpeg to correct MPEG2 decoding on Windows and several driver issue fixes for hardware transcode
- Downloads: Removed
DVR: in some log lines
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Version 1.6.2 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac.
New
Fixed
- Repair broken poster and background upload using the file browser.
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Version 1.6.3 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac.
This issue addresses a regression in our installer which resulted in the installer displaying an improper icon and incorrect license. Version 1.6.2 will not automatically update to version 1.6.3 as version 1.6.3 only address an installation-time regression.
Fixed
- Restored proper behavior of the Windows installer’s icon and license.
Version 1.6.5 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac.
Fixed
- Correct issues preventing automatic update to future application versions.
Important Announcement
Although Plex for Windows officially supports Windows 10 it has also worked on older Windows versions. We’re making changes to the application which require support for OpenGL version 3. Many older Windows systems use graphic drivers that do not support Open GL version 3.
- Version 1.9.x will be the last version that supports graphic drivers supporting only Open GL version 2. We’ll disable automatic updates for affected users.
- Version 1.10.x will be the first version that requires Open GL version 3.
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Version 1.8.0 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac.
New
- Updated web-client/4.31.0-102e126b6-7613
- Updated plex-media-server to plex-media-server/1.18.8.2527-740d4c206
- Player: Interlaced content is now automatically deinterlaced
Fixes
- General: Qt has been updated to 5.14.1.
- Windows: Handling of display scales other than 100%, 200%, 300% etc is finally correct. Support for the
PLEX_SCALE_FACTOR workaround has been removed.
- Windows: Use OpenGLES3 for all Windows versions.
- Downloads: Fix root cause of “We were unable to prepare your download…” errors.
- Downloads: Displayed total download size updates during download.
- Downloads: Pref to delete watched episodes
On next refresh would result in not deleting episodes for 100 days.
Important Announcement
Although Plex for Windows officially supports Windows 10 it has also worked on older Windows versions. We’re making changes to the application which require support for OpenGL version 3. Many older Windows systems use graphic drivers that do not support Open GL version 3.
Update: The requirements for Open GL >= 3 is not yet being enforced as outlined in the text below. We’ll update as plans develop.
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Version 1.9.x will be the last version that supports graphic drivers supporting only Open GL version 2. We’ll disable automatic updates for affected users.
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Version 1.10.x will be the first version that requires Open GL version 3.
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Version 1.8.1 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac.
New
- Updated web-client/4.31.3-c04308f03-8086.
Fixes
- General: Restored missing fullscreen button in the application’s top bar.
Version 1.8.2 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac.
New
- Updated web-client/4.31.4-0272c4730-8113.
Fixes
- General: Restored missing activity count in the application’s top bar.
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Version 1.9.0 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac
New
- Updated web-client/4.32.1-4b8286210-8295.
- Playback: Configurable audio device output including passthrough of supported codecs.
- Playback: Seek bar now shows range of buffered range.
Fixes
- General: Quitting the application while in true fullscreen will restart the app in true fullscreen.
- General: Quitting the application while maximized will restart the app in a (correctly) maximized window.
- General: Fullscreen or maximized window restored at startup can be returned to its previous window size
- Mac: Window will minimize as expected when Command+M is pressed.
- Playback: RealMedia (RealVideo 4 video and Cooker audio) will now direct play. We have follow-up work required to fallback to transcode when direct play is unavailable.
- Windows: Investigated issues reported on multimonitor setups.
Version 1.10.0 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac
New
- Updated to web-client/4.33.0-e107b91ad-8400.
Fixes
- Playback: Prevent DNS rebinding protection from interfering with sidecar subtitle downloading.
- General: Support for IPv4 and IPv6 while working around DNS rebinding protection.
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Version 1.11.0 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac
New
- Updated to web-client/4.34.2-60b338715-8963.
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Version 1.12.0 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac
New
- Updated to web-client/4.35.1-a66f3eaf5-9361.
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Version 1.12.1 has been released for Plex for Windows and Plex for Mac
This release addresses a long standing playback stuttering issue traced back to plex.ini updates during playback: Stuttering on Plex for Windows.
New
- Updated to web-client/4.35.2-719f3c778-9501.
Fixed
- Prevent playback stuttering which was resolvable by making
plex.ini read-only.
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