These announcements cover releases to the Plex for Smart TVs preview available to Plex Pass members. Supported devices are primarily Opera TV based devices from Sony, Vizio, and more.

January 23 2018 • 3.13.9 NEW: TiVo: Direct play 10bit HEVC. Works best with lower quality 4K content. TiVo: Remove the ability to Direct Stream videos using HEVC video codec. We’ve filed a bug report with TiVo. webOS: Identify webOS displays and capabilities using platform library. webOS: New Set…

January 25 2018 • 3.13.10 FIXED: Hisense: Correct identification issue causing startup failure ( thread ). webOS: Include support for mpeg2video video codecs within MKV containers.

January 30 2018 • 3.13.11 FIXED: webOS: Revert changes to playback initialization, in webOS 1 and 2, which may result in the inability to resume playback at a non-zero time position. webOS: Remove AVI direct play capabilities from webOS 1 and 2. webOS 3 continues to play AVI files with MPEG4 and …

March 06 2018 • 3.13.13 FIXED: All: Prevent the movie and tv show detail page for the first poster in a hub or list from mistakingly loading much more data than necessary. This could lead to devices freezing or crashing. All: Mixed photo and video libraries will progress through slideshows correc…

April 10 2018 • 3.13.15 This is a release for only LG webOS devices. FIXED: webOS: Correct 3.13.9 regression which prevented resuming Direct Stream and transcoded video playback at an offset on webOS 1.

April 11 2018 • 3.13.16 This is a release for only LG webOS devices. FIXED: webOS: Correct 3.13.15 video playback regression for webOS 3+ displays.

May 8 2018 • 3.13.18 This is a release for only LG webOS devices. NEW: webOS: Allow PlexPass users on UHD webOS 3+ displays to preview the v2 version

May 24 2018 • 3.13.20 This is a release for only LG webOS devices. NEW: webOS: Allow all users on UHD webOS 3+ displays to preview the v2 version

Two updates for LG webOS, the first for v1 and the second for v2. Version: 3.13.23 Platform(s): LG webOS NEW: webOS: v3 and v4 UHD users are redirected to the v2 app automatically Note: UHD webOS v2 users are able to opt into early access, we’re still working on expanding early access to other…

Version: 3.60.2 Platform(s): LG webOS NEW Added additional logging for startup failures FIXED Fixed erroneous buffering indicator appearing (#11590)

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April 11 2018 • 3.13.16

This is a release for only LG webOS devices.

FIXED:

webOS: Correct 3.13.15 video playback regression for webOS 3+ displays.

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