Oct 27, 2.4.31
The Plex Pass requirement has been removed from Smart TV devices. The Plex for Smart TVs app is free on all devices. Huge THANKS to our Plex Pass members for testing and providing feedback during the preview period!
Heaps of good for many devices. Our Sony Bravia televisions, VIZIO televisions, and LG NetCast television devices got a big level up with direct play MKV video support. UHD capable VIZIO televisions can now play MKV and MP4 4K videos with the HEVC codec. Our supported media formats documentation will be updated shortly.
Also, music transcoding is now enabled on all devices. Plex Media Server 0.9.12.0 is required. A huge benefit for some users, we hope you enjoy!
NEW:
- Removed Plex Pass requirement from all Smart TV devices.
- Add music transcoding support on all devices.
- Music direct play updates for most devices.
- Video direct play updates for most devices.
- Reduced key throttle delay. Some devices will benefit from faster repeat key input.
FIXES:
- Focus loss when opening music player from mini player.
KNOWN ISSUES:
- Weâre looking into issues of unexpected video playback problems on LG devices and loading problems other devices. Weâve recreated the issue intermittently and attempting to isolate. Stay tuned.
October 27, 2.4.32
Quick follow-up to address problems around startup for our users on Opera TV platforms. Includes Sony Bravia televisions, VIZIO televisions, and TiVo devices.
NEW:
- TV Show pre-play screens display an Info icon in the action bar on the left for consistency with other pre-play screens.
FIXES:
- Possible fix for gray boxes and server connectivity trouble seen at startup on Opera devices.
October 28, 2.4.33
Increments the version number for most Smart TV clients although it contains only a webOS configuration change.
FIXES:
- Disable HTTPS communication with Plex Media Servers.
October 30, 2.4.34
Shaking free of a few more bugs. No tricks only treats!
FIXES:
- Remove misleading âPlex Pass Previewâ text from the welcome screen.
- Plex Companion network handling changes avoid persistent connections and retry more slowly when connections are lost.
- Correct a race condition which would lead to the inability to load Channels.
December 18, 2.4.41
Weâve got some treats baking for next week. In the meantime this is a TiVo only release. Weâre hoping this lands in time for you all to start the holiday off with plenty of classic shows!
FIXES:
- TiVo Bolt devices running the Fall 2015 update are able to again able to connect with Plex Media Servers. We corrected an issue which made non-secure connections to your Plex Media Server impossible.
- The Plex app uses secure connections by default. Although, secure connections can be disabled by a serverâs âNetwork > Secure Connectionsâ setting. Secure connections can also be prevented by home routers which disable DNS rebinding. The application now correctly falls back to non-secure connections to your Plex Media Server when secure connections are disabled or prevented.
December 22, 2015, 2.5.1
The 2.5.1 release brought music lyrics support to Smart TV and TiVo devices. We held off on posting a message in this thread until our newsletter introduced the feature.
Unfortunately, it also brought a lot connectivity issues - especially for Vizio, Sony, and TiVo users. Itâs a funny thing: no matter what sort of testing we do, these Opera based devices always find ways to deceive us.
After users reported connectivity issues, one colleague was able to reproduce the issue on one device and only against the production release - our testing releases didnât show the same failure. Short of it? Weâll bring music lyrics support back after the holidays and after we understand why many users were affected.
December 23, 2015, rollbacks!
We apologize for the troubles!
If your families are anything like mine, weâve been using Plex to catch up on decades of holiday specials. We hope restoring the older releases will provide you and yours stable media playback for the holidays.
- TiVo devices were rolled back to 2.4.41
- All other Smart TV devices were reverted to 2.4.36
February 17, 2016, 2.5.5
The 2.5.1 release and rollback left a really bad taste in our mouth and a lot of reports of user frustration. The parts of the application responsible for startup, connecting to Plex Media Servers, and managing user setting were thoroughly reviewed and improved. Along the way we added some highly requested features too.
NEW:
- Allow displaying lyrics when theyâre available for a track.
- Search the current media server for music and videos.
- Privacy > Usage Analytics setting enables users to opt out of application
usage tracking.
- Privacy > Network Logging setting enables users to send diagnostic logging to
their Plex Media Server.
- Manual server configuration enables direct IP and port access to Plex Media
Servers which are not currently signed into a Plex Home. Not available on
Vizio, Sony, TiVo, or other devices running the Opera SDK.
- Watch Later or Recommended videos, movies, episodes, seasons, and entire shows
can deleted.
- Entire shows and individual seasons can be marked as watched or unwatched.
FIXES:
- Resiliency: Ensure application startup initialization functions as intended.
- Resiliency: Server connectivity issues during startup are handled gracefully
and present detailed recovery information based on an analysis of the server,
environment, and device configurations.
- Resiliency: Improve Opera Cross Network protection workaround to avoid known
bad situations.
- Resiliency: Clear application settings on sign out.
- User experience: Better recognition of casual presses to the Play button. If
thereâs something playable nearby weâll play it.
- User experience: Fast forward (>>) and rewind (<<) can be used to paginate
more quickly through lists.
- User experience: Skip forward (>|) and skip back (|<) can be used to change
from any preplay or detail screen to its sibling.
- User experience: Polish our selection of focusable items, modal presentation,
and loading ... feedback.
- User experience: Accept all key presses to non-repeating keys.
- User experience: Improved photo player and video playlist interactions.
- Plex Companion: Casting videos from a local PMS correctly uses Local playback
quality setting.
- Plex Companion: Many stability improvements for controlling smart TVs.
- Channels: Unsupported or channels with errors present an error message inline.
- Vizio: 4K televisions will allow direct playback of 10-bit HEVC video streams.
- TiVo: requires MP4 be Web Optimized for direct playback
- TiVo: handles to losses in network connectivity
- Sony: Probable fix for scrolling error reported by a user on a device actually
running Opera 11.
February 26, 2016, 2.5.7
This is a stabilization release addressing user reported issues.
NEW:
FIXES:
- Fixed the Search icon missing for some users.
- Fixed startup issues on Opera SDK devices primarily including Vizio and Sony.
- Fixed trouble signing out on the same devices devices.
- Fixed trouble automatically reconnecting to a media server when we display the
Unable to Connect to <Server Name> screen.
- Worked around bug in Vizioâs 1.9 firmware which caused no posters or fanart to display.
May 5, 2016, 2.6.3
Weâve added and improved several features while adding some device specific changes and fixes.
NEW:
- Mobile server support. Access videos and photos stored on your iOS, Android, and Windows Phone mobile devices on your Smart TV.
- Cloud Sync support. Access media hosted on a variety of cloud hosting providers.
- At long last, video and photo playlists are playable.
- An optional 12-hour or 24-hour clock can be enabled in the Settings > Main dialog.
- Reworked search integration for easier navigation into and out of Search.
- Users with only Watch Later and Recommended online content can use the application without a server of their own.
FIXES:
- General: Improved handling of marking movies/shows/seasons/episodes watched or unwatched
- General: Fixed empty screens displaying when viewing movie extras
- General: TV devices will show up as available for casting from more mobile devices.
- LG/General: We think squashed a bug which wreaked performance havoc on some devices.
- PSX/General: Users with non-video-transcoding servers (NAS) can play transcoded music tracks.
- PSX: Prevent application crashes viewing some premium music content.
- PS4: Updated reaction to app being backgrounded.
- TiVo: Remove the web optimized requirement for MP4 files. User feedback overwhelmingly suggests the change was - problematic for many users.
- TiVo: Limit Series 5 Roamio and Mini running Opera SDK 4 TiVo devices to 720p.
- Vizio: CNP safely accesses IP directly from Vizio system info.
KNOWN ISSUES:
- TiVo: Weâre working with TiVo on several playback issues on Series 5 and 6 boxes. Including:
- Series 5/6: out of sync audio after seeking a transcode or direct stream.
- Series 5/6: inability to direct play all MKV videos.
- Series 6: inability to play UHD content.
- Vizio: Some televisions have trouble playing videos hosted on Google Drive.
- While many mobile device videos play well we have run into issues with portrait videos played landscape and some videos recordings which arenât compatible with some televisions.
June 8, 2016, 2.6.7
We continue to exterminate bugs our 2.6.5 release. The bugs are getting smaller and smaller. The 2.6.7 fixes some behind the scenes issues.
FIXES:
- General: Prevent Clock display updates before the display components are ready.
- General: Only respond to primary button presses (Enter/Select/OK) when a component is focused.
June 14, 2016, 2.6.8
We put the app on a diet and itâs already looking (and feeling) great after a few performance improvements and optimizations.
FIXES:
- Remove over 100KB of unused localization files
- Reduce unnecessary overhead when handling button presses
- Donât load Clock if it isnât being used
June 14, 2016, 2.6.9
I apologize for a bug introduced in 2.6.8 which prevented selection of the last item in some lists of selectable items (list of library sections, list of servers, etc). This one is on me - huge apologies!
FIXES:
- Some list (list of library sections, list of servers, etc) would not allow selection of the last item.
June 16, 2016
LG Smart TV app is now available for webOS 2.0 and webOS 3.0 devices (in addition to webOS 1.0 and NetCast, where it was already available).
September 15, 2016, 2.7.11
NEW:
- AC3 Audio setting enabled by default on platforms that are known to support it
- Improved playback support for DVR video (.ts)
FIXES:
- Clock updates more reliably
- The Extras+Related button was incorrectly hidden sometimes
- Bug fixes and minor style tweaks
- Updated translations
Additionally, LG webOS Lite is now supported.
