Plex for Smart TVs & TiVo

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September 27, 2016, 2.8.7

As some of you might have noticed, LG NetCast devices have been stuck on 2.6.9… until now! Our latest release fixes NetCast devices to bring them back in line with other devices. This release includes everything that NetCast missed in 2.7.5 and 2.7.11.

(Previously, NetCast had been held back because an update to a library that we use triggered a gnarly crash on NetCast devices. Message me if you’re interested in the details.)

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October 3, 2016, 2.9.1

FIXES:

  • Fixed a couple playback issues to better support upcoming Plex Media Server features.
  • Fix troubles which prevented starting a Plex Mix
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October 4, 2016, 2.10.1

FIXES:

  • Plex Cloud compatibility changes for clients with limited secure connection support.
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November 22, 2016, 2.10.8

NEW:

  • For troubleshooting, unavailable servers can now be selected
  • The app does not fall back to insecure connection by default
  • Sign Out will clear all user settings
  • Servers in a list now have Nearby/Remote connection status

FIXES:

  • Playing the last album track second time now fixed
  • In TV Settings, hide languages with unsupported characters
  • Fixed playing a photo library
  • Fixed cursor glitch on a music mini-player
  • Disabled prev/next details navigation when going down from photo container
  • Vertical poster list items now have watch progress indicator too
  • Fixed a PIN sign-in error (“Budapest”), particularly common on LG devices
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December 2, 2016, 2.12.1

Last week, our 2.10.8 release included support for secure connections (https) on Vizio TVs. That turned out to cause problems for some Vizio TVs in the wild, so we’ve changed it back. Sorry for the trouble!

FIXES:

  • Remove secure connections support from Vizio devices

(edit: this post originally incorrectly showed the version number as 2.12.2)

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February 2, 2017, 2.12.7

FIXES:

  • Numerous performance optimizations, stability improvements, and bug fixes.

(note: this release is not yet available for Sony Smart TVs)

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February 7, 2017 • 2.12.10

FIXES:

  • Vizio (Sigma): Media buttons on TV remote (Play/Pause/etc) work again.
  • Fixed an issue that could cause playback to fail when started remotely.
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February 23, 2017 • 2.13.1

NEW:

  • Support for videos in Photo libraries
  • Add the ability to queue up music tracks, and confirm before replacing a currently active playqueue

FIXES:

  • Fixed problems preventing using iOS devices to control the TV application
  • Lyrics button is no longer selectable for tracks with no lyrics
  • Fixed a problem that caused playlists to only play a single item instead of automatically advancing through the list

(note: this release is available for Sony Smart TVs, and includes the fixes from the previous releases as well)

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March 3, 2017 - 2.13.3

We’ve release two fixes to address slow startup errors on Vizio devices. The fixes address the Vizio trouble while increasing our startup timeout for all devices.

FIXES:

  • Increased application startup timeout to give slow starting devices / situations more time before displaying a startup failure screen.
  • Startups which complete after we display a startup timeout error message will hide the startup timeout error message.
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April 4, 2017 • 3.1.0

FIXES

  • Fixed a couple of Plex Companion bugs
  • Performance improvements
  • Various other bugfixes
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April 12, 2017 • 3.1.0 - Samsung Tizen (2016-2017)

  • Added Support for 2017 Samsung TVs
  • Show buffering indicator in video player when video is buffering
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April 25, 2017 • 3.3.0

FIXES

  • Fix music player play queue not updating after adding items to the queue
  • Fix on-screen controls sometimes popping up intermittently while playing back video
  • Browsing photos and videos that are on a mobile device is no longer supported. Casting (flinging) photos and videos from the device to the TV app is still supported using Plex Companion. Unfortunately, we’re unable to work around UI and server troubles which combine to inhibit a consistent user experience

IMPROVEMENTS

  • Show number of available audio/subtitle tracks on preplay screen
  • Add ability to remove tracks from a play queue and items from a playlist
  • Add more recovery options directly on the error screen
  • Improve reliability of casting local media from mobile devices
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June 22, 2017 • 3.8.0

NEW

  • TiVo: Now Direct Play and Direct Stream more UHD content on your UHD capable TiVo devices. The Plex for TiVo app will now Direct Play UHD content in MP4 and MKV files.
    • The video must be HEVC (H.265), <= 3840x2160, and <= 60FPS.
    • We can now also Direct Stream UHD and HEVC content. UHD content which is played directly tends to support higher bitrates.
    • We’ve noticed media specific trouble seeking and resuming UHD content. We’ll be working with our contacts at TiVo to resolve the troubles.

FIXES

  • Fixed video seeking when using seek/skip combination buttons.
  • Prevent some combinations of settings and media from potentially creating URLs long enough to exceed system limits.
  • Photo player slide show fixes.
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July 12, 2017 • 3.8.0 - Samsung Tizen (2016-2017)

  • Add support for Alexa Voice Control and improved companion support

See 3.3.0 and 3.8.0 release notes above for other changes.

Incorrect list of supported Alexa devices on this site
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September 25, 2017 • 3.13.1

NEW:

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November 21, 2017 • 3.13.7

NEW:

  • Vizio SmartCast: whitelist EAC3 audio in all supported video containers.

FIXED:

  • All: Pressing Left, Right, Up, or Down remote control buttons during initial video buffering now correctly navigates between video player control buttons.
  • All: An supporting devices, pressing the Exit remote control button during playback is now appropriately handled.
  • All: Browsing cloud servers no longer displays unblurred background images.
  • All: The first letter jump bar now works correctly when browsing a music library as a list of tracks sorted by title.
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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 Settings > Audio > Dolby TrueHD setting enables direct play of TrueHD audio on supported displays.
  • webOS: Improved 4K video playback for H.264, HEVC, and VP9 video codecs within any file which supports these video codecs.
  • webOS: Direct play MKV files with H.264, HEVC, VC1, VP9, MPEG4 video and AAC, MP3, VORBIS, DTS, or AC3 audio. Only available on webOS >= 3.0.
  • webOS: Direct play AVI files with MPEG4 (xvid/divx) and MJPEG video and AAC, MP3, PCM, DTS, or AC3 audio.
  • webOS: Direct play MP4 files with H.264 and HEVC video and AAC, MP3, DTS, or AC3 audio.
  • webOS: Direct play M2TS and TS files with H.264, HEVC, or MPEG2VIDEO video and AAC, MP2, MP3, DTS, or AC3 audio.
  • webOS: Direct play MOV files with H.264 or MPEG4 video and AAC, DTS, or AC3 audio.
  • webOS: Direct play WMV files with VC1, or WMV3 video and WMAV2, WMAPRO, DTS, or AC3 audio.

FIXED:

  • All: Pressing stop before media is ready will correctly teardown the media components.
  • All: The music player no longer respects the allow direct play and allow direct stream video player setting.
  • All: Logging to media servers is able to be disabled after being enabled.
  • webOS: Enable Dolby Digital (AC3) audio stream support on all displays.
  • webOS: Improve seeking and resuming for video playback. This benefits 4K direct stream the most.
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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.
Transcoding 4K - Why?
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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 MJPEG video codecs and AAC, MP3, and PCM audio codecs.
  • webOS: Restrict HEVC (H.265) video codec to UHD capable displays.
  • webOS: Prevent webOS 1 and 2 from direct streaming videos with HEVC (H.265) video codecs. These videos will transcode to H.264.
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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 correctly.
  • All: Pressing global keyboard shortcuts while a modal dialogue is open no longer triggers the global keyboard shortcut handlers.
  • All: Text-to-speech improvements, particularly in Search.
  • All: Various Search keyboard layout and header layout bug fixes.
  • All: Correct Korean translation typo in Cinema Trailer setting options.
  • All: Pressing back key when user avatar is focused in startup error views asks users if they want to exit the app.