Now that Plex HTPC has been released to the forums , I’m creating a thread to replace the previous feedback thread for PMPv3 . Feel free to leave your comments about HTPC here (or start a new thread under the plex-htpc tag if you wish). Updates Something go bad in an update? Please download, install…

RELEASE!!! Plex HTPC is now officially on the downloads page . Additionally we’ve added a section for Linux with links to the snap store pages for both HTPC and the Plex for Linux app. We are so excited about this we had to create a blog post around it. This Thread While this thread did provide a …

Thanks for the feedback. Best I can suggest is to restart the app, play a video with a DTS track, then exit the app. Afterwards sharing Plex HTPC.log would be great. We should see which configuration is in action.

Hey @axemanuk666 the back button change is in 1.2.0. Your Back button doing good things now?

Changelog to 1.2 mentions: Input: Correct [cec] section in plex.ini containing verboseLogging, activateSource, HDMIPort, and useKeyUpDown settings. Could you provide information about the format of these settings in the .ini Thanks Kai

Could we please get direct download links for this build? The update errored out on a missing zip file error here on my Mac and won’t present itself again no matter how much I try to prod it

Followed up on this. In our older apps the user select was shown whenever waking from screensaver. Now the user select is only shown when the last user has a PIN. It’s not a perfect 1:1 with PMP behavior but with a PIN on each user you can get close.

Hi @deactivated - Yup, back button works a treat now, thanks. I even decided to fully uninstall, and then reinstall just for good measure! Haven’t had much of a chance to nose around much more, but will do in the next few days, although, judging by others on here… [image] skamoen: Back button…

Thanks for the response. Hmm. Not sure if that is better. Extra steps are very annoying when you don’t want them there, even if they are minor. Any chance of this being changed back to how it used to work in PMP?

Thanks! That’s a big help. Most codecs are working fine, but EAC3 and TRUEHD are not downsampling to my approved codecs (DTS & AC3), they are just sending stereo signal.

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