Plex Media Server 0.9.7.16 Download instructions can be found here. We've got an exciting new release for you today. Since we launched PlexSync, and enabled apps like Kepler and the Roku to use the new transcoder, we've heard a few complaints that the new transcoder was slower than the old one. Just recently we got a sample, ran some tests, and made some changes that should make the new transcoder much faster (like 2x to 3x faster) for both streaming and sync conversion. Please try this out, and let us know how it works for you, but I would also expect it to resolve a number of stuttering/buffering issues, because of the increased speed. What can I say, it's Thursday, I'm optimistic. Fixed an issue where background color wasn't correct in the image transcoder (fixes section icons on Roku). Large speedups for the new transcoder in many scenarios (sync, streaming, seeking). Please let us know how it works for you!

NOTE #: QNAP builds are unavailable at this time. There is no estimate of when this will be resolved, however we will publish a dedicated release when they become available. Plex Media Server 1.43.1.10576 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel. NEW: (Transcoding) Add support for decoding AV1 files on Windows using Intel devices. (PM-4889) (Transcoding) Added support for battlemage GPUs. (PM-3178) (Transcoding) Removed experimental tag from HEVC preferences and enable by default. (PM-4323) Updated Web to 4.159.0 FIXES: (Credits Detection) Force detection when manually triggering an analyze operation (PM-4292) (Downloads/Optimization) DiskFull and AccessDenied errors are no longer treated as recoverable. (PM-3475) (Editions) The ‘Other Editions of’ hub could return incorrect items for non-Plex metadata agents (PM-4934) (Extras) Cinema Trailers would fail to play on some clients (PM-4296) (Hubs) Collections promoted to hubs on home and library section would not obey label restrictions for visibility (PM-617) (Hubs) The “Recently Added” TV Show hubs could potentially skip shows or seasons (PM-3227) (Library) Server could crash when matching music (PM-4128) (Linux) RPM package could fail to install in some specific scenarios (PM-4863) (Live-TV) Addressed various issues with live-tv playback (PM-5065) (MacOS) Local assets can sometimes be ignored when folder paths contain unicode characters (PM-4271) (Metadata) Add ratings support to NFO parser (PM-4848) (Metadata) Alternate collection image options were not being returned (PM-4799) (Metadata) Critic and audience ratings lower than 10% were not being saved to the database (PM-4894) (Metadata) Embedded thumbnails in episodes were being ignored (PM-4794) (Metadata) Refreshing an item will set its logo again when it has been explicitly unset (PM-4286) (Metadata) Requests for alternate images may return incomplete results if called quickly in succession (PM-4755) (Metadata) Season and episode thumbnails for custom metadata agents would get removed when cleaning bundles (PM-4775) (Metadata) Support spanning episodes in NFO parser (PM-4842) (Metadata) When using the NFO Series provider, running a metadata refresh can get stuck (PM-5019) (Music) Correctly tagged albums with more than 20 discs would fail matching all tracks (PM-4747) (Scanner) Ignore QNAP specific hidden paths when watching for file changes (PM-4070) (Sharing) Newly created libraries would not immediately be visible on “Grant Library Access” page (PM-3961) (Subtitles) Fixes sync issue when transcoding subtitles to webvtt (PM-4847) (Thumbnails) Thumbnails were incorrectly generated for videos with rotation (PM-4035) (Transcode) Transcoding files with an aac audio track could fail with an ios client (PM-5036) (Transcoder) Error message was unclear when all transcoder slots were used (PM-4220) (Transcoding) Burning in subtitles produced a green border for some videos (PM-4795) (Voice Activity) Allow manual analyze to force detection on previously failed attempts (PM-4218) (Voice Activity) Detection could fail in some instances (PM-4066)

Plex Media Server 1.43.1.10576 is now available to everyone.

NOTE #: QNAP builds are unavailable at this time. There is no estimate of when this will be resolved, however we will publish a dedicated release when they become available. Plex Media Server 1.43.1.10611 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel. NEW: (Transcoding) Add support for decoding AV1 files on Windows using Intel devices. (PM-4889) (Transcoding) Added support for battlemage GPUs. (PM-3178) (Transcoding) Removed experimental tag from HEVC preferences and enable by default. (PM-4323) Updated Web to 4.159.0 FIXES: (Credits Detection) Force detection when manually triggering an analyze operation (PM-4292) (Database) Migrations can fail on startup if malformed JSON data exists in the media_streams table (PM-5166) (Downloads/Optimization) DiskFull and AccessDenied errors are no longer treated as recoverable. (PM-3475) (Editions) The ‘Other Editions of’ hub could return incorrect items for non-Plex metadata agents (PM-4934) (Extras) Cinema Trailers would fail to play on some clients (PM-4296) (Hubs) Collections promoted to hubs on home and library section would not obey label restrictions for visibility (PM-617) (Hubs) The “Recently Added” TV Show hubs could potentially skip shows or seasons (PM-3227) (Library) Server could crash when matching music (PM-4128) (Linux) RPM package could fail to install in some specific scenarios (PM-4863) (Live-TV) Addressed various issues with live-tv playback (PM-5065) (MacOS) Local assets can sometimes be ignored when folder paths contain unicode characters (PM-4271) (Metadata) Add ratings support to NFO parser (PM-4848) (Metadata) Alternate collection image options were not being returned (PM-4799) (Metadata) Critic and audience ratings lower than 10% were not being saved to the database (PM-4894) (Metadata) Embedded thumbnails in episodes were being ignored (PM-4794) (Metadata) Refreshing an item will set its logo again when it has been explicitly unset (PM-4286) (Metadata) Requests for alternate images may return incomplete results if called quickly in succession (PM-4755) (Metadata) Season and episode thumbnails for custom metadata agents would get removed when cleaning bundles (PM-4775) (Metadata) Support spanning episodes in NFO parser (PM-4842) (Metadata) When using the NFO Series provider, running a metadata refresh can get stuck (PM-5019) (Music) Correctly tagged albums with more than 20 discs would fail matching all tracks (PM-4747) (Scanner) Ignore QNAP specific hidden paths when watching for file changes (PM-4070) (Sharing) Newly created libraries would not immediately be visible on “Grant Library Access” page (PM-3961) (Subtitles) Fixes sync issue when transcoding subtitles to webvtt (PM-4847) (Thumbnails) Thumbnails were incorrectly generated for videos with rotation (PM-4035) (Transcode) Transcoding files with an aac audio track could fail with an ios client (PM-5036) (Transcoder) Error message was unclear when all transcoder slots were used (PM-4220) (Transcoding) Burning in subtitles produced a green border for some videos (PM-4795) (Voice Activity) Allow manual analyze to force detection on previously failed attempts (PM-4218) (Voice Activity) Detection could fail in some instances (PM-4066)

NOTE #: QNAP builds are unavailable at this time. There is no estimate of when this will be resolved, however we will publish a dedicated release when they become available. Plex Media Server 1.43.1.10611 is now available to everyone.

Plex Media Server 1.43.2.10687 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel. NOTE #: QNAP builds are currently unsigned. Instructions for installing these builds can be found here. NEW: (Filters) Add filter for Atmos (PM-5173) (Filters) Add filter for audio layout (PM-5118) (Filters) Add filters for video, audio, and subtitle codecs (PM-5117) (Metadata) Add support for RottenTomatoes audience and average ratings to Nfo parser (PM-5176) (Metadata) Detect Dolby Atmos (PM-4004) (Metadata) Read ‘set’ tags for collections in the NFO parser (PM-4849) (QNAP) Generate unsigned QNAP packages (PM-5150) (Shield) Added server management screen (PM-2736) FIXES: (Hubs) Related collection hubs are not respecting label restrictions (PM-5174) (MKV) Correctly handle the LANGUAGEBCP47 tag (PM-3888) (Metadata) Concatenate multiple artist names for track artists in m4a files (PM-5169) (Metadata) Correctly detect 7.1 channel eac3 (PM-4179) (Metadata) NFO parser was not fetching value for studio (PM-4943) (Metadata) NFO parser would omit episodes with leading zeroes in the episode field (PM-5168) (Metadata) Support for multiple genre and release type tags for mp4/m4a and mov formats (PM-3362) (Network) Enforce TLS certificate verification on all retries; this addresses CVE-2026-42619 (PM-5268) (Transcoding) Addressed issues hw tonemapping on linux using an tiger lake and rocket lake igpus (PM-5197) (Transcoding) Addressed issues hw transcoding on linux using an arrow lake igpu (PM-5197)

Plex Media Server 1.43.2.10687 is now available to everyone. NOTE #: QNAP builds are currently unsigned. Instructions for installing these builds can be found here.

Plex Media Server 1.43.3.10768 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel. NOTE #: QNAP builds are currently unsigned. Instructions for installing these builds can be found here. NEW: (Library) Audio codec filter is now available on music libraries when browsing tracks (PM-5224) (Network) IPv6 support has TEMPORARILY been made a plex pass feature (PM-5140) (Network) Support for ipv6 only networks (PM-5140) (Subtitles) Added support for dvb_teletext (PM-3855) (Transcoder) The “HEVC Sources Only” encoding setting now also applies to AV1 sources and is named “HEVC/AV1 Sources Only” (PM-5261) FIXES: (Downloads) Stream display titles in download decisions now match streaming decisions (PM-5211) (Library) Expose HDR, DOVI, and Atmos filters for episodes in show libraries (PM-5215) (Library) Manual API requests could allow invalid URIs for smart collections and playlists (PM-4267) (Live-TV) OTA channels would often fail to hardware transcode on MacOS (PM-4103) (MacOS) The server could crash under certain network conditions (PM-5421) (Metadata) Don’t abort metadata refresh on failed match if remaining providers are all local (PM-5422) (Metadata) Local album images can fail to load if item matching is incomplete (PM-5422) (Metadata) Prefer certification tag when reading NFO content ratings and match to library country preference (PM-5378) (Metadata) Read writers credits in NFO parser (PM-5377) (Metadata) Using multiple providers with ratings can result in primary rating being set inconsistently (PM-5458) (Performance) Speed up related collection queries in some scenarios (PM-5204) (Scanner) Filename text in curly braces should get cleaned up on unmatched content (PM-4844) (Transcoder) Correct the Content-Type of DASH manifest files (PM-5259)

Plex Media Server 1.43.3.10793 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel. NOTE: QNAP builds should now be signed. NEW: (Library) Audio codec filter is now available on music libraries when browsing tracks (PM-5224) (Network) IPv6 support has TEMPORARILY been made a plex pass feature (PM-5140) (Network) Support for ipv6 only networks (PM-5140) (Subtitles) Added support for dvb_teletext (PM-3855) (Transcoder) The “HEVC Sources Only” encoding setting now also applies to AV1 sources and is named “HEVC/AV1 Sources Only” (PM-5261) FIXES: (Downloads) Stream display titles in download decisions now match streaming decisions (PM-5211) (Library) Expose HDR, DOVI, and Atmos filters for episodes in show libraries (PM-5215) (Library) Manual API requests could allow invalid URIs for smart collections and playlists (PM-4267) (Live-TV) OTA channels would often fail to hardware transcode on MacOS (PM-4103) (MacOS) The server could crash under certain network conditions (PM-5421) (Metadata) Don’t abort metadata refresh on failed match if remaining providers are all local (PM-5422) (Metadata) Local album images can fail to load if item matching is incomplete (PM-5422) (Metadata) Prefer certification tag when reading NFO content ratings and match to library country preference (PM-5378) (Metadata) Read writers credits in NFO parser (PM-5377) (Metadata) Using multiple providers with ratings can result in primary rating being set inconsistently (PM-5458) (Metadata) When remote providers are missing local metadata would fail to load (PM-5488) (Performance) Speed up related collection queries in some scenarios (PM-5204) (PlexMatch) Using show guid hints in .plexmatch files can result in unmatched episodes on initial scan (PM-5184) (Scanner) Filename text in curly braces should get cleaned up on unmatched content (PM-4844) (Transcoder) Correct the Content-Type of DASH manifest files (PM-5259)

Plex Media Server 1.43.3.10828 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel. NEW: (Library) Audio codec filter is now available on music libraries when browsing tracks (PM-5224) (Network) IPv6 support has TEMPORARILY been made a plex pass feature (PM-5140) (Network) Support for ipv6 only networks (PM-5140) (Subtitles) Added support for dvb_teletext (PM-3855) (Transcoder) The “HEVC Sources Only” encoding setting now also applies to AV1 sources and is named “HEVC/AV1 Sources Only” (PM-5261) Updated Web to 4.160.0 FIXES: (Downloads) Stream display titles in download decisions now match streaming decisions (PM-5211) (Library) Expose HDR, DOVI, and Atmos filters for episodes in show libraries (PM-5215) (Library) Manual API requests could allow invalid URIs for smart collections and playlists (PM-4267) (Live-TV) OTA channels would often fail to hardware transcode on MacOS (PM-4103) (MacOS) The server could crash under certain network conditions (PM-5421) (Metadata) Don’t abort metadata refresh on failed match if remaining providers are all local (PM-5422) (Metadata) Local album images can fail to load if item matching is incomplete (PM-5422) (Metadata) Prefer certification tag when reading NFO content ratings and match to library country preference (PM-5378) (Metadata) Read writers credits in NFO parser (PM-5377) (Metadata) Using multiple providers with ratings can result in primary rating being set inconsistently (PM-5458) (Metadata) When remote providers are missing local metadata would fail to load (PM-5488) (Performance) Speed up related collection queries in some scenarios (PM-5204) (PlexMatch) Using show guid hints in .plexmatch files can result in unmatched episodes on initial scan (PM-5184) (Scanner) Filename text in curly braces should get cleaned up on unmatched content (PM-4844) (Transcoder) Correct the Content-Type of DASH manifest files (PM-5259)

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Plex Media Server 1.43.3.10828 is now available to everyone.

Note: Not all app stores (e.g. QNAP, etc.) will have the update immediately and may take some time to go through the various approvals.

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