Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server 1.41.0.8992 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (AdDetection) Allow ad detection in libraries without DVR (PM-1841)
  • (Nvidia Shield) This release removes support for legacy plug-ins on Nvidia Shield devices (PM-1855)
  • (Scanner) Look inside ‘subs’ and ‘subtitles’ sub-directories for external subtitle files (PM-1002)
  • (Subtitles) Improved subtitle burn-in performance when Hardware Transcoding (PM-1764)
  • (Tone Mapping) Added a preference to select tone mapping algorithm to use. Only available on some platforms/devices. (PM-1431)
  • (Tonemapping) Added support for HW Tonemapping on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-532)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.136.1

FIXES:

  • (Library) In some cases library items were not properly sorted (PM-1729)
  • (QNAP) Restores Plex Media Server icon in App Center (PM-2081)
  • (Scanner) Improve performance when scanning in new movie items. Local metadata will now populate during initial refresh (PM-1777)
  • (Single Item Sharing) Filtering shared media by type didn’t work (PM-1359)
  • (Sorting) Default sort didn’t use natural sorting (10 should be after 3) (PM-1797)
  • (Synology) DSM 7 packages failed to install on some ARMv7 devices (PM-2045)
  • (Synology) DSM 7 packages failed to install on some x86 devices (PM-2092)
  • (Tags) Tags with unicode characters could not be deleted (PM-2031)
  • (Tone Mapping) Tone Mapping could fail on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-2026)
  • Optimized Versions would show no items (PM-2030)
2 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.0.8992 is now available to everyone.

NEW:

  • (AdDetection) Allow ad detection in libraries without DVR (PM-1841)
  • (Nvidia Shield) This release removes support for legacy plug-ins on Nvidia Shield devices (PM-1855)
  • (Scanner) Look inside ‘subs’ and ‘subtitles’ sub-directories for external subtitle files (PM-1002)
  • (Subtitles) Improved subtitle burn-in performance when Hardware Transcoding (PM-1764)
  • (Tone Mapping) Added a preference to select tone mapping algorithm to use. Only available on some platforms/devices. (PM-1431)
  • (Tonemapping) Added support for HW Tonemapping on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-532)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.136.1

FIXES:

  • (Library) In some cases library items were not properly sorted (PM-1729)
  • (QNAP) Restores Plex Media Server icon in App Center (PM-2081)
  • (Scanner) Improve performance when scanning in new movie items. Local metadata will now populate during initial refresh (PM-1777)
  • (Single Item Sharing) Filtering shared media by type didn’t work (PM-1359)
  • (Sorting) Default sort didn’t use natural sorting (10 should be after 3) (PM-1797)
  • (Synology) DSM 7 packages failed to install on some ARMv7 devices (PM-2045)
  • (Synology) DSM 7 packages failed to install on some x86 devices (PM-2092)
  • (Tags) Tags with unicode characters could not be deleted (PM-2031)
  • (Tone Mapping) Tone Mapping could fail on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-2026)
  • Optimized Versions would show no items (PM-2030)
4 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.0.8994 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (AdDetection) Allow ad detection in libraries without DVR (PM-1841)
  • (Nvidia Shield) This release removes support for legacy plug-ins on Nvidia Shield devices (PM-1855)
  • (Scanner) Look inside ‘subs’ and ‘subtitles’ sub-directories for external subtitle files (PM-1002)
  • (Subtitles) Improved subtitle burn-in performance when Hardware Transcoding (PM-1764)
  • (Tone Mapping) Added a preference to select tone mapping algorithm to use. Only available on some platforms/devices. (PM-1431)
  • (Tonemapping) Added support for HW Tonemapping on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-532)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.136.1

FIXES:

  • (ARM) The server could exit unexpectedly on ARM-based devices (PM-2054)
  • (Android) The server could restart unexpectedly (PM-2054)
  • (Auto-Sync Subtitles) The server could crash when playing back very short media with auto-sync enabled (PM-2141)
  • (Library) In some cases library items were not properly sorted (PM-1729)
  • (QNAP) Restores Plex Media Server icon in App Center (PM-2081)
  • (Scanner) Improve performance when scanning in new movie items. Local metadata will now populate during initial refresh (PM-1777)
  • (Single Item Sharing) Filtering shared media by type didn’t work (PM-1359)
  • (Sorting) Default sort didn’t use natural sorting (10 should be after 3) (PM-1797)
  • (Synology) DSM 7 packages failed to install on some ARMv7 devices (PM-2045)
  • (Synology) DSM 7 packages failed to install on some x86 devices (PM-2092)
  • (Tags) Tags with unicode characters could not be deleted (PM-2031)
  • (Tone Mapping) Tone Mapping could fail on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-2026)
  • Optimized Versions would show no items (PM-2030)
4 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.0.8994 is now available to everyone.

NEW:

  • (AdDetection) Allow ad detection in libraries without DVR (PM-1841)
  • (Nvidia Shield) This release removes support for legacy plug-ins on Nvidia Shield devices (PM-1855)
  • (Scanner) Look inside ‘subs’ and ‘subtitles’ sub-directories for external subtitle files (PM-1002)
  • (Subtitles) Improved subtitle burn-in performance when Hardware Transcoding (PM-1764)
  • (Tone Mapping) Added a preference to select tone mapping algorithm to use. Only available on some platforms/devices. (PM-1431)
  • (Tonemapping) Added support for HW Tonemapping on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-532)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.136.1

FIXES:

  • (ARM) The server could exit unexpectedly on ARM-based devices (PM-2054)
  • (Android) The server could restart unexpectedly (PM-2054)
  • (Auto-Sync Subtitles) The server could crash when playing back very short media with auto-sync enabled (PM-2141)
  • (Library) In some cases library items were not properly sorted (PM-1729)
  • (QNAP) Restores Plex Media Server icon in App Center (PM-2081)
  • (Scanner) Improve performance when scanning in new movie items. Local metadata will now populate during initial refresh (PM-1777)
  • (Single Item Sharing) Filtering shared media by type didn’t work (PM-1359)
  • (Sorting) Default sort didn’t use natural sorting (10 should be after 3) (PM-1797)
  • (Synology) DSM 7 packages failed to install on some ARMv7 devices (PM-2045)
  • (Synology) DSM 7 packages failed to install on some x86 devices (PM-2092)
  • (Tags) Tags with unicode characters could not be deleted (PM-2031)
  • (Tone Mapping) Tone Mapping could fail on Windows for some Intel devices (PM-2026)
  • Optimized Versions would show no items (PM-2030)
4 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.1.9057 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (DVR) DVR recordings now utilize hardware for encoding when available and DVR Transcoding is enabled. (PM-1906)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.138.0

FIXES:

  • (Agents) Posters for items in libraries using the Plex Personal Media agent can sometimes not load correctly during the intitial scan (PM-2133)
  • (Metadata) Additional poster and art images fail to load when editing item metadata (PM-2033)
  • (Metadata) Reduced length of a stream’s displayTitle which was often a duplicate of extendedDisplayTitle (PM-2027)
  • (Music) Libraries using Plex Personal Media for the agent do not group tracks properly when no album folders are present (PM-2133)
  • (Photo Transcoder) The PhotoTranscoder cache can store cached versions of images unnecessarily (PM-1167)
  • (Preview Thumbnails) Preview thumb generation can sometimes fail when using keyframes only (PM-1601)
  • (Preview Thumbnails) Preview thumb generation never stops retrying after failing (PM-1601)
  • (Transcoder) Transcodes using the h264_mf encoder would fail (PM-2116)
10 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.1.9057 is now available to everyone.

2 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.2.9092 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (DVR) Added additional HW encoding settings for controlling DVR transcode output quality and file size (PM-2169)
  • (Live TV) Use software decoders for livetv transcodes in order to avoid system errors (PM-2116)

FIXES:

  • (Scanner) Some very specific file paths could cause movie scanning to exit prematurely (PM-2038)
  • (Subtitles) Certain external subtitle files fail when being parsed for automatic syncing (PM-2176)
  • (Subtitles) When using the subtitle search function, make downloaded subtitle available to all media versions (PM-664)
  • (Transcoding) HW transcodes of VC1 files could hang instead of presenting an error. (PM-2157)
5 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.2.9134 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.
NEW:

  • (DVR) Added additional HW encoding settings for controlling DVR transcode output quality and file size (PM-2169)
  • (Live TV) Use software decoders for livetv transcodes in order to avoid system errors (PM-2116)

FIXES:

  • (Scanner) Some very specific file paths could cause movie scanning to exit prematurely (PM-2038)
  • (Subtitles) Certain external subtitle files fail when being parsed for automatic syncing (PM-2176)
  • (Subtitles) When using the subtitle search function, make downloaded subtitle available to all media versions (PM-664)
  • (Transcoding) HW transcodes of VC1 files could hang instead of presenting an error. (PM-2157)
    - (Transcoding) Transcoding music files could cause PMS to crash. (PM-2327)
    - (Win64 Installer) Update Service parameters are now updated during server auto-update (PM-2249)
2 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.2.9200 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

(There are no changes to release notes for this release)

3 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.2.9200 is now available to everyone.

6 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.3.9232 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (GPU) Updated the list of NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD HW devices (PM-2138)
  • (Library) Added Folder Location filter for Movie, Episode, Track and Photo library views (PM-1739)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.141.0

FIXES:

  • (Library) In some cases library items were not properly sorted (PM-2106)
  • (Livetv) Transcoding mpeg2 livetv streams would fail on windows (PM-2241)
  • (Subtitles) Chinese subtitles were not correctly burnt in on MacOS 15 (PM-2168)
  • (ViewStateSync) An exception could cause VSS to stop working
7 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.3.9276 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (GPU) Updated the list of NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD HW devices (PM-2138)
  • (Library) Added Folder Location filter for Movie, Episode, Track and Photo library views (PM-1739)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.141.0

FIXES:

  • (Android) Fix regression for fix which addressed Nvidia Shield devices to crash periodically (PM-2054)
  • (Library) Edition titles were not being saved to the database correctly (PM-2474)
  • (Library) In some cases library items were not properly sorted (PM-2106)
  • (Livetv) Transcoding mpeg2 livetv streams would fail on windows (PM-2241)
  • (Subtitles) Chinese subtitles were not correctly burnt in on MacOS 15 (PM-2168)
  • (Transcoder) Expat has been updated to 2.6.4, fixes CVE-2022-22822 (PM-2454)
  • (ViewStateSync) An exception could cause VSS to stop working
7 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.3.9292 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (GPU) Updated the list of NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD HW devices (PM-2138)
  • (Library) Added Folder Location filter for Movie, Episode, Track and Photo library views (PM-1739)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.141.0

FIXES:

  • (Android) Fix regression for fix which addressed Nvidia Shield devices to crash periodically (PM-2054)
  • (Library) Edition titles were not being saved to the database correctly (PM-2474)
  • (Library) In some cases library items were not properly sorted (PM-2106)
  • (Library) Items would be removed from library if mount point became unavailable (PM-2460)
  • (Livetv) Transcoding mpeg2 livetv streams would fail on windows (PM-2241)
  • (Music) Sonic Analysis would not trigger correctly for new albums after a scan (PM-2486)
  • (Subtitles) Chinese subtitles were not correctly burnt in on MacOS 15 (PM-2168)
  • (Transcoder) Expat has been updated to 2.6.4, fixes CVE-2022-22822 (PM-2454)
  • (ViewStateSync) An exception could cause VSS to stop working
6 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.3.9292 is now available to everyone.

6 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.3.9314 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (GPU) Updated the list of NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD HW devices (PM-2138)
  • (Library) Added Folder Location filter for Movie, Episode, Track and Photo library views (PM-1739)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.141.0

FIXES:

  • (Android) Fix regression for fix which addressed Nvidia Shield devices to crash periodically (PM-2054)
    - (DB) Fetching media from database would crash if a part contained no streams (PM-2542)
  • (Library) Edition titles were not being saved to the database correctly (PM-2474)
  • (Library) In some cases library items were not properly sorted (PM-2106)
  • (Library) Items would be removed from library if mount point became unavailable (PM-2460)
  • (Livetv) Transcoding mpeg2 livetv streams would fail on windows (PM-2241)
  • (Music) Sonic Analysis would not trigger correctly for new albums after a scan (PM-2486)
  • (Subtitles) Chinese subtitles were not correctly burnt in on MacOS 15 (PM-2168)
  • (Transcoder) Expat has been updated to 2.6.4, fixes CVE-2022-22822 (PM-2454)
  • (ViewStateSync) An exception could cause VSS to stop working
3 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.3.9314 is now available to everyone.

3 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.4.9380 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (AdDetection) Ad detection can now be run on media add (PM-1988)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.143.0

FIXES:

  • (Collections) Collections wouldn’t be visible for episode and track library filters (PM-2142)
  • (Library) Edition titles were not being saved to the database correctly (PM-2474)
  • (Library) Performing a metadata agent upgrade with Refresh Metadata checked would not always refresh metadata (PM-2330)
  • (QNAP) Increase time alloted for NVidia to start on QTS/QuTS before proceeding without the Nvidia GPU. (PM-2414)
  • (QNAP) Updates PlexData shared folder to be compliant with new QTS/QuTS security mechanism. (PM-2414)
  • (Transcoder) Don’t throttle hardware transcodes (PM-2238)
  • (Transcoding) On linux, hw burn-in of bitmapped subtitles would fail when the frame size changed mid-stream (PM-2596)
  • (Transcoding) Transcodes would fail with idx or sup external subtitle files (PM-2596)
  • (Voice Activity Detection) Scheduled tasks for voice activity detection could fail if processing a single bad file (PM-2244)
8 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.4.9399 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (AdDetection) Ad detection can now be run on media add (PM-1988)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.143.0

FIXES:

  • (Collections) Collections wouldn’t be visible for episode and track library filters (PM-2142)
  • (Library) Edition titles were not being saved to the database correctly (PM-2474)
  • (Library) Performing a metadata agent upgrade with Refresh Metadata checked would not always refresh metadata (PM-2330)
  • (QNAP) Increase time alloted for NVidia to start on QTS/QuTS before proceeding without the Nvidia GPU. (PM-2414)
  • (QNAP) Updates PlexData shared folder to be compliant with new QTS/QuTS security mechanism. (PM-2414)
  • (Transcoder) Don’t throttle hardware transcodes (PM-2238)
  • (Transcoding) HEVC transcodes were being limited to 8 bits on the web client (PM-2671)
  • (Transcoding) On linux, hw burn-in of bitmapped subtitles would fail when the frame size changed mid-stream (PM-2596)
  • (Transcoding) Transcodes would fail with idx or sup external subtitle files (PM-2596)
  • (Voice Activity Detection) Scheduled tasks for voice activity detection could fail if processing a single bad file (PM-2244)
    d MetadataItemResponse support to provider match endpoint (PM-2526)
  • (Matcher) Add MetadataItemResponse/JSON support to local metadata matcher (PM-2494)
  • (Nano) Added JSON files to transition to RN (PM-1647)
  • (Signal) Changed network change and server startup/shutdown to signal events (#15211)
7 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.4.9421 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (AdDetection) Ad detection can now be run on media add (PM-1988)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.143.0

FIXES:

  • (Collections) Collections wouldn’t be visible for episode and track library filters (PM-2142)
  • (Library) Edition titles were not being saved to the database correctly (PM-2474)
  • (Library) Performing a metadata agent upgrade with Refresh Metadata checked would not always refresh metadata (PM-2330)
  • (QNAP) Increase time alloted for NVidia to start on QTS/QuTS before proceeding without the Nvidia GPU. (PM-2414)
  • (QNAP) Updates PlexData shared folder to be compliant with new QTS/QuTS security mechanism. (PM-2414)
  • (Transcoder) Don’t throttle hardware transcodes (PM-2238)
  • (Transcoder) Unconditional unthrottling of HW transcodes would affect streaming transcodes (PM-2703)
  • (Transcoding) HEVC transcodes were being limited to 8 bits on the web client (PM-2671)
  • (Transcoding) On linux, hw burn-in of bitmapped subtitles would fail when the frame size changed mid-stream (PM-2596)
  • (Transcoding) Transcodes would fail with idx or sup external subtitle files (PM-2596)
  • (Voice Activity Detection) Scheduled tasks for voice activity detection could fail if processing a single bad file (PM-2244)
    d MetadataItemResponse support to provider match endpoint (PM-2526)
  • (Matcher) Add MetadataItemResponse/JSON support to local metadata matcher (PM-2494)
  • (Nano) Added JSON files to transition to RN (PM-1647)
  • (Signal) Changed network change and server startup/shutdown to signal events (#15211)
4 Likes

Plex Media Server 1.41.4.9463 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.

NEW:

  • (AdDetection) Ad detection can now be run on media add (PM-1988)
  • (Web) Updated to 4.143.0

FIXES:

  • (Collections) Collections wouldn’t be visible for episode and track library filters (PM-2142)
  • (Library) Edition titles were not being saved to the database correctly (PM-2474)
  • (Library) Performing a metadata agent upgrade with Refresh Metadata checked would not always refresh metadata (PM-2330)
  • (QNAP) Increase time alloted for NVidia to start on QTS/QuTS before proceeding without the Nvidia GPU. (PM-2414)
  • (QNAP) Updates PlexData shared folder to be compliant with new QTS/QuTS security mechanism. (PM-2414)
  • (Transcoder) Don’t throttle hardware transcodes (PM-2238)
  • (Transcoder) Unconditional unthrottling of HW transcodes would affect streaming transcodes (PM-2703)
  • (Transcoding) HEVC transcodes were being limited to 8 bits on the web client (PM-2671)
  • (Transcoding) HW transcodes would fail on older intel igpus (PM-2756)
  • (Transcoding) On linux, hw burn-in of bitmapped subtitles would fail when the frame size changed mid-stream (PM-2596)
  • (Transcoding) Transcodes would fail with idx or sup external subtitle files (PM-2596)
  • (Voice Activity Detection) Scheduled tasks for voice activity detection could fail if processing a single bad file (PM-2244)
5 Likes