Awesome, thanks for reporting!
0.8.0-beta2.1: script.plexmod.zip (2.8 MB)
Temporary Changelog:
No problem. Glad to be of service.
Its working fine.
On the latest version I’m getting a “Plex error” message every time I open Kodi with the “Start Plex On Kodi Startup” option enabled. Starting PM4K manually then boots it up as normal.
Did you get the latest beta just 3 posts above this one. It solved it for me.
Thanks 
That’s what I get for not reading all of the new comments since my last visit to this thread 
Reporting a weird bug, perhaps it has happened to others as well, perhaps not
When selecting a movie or a tv show (happened twice with movies) - and selecting play / resume (at a certain time-frame)- it shows the screen you get when a movie is done & watched (like “checked”) - very weird, like i’ve said.
Sounds like a kodi playback error throwing you into the post play screen. Would need logs (ideally via github).
Hi sir panni, can you please provide a link for 7.9 beta2 for Ugoos AM6B+ testing purposes? Reason being, I was using 7.9 beta 2 for a while (at least 6 weeks or so) and experienced only 1 or 2 glitch/stuttering/OOS when coming out of pause during that whole time which was really great. But just two days ago I updated to the most recent update above (which I guess is 0.08.0 beta 2.1) and have experienced many (six/seven) such glitch/stuttering in just the couple of days 
So I would like to go back to 7.9 beta 2 please… can you help me out please?
0.7.9-rev2? Or beta2
Sorry yes I meant 0.7.9-rev2 
What I aim to do is uninstall 0.08.0 beta 2.1, reboot the ugoos, and then install 0.7.9-rev2. Hopefully all the pause/unpause glitching mostly goes away again…
Probably not, but it might. You need to remove the “Auto-Update” flag in the plugin manager in Kodi for PM4K. Then you can overwrite it with an older version and reboot Kodi. Here’s 0.7.9-rev2.
You have to set the wait time to 250 or 300ms in the add-on settings for coreelec.
Yeah, I already told him to increase the value step by step via DM. We’re at a default of 250ms, maybe I’ll need to increase that again.
Currently working on the auto updater service. There’ll be a few caveats, but it should be possible to auto update (with user confirmation of course), without the need to restart Kodi. Including switching between beta and stable branches, and also a “repository” mode (the default), where the service just updates the Kodi repositories a little more often than Kodi itself.
To be clear: The updater service will run non-intrusively, which means that it will never do anything that impacts the user experience in PM4K (such as checking for updates or downloading, unpacking etc, will never happen during playback).
Not sure yet how Github will react to this, as we use raw.githubusercontent.com to fetch addon.xml and the zip files, but we’ll see. It’ll check for updates every 4 hours and optionally immediately after Kodi start (when autostart PM4K is enabled). The 4 hours frequency won’t be configurable to avoid Github blocking IPs.
Due to the nature of how Kodi handles non-repository addons, we detect whether the currently used language file has changed between the installed and the new version and display a warning after updating that the translations might not be up to date (but everything will work) and let the user decide whether to restart PM4K after such an update or not. To reload the fresh language files Kodi needs to be restarted. The same is true for changes to the service.py (which includes the auto updater itself), as that won’t be reloaded by Kodi either.
I’ve been testing the auto update service for a few days now and am in the final phase of completing it. I will then issue a beta release which will be one minor version below Github (without changes apart from the version), so everyone who installs it will automatically test the auto update feature.
The auto updater will be disabled when installed from the official Kodi repository, but will run if installed from elsewhere (Don’t Panic or manually).
Edit: Right now it won’t be possible to downgrade to a previous beta or stable using the auto updater. Only branch switching is possible (beta<->stable)
Hey, I’m new to Kodi & Plex. First of all thank you for this awesome plugin. But I have a small request:
Could you add a setting to only transcode specific audio codecs? For example my TV can’t play DTS codecs, but I could only find a setting to transcode audio if for example it is above 5.1.
Thanks in advance^^
Hmm I’ll add it to the list. In the meantime you can force it to always transcode to AC3 if that helps and disable “Treat DTS like AC3”.
Or, if you’re feeling lucky, edit plex-for-kodi/lib/_included_packages/plexnet/mediadecisionengine.py at develop_kodi21 · pannal/plex-for-kodi · GitHub at line 251 (userdata/addons/script.plexmod/lib/_included_packages/plexnet/mediadecisionengine.py) and add:
if choice.audioStream.codec == "dca":
choice.isDirectPlayable = False
Then restart PM4K. That should do it.
Edit: Oh, and remove all occurrences of “dca” from plex-for-kodi/lib/_included_packages/plexnet/plexplayer.py at develop_kodi21 · pannal/plex-for-kodi · GitHub and the lines following
@panni is there any way to increase the background art resolution? all mine look like low res images
Yes. Exit PM4K, long press ENTER on the app icon, settings (we call this “Addon Settings”), “Main > Poster resolution scaling %” and increase it to your liking. 200% is a good value, 300 will work for an NVIDIA SHIELD. The higher you go, the more risk of memory issues (can result in crashes).
Edit: In order to accomodate all Kodi installations, we can’t set this too high by default. Maybe I can try and detect common systems and adjust the default accordingly. But right now, the default is stable.
Edit 2: There’re a lot more advanced settings in there. Feel free to take a look, but they’re mostly properly picked as good defaults.
Edit 3: I should make this an in-app setting. It’s being asked about too often.
Edit 4: Maybe 150% or 200% would be a good default. We’re running the risk of old, slow/low mem clients crashing, though (FireTV #1).
Hi panni,
I was talking about background art not poster art, I’ve already changed the poster scaling setting which makes the posters a lot better, but doesn’t seem to change anything for background art?
Also having poster scaling in the settings within Plex would be a nice touch since you mentioned it
Thanks
Jonathan
