All is working fine for me as expected.
Good work!
Thanks guys, Iāll keep the prerelease for a day and will probably finally release 0.7.5 tomorrow night.
Then itās on to 0.7.6 with full force. My currently planned major feature list is:
- assisted offline mode (adds a āGo Offlineā menu item once signed in, and goes offline āforeverā, until you use āGo Onlineā again), which will hopefully preserve also server and user switching
- native offline mode (the ability to use Plex without
plex.tvwith manual connections only, hopefully including user switching based on the server itself and not a single plex.tv request ever) - just an idea, but might work: special subtitles handler in case of DirectStream/Transcoding, that downloads the intended subtitle to a temporary local file and feeds it into the Kodi player, circumventing any Plex Server restrictions and subtitle burn-in, always
- support videos in photo/image viewer
Please tell me your thoughts on those!
Edit: BTW, seems like weāre close to getting PM4K into the official repository: [script.plexmod] 0.7.4 by pannal Ā· Pull Request #2571 Ā· xbmc/repo-scripts Ā· GitHub - sadly that version is almost out of date already 
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That sounds great
I also have some ideas for future improvements in the music area:
- Option for sorting of albums in artist view. E.g. Sort by release date descending (currently fixed to ascending)
- Solution for current limit of albums on artist view. Is more and more getting an issue on my side with growing library. Great would be the same logic that is used on the music / movie hubs where it also shows X entries but you can scroll to the right and the next chunk of items gets loaded.
The issue is that it doesnāt work that way. The other media types such as TV Shows have one source of its children. The artist view includes albums from the artist and 8 more potential sources that come from ārelatedā content (no idea why itās that complicated). Iām not sure itās possible to properly paginate that, as we canāt simply paginate the results of one query.
Hmm, includeRelatedCount is at 20, though. Not sure why it would top out at 10 for you.
0.7.5-rev1 - Thatās what she said
Oh wow. I slightly miscalculated how big 0.7.5 would be. This might be the biggest changelog, yet.
There have been SO many fixes and additions, most notably:
Library Love 
@bowlingbeeg took it upon themselves to massively clean up the library code and at the same time potentially making it orders of magnitude faster by chunking the requests made to the server.
This leads to a faster library UI, faster browsing and less strain on your device, depending on the library size.
Guaranteed watch progress
The playback stop/next/prev logic has been revamped, virtually guaranteeing now that any progress made inside a video is also reflected back to the Plex server. This was a little buggy until now.
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Apart from that, thereās too much to really summarize, so Iāll leave you to the changelog.
As always, a big thanks to The Squadā¢ and everyone else who stuck with me and the endless beta and prerelease iterations.
Changelog:
- Fix: transcoding is broken due to deepcopy usage
- Add IMDB ID to video info
- Fix: Libraries: Missing items when filters applied and collections exist (thanks @bowlingbeeg )
- Fix: Libraries: Removed most filters from collections view as they donāt work (thanks @bowlingbeeg)
- Fix: Chapters not available in episodes during playback after manually changing watch status
- Fix: next episode receives resume state from previously resumed episode when pressing NEXT
- Fix: Items with non-existant files get removed from the home hubs when visited
- Fix: When using ACTION_PLAYER_PLAY to autoplay an item on Home that resumes, all title2 titles of the underlying screen disappear
- Fix: PPI: CPU core usage overlaps items when playing something with enabled subtitles
- Fix: SeekDialog/Handler/Player: Edge case where progress wasnāt updated in certain situations
- Fix: Non-Home-Hubs: hub elements limited to 10 after modifying an underlying item
- Update Spanish translations (thanks @Deci8BelioS)
- TV Shows: Allow deleting TV shows if possible
- TV Shows: Allow deleting seasons if possible
- TV Shows: Add CONTEXT_MENU handler on seasons, allowing changing watched status and deletion
- TV Shows: More accurately show progress bar including in progress episodes
- Player: Donāt use old resume info when going to next video in playlist
- Player: Simplify and optimize stop/end/next logic
- Core: Fall back properly when Kodi version string couldnāt be parsed
- Core: Correctly reload addon settings on maximize from minimized state (so yes, you can minimize the addon, change addon settings, then maximize it again and the settings will be applied)
- Core: Edge-case: Ensure TV background music isnāt recognized as audio
- Core: Logging: Clean Plex tokens from constructed item for playback dict
- Core: SeekHandler: fix usage of player.video.duration erroring
- Core: Home: Store last BG on minimize and on home select as well; donāt store the same background URL if it hasnāt changed
- Core: VideoPlayer: Make sure weāre the only active player, try to stop all other active players for 5 seconds
- Core: Instead of using Action(back) before running addon, navigate to Home and try to guarantee that
- Home: Donāt round robin while loading the next hub pagination chunk
- Home: Sections: Increase section select timeout from 300 to 500ms
- Home: Fix autoplay from home on episodes (ACTION_PLAYER_PLAY)
- Home: Donāt fail on empty hub
- InfoScreen: Add DV stream metadata info
- Episodes: Show episode options menu on long press select/OK (CONTEXT_MENU)
- Episodes/Seasons/Shows: Calculate and show season watched percentage including in-progress episodes
- Episodes/Seasons/Shows: Show progress even for shows/seasons with only an in progress episode, no fully watched ones
- Episodes: Adjust ratings/userratings positioning and label widths; add autoscroll to show and episode titles
- Episodes: Wait for full episode data to be loaded before enabling playback
- Episodes: Add directors/writers to episode view
- Episodes: BGM: Fix show() accessor failing
- Episodes: Donāt play background music when current volume is zero
- Movies/TV/Episodes: Support ratings from non-legacy agents (also when primary provider is IMDB)
- Movies: Scroll long titles as well
- Movies/Preplay: Move userRating/stars in line with other ratings
- Movies/Preplay: Show writers besides directors as well
- PlayerSettings: Add Kodi Resolution Settings for Kodi >= 18 (only when you have a whitelist configured in Kodi/Video)
- PlayerSettings: Add Kodi Colour Management for Kodi >= 20 (when applicable)
- SeekDialog: Ignore immediate OK/SELECT on auto-skipping marker with countdown during the first second of the marker shown
- SeekDialog: Make sure we only send the correct timeline request on certain actions
- SeekDialog: Make sure we send a timeline request on certain actions
- SeekDialog: Remove now unnecessary negative offset on manual marker skip on final credits marker, as weāve got much more robust PostPlay handling now
- SeekDialog: Avoid showing the final credits marker twice (after itās been manually skipped already)
- SeekDialog: Hide once-manually-skipped markers and move them to the OSD as well
- SeekDialog: Donāt react to SELECT/ENTER on counting down autoskip marker if marker is only visible in OSD
- SeekDialog: Bingemode: Donāt autoskip the credits of the last available episode of a TV show
- Player/SeekDialog: Simplify and harden PostPlay behaviour
- Libraries: Clean up code, improve performance (memory usage, CPU load) and optimize viewing experience by properly chunking the viewās requests based on the view position (thanks @bowlingbeeg)
- Addon Settings: Add setting for Library view chunk size
- Settings: Add separate playback setting to skip Post Play in TV shows (separate from binge mode)
- Settings: Clarify and reorder playback settings
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Pushed a modified SubScene addon to Donāt Panic. Might need a couple of retries, but should workā¢.
Hello Everyone,
Iām getting intermittent reboots of my Odroid N2 which seem to be related to PM4K. Disabling PM4K and no reboots.
Can anyone see what might be causing these reboots, as it only happens when the N2 is idle.
TIA
Youāre running 0.7.4, does the same happen with the latest release (0.7.5)?
Edit: Do you have any idle setting active in PM4K? (System: Screensaver, idle, etc.)
Edit: Can you reproduce this without other addons active (such as service.aml-vnc)?
Have not tried, but has been happening for a month or so now.
No, nothing.
PM4K and VNC are the only add-ons installed. I need VNC to support this remotely. Itās being used by my mother just to watch Plex. The box gets rebooted daily at 5AM and automatically starts PM4K for her.
OK, letās continue this in DM.
Question is pm4k 0.7.5 able to run on kodi 20.3 or should i wait for now with upgrading my mediaplayer.
Yes you are right 20 is the current limit.
What about splitting the albums row in multiple ones - so one row per Type / related content? Plexamp is doing the same in artist view.
It would also have the additional advantage to have a better overview and find albums etc. Easier.
In this case you could maybe load the rows per type and you donāt have that mixture?.
The answer you seek is in the first post 
Thank you for answering. Yes i saw that post. But i was still unsure if it also applied for all kodi 20 versions.
But now i am reassured that i can upgrade my device from kodi 20.2 to 20.3.
Yeah maybe, Iād have to investigate. In the meantime you can play around with script.plexmod/windows/subitems.py line 650 and adjust includeRelatedCount to your liking.
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Hi Panni. Long time no see
Something is wrong with the latest version of PM4K on LibreELEC beta build (Kodi 20 - Raspberry Pi)
It was working in the previous version.
When I try to play anything that requires transcoding an error message appears.
I logged everything hopefully in the archived log below.
Hope it helps.
LibreELEC-Rpi.zip (42.1 KB)
Jup I see that. Probably time for 0.7.5-rev1. Iāll take a look ASAP.
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Hope can help me and find a solution for this matter.
Iāll take a look 
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Please donāt ever update this UI! I use this addon because I donāt like the new UI across all the plex apps. This UI is the best and they need to stop ruining crap trying to update it lol. I really appreciate your work! Iāll lose my mind if I have to use the android plex app.
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