Release Announcements - Android TV beta

Plex Players Player Betas
301

Plex for Android 8.0.0.17115-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Grids could go out of aligment while scrolling down.

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302

Plex for Android 8.0.0.17168-beta

Available on Google Play.

  • Continue Watching would not update with played status or progress.
  • [TV] Fix crash when opening settings.

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Plex for Android 8.0.0.17115-beta Selecting "Settings" immediately crashes Plex app on Shield TV
303

Plex for Android 8.0.0.17191-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash when navigating through content tabs.
  • [TV] App could crash when opening recommendation channel.
  • [TV] Recommendation channels didnā€™t start playback.

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304

Plex for Android 8.0.0.17234-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • App could crash when navigating through content tabs.
  • [TV] App could crash when returning back to a show after playback.
  • [TV] App could crash when being resumed from recents.

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305

Plex for Android 8.0.1.17411-beta

Available on Google Play.

No TV specific changes in this release.

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306

Plex for Android 8.1.0.17650-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • Live TV: tune channels even when opening a future airing pre-play.
  • Live TV: add TV guide long press action support to navigate to pre-play.
  • [TV] Live TV: you can now page up and down on the TV guide using program up/down controller keys.

FIXES:

  • Live TV: deleted Live TV & DVR sources could still be visible.
  • Player: improve cleanup when closing.
  • Player: resolve error when playing forced transcoded content due to server based WAN bitrate limit.
  • Advanced sorts and filters were not being being loaded.
  • Make sure all servers and sources are available during the first run.
  • Player: ensure transcoded playback works on networks with DNS rebinding.
  • Player: direct play 5.1 PCM (#14739).
  • Player: reduce memory requirements for playing high bitrate content.
  • Player: improve subtitle handling when media analysis isnā€™t present.
  • [TV] Selecting an item from the Recommendations Channel could result in a blank screen.
  • [TV] Settings and Sign In icons donā€™t look good on devices with API < 24.
  • [TV] Tracks played from search results might not work.
  • [TV] Player: ensure codec is successfully initialised on Miibox devices.
  • [TV] Playqueue from Tidal music videos could not contain all items.

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Live TV stops playing at minute 03 of every hour
Plex for Mi Box S is not playing any video since last update on Mi Box S few days ago
[Android/FFmpeg] Peer certificate failed verification
Live TV stops playing at minute 03 of every hour
Plex for Mi Box S is not playing any video since last update on Mi Box S few days ago
307

Plex for Android 8.1.0.17759-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] Long press on items shows a context menu with actions.
  • [TV] Live TV: DVR schedule tab colous were incorrectly highlighted by default.

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308

Plex for Android 8.1.0.17797-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Improve memory usage on the home screen.

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What beta release to Install on Nvidia Shield 2019 Tube?
309

Plex for Android 8.1.0.17833-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Changes for this release only impact mobile devices.

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310

Plex for Android 8.1.0.17893-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: fallback to transcode when direct play fails.
  • Player: ensure seeking whilst transcoding doesnā€™t end playback.

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Plex - Nvidia Shield TV 2019
[BUG] Extras no longer playing after update to 8.0.0.17276
311

Plex for Android 8.1.0.17966-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] App could crash when removing Tidal artist from PMS music library section.

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Nvidia Shield 4K HDR Remux Stuttering
Convert automatically with subtitles dont work
Long time problem with subtitles enabled and convert automatically
312

Plex for Android 8.1.1.18052-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Library browse would download all items.
  • [TV] App would crash if no sources were available during first run.

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313

Plex for Android 8.1.2.18120-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

  • Player: fix video corruption when ABR is enabled and quality or bitrate is automatically adjusted

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314

Plex for Android 8.2.0.18179-beta

Available on Google Play.

WHATS NEW:

  • [TV] Updated sidebar design.

FIXES:

  • Live TV: hubs were not being pinned to home screen.
  • App could crash when cancelling recording in DVR schedule screen.
  • [TV] App could crash when adding some Tidal artists to library.
  • [TV] Make ā€˜mark asā€™ and ā€˜recordā€™ actions available in card context menus.
  • [TV] Search could not be selected from first hub item.

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315

Plex for Android 8.2.0.18187-beta

Available on Google Play.

Internal changes only.

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316

Plex for Android 8.2.0.18280-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • [TV] App could crash when navigating to episode from podcast show preplay.
  • [TV] App could crash while loading Android home channels.

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317

Plex for Android 8.2.0.18361-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Recommended tab would load on old version of PMS.
  • Filters did not appear in old versions of PMS.
  • [TV] App could crash when a new track starts if lyrics were displayed for previous one.

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Next song takes me back to user selection if lyrics are showing
No Sorting Options in Android Library View
318

Plex for Android 8.2.0.18431-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

Changes for this release only impact mobile devices.

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319

Plex for Android 8.2.0.18481-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Reset customization zero state shows incorrectly.
  • App could crash when tunning Live TV content.

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320

Plex for Android 8.2.0.18495-beta

Available on Google Play.

BETA:

  • Player: app could crash when finishing playback.

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