Release Announcements - Android TV beta

Plex Players Player Betas
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Plex for Android 8.13.1.23035-beta

Available on Google Play.

FIXES:

*[TV] Player: prevent endless spinner when playing AVOD.

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403

Plex for Android 8.14.0.23093-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • Player: app could crash when exiting playback.
  • Unpinned sources would pin again when reseting customization.
  • Player: prevent empty hubs from appearing on the postplay.
  • Player: stop orange border around adverts.
  • Player: ā€˜subtitles positionā€™ setting didnā€™t work.
  • Watch Together: fix ā€˜removeā€™ action in card context menus.
  • Update blur background to use 4 colors instead of 6.

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Fire Stick stops playing live tv every few minutes, exits to guide. ([FFmpeg] [ERROR] [tls @ 0x81b7e740] Error in the pull function.)
404

Plex for Android 8.14.0.23228-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • Dimmed background fallback to blur not working correctly.

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405

Plex for Android 8.14.0.23306-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Home: app could crash when exiting playback.
  • My TIDAL content was not available after signing in.
  • Preplays: some hubs would show when empty or incorrect items.
  • Preplay: returning to Season screen would lose details info.
  • Home: possible to have duplicate hubs on automatically managed Home.

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Fire Stick stops playing live tv every few minutes, exits to guide. ([FFmpeg] [ERROR] [tls @ 0x81b7e740] Error in the pull function.)
406

*Plex for Android 8.14.0.23337-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Library: returning from details screen would lose focus and reset view.
  • Preplays: single season preplays would show incorrect episode thumbnails.
  • My TIDAL content was not available after signing in.
  • [TV] Preplays: only 10 albums would be displayed for a library artist.

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407

Plex for Android 8.14.0.23385-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

No TV specific changes in this release.

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408

Plex for Android 8.14.0.23398-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

This release contains improvements to unreleased features.

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Fire Stick stops playing live tv every few minutes, exits to guide. ([FFmpeg] [ERROR] [tls @ 0x81b7e740] Error in the pull function.)
409

Plex for Android 8.14.1.23512-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent ANR when closing player.
  • Core: hubs would not update as expected after changes to progress/watched status

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410

Plex for Android 8.15.0.23605-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

WHATS NEW:

  • Player: support for multi-part media.

FIXES:

  • Preplay: Artist TV was missing.
  • Player: crash when playing transcoded video with selected MOV_TEXT subtitle.
  • Player: donā€™t display post play when repeating video.
  • Live TV: improve tune times when switching channels.
  • Live TV: switching channels could be slower than expected.
  • Preplay thumbnail was low resolution when navigating via ā€œGo to Showā€.
  • Cast: potential crash when resuming the app.
  • Player: app crashes while trying to play a slowmotion/timelapse video
  • Library: some hub items could be duplicated.
  • Player: exiting playback during split-screen would bring Plex to the foreground.
  • App could crash when tuning a Live TV program before the UI is ready.
  • Fix issue with overflow menu not fully expanding on landscape mode.
  • Dimmed background fallback to blur not working correctly.
  • [TV] Image loading could flash while scrolling down through items.
  • [TV] Player: donā€™t hide audio player controls when navigating buttons.
  • [TV] Prevent crash on Amazon devices when stopping playback.
  • [TV] Ellipsize long library names during source customisation.
  • [TV] Better metadata for Podcasts in audio player.

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Fire Stick stops playing live tv every few minutes, exits to guide. ([FFmpeg] [ERROR] [tls @ 0x81b7e740] Error in the pull function.)
Google Chromecast with Android TV and multi file movies
411

Plex for Android 8.15.0.23620-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Player: app could crash playing Live TV

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Fire TV 4k Live TV "Error Recording Failed. Please check your tuner or antenna" when changing channels
412

Plex for Android 8.15.0.23698-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • Player: crash could occur when playing an item from the postplay.
  • Preplay: cast list could contain duplicate items.
  • Player: improve Live TV playback.
  • Deeplinks: app could fail to open if attempting to play media while in the background.

BETA:

  • Player: prevent potential crash sending timeline events.

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Fire TV 4k Live TV "Error Recording Failed. Please check your tuner or antenna" when changing channels
Fire Stick stops playing live tv every few minutes, exits to guide. ([FFmpeg] [ERROR] [tls @ 0x81b7e740] Error in the pull function.)
Android / Android TV - Support split files
Plex Client Can't resume paused live tv after long pause
Fire Stick stops playing live tv every few minutes, exits to guide. ([FFmpeg] [ERROR] [tls @ 0x81b7e740] Error in the pull function.)
413

Plex for Android 8.15.0.23770-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Preplay: glitch with placeholders when loading season/epsiode preplay.

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414

Plex for Android 8.15.0.23829-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • Player: prevent crash while removing WiFi lock when exiting playback.

BETA:

  • Core: app could crash when updating Home on low powered devices.
  • [TV] App would crash after selecting certain library filters.

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415

Plex for Android 8.15.0.23847-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Player: crash when trying to select audio track for OTA live tv.

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416

Plex for Android 8.15.1.23934-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

Mobile changes only.

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417

Plex for Android 8.15.2.23956-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • Home: continue watching hub would only contain 10 items from one server.

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418

Plex for Android 8.15.2.23984-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • Preplays: aritst would only be displaying 10 albums.

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419

Plex for Android 8.15.2.23989-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

BETA:

  • Hubs would only contain 10 items.

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420

Plex for Android 8.16.0.24021-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

WHATS NEW:

  • Introduce local cache for Home/Libraries to improve performance.
  • [TV] Live TV: improved scrolling within TV guide.

FIXES:

  • Continue watching hub in ā€œMovies & TVā€ source would only contain 10 items.
  • Playlist thumbnails would fail to load sometimes.
  • Player: multi-part videos would only play the first two parts.
  • Home: continue watching hub would only contain 10 items from one server.
  • DVR: crash when editing a recording.
  • DVR: trying to edit a recording from the ā€˜Scheduleā€™ tab resulted in an empty dialog.
  • Player: hubs would be missing from the postplay.
  • Player: potential crash when exiting during post play screen.
  • Ensure that cloud content is shown in the right language for the device.
  • Display proper subtitle in episode cards if show is date-based.
  • DVR: show ā€˜locationā€™ dropdown when editing a recording if multiple locations are available.
  • Player: crash could occur when loading a stream with zero bytes of initialisation data.
  • Folder cards could be unreadable.
  • Auto: improve reliability when application hasnā€™t yet started.
  • Player: crash could occur when launching the player with no chapter data.
  • Player: ensure surface is prepared before playback begins.
  • Player: potential crash when closing player.
  • Player: bump ExoPlayer to r2.13.1.
  • Preplay summaries didnā€™t include full paragraph breaks.
  • [TV] Donā€™t allow too dark colors with blurred background.
  • [TV] Use default colors and ultrablur for app background.
  • [TV] Animated transition between background changes.
  • [TV] Preplay: episodes on single season shows would be missing titles.
  • [TV] Preplay: the season preplay would sometimes display previous episodeā€™s details.
  • [TV] Player: pause playback even when buffering when app is exited.
  • [TV] Player: donā€™t show player notification on OS home screen when existing from Post Play.
  • [TV] Player: chapters and Live TV channels could disappear randomly.
  • [TV] Preplay summaries would sometimes not be clickable.
  • [TV] Better support for displaying metadata of date-based shows.

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Unreadable folder name
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Plex for Android 8.16.0.24099-beta

Available on Google Play, beta access can now be joined (or removed) directly from the Google Play store listing.

FIXES:

  • Home: hubs from different servers would sometimes display the same data.

BETA:

  • App could crash trying to find reachable servers at launch.
  • Home: opening the app for the first time displayed an infinite loading spinner.

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