Release Announcements - Android TV beta

Plex Players Player Betas
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Plex for Android 9.28.0.2976-beta

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

FIXES:

  • App could crash displaying the activity feed.
  • Player: strip out HDR10+ when playing DoVi P8.1 & HDR10+ stream on a DoVi display.
  • Player: postplay would sometimes be missing the play icon.
  • The list of muted and blocked accounts could be cut off.
  • Player: ensure TrueHD is transcoded on FireTV 4K Max devices that don’t support TrueHD.
  • Player: switching to another quality could fail when multiple versions exist.
  • [TV] Sidebar icons would end up in a weird state if clicked while content was loading.
  • [TV] Returning to a collection after browsing an item would scroll to the top.
  • [TV] Friends: app could crash when unmuting or unblocking a user.
  • [TV] Platform: app could crash while signing in on Amazon Fire TV devices.
  • [TV] App could crash editing a managed user account.

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4 Likes
627

Plex for Android 9.28.0.3054-beta

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

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2 Likes
628

Plex for Android 9.28.0.3132-beta

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

BETA:

  • Player: HDR / HD / 4K badges were missing from the controls.

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2 Likes
629

Plex for Android 9.29.0.3217-beta

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

WHATS NEW:

  • Player: favourite button for marking a Live TV channel as a favourite.

FIXES:

  • Platform: navigation could sometimes stall indefinitely on a bad connection.
  • [TV] Ensure review card has a focus indication on all devices.
  • [TV] Ensure filmography list items have correct size.

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3 Likes
630

Plex for Android 9.29.0.3280-beta

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

BETA:

  • Player: playback could fail when refresh rate or / and resolution switching are enabled.
  • Search: Plex Media Servers would be disabled by default in search settings.

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2 Likes
631

Plex for Android 9.29.0.3347-beta

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

BETA:

  • [TV] App could crash when removing an item from Continue Watching.
  • [TV] App could crash when updating from an older version.

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1 Like
632

Plex for Android 9.29.0.3407-beta

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

BETA:

  • Player: when viewing photos the selected photo wasn’t always made visible.

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2 Likes
633

Plex for Android 9.30.0.3478-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 specifying a delay when refresh rate or resolution switching.

FIXES:

  • Player: enable HDMI passthrough by default.
  • Player: seeking in DVR recordings could crash.
  • [TV] Activity: marking content as watched or adding to watchlist wouldn’t be reflected immediately.

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2 Likes
634

Plex for Android 9.30.0.3519-beta

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

FIXES:

  • The detail pages could sometimes be slow to load.

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2 Likes
635

Plex for Android 9.30.0.3554-beta

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

BETA:

  • Player: audio could fail to be configured when refresh rate switching was enabled.

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NOTE: APK download links expire once the next major beta has been released.

2 Likes
636

Plex for Android 9.31.0.3687-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Discover: streaming services availabilities for episodes would not be displayed.
  • Player: ensure Dolby audio is setup correctly on FireTV Gen 1.
  • [TV] Settings: text in settings would not be fully readable.
  • [TV] App could crash when removing an item from Continue Watching.
  • [TV] Friends: the friends list was not scrollable in some situations.
  • [TV] Empty watchlist state might have not been dismissible.

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3 Likes
637

Plex for Android 9.31.0.3774-beta

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

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2 Likes
638

Plex for Android 10.0.0.3923-beta

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

WHATS NEW:

  • Added a Cast & Crew page accessible from the details page.
  • Improved the Cast hub on detail pages to also show Crew members.
  • Profile: add the ability to remove ratings.
  • [TV] Restored Director credit to detail pages.

FIXES:

  • Player: strip DoVi metadata if profile is not supported.
  • Settings: account settings might have crashed when navigating from the profile.

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5 Likes
639

Plex for Android 10.0.0.3954-beta

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

WHATS NEW:

  • [TV] Player: setting for forcing DoVi p7 playback.

BETA:

  • [TV] Cast And Crew: some cast members could be inaccessible.

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3 Likes
640

Plex for Android 10.0.0.3980-beta

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

BETA:

  • Player: ensure DTS can be played via software decoding.
  • [TV] App could crash acceesing the more sources menu.
  • [TV] Cast And Crew: the hub would be wrongly displayed in music preplays.

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3 Likes
641

Plex for Android 10.0.0.4105-beta

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

FIXES:

  • [TV] LiveTV: fix an issue where live tv integration on Amazon devices.

BETA:

  • [TV] App could crash accessing search.

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2 Likes
642

Plex for Android 10.1.0.4214-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Player: change photo slideshows to 5 seconds.
  • Search: not all people search results would be merged.
  • Live TV: fix encoding issues with xmltv channels that failed to tune.
  • Player: styling included in subtitle would not be shown.
  • Trailers would have unnecessary context menu actions.
  • [TV] Settings: longer titles get cut off in the dialog.

BETA:

  • App would become unusable after removing a signed in managed account.

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2 Likes
643

Plex for Android 10.1.0.4276-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Player: ensure DTS support is correctly detected on new FireTV 4K Max 2nd Gen.

BETA:

  • Watch Together feature could not be used.
  • [TV] App could crash when opening the More menu.

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1 Like
644

Plex for Android 10.1.1.4320-beta

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

FIXES:

  • [TV] App could crash when resetting customizations.

BETA:

  • LiveTV: channels with unknown airings could crash on the TV Guide.

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2 Likes
645

Plex for Android 10.2.0.4344-beta

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

FIXES:

  • Player: restore channel favoriting during Live TV playback.
  • Player: crash could occur when showing the postplay.

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2 Likes