[RELEASE] OpenPHT 1.7.1

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Today we announce the release of OpenPHT 1.7.1.

This release is dedicated to @nedthenerd, thanks for all the hard work you have put into RasPlex and OpenPHT over the years, you will be deeply missed!

Lots of new features and fixes in this release, as such we expect there to be some glitches, please report any new issues you encounter.

New

  • Improved Streaming Brain support
  • Improved iOS companion support
  • Support for showing imdb rating
  • Preference option to include watched in watch later and recommended
  • Skin option to hide fanart in library
  • Lots of skinning engine and other improvements: (thanks @bkury )
  • Mouse Support
  • New preference category for OpenPHT options
  • Preference option to stack recently added
  • Preference option to disable preplay screen based on content
  • Added reboot option on supported systems (default skin)
  • Support for 3rd-party Kodi remote apps (e.g. Yatse)
  • FileManager and SystemInfo support (requires skin support)
  • Quick filter support (requires skin support)
  • V.L. System M-Play Blast remote support
  • Updated Italian translation (thanks @NicolaIsotta )
  • Updated help and version branding (now say OpenPHT instead of XBMC on command line)
  • Updated to ffmpeg 2.8.8
  • OSX/Windows: Update curl, openssl and other depends
  • Linux: Changed install path and support for building on 32-bit ubuntu/debian
  • Intel_EGL: Switch to linux 4.7.10 to improve Skylake support (also contains latest nvidia drivers)
  • Odroid_C2: Possible to power-on using hardkernels IR-Remote or CEC
  • Odroid_C2: Support for multi-channel LPCM audio
  • Odroid_C2: Lots of improvements and changes from LibreELEC master
  • Embedded: New images for WeTek_Hub and WeTek_Play_2
  • OSX-32: Built with 10.8 sdk and should work on 10.7+
  • OSX-64: Built with 10.11 sdk and should work on 10.9+

Fixes

  • Performance/smoothness and CPU usage optimizations (fixed cpu spike when browsing library)
  • Fix search window focus issue
  • Fix reconnecting to the adapter upon libcec callback CEC_ALERT_CONNECTION_LOST
  • Fix typo (‘Video resolution to large’ now ‘Video resolution too large’)
  • Fix missing overlay/episode info for focused deck item
  • Fix selected item when returning to home window
  • Allow shared servers to be used as best server (fixes channel issue when only shared servers is available)
  • Only use best server service lookup for myplex clips
  • Fix for broken music volume with Apple Remote (thanks @WN1188 )
  • Update to linux 4.4.30 and latest rpi firmware
  • Fix for mixed content in photo libraries

Known Issues

  • Windows SmartScreen could block the installer, use the Run anyway option to install
  • Auto-update of windows portable installs will fail and corrupt your portable install

Downloads
For Windows, OS X, Embedded and Linux see OpenPHT 1.7.1 GitHub page
For Raspberry Pi devices see RasPlex 1.7.1 release post

Auto Update
OpenPHT 1.7.1 is now available on the pre-release update channel.

Bugs?
Please report bugs on GitHub, https://github.com/RasPlex/OpenPHT/issues

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Hi,

I installed 1.7.0 on my Windows 10 machine.
I thought it would solve the problem with IOS app control.
Now I cant even select OpenPHT as player on my Iphone Plex app, any one else with this problem?

Regards
Robban

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Nope, your not along. I have upgrade one of my players and one second it’s there and then it disappears.

And when I go to quit the program, it crashes.

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Yes, I have the crash problem too.

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I built 1.7.0 from source on ubuntu 16.04.1
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCOMPRESS_TEXTURES=on -DUSE_INTERNAL_FFMPEG=off -DENABLE_AUTOUPDATE=off -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/openpht “~/OpenPHT-1.7.0.133-21c0dc37”
I also get the crash

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First time user of OpenPHT, so sorry if this is a known issue.

Installed OpenPHT 1.7 on a fresh Ubuntu GNOME yakkety and the screen is flickering extremely much when moving around the menus (VSync setting doesn’t matter) and playing a video the video freezes (even though I hear the sound) and OpenPHT is unresponsive (can’t stop the video/exit) but I can switch to other applications so the system works.

The system is an older Asus Zenbook (UX31E) with Intel graphics.

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Thank you for the hard work guys!

I just installed on macOS: everything works fine. The Harmony remote didn’t register at the launch, but after switching to Apple remote and back it started working without any problems.

The most anticipated feature for me has been Audio Output Device quick select option in the Menu during the playback and a shortcut key command that could be assigned to Harmony remote custom buttons. When asked for this feature in one of the threads, we were promised that it will be implemented to this release, but I wasn’t able to find such an option. Am I missing something, or it hadn’t been implemented?

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Thanks for reporting the crash and plex companion issues, recommend that you skip 1.7.0 for now and wait on a 1.7.1 hotfix release (eta in a day or two).

@lukemz please try with latest git head, a few crash fixes have been pushed.

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@kwiboo 1.7.0.0-dce68d77 is running and appears stable. You’re the man
Ah forgot to say, iOS functionality is restored for me.

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@Kwiboo

Looks pretty solid… nice work… can confirm that 4.4.1 and 4.5 on ipad and iphone working fine with 1.7 on both my pi and macbook…

I still think that overall plex has token and certificate issues… once the tokens were in place things use to be very stable but I am finding that I am having to log out and log in clients and servers… never had to do that in the past and also noticing that my tokens change all the time now…

My feeling is that plex is getting ready to pull the plug on all free services…

Look at the writing on the wall

All server version that could work without logging a token are no longer downloadable at plex

They have changed the way the apps work…

Once they flip the token required switch that requires you to have a paying account … its all over…

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Hello,
Is it possible to install this release into the Wetek hub NAND (like the NAND version of libreELEC) ?
Thx

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Hi,

I have build OpenPHT 1.7.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 and made portage to NAS (QNAP and Asustor)
… even I have not tested all … I don’t fall in any major problem
After reading the issues … etc. I don’t clearly understand what is faulty in 1.7.0

Is problems also occurs in Linux version ??
It’s not a problem to wait for some days (or more) … just to understand (and perhaps if it’s on Linux … to help … )

Philippe.

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@father_mande said:
After reading the issues … etc. I don’t clearly understand what is faulty in 1.7.0

There where several crash reports submitted in a rather short period and the most noticeable one is to press P (play) without any item selected on the home screen, should result in an instant crash.
That crash is fixed in latest git head but are also testing out a webserver fix for improved plex companion support.

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Hi,

OK,

Thanks
Philippe.

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Hi Kwiboo,

Any comment on my post above regarding the Audio Output option? Also see late Ned’s input in this thread:

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Request adding this to the Known Issues for OpenPHT 1.7
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/101499/mac-choosing-screenshot-folder

Raised on GitHub a while back too.

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Hey there. Thx. alot to all who help/make OpenPHT possible/better – I’m loving it.

v1.6.2 is running on a RasPi 3B (since a week - wanted to gain 3D playback capability) and i’m really flashed what this little box is capable of.

2 things popped up:

a) TV Theme Music
it doesn’t matter to which percentage i set it, it gets played at full volume all the time (and because most of them are encoded just in stereo – they usually are much louder then the general level of played tv/movie titles; can then be ‘shocking’ loud at times).

b) 3D Playback
did only some tests up until now. on some titles the 3D playback isn’t engaged automatically (pure 2D playback). but if i change playback mode to OU/SBS (and only when i let OpenPHT ask me beforehand via alternate mode choice) then they play back fine (and it looks like full resolution). inspecting these ones doesn’t show any differences (file naming “.3d.mvc.”, tags like “Stereo High / MultiView Count: 2”).

how are your observations? does someone have any tipps, how to resolve them (or maybe will v1.7.(1) solve any of it)?

thx. in advance.

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@yegor said:
Hi Kwiboo,

Any comment on my post above regarding the Audio Output option? Also see late Ned’s input in this thread:

https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/226442/harmony-audio-source-shortcut#latest

I’m not @Kwiboo and I don’t know the future, but the feature is not in the 1.7.1 release being worked on at this time.

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@benjaminwolf said:

@yegor said:
Hi Kwiboo,

Any comment on my post above regarding the Audio Output option? Also see late Ned’s input in this thread:

https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/226442/harmony-audio-source-shortcut#latest

I’m not @Kwiboo and I don’t know the future, but the feature is not in the 1.7.1 release being worked on at this time.

Ahh… too bad… I was really excited for this to happen :frowning:

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Solved the screen flickering and video freeze issue on my system.
On Ubuntu 16.10, Intel driver gen4 and later uses the modesetting driver in Xorg by default. Switching to the intel driver with UXA made it work.
Now I have an issue that the UI freezes after a while when in the menus, gonna see if I can figure it out, I’ve had a similar but less occurring issue on my Mac with Plex HT.