Version 1.3.3 development versions are up for testing. For those that had download the 1.3.0 series, you should get the 1.3.3-M1 version as it has the fix for the Force Closes that were occurring with TV Shows that had no ratings. There are going to be several 1.3.x related versions over the next month as I go back and fix a few annoying issues.
1.3.3-M1 features:
* Adds Resume offset position when prompted if you want to Resume from the last playback using the internal player.
* Adds more Holo theming to the device so it intergrates better with Android in general.
1.3.3-M2 should be available in a few days and adds several tweaks:
* Smoother and better scrolling for Detail views when browsing Movies and Episodes.
* Optional animations for various parts, all configurable by the user whether they are enabled or not.
* New Animation preference settings
You can grab the latest development versions for free from the projects web site.
I am not really interested in compiling all this stuff, I will wait on the play store release.
Many thanks for your efforts to make this application always better. Effectively there are other Plex clients on Android, but Sernity is the lone one that tracks the watched status using an external Player. So for me is the only usable one because internal players do not play a lot of my videos with or without transcoding.
I discovered a new version in the play store, I do not know exactly witch one because it do not appear in the About text.
I see some new more animations; ok I personally do not find a big benefit.
There is some small things more important, at least for me:
Some episodes do not show the season & episode #. It seems (not sure) that are the episodes numbered like 3x07. The ones numbered like S03E07 are displayed correctly. I supposed that Plex server provided this information always in the same way but..
Actually when we browse in episodes, we can only go from the beginning to right. It could be nice to be able to browse from the first episode to the last one browsing to the left.
Using it for other tests, I discovered that this new version record also the « half watched status » with the external player, including the seen time, is that right? -> I like it, it remains only to show it on the movie/episode like a bullet/half bullet for example.
I discovered a new version in the play store, I do not know exactly witch one because it do not appear in the About text.
I see some new more animations; ok I personally do not find a big benefit.
There is some small things more important, at least for me:
Some episodes do not show the season & episode #. It seems (not sure) that are the episodes numbered like 3x07. The ones numbered like S03E07 are displayed correctly. I supposed that Plex server provided this information always in the same way but..
This is based on how you have your file names named for the TV shows and episodes. If you follow the naming formation as specified here:
You will get the Season and Episode number information displayed. Those that don't follow that naming format will not get the name correctly displayed. Plex doesn't clearly document how this should be retrieved in their API so I go based on how the file was named.
Actually when we browse in episodes, we can only go from the beginning to right. It could be nice to be able to browse from the first episode to the last one browsing to the left.
Many thanks for your huge work
If you have a Keyboard attached you can quickly move through the Gallery by use F and R on the keyboard, or Page Up and Page Down. It'll jump 10 at time. You can also use these in Movies as well. I've thought about doing the wrap around browsing but haven't done so yet, will put it on as a possible enhancement.
Version 1.3.4 is rolling out to the store now. Some people wanted the animations, that is why I made them optional, they don't really add much to the app, but some people like them.
1) Yes it confirms what I saw. There is two main used naming conventions 1. S01E02 this you confirm it is ok. 2. 1x02 this is also very used and is supoorted very well by Plex, sadly not by Serenity.
2) On TV I prefer to use a remote with arrows left and right. On the remote I do no have R & F key, but perhaps on my future one.
1) Yes it confirms what I saw. There is two main used naming conventions 1. S01E02 this you confirm it is ok. 2. 1x02 this is also very used and is supoorted very well by Plex, sadly not by Serenity.
2) On TV I prefer to use a remote with arrows left and right. On the remote I do no have R & F key, but perhaps on my future one.
Anyway, many thanks for your answer.
Do you have Channel up and Channel down keys? You may also be able to use the Skip Forward and Skip Backward keys if your remote contains those. For the media format I support I just go buy the recommendations that plex uses. There is probably a way to get the necessary info from the Plex meta data but as I said the devs haven't clearly documented it (i.e. which part of the attribute contains that information).
On my actual remote (Gyration) these keys do not work.
But I ordered a new Rii universal one that shoud be able to do all these things.
For numbering, I could evetually rename my shows. Knowing this behaviour I will live with it for a while.
To be totaly honest with you I prefer GUI of XBMC/PlexBMC even if the setup is more painfull. But when it works wow. Sadly PlexBMC is not able to record the "wached status" as you do in Serenity. so I cannot use it for shows.
The official Plex client do not play anything on Android (even on my phone and my tablets) and if we use external player it do not record the watched status. In fact I even not been able to use the external player. The only real advantage of the official Plex client is the fact that is prety well translated in french and probably on other languages.
Many thanks for keping attention to my concerns. I already cryed on other forum regarding the "watched status" in PlexBMC but it seems there is no one around intersted to provide something working.
Watch status should work with mx player if you enable it to always force mx player to resume from the last offset. I need to look at just making it an mx player advanced option to more clearly name what it does. If you check it though it will always launch mx player as the external video player.
If you are willing to help with translation to French I can always use the help with translation so that it is more localized.
Yes, I know, Sernity works just fine with MX player. That is the main reason I use it. In other Plex clients it is more painfull to parameter it and even I was not able to make it to run with official Plex client.
YES, If you want I can translate English texts in French and even in Italian. In exchange I will only ask you to put the "watched bullet" or something like on each episode/movie and optionally to take in count the show 1x04 numbering mode.
Thanks, I actually just put the project up on ackuna.com. It is a crowd sourcing translation service, so if you want to help contribute you can do so through that site. It'll provide a better interface instead of having to check out XML files and edit them manually, plus you can help verify that any other translations are indeed accurate.
BTW, please open Issues on the projects GitHub site to track the feature requests you would like to see. That is the best way for me to make sure I don't loose those requests from users.
For Italian ... later, I am not so sure about movies terminology.
Moscard, I've got a version for you test with for French. You'll need to uninstall the version you have on your device and then load this version up. I know that in the Preferences settings there are still strings to be translated. I'll get those up later to translate, but wanted to see if there were any other bugs this introduces.
You can download the development version for 1.3.5 from here:
This application work fine. Just a Translation error. In the main menu it apears "Options d'" in this scope it shoud be only "Options"
For other things I did not see any other errors.
Some other feed back:
- Settings are not translated as you said.
- Combo list is also not translated. (Recetly viewed / Recently added ...).
- In fact this list was not translated in the Windows client neither
- Strangely in the last Plex Android Client it is only partially trnaslated and on Plex web app -> full perfetly translated.
I can translate these texts (combo) as well if want. These ones are the most used in the interface, so it could important for a good localization.
I get the options for Recently Added, Recently Viewed, etc, from the plex server itself, so if it isn't translating those on the server side, then I'm not doing anything with them on my end. I do translate the ones in the Preferred Filter as I have control over that. I have since done the translation for the Preferences, so will have another build in the next day or so. I'm leaving it to Plex to translate the options we get from the server.
BTW, I've implemented Issue 118, which is the partial watch indicator. So that will be out with the next build.
Wrap around browsing functionality has also been implemented now for the Movies and Episode browsers per your request Moscard. I've implemented your three requested features today and will be in for 1.3.5.
