Suggestion: Snappier UI

Right now the UI in Plex for Xbox One is slow... 

 

The main dashboard is getting a major refresh to make it super silky smooth:

http://www.icxm.net/x/new-xbox-one-ui-cortana.html

It's also getting Cortana too.

 

Here's suggesting the Plex team take a few pointers and revamp the Plex UI, at least to make it smoother.  Perhaps pre-render certain folders (e.g. the next folder in the list and the previous folder, plus whatever represents the selected current folder and back).  At the cost of a few CPU cycles the UI is all ready to go.  Just needs a bit more parallel task thinking and implementation.

 

Which parts do you find slow? Navigating around a page, between pages, video playback? Sounds like you're referring to going between TV shows, is that correct?

We're definitely keen to make it as smooth as we can, so any pain points welcome.

Ok comparing Plex for Home Theatre on Windows versus Xbox.

Most selections take 2-3 seconds to complete, with a bit of a fade-in effect happening too.

Consecutive clicks are "lost" if you hit them too quickly.  eg. hit "B" twice whilst in a TV series season to go back and the second "B" is lost to the universe somewhere.  On Plex for HT I can hit escape and be back at the main menu in about a quarter of a second.  It takes a LOT longer on Plex for Xbox.

A folder with a lot of movies can be scrolled up and down VERY rapidly in PlexforHT,   In Plex for Xbox One, using the left thumbstick to move takes several seconds to scroll across all of them (with the annoying xbox "beep" each time) - such scrolling is pretty jerky too.

I suspect you are probably using the tiling mechanism built into the Xbox API - the way it scrolls is very jerky and not polished at all.  Tiles are not pre-cached and seem to be loaded each time you scroll.

Brilliant! Thanks.

Some of those are, as you say, limitations of the default mechanisms of the platform, but that shouldn't stop us from seeing if they can be improved.

Thanks again for the specific feedback, we'll take a look.

A folder with a lot of movies can be scrolled up and down VERY rapidly in PlexforHT,   In Plex for Xbox One, using the left thumbstick to move takes several seconds to scroll across all of them (with the annoying xbox "beep" each time) - such scrolling is pretty jerky too.

In regards to this, using the bumpers to jump a page can go much faster than a straight scroll using the thumbstick.