** Update ** - Version 8.12.2 has been released this morning (Jan 29) which will hopefully make the original purpose of this post irrelevant. See “Plex For Android” in the Announcements section of the forums.
You know about the big playback problems with the 8.,12 versions and it appears that you have stopped them from going onto the stores. Why are the 8.12 versions left in the announcements section for unsuspecting users to download and install?
Just pointing out that 8.12.0 also had the playback problems. I had to return to 8.11 in order to resume normal use of the app. It seems that you know that too, given 8.11 is the version in the stores.
Did not realize 8.12.0 was affected as well.
Did you just have to uninstall 8.12 and then re-download from the store to get 8.11?
The announcement has no info on how to revert to a prior release (which would have been nice).
I’m on the beta release, so can’t test fallback on the production release.
FWIW, latest beta release fixed the problem on my phone. Haven’t tried my AndroidTV yet.
Yes, I reported the problem for 8.12.0 very soon after it went on the site. But it’s pretty hard to get people’s attention. This is why I said 8.12 “versions” in my original post above. I’m very unhappy with Plex’s disorganization, lack of quality control and lack of a remotely sensible process for reporting bugs. As a retired senior software designer/product manager, I have big problems with what is going on at plex.
I think the 8.12.0 problems are mainly evident when when connected via hdmi to tv/receiver that supports 5.1 sound when playing 5.1 content. When playing on or to stereo devices, it seemed to work ok.
The problem I noticed was with the 8.12.2.22740-beta released yesterday.
Everything transcoded on my mobile. AndroidTV users reported that everything was direct streaming instead of direct playing.
8.12.2.22745-beta, released earlier today, fixed the transcoding on my mobile. I haven’t checked my Shield yet. I’ll check 5.1 playback as well.
I think we might be talking about different announcement pages. I’m talking about the main Plex For Android announcement page, not the beta one.
I already feel like a beta tester using the production version of Android. Definitely not looking to use an even more beta version. The android app has been a bit of an abomination for almost 2 years.
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