@Moussa said:
v2.0.4should now be available to you all, which includes fixes for several of the issues mentioned here. You can find the release notes here.
I see no way to play next episode automatically…
New update I guess…
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"Plex for Xbox One v2.1.1 is now rolling out for users
NEW:
- Brand new audio, video, and photo players.
- Support for direct streaming HEVC video on the Xbox One S and Xbox One X.
- Support for mspeg4v2 and mspeg4v3 in mkv and avi containers and 4K vp9 support in webm containers.
- Poster and list items titles will automatically scroll when they are too long to display in their entirety.
- New ‘Play Version’, ‘Mark as Watched’, and ‘Delete’ modals.
- Show insecure connection fallback options when primary server is unreachable but insecure connections are a possibility.
FIXED:
- Improve app usability when system high contrast mode is enabled.
- Fix tracks count on Album Pre-Play pages.
- Fix loss of focus when exiting/entering player.
- Fix loss of focus when returning from screensaver without user lock.
- App no longer occasionally gets stuck in loading state after switching users.
- Fixed preplay/library item details getting stuck in a loading state after switching users.
- Shuffled play queues from playlists only containing the first 50 items.
- Fixed the background of the items in the user switcher screen so they’re no longer tiled."
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Sigh…still no autoplay
Direct play HEVC is a great step in the right direction. So good job, and thanks!
However, direct play 4K HEVC would be even better.
*Edit - Looks like some people can direct play 4K HEVC, at least in an MP4 container with AAC audio.
The issue I’m having is with a 4K HEVC MKV container with 7.1 DTS Audio causing the whole thing to transcode.
Still though, the biggest thing for me is direct play / passthrough of 7.1 audio, including DTS:MA, Dolby TueHD and especially ATMOS.
I’m starting to use Plex a LOT less without this feature, so this would be a critical update to bring it back to my top app.
@cuzz1369 Autoplay works for me. Under Settings -> Main
I see a second update just came out that allows play/pause to work on a media remote when the UI isn’t displayed.
Can anyone confirm if this also returns proper fast forward and rewind functionality to the remote?
@Kuzuri_616 said:
Direct play HEVC is a great step in the right direction. So good job, and thanks!
However, direct play 4K HEVC would be even better.
Direct Play of HEVC is already supported in the MKV or MP4 container. But if the file is direct streaming that means there is something else triggering the transcode and it’s not the HEVC.
@Kuzuri_616 said
@cuzz1369 Autoplay works for me. Under Settings → Main
Wow. Didn’t even really look for it. Just read the update notes and didn’t see it in their. Thanks
@jmckee said:
@Kuzuri_616 said:
Direct play HEVC is a great step in the right direction. So good job, and thanks!
However, direct play 4K HEVC would be even better.Direct Play of HEVC is already supported in the MKV or MP4 container. But if the file is direct streaming that means there is something else triggering the transcode and it’s not the HEVC.
Are you absolutely sure about that, specifically for 4K video? Have you been able to test this?
That would be great if I’m just missing something here, but I’ve tested multiple files and everything with 1080p HEVC works as it should and either direct plays everything (if audio is already AAC 5.1) or direct streams the video (if audio is DTS and needs to be converted).
Alternatively, every 4K HEVC I’ve tested (everything else being the same as the 1080p version) converts the video to H.264 no matter what kind of audio it has.
Alright great, this app is usable again. Direct play works without a hitch. Menus seems a little faster and I’m glad to see a lot of the features from the old app were added back in.
Two things though that are still an issue that I noticed immediately:
Rewind and Fast Forward still don’t work properly. Instead of getting a proper 2x,4x,8x,32x,128x ect. forward and back, we still get time skips. That sucks.
On my harmony remote, the pause button no longer works. Pressing the play button pauses instead. A minor annoyance, but still an annoyance.
@Kuzuri_616 said:
Are you absolutely sure about that, specifically for 4K video? Have you been able to test this?
Yes. All 3 versions of the Xbox support direct play of 4K video in HEVC. Only the S and X will output 4K but all 3 can decode it. And the original (Non S and Non X) is the only one that cannot direct stream it.
That would be great if I’m just missing something here, but I’ve tested multiple files and everything with 1080p HEVC works as it should and either direct plays everything (if audio is already AAC 5.1) or direct streams the video (if audio is DTS and needs to be converted).
Alternatively, every 4K HEVC I’ve tested (everything else being the same as the 1080p version) converts the video to H.264 no matter what kind of audio it has.
@jmckee
Hmm… That is really interesting.
I understand all about the capabilities of the Xbox and have a One X, so I’m not sure what’s causing the transcoding then.
I see your 4K video there has AAC audio, where as all of mine had more advanced audio like 7.1 DTS or TrueHD. It’s weird if that would cause it to transcode the video part, though, because I don’t have that issue with a 1080p HEVC that has 7.1 DTS audio.
I also see your video is also in an MP4 format, where all the videos I tried were MKV.
Any chance you have a 4K HEVC file with more advanced audio that you can test out and see if it direct streams the video, and only trascodes the audio?
*Edit - Doing some more digging around the forum and on this article here…
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/115005091907-Is-4K-playback-supported-on-Xbox-One-
It looks like before this most recent update, direct playing 4K was only possible in your exact example situation.
ie. HEVC (H.265) in MP4 with AAC audio no larger than 5.1
Anything like what I’m trying (MKV and / or HD audio) causes the whole thing to transcode.
So unless someone can show me otherwise, it looks like that has not changed with this update.
@jmckee said:
@Kuzuri_616 said:
Are you absolutely sure about that, specifically for 4K video? Have you been able to test this?
Yes. All 3 versions of the Xbox support direct play of 4K video in HEVC. Only the S and X will output 4K but all 3 can decode it. And the original (Non S and Non X) is the only one that cannot direct stream it.That would be great if I’m just missing something here, but I’ve tested multiple files and everything with 1080p HEVC works as it should and either direct plays everything (if audio is already AAC 5.1) or direct streams the video (if audio is DTS and needs to be converted).
Alternatively, every 4K HEVC I’ve tested (everything else being the same as the 1080p version) converts the video to H.264 no matter what kind of audio it has.
Can you show one in the mkv container with a DTS or even AC3 audio streams instead? Just curious here cause I’m seeing the same issue as the other poster here.
Thanks in advance.
@Kuzuri_616 said:
@jmckee
I also see your video is also in an MP4 format, where all the videos I tried were MKV.
Anything like what I’m trying (MKV and / or HD audio) causes the whole thing to transcode.
So unless someone can show me otherwise, it looks like that has not changed with this update.
MKV’s work with HEVC as well, HD audio does not. Previously HD audio would trigger a transcode of the video because HEVC was not supported in the direct streaming format.
Now, HEVC still will direct play in mp4/mkv (And I think vp9 was added as well) but only if the audio can direct play as well. If the audio needs to be converted the HEVC should direct stream (which is a direct copy of the HEVC). If the video is transcoding as well there is something else that is triggering it (Such as subtitles, bit rate limit, etc). The only device that this does not hold true for is the original Xbox One where the HEVC stream cannot be direct streamed.
@shpankey said:
@jmckee said:
Can you show one in the mkv container with a DTS or even AC3 audio streams instead? Just curious here cause I’m seeing the same issue as the other poster here.
Thanks in advance.
I can show an example of ac3 in an mkv with hevc when I get home.
But let me reiterate DTS or HD audio formats still will need to transcode. This update did not add passthrough, but it should allow the video stream to direct stream instead of transcoding. Until passthrough support is added the audio must be in a format that can be directly decoded in the framework. Otherwise at a minimum the video will direct stream and the audio will transcode.
no live tv or dvr support yet?
Oh ok, gotcha. Thank you jmckee! 
@Mdhwoods1 Not yet!
I have two 1080p MKVs that I encoded from the same regular Blu-ray source (8-bit).
One with an 8-bit HEVC video encode and one with a 10-bit HEVC video encode. The rest of the streams, audio, subs, chapters, are identical between the two files.
The 8-bit MKV will directstream in the Xbox One 2.1.2.70 client perfectly (well, there’s two audio streams. The AC3 will directstream, and the DTS will transcode to AAC).
The 10-bit MKV will transcode the video, and my poor little Synology (1.11.0.4666) can’t keep up.
Any help in getting the 10-bit one directstreaming? Thanks.
@Kuzuri_616 said:
Anything like what I’m trying (MKV and / or HD audio) causes the whole thing to transcode.
So unless someone can show me otherwise, it looks like that has not changed with this update.
@shpankey said:
Oh ok, gotcha. Thank you jmckee!
Here is the playback I promised you two:
@Spasm said:
Any help in getting the 10-bit one directstreaming? Thanks.
Just tagging all 3 of you in this part since all 3 of you have asked about it.
With HEVC 10 the current server profile automatically imposes an 8-bit limit on all video codecs. Testing with the developers and all of my 10-Bit samples actually fail to playback via direct streaming, only my 8-bit samples work. There is away to get around the 8-Bit limit, but it is at your own risk (It won’t break anything, but can cause some files to fail to play that other wise would).
The simple way is to find where your Profiles folder is (Typically inside of your Resources folder inside of the Plex install directory) and edit the Xbox One.xml file. Near the bottom you will see these lines:
<TranscodeTargetProfiles>
<VideoTranscodeTarget protocol="*" context="all">
<VideoCodec name="*">
Change the VideoCodec name= from * to h264. This will apply these limitations only to the h264 codec and allow HEVC to ignore them when the server decides to remux/transcode. You may also need to restart the server after changing this setting. In my testing the files were crashing within 20-30 seconds of starting playback.
To add onto @jmckee’s comment, we’re shipping an updated client profile for the Xbox One hopefully in the next release after PMS v1.11.0 to avoid transcoding files with certain characteristics.
I am currently not able to direct stream a 4k HEVC that has DTS HD or Dolby atmos, the video is still transcoding to H.264. Since they are HDR (Extremely washed out colors), they seem to look like crap on xbox one x vs my roku tv.
Same here.
