Plex 4.6 update brengt meer Material Design en vele verbeteringen

De app Plex heeft een flinke update gekregen. Vandaag is Plex 4.6 voorzien van een aantal nieuwe verbeteringen en meer Material Design. Met Plex kan je je mediabestanden organiseren en afspelen op verschillende apparaten.

Plex 4.6

In de Play Store hebben de ontwikkelaars van de app Plex versie 4.6 uitgebracht. In de nieuwe versie van de multimedia-app kan je nu genieten van nog meer Material Design. Plex ziet er nu nog strakker uit en dat klinkt de Material-liefhebbers natuurlijk als muziek in de oren. De update van Plex brengt ook een verbeterde functionaliteit voor Android TV, de Google Chromecast en natuurlijk de applicatie zelf.

De lange changelog geeft aan welke verbeteringen en vernieuwingen door zijn gevoerd in Plex 4.6;

Nieuw:

Redesign preplay screens following Material Design guidelines.
[Android TV] Add the ability to filter and sort items within a library section
Update quality selection to allow selection of “Original” quality, as well as only showing valid qualities during video playback.
Detect and warn about buffer underflows during video playback.
Improve playback of MP4s when using the Experimental Player.
Add the ability to select a specific version of a video, if multiple different quality versions are available.
Add support for multi-part video playback.
[Chromecast] Add ability to change quality and audio/subtitle during playback.
[Android TV] Enable support for searching channels.

Fixes:

Remove ‘Share on Facebook’ action from Watch Later, Recommend and Channel items, since it’s no longer supported by our server.
Fix for a crash sometimes happening when resuming a movie preplay screen.
Resolve issue which prevented the Chromecast from using a secure connection to a server.
Make sure playback options are not shown for synced content that doesn’t support them.
Make sure selected library filters are not lost when the app gets restarted.
Make sure that there is only one instance of the app when it’s launched from Google Now.
Improve layout for generic error dialogs.
Don’t show an error dialog when navigating to an empty channel directory.
Fix bug where the app showed the wrong episode count for synced TV show seasons.
[Chromecast] Resolve issue where unavailable devices would still be listed.
Fix crash when mirroring synced content from a Plex Companion controller app.
[TV layout] Fix bug where content from locally discovered servers appeared in the “Social” tab of the home screen.
[Android TV] Make sure the app doesn’t request more “Recommended” and “Watch later” items than it actually needs.
[Android TV] Resolve issue where local quality settings were used, when playing back media from a remote server.
[Android TV] Fix issue where remote requests to play music would be ignored if music was already playing.
[Android TV] Fix issue loading images for search results in some situations.
[Android TV] Provide better navigation on channel preferences dialog.