Dev Insights regarding Plex for Android TV

by Andrroid

Thought I would share this for those not in the Plex Android TV beta. One of the devs popped in to address a few popular concerns:

  • Problem - Lack of TrueHD support.

Answer - Known, we're working with NVIDIA and Google on this.

  • Problem - Lack of media info in preplay screen, i.e. resolution.

Answer - Our designer knows about this and is still trying to identify the best place to add this information.

  • Problem - Lack of considered 'normal' FF / RW

Answer - Agreed, we have already agreed internally the changes we want to make. We just haven't had time to schedule the work.

  • Problem - Pressing the play key (HDMI-CEC, Harmony, Nexus Player remote) does nothing on posters of movies/episodes/tv shows/seasons.

Answer - Known feature that we haven't yet implemented. We should be allowing users to skip preplay pages, etc if they hit a "Play" button. The reason it hasn't been prioritised is that only a few Android TVs actually have a Play button on the remote.

hertzsae

Problem - Lack of considered 'normal' FF / RW

Answer - Agreed, we have already agreed internally the changes we want to make. We just haven't had time to schedule the work.

Woohoo!!! I really hope it includes both a skip back/forward and a ff/rw preview so you can see where you are going to.

Dsk001

How can I join the beta?

kopkiwi

I just won't consider PLEX a viable alternative over Kodi until I have TrueHD. It's 2016 FFS. Give me all the HD formats.

pier25

The lack of decent FF RW is annoying, but to me the feature I miss the most from Kodi is being able to download subs directly from the video.

samthor

Is there a list of new things in the beta anywhere?