Software Update: Plex Media Server 1.2.2

Version 1.2.2 of Plex Media Server has been released. Plex Media Server is a media server for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and various NAS devices. The software can serve content to clients on the same machine, within the local network or over the Internet. Client software is available for the aforementioned operating systems, but content can also be viewed on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Google TV and Chromecast, for example. For the latter, however, additional software is needed to get the stream on the Chromecast.

The program includes its own software store where plug-ins can be exchanged. For example, content from various streaming services can be viewed via these plug-ins. In addition, there is PlexPass, a paid service that gives early access to new versions, in addition to discounts on ‘Premium features’. New in version 1.2.2, which is currently only available to PlexPass subscribers, includes the ability to specify how much processing power and network capacity can be used, a feature called Streaming Brain.

NEW

• New Feature – Streaming Brain.
• (Streaming Brain) Preference for limiting bandwidth on WAN uploads. Limits can be per-stream and total.
• (Streaming Brain) Playback session termination reasons are sent to the client and displayed to the user. This may require an updated client.
• (Streaming Brain) Removed ‘Prioritize streaming transcodes’ preference. Background transcodes such as Sync, Media Optimizer, and video preview thumbnail generation are always prioritized behind streaming transcodes, and will pause completely if the simultaneous transcode limit is reached.
• (Streaming Brain) Removed ‘Cloud Sync upload speed limit’ preference. Sync traffic automatically scales based on streaming WAN usage, and uses whatever bandwidth is left unused.
• (Web) Updated Plex Web to 2.9.3
• (Relay) Allow multiple connections from PMS to relay servers. (#4894)
• (Windows) Localize installer for Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese locales. (#5189)
• (Linux) QNAP x64 packages for the new QTS 4.3 64bit firmware.

FIXES:

• (NVIDIA SHIELD) Support premium Plex music libraries. (#4991)
• (NVIDIA SHIELD) Relay was crashing on startup. (#5419)
• (Transcoder) Failures transcoding video files that lack a video stream. (#4503)
• (Transcoder) Stuttering video transcoding HE-AAC on macOS. (#5376)
• (Transcoder) Completed transcodes might continue to block static transcodes. (#5423)
• (Subtitles) Inconsistent automatic subtitle selection for media containing multiple embedded subtitles. (#5011)
• (On Deck) Handle specials and episodes without a known air date better in On Deck. (#4661)
• (Camera Upload) Fix a couple of edge case scenarios when resuming uploads. (#5152) (#5218)
• (Pub-Sub) Better load distribution selecting servers. (#4915)
• (Relay) Relay process might not be killed when the media server shuts down on certain Unix platforms. (#5173)
• (Butler) Issues deleting old files in cache directory.
• (Media Analysis) Scanner crashes analyzing mp4 files lacking moov atoms. (#5373)
• (Media Analysis) Some 1080i media wasn’t being recognized as being interlaced. (#5279)
• (Media Analysis) Crashes analyzing certain photos with malformed metadata tags. (#5461)
• (Metadata) Issues recognizing episodes of shows whose names contain multiple numeric digits. (#5377)
• (Search) Duplicate results from different libraries now indicate the library of origin. (#4949)
• (Search) Treat searches using a single non-ASCII character the same as a single ASCII character. (#5319)
• (Linux) Local Media Agent errors when paths/files contained non-ASCII characters. (#5470)
• (Linux) Fixed Readynas RN2xx build to work on ReadyNAS OS Firmware 6.6.0 (#5512)
• A number of user-reported server crashes. (#5042) (#5459)