Software Update: Plex Media Server 1.8.1

Plex has version 1.8.1 of Plex Media Server. This version was previously available to holders of the paid PlexPass, but can now be downloaded by anyone. 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.

The program includes its own software store where plug-ins can be exchanged. Via these plug-ins, content from various streaming services can be viewed, among other things. In addition, there is PlexPass, a paid service that gives early access to new versions in addition to discounts on ‘Premium features’. Since version 1.7.5, the previous public release we focused on at Downloads, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Plex Media Server 1.7.6 (for PlexPass users)

New:

• (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.10.0
• (Local Media Agent) Treat IETF subtitle language extensions as ISO 639-1 (eg; pt-BR)
• (DVR) Use MPEGTS for all DVR recordings

Fixed:

• (Photos) Support dates before 1970 for photos (#5926)
• (DVR) Failed to find paths to XMLTV files in Windows (#6776)

Plex Media Server 1.8.0 (for PlexPass users)

New:

• (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.11.0

Fixed:

• (DVR) Various weird crashes
• (Photos) Missing date attribute on home videos leads to incorrect timeline view. (#6791)
• (DVR) Stop blacklisting infomercials in EyeQ program guide data (#7188)
• (DVR) Avoid crash with when loading program guide data for certain channels in Denmark (#7274)
• (Playback) Deadlocks could occur during playback (#7201)
• (Transcoder) Some AVI files would fail to transcode (#7164)
• (Analysis) Rare crashes during analysis (#7190)
• (Transcoder) HLS segment durations could be incorrectly calculated (#7266)

Plex Media Server 1.8.1 (for PlexPass users)

New:

• (Web) Updated Plex Web to 3.14.1

Fixed:

• (Play Queues) Skipping to the same item in a play queue would not update the id accordingly (#7248)
• (Preferences) Hide auto-update preference on platforms that don’t support it (#7332)
• (Streaming Brain) Allow clients to buffer more when at max quality (#6624)
• (Serialization) /status/sessions endpoint for playbacks with multiple Media elements wasn’t serialized to JSON correctly (#7344)
• (DVR) Log tuner make/model and support status when media grabs start (#7167)
• (DVR) Tuning could fail on some channels (#7313)
• (DVR) Analysis could incorrectly report 9000fps. Please re-analysis problematic files
• (Photos) Bad data saved inside Exposure EXIF ​​tags could cause analysis to crash (#6822)
• (Serialization) Requesting /media/providers as JSON no longer crashes PMS (#7354)
• (Android) Green tint in software-decoded video (#7385)
• (Transcoder) Crashes when playing VP8 content (#7281) (#7359)

Plex Media Server 1.8.1 is now available to everyone