Release v0.5.16: Sparkle!
I know you’re getting tired of downloading these endless Plex releases, so I’m very pleased to announce that this should be the last release you’ll have to (manually) download. We’ve included the oft-requested Sparkle update system into Plex. I’m hoping it will make it much easier for people to stay up to date! The default setting is for it to check daily.
The changes in this release (available from the home page)
- FIX: A silly and evil regression that prevented DVDs and other MPEG2 content from playing correctly, and caused crashes in DVD menus.
- NEW: Ryan added support for transcoding DTS audio to AC3 audio, for those who have slightly older receivers. If you want to enable it, change the audio output mode to be Digital, enable AC3 passthrough, and disable DTS passthrough. We also worked together to fix a bug where audio settings weren’t saved correctly, especially for people with external devices. Ryan rocks. If I post a link to his blog, will that inspire him to make his first post?
- NEW: Included the latest MediaStream skin (lovely work, guys, as always!). Added the Plexalicious Unicode fontset to hopefully help our international users.
- FIX: A potential compatibility problem with Remote Buddy (thanks, Felix!)
- FIX: Removed all the remote event settings from being visible, since people were mostly just using them to hurt themselves by turning off the server (and thus rendering their Apple Remote inoperable).
- FIX: Scott (aka Superpea) made a stunning foray into coding and sent me a fix for a problem where a remote library (FTP/XBMSP) was behaving really badly because it kept trying to create video thumbnails remotely. Bad thumbnailer! No biscuit. Nice work, dude!
- FIX/NEW: Resolution settings work much better with multiple profiles now. When you log into a profile that profile’s resolution kicks in. Create a profile for each of your 7 TV sets, and then log in to the right profile as you carry your laptop around.
- FIX: I pulled all the fanart fixes from XBMC that were required because of the initial fanart server melting down. I’d hate to see that person’s bandwidth bill!
- FIX: Fixed an annoying bug where the last thing you entered into a text box showed up (thanks spiff!)
- FIX: Updated the German translation of some skin entries (thanks, Arthur!)
Pulled the usual fixes from XBMC and one nice feature from jmarshall, who added the much-requested enhancement to resuming in videos, and some background processing of downloads of thumbnails and fanart. Nice job, man, you always make it look easy.
I’ll leave the last word to Barkley.
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Awesome work…..A big thanks from S. Korea!!!
sparkle! excellent!
thanks! but can’t find the new .dmg file… 0.5.15 only?
Amazing cool with sparkle … Hope you guys can fix the high cpu load when idle.
I really enjoy this new skin.
I used AEON Project as my last skin, but this is just awesome!
nice work at all, will write a new Review in my German Blog soon.
The sparkle update should reduce the bandwidth to your blog! I check twice a day at least in hope of an update.
Seriously though, this is cool work. Thinking back to using XBMC on an XBOX, this was the thing that was never looked forward to.
Excellent! I’ve been checking this site almost every day now since I got my mac mini anticipating the updates! Thanks guys!
Looks like a great release. I can’t wait till I install this and don’t have to manually download anymore
Will the MediaStream skin get updated automatically, too?
Fantastic
- im almost at the point with ya Elan, that i could give ya a hug 
Awesome! Thanks and Wouf to Barkley
After the release, he may rest a bit.
Great work, has the download been taken down (it’s only showing 0.5.15)?
You should add a link for this release to the downloads page as well.
I can’t believe how much better Plex is doing than the XBMC effort for Mac OS.. Way to go!
Elan,
Tired of the releases?
Are you kidding? Checking your blog and seeing a new release is like Christmas morning.
Awesome.
Gonna try it right away!
Just checked it, but the audio is not working. And so is the video very stutter. Cant watch it. All with x264 movies ( don’t watch anything else with plex.
Freakin terrific!
you do a great job Elan.
Great work as always guys. Plex fed our family all its TV and Movies for two weeks while we were on holiday in Spain. It never skipped a beat and the kids were able to use it with the remote too.
great work, but none of my hd x264 mkv play correctly any more, they stutter and no sound. keep up the great work as this is an awesome app
@Paul: Try closing Plex, deleting your ~/Library/Application Support/Plex folder and restarting Plex. If that doesn’t work, head to the forums (http://forums.plexapp.com) and we can try to help over there!
-pea.
Everytime I start Plex I get asked if I want Plex to Check for automatic updates or not. VERY annoying since I have to use the mouse to proceed on a mac mini operated by a bluetooth keyboard….
Weird after the fifth time, now it doesn’t ask me anymore. Go figure
Yep, confirmed regression with DTS mix-down. Will fix pronto!
woohoo .. first release in a while (i think like RC2 was the first one i had issues with) that i can use upscaling with and it works again .. thx elan and the rest of the guys
Simply awesome as usual - please never apologize - we never get tired of downloading your latest releases
“Check for Updates…”
Cool!!!
:) 
No no! I love the updates! Plex is just getting better and better
Guys! excellent work, it’s real nice to see that a lot of other great people are join you, elan.
Thanks to all the Coders ans the great User community!
Thanks from Cologne, Germany!
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