Plex 0.5.22


Plex is a complete media center for your Mac. Play back 1080p content with your Mac Mini, with support for AC3/DTS passthrough. Full-featured Video, Music and Pictures features.
What’s new:
Version 0.5.22:
- NEW: You can now configure the way the H.264 decoder does deblocking. Some will you will know this is the “skiploopfilter” setting in ffmpeg. Some will wonder if I’m speaking English. The bottom line is, if you allow the decoder to skip doing deblocking, it’ll be less intensive for the CPU. I’ve found that if you configure it to skip all deblocking, the “killa” bird sample uses about 20% less CPU and plays at a higher frame rate. Bottom line: your mileage may vary, but it may help you with hard-to-play content.
- NEW: Support for the Home and End keys in lists. Also support for using the A/Z keys to skip to the next/previous letter in lists. Jonathan Marshall added support for this last one a while ago, cool dude that he is, so we added a mapping. Also, Isaac added a new mapping for people using Snatch on their iPhone. You’ll have to whack your Keymap.xml file in ~/Application Support/Plex/userdata to get these features.
- NEW: We have included the latest MediaStream skin (no doubt out of date by tomorrow), along with the associated code fixes so that you don’t have to hit escape 23 times to return to the main menu from the Movie/TV sections. You can see some documentation for the new settings in this version of the skin here (many thanks to Jayman798!)
- FIX: We dimmed the wrong screen when you were running with a multi-screen setup and Plex was on the second screen.
- FIX: Some MP3 tags caused a hang. This includes the “Burial” album, so bretonh will be pleased.
- FIX: Refreshing movie info from NFO in VIDEO_TS folders caused a crash.
- FIX: Storing a TV show in multiple places (e.g. some seasons in one place, some seasons in another), whether by multi-path sources or different sources led to duplicates.
- We’ve of course included all the latest XBMC fixes as well, including the latest UPnP and MythTV code.


