This release includes lots and lots of playback improvements backported from Kodi Jarvis 16.1.
RasPlex/Embedded builds are now based on LibreELEC 7.0.1 and compiled from the same code repository.
We strongly recommend clean installs of RasPlex/Embedded builds.
New
- Updated branding and new splash screen
- OpenPHT: Direct play of HEVC and other codecs ffmpeg 2.8 supports
- Transcode audio to AC3 for use with optical out
- Improved gapless music support
- Better 3D support
- Preference option to disable preplay screen
- Skin option to disable window and dialog fade animations
- Music OSD added to default skin
- Preference option to disable server side scaling of fanart and photos
- Support for downloading, installing and updating supported skins in preferences
- Updated seek handling with support for adaptive seeking and preview images
- Previous menu and back button now switches to fullscreen when media is playing on home screen and vice versa
- RasPlex: Support for MMAL decoding - now supports HiFiBerry/IQ DACs and USB device audio across all media
- RasPlex: Transcode media larger then 1080p
- RasPlex: Direct play of HEVC up to 720p
- Embedded/RasPlex: Exprimental Bluetooth Audio support - works without issue on RPi3, on RPi0/1/2 with BT dongle it is dependant on the make of dongle which must support BT V4.1 at minimum
Fixes
- Fix filtered episodes view in default skin
- Fix a shuffle all / create play queue issue
- Fix a shoutcast redirect issue
- Fix shoutcast stream title when ffmpeg avio is enabled
- Fix audio and subtitle selection for media with multiple media items or parts
- Avoid getting stuck in dim state when skin is reloaded
- Fix wrong icon highlight and window switch in preferences menu
- Font fixes for a common crash in windows version
- Reset screen saver timer in plex http handler
- Fix search result title in default skin
- Embedded/RasPlex: Fix pre-cache of bigThumb art
Known Issues
- Windows SmartScreen could block the installer, use the Run anyway option to install
- Auto-update of windows portable installs will fail and corrupt your portable install