github edde746/plezy 2.24.0

4 hours ago

New features

  • Detail pages show scores from connected Trakt, Simkl, MyAnimeList, AniList and MDBList accounts
  • Person pages show the biography, birth and death dates, and birthplace
  • Deinterlacing has a Film mode for telecined DVDs on MPV
  • Dolby Vision plays on macOS

Supporter

  • A one-time Supporter purchase on the App Store and Google Play unlocks themes and app icons
  • Five colour themes: Ember, Glacier, Forest, Plum and Paper
  • Custom themes with your own colours
  • 23 alternate app icons on iOS, tvOS and Android
  • Free in the Microsoft Store, Amazon Appstore, macOS and Linux versions
  • Not offered in the GitHub Android, iOS and Windows builds

Watch Together

  • Rooms run on Open Watch Party and work with other Open Watch Party apps
  • Rooms work across servers: each person plays their own copy from their Plex, Jellyfin or Emby servers
  • Room codes have six characters
  • Rooms use public relays by default
  • A custom relay must be an Open Watch Party relay
  • Everyone in a room needs this version of Plezy or another Open Watch Party app

Performance

  • Fewer dropped frames scrolling Home rows and library grids with the D-pad on TV boxes
  • Fewer dropped frames opening detail pages on TV boxes
  • Fewer dropped frames opening the player on TV boxes
  • Seek-bar previews load with about a third of the peak memory

Playback

  • Subtitle lines no longer go missing after seeking or switching tracks
  • Normalize Loudness no longer stutters video on Android MPV
  • Normalize Loudness keeps 5.1 audio in 5.1 on Android MPV
  • 24 fps video on a 60 Hz display no longer judders every few seconds on Android MPV
  • 24 fps video no longer stutters on MediaTek TVs and projectors with motion processing on Android MPV
  • The next episode keeps HDR10 and Dolby Vision on Sony Bravia TVs with Android MPV
  • Dolby Vision profile 5 no longer plays magenta and green on iPad (10th and 11th generation)
  • Plex and Emby playback no longer crashes seconds in on 32-bit Android TV boxes
  • Skip Credits no longer appears in the middle of a movie
  • Previous restarts a movie
  • The audio output picked in the player is remembered across videos
  • Remember Player Changes set to Per library or Per show no longer carries changes into other libraries
  • Starting Picture-in-Picture no longer crashes on iPhone and iPad
  • Subtitles keep their size after locking an iPhone or iPad while the video is zoomed
  • A failed screenshot shows an error

Apple audio

  • 5.1 and 7.1 audio plays as multichannel instead of stereo on iPhone and iPad
  • Audio Passthrough on iPhone, iPad and Mac, for Dolby Atmos on AirPods and Mac speakers
  • With Audio Passthrough on, TrueHD Atmos and DTS:X play as spatial audio on iOS and tvOS 26
  • Audio Passthrough applies to music
  • The player settings show Spatial Audio or Dolby Atmos rendering on iPhone and iPad
  • Changing playback speed no longer freezes video on Apple devices
  • Audio no longer skips on AirPods on macOS 27

Live TV

  • Live TV buffers ~6 s before playing instead of stalling every few seconds
  • MPEG-2 channels no longer show a blank or stalling picture on Android MPV
  • The player's Go to Live control has a label
  • Program descriptions show on Jellyfin and Emby

Plex

  • Posters and backdrops no longer fail to load in batches on Android
  • A server that comes back on a new address reconnects without restarting Plezy
  • Reconnect shows an error when nothing connects

Jellyfin & Emby

  • Seek-bar previews show again
  • Home rows follow the library order set in Manage Libraries
  • The Choose audio by language toggle is no longer inverted
  • Seasons without their own backdrop show the series backdrop
  • Emby search on large libraries returns people and movies instead of timing out
  • The Apple TV Top Shelf shows Continue Watching from Jellyfin 12 servers

Explore & trackers

  • Tracker scores on Explore items show which service they come from
  • Seerr artwork loads when Seerr's Enable Image Caching is on

Downloads

  • Large downloads to a custom folder on Android finish instead of restarting from 0%
  • Pausing a download to a custom folder on Android resumes where it stopped
  • A download to a custom folder continues after Android closes Plezy instead of making a numbered copy
  • Numbered copies left in a custom folder by earlier versions are removed

UI

  • Hero backdrops are sharp on portrait phones
  • The home hero carousel crossfades artwork between slides
  • Built-in labels such as Copy and Paste follow the app language
  • Rotating an Android phone no longer leaves the UI squeezed into part of the screen
  • Library grids no longer lose cards when a page reloads
  • Leaving the MPV config editor with the back arrow keeps the latest edits
  • The Android launcher icon is centred

TV

  • Smaller wide cards and more space between rows on Home, Explore and library screens
  • Smaller hero title
  • Each grid density step gives a different card size
  • Grids default to normal spacing
  • The remote keeps working after closing Profiles or the PIN prompt opened from the avatar menu
  • Quick gamepad Back presses on a detail page no longer close the screen beneath it

Desktop

  • Shaders and ambient lighting are no longer available on macOS
  • Chinese text no longer uses Japanese character forms on Windows
  • Linux shows Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese text in their own character forms

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