Plex, bekend van de Media Server-software, heeft een nieuwe mediaspeler ontwikkeld en heeft daarvan nu de eerste stabiele uitgave beschikbaar gemaakt. Plex Media Player is de opvolger van Plex Home Theater. Op dit moment is deze alleen nog maar beschikbaar voor PlexPass-gebruikers, een betaalde dienst die onder meer korting op 'Premium features' en eerder toegang tot nieuwe versies geeft, maar het zal op een later moment voor iedereen beschikbaar komen. De mediaspeler is geschikt voor een groot aantal platformen, waaronder de Raspberry Pi, en is gebaseerd op de opensource mpv-mediaspeler. De mediabrowser wordt door Chromium 45 aangedreven. De release notes kunnen hier onder worden gevonden.
Introducing the Plex Media Player
We’re incredibly proud to be taking the wraps off the future of premium media consumption in Plex. We’ve had a crack team working for the better part of a year on an app we’ve built from the ground up to deliver the absolute highest quality media browsing and playback experience. It represents an exciting new direction for us in lots of ways, and we call it the Plex Media Player. Because, well, it plays media. (Full disclosure: we ran Most Best Great Media Player Ever >9000 v3.11 for Media past marketing and they didn’t bite.)
We took a long, hard look at our current flagship for home theater enthusiasts, Plex Home Theater, and asked ourselves which bits we wanted to take to the next level and which ones we’d be happy sacrificing in a leaner, meaner, more beautiful, purpose-built high end Plex experience.
The final must-have list, written on an IPA-stained napkin, looked something like this:Will it be available to everyone?
- Best media playback engine in the world. Needs to play every format under the sun. Needs to render hellishly complex anime subtitles without batting a tentacle, and support all the high-end features true Home Theater devotees want: refresh rate switching, display sync, rich subtitle support, popcorn maker integration, etc.
- Most beautiful, efficient media library browsing experience in the world, scaled to any resolution (jagged posters and fonts are so 2002).
- Truly cross-platform, with hardware acceleration, even on a Raspberry Pi 2. (How does a lovely 1080p UI on the Pi sound?)
- Accurate determination/prediction of airspeed of various swallows (laden/unladen).
The new app is launching as an early preview version for our Plex Pass subscribers. Once the preview period ends, it will be available to all users; we’ll make another announcement when that happens.
Where’s search, TV theme songs, etc.?
Search is a big priority for us and we’ll be adding it as soon as possible. You can find information about notable planned features and known issues in our forum.
What about mouse support, though?
Don’t worry, Plex Media Player lets you use your mouse if you like pointy cursors.
Is Plex Home Theater still around?
Plex Home Theater is still available and open source. We’re no longer actively developing it and are focusing our efforts on making Plex Media Player the best experience possible. (We’ll continue to make bug fixes for PHT for now.)
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