1.7.0 for Windows

This release adds a GUI! The application now runs entirely in the background with a system tray icon. You can access the log messages, configuration directory, and integrated menu from the system tray icon.

1.6.1 for Windows

This is a Windows-only bugfix release. This fixes an issue where MPV would not be raised to the front on launch, but instead flash the MPV icon in the taskbar orange.

1.6.0 for Windows

This release contains a few user experience improvements.

• Make closing the window stop playback (instead of crashing).
• Prevent window closing between episodes.
• Bring mpv to the front on windows when launching.
• Allow disabling launching the player fullscreen.

1.5.2 for Windows

This is a Windows-specific release. It now supports a newer version of mpv, which prevents glitchy behavior with the menu. This binary was built with mpv-dev-x86_64-20191229-git-49cbc50 and python-mpv 0.4.5. (There is a newer MPV build available, but font rendering is broken on Windows 10.)

1.5.1 for Windows

This update provides a fix for remote control of the menu.

1.5.0 for Windows

This release contains both bug fixes and new features. The new features are:

• Add support for subtitle color, position, and size settings.
• Show media title in interface and titlebar.
• Add new setting to locally limit bandwidth for remote direct play. (Disabled by default.)

Bug fixes:

• Ensure transcode sessions are properly created and terminated.
• Improve handling of subtitles transcodes.
• Remove legacy remote_transcode setting.
• Prevent tokens being printed to the console by default. (Configurable.)
• Properly clean up threads on exit.
• Only show mass subtitle update for episodes.

1.4.0 for Windows

This version introduces the ability to play external subtitles. There are also some performance and reliability improvements. Specifically, the status of the player and user actions are less likely to freeze if a client goes offline or the Plex server is responding slowly to requests.

1.3.0 for Windows

Plex-MPV-Shim 1.3 introduces the interactive menu. This allows for features that
would be impossible to support through the remote control interface normally, such as:

• Change subtitle or audio tracks. The full titles from the media file are shown.
• Automatically change the subtitle and audio streams for an entire series at once.
• Adjust video transcoding quality without restarting.
• Change transcoding preferences without editing the config file.
• Quit the player, marking the current video unwatched.

The interactive menu supports both the keyboard and the remote control. To open the menu
from a phone, press the ok or home button. Press back to go back or close the menu. The
keyboard shortcut to open the menu is c. Use the arrow keys, escape, and enter/space
to navigate the menu.

1.2.0 for Windows

Plex-MPV-Shim 1.2.0 introduces revamped transcoding support. It will automatically ask the server to see if transcoding is suggested, which enables Plex-MPV-Shim to play more of your library on the go. You can configure this or switch to the old local transcode decision system. It also now supports changing audio and subtitle tracks for transcoded video and avoids issues where playback could fail due to bandwidth limits.

1.1.2 for Windows

This version fixes an issue when casting from the Plex Web Player that causes playback to fail.