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[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
I am happy to announce the 0.9.8.6 release of Plex which adds support for Honeycomb. This release has been worked and reworked by Darrin and the rest of the beta crew for months in an attempt to get everything working well on Honeycomb. Movies, TV and Music all work along with some of the Plugins. The layout has been optimized for our larger screen and looks great in my opinion.

Before anyone ask, NO the Netflix is not working on Android at this time.

Video by default will transcode to the Xoom, but if you want to try out direct stream and direct play you can enable it in Advanced Settings. Because of the limitations of the Tegra2 with High Profile we decided that transcoding should be the default.

You can find the new update in the market on your Xoom or here on the web.

If you need the server click the link forwindows or OSx

If you do get any crashes please send the event in along with info on any custom kernel you're running.

If you have any questions feel free to ask or PM me.

Have a look at Darrins blog post for more info.

http://darrin.plexapp.com/2011/04/27/plex-for-android-now-supports-honeycomb-xoom-and-other-tablets/

How to help us trouble shoot your problems.

If you are having playback issues and we ask you for a logcat please do the following.

Download alogcat

Open alogcat and clear the log.

Open Plex and try to play the movie, song or plugin.

Exit plex.

Open alogcat and save whats in there to a file.

If we ask for a PMS.log or Plex Media Server.log file please do the following.

First close down the PMS in your system tray. Then open it back up again, this clears out the log file. Try to stream a video. If it fails then do the following.

Windows-

Right click PMS icon in your system tray

Choose open plug-in folder

Go up one folder level in explorer

Choose the logs folder

Grab a copy of the Plex Media Server.log file.

OSx-

~/Library/Logs/Plex Media Server.log

Now lets go to pastebin.com and paste the contents of either file into the field. Send only the link.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ktd:
Very nice! I use Plex on my iPhone and iPad everyday and now when I also got a Xoom, I wanted to be able to use Plex on this device.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] cranch:
I was just out snooping through the site for my wife's iPad and saw the news. This is awesome for the Plex team!

There is a good link here: http://darrin.plexapp.com/2011/04/27/plex-for-android-now-supports-honeycomb-xoom-and-other-tablets/

This thing looks awesome on my Xoom and it was the only thing making me miss my iPad!

:eek:
[Xoom Themes and Apps] DroidHam:
ive never used anything like this so forgive my ignorance, whats the point if I can store stuff locally?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] cranch:
I started with Plex on a HTPC setup and MacMini. Since then my library is now portable (3g/remote wifi) as well as usable in my house when my wife is watching Glee ;)

Its also solid at playing HD content to your Xoom and saves the pain of having to run all your movies through Handbrake before you play them.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] DroidHam:
ive got a bluray player with external hd that plays mkv so idk if i would need to stream to my xoom over wifi

i am trying to find a reason to play with this but cant
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
The entire point of this on Android is for when your NOT at your home. It does pretty well over 3g, but it really shines on remote wifi.

Now Plex at home along with XBMC or to a lesser degree Boxee all SMOKE your blueray with regard to media. If you have never played with any of these program and actually indexed a library out of your mkv's then you need to give it a try. Seriously you will not want to go back to simple list view of your movies after you play with one of these programs.

Bottom line though, if you have no want to have access to all your media when away from home then this app may no be fore you.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] DroidHam:
Streaming a bluray over 3g would be awful no?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Synman:
Quick question... sorry in advance for not taking the 64.3 seconds necessary to research it myself, but does this work with m$ media center recorded TV files?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] DroidHam:
im an idiot, my xoom is wifi ;p
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
Ummm I think you misunderstood. I was talking about streaming your MKV files, I have over 300 720p MKVs that stream just fine. The transcode engine should work with 1080p's but I never really tried.

If the majority of your movies are ON BluRay and you dont want to rip them, then again, this program might not be for you.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
As long as the file is not DRM protected it should work.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] DroidHam:
just downloaded it and gave it a whirl. Seems pretty sweet, I have a 1080p rip that wasnt too bad over my tethered 3g. But again, anything in my "library" would easily be able to be stored/played on my Xoom, but I guess if I forgot something this would be nice :)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] DroidHam:
The music portion is awesome. Is it possible to make the player goto landscape?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] DroidHam:
Can I remove 1 individual mp3/movie from the folder I added without deleting it from my hard drive?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] wolf1306:
nothing plays on my asus transformer, when i try to play a movie or even run a plug in , it goes back to the main screen
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
You I would say have a unique library if you have a bunch of HD movies encoded in low profile. Thats the single biggest downfall of the Tegra2 chip, most of us need to re-encode the files we have for playback.

If all of your movies CAN be played back on your Xoom without framedrops, then go take a look in Advanced settings and turn on Direct Stream and Direct Play. Direct Play will stream the file directly with zero transcoding as long as bandwidth allows.

I am closing in on 5 TB of media on my end and there is no way that any portable in the near future will be able to house it. Thats where this App comes into play for me.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
You should be able to remove it from the library which is nothing more then a database. The next time it scans it will be added again. There maybe a way to hide it, but I have never looked into that. Google is your friend. I would just remove it from the library and then move the file to another folder.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
Thanks for the heads up, it did just drop and no testing has been done on it. Its odd though as the hardware should be the same.

Are you getting any errors in the android status area or does it just drop back to menu?

Do you know how to get a logcat?

Download alogcat open it, clear the log, open Plex and try to play the movie and plugin, exit plex, open alogcat and save whats in there to a file.

PM me the logcat file and Ill pass it over to Darrin.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] darrin_plex:
wolf1306 -

Ritalin let us know you were having trouble just after another user in the UK experienced a similar problem. We stayed up way past our bedtimes and got a patch release out late last night which fixed this issue where Plex wasn't invoking the media player correctly for some Honeycomb devices. I hope this will fix your problem. If it doesn't please drop by the and share what you're seeing!

It appears I'm not yet allow to post a direct link because I'm a n00b on this forum... but I trust you'll find us if you need to!

Enjoy,

-Darrin
[Xoom Themes and Apps] DroidHam:
Get a XOOM ;p
[Xoom Themes and Apps] bishop72:
Love the app. But experiencing some issues. One of my movie files was playing fine last night and when I updated to the new version today there is no picture just sound for that file only. Also I have a few animes that plays with subtitle or englished dub but when it plays through PLEX it just plays with the japan audio and also not subtitles. Also some files keep pausing and lagging :(

Another big problem. I want to use this when I am away from home over 3G but cannot get the port forwarding to work. I forward the right port numbers through my router but when I set the XOOM to 3G it does not detect the server. Can anyone help me out with that? I am on Uverse and using their router.

thanks
[Xoom Themes and Apps] wolf1306:
after the update everthing runs fine, thanks alot guys :)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
Hello Bishop Im glad your enjoying Plex.

With regard to subtitles and alt-audio files you will need to look at the settings in your server, there should be defaults for audio and subs, set them both to english.

NOW accessing your server from outside of your network (aka over WAN) is a different ball of wax.

Go to setting in Plex on your android. If you are on your WIFI at home, click the arrow next to the name of your server > fill out user and pass (FYI plex does not use the user and pass over LAN) > choose add new connection.

So here is the meat of it. You are on a dynamic IP address. This means that every once in a while your ISP will change your external IP address. If you want to know what your external IP is visit http://www.whatsmyip.org/ to find out.

So if you just want to test out your port forwarding you can enter this external IP into the Host field and see if it connects. If it does not work then you need to fix your port forwardings. If it does work your ready for the next step.

Constantly checking to see if your dynamic external IP has changed is a pain in the ASS. So we need to create a Dynamic DNS name for you, ie a web address that routes to your dynamic IP no matter how often it changes.

I am a big fan of DynDns http://www.dyndns.com/ . Go here and setup a free account, set yourself up an address like bishop.homeip.net next you will need to see if your router support DDNS, browse around in its settings page to find out. If it does not no worries you can use the next best thing, the DYNDNS update client, https://www.dyndns.com/support/clients/ which is an app that runs on your server that sends back your external IP to the DynDns page. Once setup replace the external IP in your android Plex server host field with your new DynDns web address and you are ready to rock.

DynDns is not the easiest page to navigate or understand if your new to networking, just take your time, Im sure you will figure it out.

Good luck and let me know if you have any other questions.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] mug2k:
I've noticed a few people mentioning mkv's, are the high profile ones working now via streaming or do they still need to be encoded ?.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] cranch:
Plex for Android is currently using baseline profile causing High Profile videos to be transcoded realtime to the client while viewing. Does this help?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] mug2k:
Sounds like something I want to hear :)

So basically its downgrading the High Profile videos on the fly so they are viewable on the tablet ?. I have the plex media server with the movies on my pc and the plex for android app but when I goto play a movie it seems like its about to start but then I just get sent back to the server section on the app.

Any idea's ?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] cranch:
Be sure you have the latest version of the app. This was common behavior before the update to 0.9.8.6 or 0.9.8.7. If you are on the latest version try gathering a logcat of your device. Ritalin and I can help as much as possible.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] bishop72:
Thank you for your help. I finally am able to access my files over 3G :)

But for the other problems. Any reason why I am not able to see pictures and just hearing sound through these videos after this last update?

As far as subtitles here is what I have - "Prefer audio tracks in:" and "Prefer subtitles in:" in English. Also I put "Subtitle mode:" as Always enabled to see if that would fix it, but sadly no.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] mug2k:
Thanks, I've upgraded to the latest version and now have access to my whole library. This is an awesome app and the best $5 I've spent in ages.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] bishop72:
Also with Video Quality settings...is it ok to leave it at Auto-Select or do we have to adjust the settings for Wi-Fi and 3G? Does it really make a difference if Auto-Select picks the best option?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] darrin_plex:
You DEFINITELY want to play with your video settings... we talk in detail about on the blog post at darrin.plexapp.com - scroll down to just below the big screenshots to the section labelled: "Nice screenshots but what about video playback?"

Bottom line on this is that Plex isn't too bright on this point at the moment... and remember more bits is not better on a skinny network.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
Glad you got the 3g worked out.

Now lets see if we can get the video issue worked out. Refer back to post 20 to see how to get us a logcat. PM me the logcat and Ill see if we can figure out the issue.

For ****s and giggles you might want to see if there is a newer version of PMS out then whats installed on your server.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] bishop72:
Won't let me pm you b/c it is too long. can I email you the files?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] tritran18518:
+1 for subtitle problem. Does plex support all kind of subtitle formats?

- Is there anyway that i can set up flex server automatic check library? Every time i copy a video to my video source folder, i have to start plex server , and click the refresh button.

p/s: best app i've have on my xoom. :D
[Xoom Themes and Apps] cranch:
If the content is on a network store it can't auto scan yet. If it's on a local store it should auto update. I believe the server will default to scan for new media every hour. Double check the server preferences.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] DroidHam:
is there a way to connect to my server on another windows pc as well?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] cranch:
Just to manage the server or as an actual display client?

go to http://plexserverip:32400/manage if you want to manage your library remotely. You can manage your content from there (rescans, fix metadata/incorrect matches, etc).
[Xoom Themes and Apps] bishop72:
Love the concept but this thing is so frustrating.

-Some files will not even play (getting, "We're sorry but there was a problem attempting to play file. Null"),

-keep getting forced closes and video not showing but only getting sound.

-and when that does happen I have to literally reboot my XOOM b/c even if I do close PLEX the audio from the file is still playing

-subtitles are not showing even though I have it setup to do so in the media manager and audio is not in english

-some files are not even showing. I have a folder setup for tv shows. I have 3 subfolders and all of them are in one folder. one folder has 24 files for season 1, which shows up on plex media manager. folder 2 which has 4 episodes which are separate from the series (not showing) and folder 3 which contains 1 file which is a special from the series (not showing).

urgh!!! so fustrating...
[Xoom Themes and Apps] DroidHam:
to stream movies music etc?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
Hey Bishop, the issues you are having with your TV series is on the server side. YOu may need to manually edit the shows that are not showing. No scrapping service is perfect after all.

No as for the logcat you sent me. I passed it along to our Dev Darrin, Ill post you his reply to me verbatim.

Looks like you have something running on your Xoom, that should be turned off before we can make out whats going on in your logcat.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
At present there is NO Windows based Plex client.

Please remember that Plex started its life as a branch off XBMC for the Mac. The windows based server was only recently released and is still a bit behind the OSx client.

If you want to use it on say a TV, then your best bet is to snag a Apple TV g2 for $99 and mod it. There is a plex client available for it.

I wish I could tell you if Windows client will be available, I am waiting on it as well.

If you are looking for a good way to stream your collection to friends and family and they are all on PC, write me a PM and Ill tell you how to do it. Its fairly simple and if you have the bandwidth to push the files it works like a damn charm. I dont want to get into that in this thread.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] bishop72:
Thank you ritalin for being so helpful. I don't think that is my logcat. I tried to pm you but it exceeded the Max characters allowed. I can email it to you.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
Hey again Bishop,

We took a look at your logcat and dont see any errors. Darrin told me that he has seen this happen with some files and the fix was to lower your bitrate settings in the android Plex client.

I would assume that this is local wifi as the Ip in your logcat is a LAN DHCP address. I am also going to assume that you have your Local Wifi bitrate set to 5Mbps. Try dropping it to 3Mbps.

Also see if all the videos you are having issues with are MKV.... I have a few MKV files that play find in something like VLC, but act very strange in other players including PLEX. The answer for me was to download another version of the video, because I can do that quicker then I can re-encode the problem video :º)

Give a few AVI's, Mp4, M4V,Divx, Xvid files if you have them a try. Do they also have the same issue, or is it just these select MKV files?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] dbett:
Can anyone compare/contrast Plex with Skifta?

I have Skifta up and running, but Plex's transcoding would be nice.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] bishop72:
Yes it is on local wifi. I actually had it at 2Mbps. I have been playing around with the bitrate and this is what I have concluded. The problem with no video and just audio only occurs when I resume playback. If I play from the beginning the video and audio both works. Now if I lower the bitrate to 1.5Mbps I can resume playback. If I try to resume playback at 2Mbps or higher no video and just audio. I am on AT&T Uverse and have the highest tier level so I don't think

that is the problem.

The videos that are not playing are .ogm videos. Does Plex not support those? Also the files that work plays with no english audio or subtitles are .mkv files. I only have them in MKV. Do I have to re-encode them then?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] tritran18518:
subtitle doesn't show up with .avi files too.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
Skifta is another upnp/DLNA app, just like Twonky. The downside to DLNA or UPNP is that the codec needs to be supported on the device. The other downside to it is that because of the temperary nature of the DLNA address assigned its not really possible to create an indexed library like Plex or XBMC do.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ulkesh:
Nice! Thanks for the heads up!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] mug2k:
I've deleted a few items from my library (on my PC via My Computer) but the changes are not showing within plex, is there certain way this has to be done ?.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
You may need to manually delete them from the plex indexed library inside of PMS. I do not think it will auto delete them right away or even after the first rescan of the library, this prevents the library from removing files because a network share might not have connected. I could be wrong about this, and it maybe a bug in the PMS. The windows build is fairly new after all and not quite as nice as the OSx build.

Ill ask Elan and see what he says.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] DroidHam:
nothing will play for me anymore, even things i played previously. It keeps saying there was a problem accessing or playing it?
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
This should provide a answer to this question.

http://wiki.plexapp.com/index.php/PlexNine_PMS_MediaManager#Understanding_and_Using_Soft_Deletion
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
Did you send a logcat to my email the other day? I believe you did, please send me another one. But please read the following post before you do. This was not meant for Bishops logcat, it was meant for yours.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=13318160&postcount=42

After you turn off want ever it is on your system doing that, please send me a clean logcat so we can find out whats going one.

Other then that Id try restarting your server.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] huzz:
Plex is a God sent! loving the quality and the ease! finally don't miss air video!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Xezuka:
"We're sorry but there was a problem attempting to play file, null"

I was getting this while trying to play from my Xoom. It was simple to solve for me -- check to make sure your Plex Media Server on Windows/Mac is the latest 0.9.2.27.

Mine had previously claimed to be 'up to date!' multiple times, but when I checked the actual site I realized this was not the case. Simply download the Media Server install from their site and presto, issue solved!

Good luck to anyone with this issue!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] bishop72:
Where does it show what version is on my Windows? nm found where it is located. will give it a try and see if that fixes it.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Xezuka:
Hopefully this solves it for you as it did for me :D It's streaming and the HDMI to the TV from the Xoom is working just as well! Awesome stuff -- this is what I bought Plex for in the first place a month ago before realizing Xoom wasn't yet supported :p
[Xoom Themes and Apps] DroidHam:
no, that wasnt my logcat. I didnt have a issue until recently. Files that worked before now say:

We're sorry, but there was a problem playing "File name here"

An error occured (error 0x200006: Protocol_No_media)

These are files i confirmed working before, and this is on my xoom and phone.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] bishop72:
Unfortunately that did not work for me. The program was already up to date :-(
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Xezuka:
Sorry to hear mate :( If you haven't already grab a log from logcat and send it in. Wish I could help out!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
OK well then please send me a logcat. Paste the text file contents into pastebin.com and send me the address in a PM.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Lezziter:
Hm, every 20-40 seconds my stream stops and says "Welcome Back!" and so on. Have tried different wifi at home without success.

Sending logcat to ritalin with PM!

:)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
Updated first post with Troubleshooting how-to.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] dbett:
Anyone else try the lack of connection solution here:

http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php...-to-pms-running-on-xp-on-lan-fixed-hint-ipv6/

It fixed my inability to connect to the server.

Key bit:
[Xoom Themes and Apps] dbett:
Oh, and now that it's working....

Great program!

Now I just need to build a new server box. The old one chokes a bit on transcoding some of my HD content. My main gaming rig handles it just fine when I installed Plex on it, so it's not a Xoom issue. :)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
Thanks for the post on IPV6...

If you want some suggestions on hardware, I just build a new server around AMDs low wattage Athlon II. Parts are cheap and it transcodes just fine. Best part is the CPU is only 65 watts, so you can get a good bit of power out of a low watt system. Handy since its going to be on all the time.

Im running the Athlon II X3 415e Cpu and it handles all I need. If you want a few people streaming from your server at the same time then you may need to go with something a bit faster.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] vidriera:
I'm running the windows pms, and videos that the server actually finds play fine, but there are quite a few that it doesn't find. Some of these videos are .mkv, some are .avi, some are .mpg, and other files of the same extension that use the same codecs as they do show up in the media manager. I'm positive that none of the files have any sort of drm. I'm at a loss here...
[Xoom Themes and Apps] DroidHam:
http://pastebin.com/KZpbpZPu

There is the logcat for the issue I previously mentioned...
[Xoom Themes and Apps] ritalin:
Is the PMS not finding the file itself or is it not scraping it correctly?

Is the video in its own folder?

Please give me an example of one of the file names you are having issues with.

I have had no issues with Plex finding my videos, but I have spent the time to name all of my videos correctly.

Here is an example of my folder and video name structure.

Folder name - An.American.Werewolf.In.London[1981][720p]

File name - An.American.Werewolf.In.London[1981][720p].mp4