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Plex Media Center bridges the gap between your Mac/Windows and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats as well as online streaming audio and video. The real power of Plex is found in its library features: Organize your media into versatile libraries, automatically retrieve metadata from the Internet, and display your libraries using one of the visually stunning skins. Plex Pass costs $5/month.
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Download Plex Media Server 1.43.1.10611 Windows 64-bit 97MB Win64
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Plex Media Server 1.43.1.10611 is now available to everyone.
Plex Media Server 1.43.1.10611 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.
NEW:
(Transcoding) Add support for decoding AV1 files on Windows using Intel devices. (PM-4889)
(Transcoding) Added support for battlemage GPUs. (PM-3178)
(Transcoding) Removed experimental tag from HEVC preferences and enable by default. (PM-4323)
Updated Web to 4.159.0
FIXES:
(Credits Detection) Force detection when manually triggering an analyze operation (PM-4292)
(Database) Migrations can fail on startup if malformed JSON data exists in the media_streams table (PM-5166)
(Downloads/Optimization) DiskFull and AccessDenied errors are no longer treated as recoverable. (PM-3475)
(Editions) The ‘Other Editions of’ hub could return incorrect items for non-Plex metadata agents (PM-4934)
(Extras) Cinema Trailers would fail to play on some clients (PM-4296)
(Hubs) Collections promoted to hubs on home and library section would not obey label restrictions for visibility (PM-617)
(Hubs) The “Recently Added” TV Show hubs could potentially skip shows or seasons (PM-3227)
(Library) Server could crash when matching music (PM-4128)
(Linux) RPM package could fail to install in some specific scenarios (PM-4863)
(Live-TV) Addressed various issues with live-tv playback (PM-5065)
(MacOS) Local assets can sometimes be ignored when folder paths contain unicode characters (PM-4271)
(Metadata) Add ratings support to NFO parser (PM-4848)
(Metadata) Alternate collection image options were not being returned (PM-4799)
(Metadata) Critic and audience ratings lower than 10% were not being saved to the database (PM-4894)
(Metadata) Embedded thumbnails in episodes were being ignored (PM-4794)
(Metadata) Refreshing an item will set its logo again when it has been explicitly unset (PM-4286)
(Metadata) Requests for alternate images may return incomplete results if called quickly in succession (PM-4755)
(Metadata) Season and episode thumbnails for custom metadata agents would get removed when cleaning bundles (PM-4775)
(Metadata) Support spanning episodes in NFO parser (PM-4842)
(Metadata) When using the NFO Series provider, running a metadata refresh can get stuck (PM-5019)
(Music) Correctly tagged albums with more than 20 discs would fail matching all tracks (PM-4747)
(Scanner) Ignore QNAP specific hidden paths when watching for file changes (PM-4070)
(Sharing) Newly created libraries would not immediately be visible on “Grant Library Access” page (PM-3961)
(Subtitles) Fixes sync issue when transcoding subtitles to webvtt (PM-4847)
(Thumbnails) Thumbnails were incorrectly generated for videos with rotation (PM-4035)
(Transcode) Transcoding files with an aac audio track could fail with an ios client (PM-5036)
(Transcoder) Error message was unclear when all transcoder slots were used (PM-4220)
(Transcoding) Burning in subtitles produced a green border for some videos (PM-4795)
(Voice Activity) Allow manual analyze to force detection on previously failed attempts (PM-4218)
(Voice Activity) Detection could fail in some instances (PM-4066)
Plex Media Server 1.43.1.10611 is now available to Plex Pass users in the Beta update channel.
NEW:
(Transcoding) Add support for decoding AV1 files on Windows using Intel devices. (PM-4889)
(Transcoding) Added support for battlemage GPUs. (PM-3178)
(Transcoding) Removed experimental tag from HEVC preferences and enable by default. (PM-4323)
Updated Web to 4.159.0
FIXES:
(Credits Detection) Force detection when manually triggering an analyze operation (PM-4292)
(Database) Migrations can fail on startup if malformed JSON data exists in the media_streams table (PM-5166)
(Downloads/Optimization) DiskFull and AccessDenied errors are no longer treated as recoverable. (PM-3475)
(Editions) The ‘Other Editions of’ hub could return incorrect items for non-Plex metadata agents (PM-4934)
(Extras) Cinema Trailers would fail to play on some clients (PM-4296)
(Hubs) Collections promoted to hubs on home and library section would not obey label restrictions for visibility (PM-617)
(Hubs) The “Recently Added” TV Show hubs could potentially skip shows or seasons (PM-3227)
(Library) Server could crash when matching music (PM-4128)
(Linux) RPM package could fail to install in some specific scenarios (PM-4863)
(Live-TV) Addressed various issues with live-tv playback (PM-5065)
(MacOS) Local assets can sometimes be ignored when folder paths contain unicode characters (PM-4271)
(Metadata) Add ratings support to NFO parser (PM-4848)
(Metadata) Alternate collection image options were not being returned (PM-4799)
(Metadata) Critic and audience ratings lower than 10% were not being saved to the database (PM-4894)
(Metadata) Embedded thumbnails in episodes were being ignored (PM-4794)
(Metadata) Refreshing an item will set its logo again when it has been explicitly unset (PM-4286)
(Metadata) Requests for alternate images may return incomplete results if called quickly in succession (PM-4755)
(Metadata) Season and episode thumbnails for custom metadata agents would get removed when cleaning bundles (PM-4775)
(Metadata) Support spanning episodes in NFO parser (PM-4842)
(Metadata) When using the NFO Series provider, running a metadata refresh can get stuck (PM-5019)
(Music) Correctly tagged albums with more than 20 discs would fail matching all tracks (PM-4747)
(Scanner) Ignore QNAP specific hidden paths when watching for file changes (PM-4070)
(Sharing) Newly created libraries would not immediately be visible on “Grant Library Access” page (PM-3961)
(Subtitles) Fixes sync issue when transcoding subtitles to webvtt (PM-4847)
(Thumbnails) Thumbnails were incorrectly generated for videos with rotation (PM-4035)
(Transcode) Transcoding files with an aac audio track could fail with an ios client (PM-5036)
(Transcoder) Error message was unclear when all transcoder slots were used (PM-4220)
(Transcoding) Burning in subtitles produced a green border for some videos (PM-4795)
(Voice Activity) Allow manual analyze to force detection on previously failed attempts (PM-4218)
(Voice Activity) Detection could fail in some instances (PM-4066)
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hi will this software will i be able to watch live tv or sky channels with this software i remember reading something online years ago about watching tv channels and i think it was something like plex software but not sure.
Review by barry25 on
Apr 14, 2025 Version: 12
OS: Windows 10 Ease of use: 6/10
Functionality: 5/10
Value for money: 3/10
Overall: 5/10
Installed on QNAP NAS. Better performance and functionality than what I had been using before (SageTV).
Review by drjtech on
Aug 21, 2024 Version: 1.40.5.8854
OS: Other Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Rating by HemLok on
May 13, 2022 Version: 1.26.1.5798
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Rating by Mike Doyle on
Aug 23, 2021 Version: 1.24.1.4931
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
Rating by PotentialWolfInvestigator on
Feb 28, 2021 Version: 1.21.4.4079
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 8/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 9/10
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