• 2.24.0 68e1de2afd

    2.24.0 Stable

    patillacode released this 2026-10-22 09:00:15 +02:00 | 1 commits to main since this release

    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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