Today we announce the release of OpenPHT 1.6.0.
This release brings lots of improvements to the playback engine backported from Kodi Jarvis 16.1.
It is also the first release where OpenPHT and RasPlex is truly merged into one shared code base.
Important new features includes the upgrade to ffmpeg 2.8 and support for installing/updating skins directly from the select skin dialog.
Big thanks to the beta and skinning teams for making this release the best one to date!
New
- Updated branding and new splash screen
- Direct play of HEVC and other codecs ffmpeg 2.8 supports
- Transcode audio to AC3 for use with optical out
- Improved gapless music support
- Better 3D support
- Preference option to disable preplay screen
- Skin option to disable window and dialog fade animations
- Music OSD added to default skin
- Preference option to disable server side scaling of fanart and photos
- Support for downloading, installing and updating supported skins in preferences
- Updated seek handling with support for adaptive seeking and preview images
- Previous menu and back button now switches to fullscreen when media is playing on home screen and vice versa
- Embedded/RasPlex: Exprimental Bluetooth Audio support - works without issue on RPi3, on RPi0/1/2 with BT dongle it is dependent on the make of dongle which must support BT V4.1 at minimum
Fixes
- Fix filtered episodes view in default skin
- Fix a shuffle all / create play queue issue
- Fix a shoutcast redirect issue
- Fix shoutcast stream title when ffmpeg avio is enabled
- Fix audio and subtitle selection for media with multiple media items or parts
- Avoid getting stuck in dim state when skin is reloaded
- Fix wrong icon highlight and window switch in preferences menu
- Font fixes for a common crash in windows version
- Reset screen saver timer in plex http handler
- Fix search result title in default skin
- Embedded/RasPlex: Fix pre-cache of bigThumb art
Known Issues
- Windows SmartScreen could block the installer, use the Run anyway option to install
- Auto-update of windows portable installs will fail and corrupt your portable install
Downloads
For Windows, OS X and Embedded see GitHub release page
For Raspberry Pi devices see RasPlex 1.6.0 release post
Auto Update
OpenPHT 1.6.0 will be available on the pre-release update channel within 24-48 hours unless any serious issues is reported.
Bugs?
Please report bugs on GitHub, https://github.com/RasPlex/OpenPHT/issues