Download Plex Media Server 1.9.1

Plex has released version 1.9.1 of Plex Media Server. This version was previously available to holders of the paid PlexPass, but can now be downloaded by anyone. Plex Media Server is a media server for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and various NAS devices. The software can serve content to clients on the same machine within the local network or over the Internet. Client software is available for the aforementioned operating systems, but content can also be viewed on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Google TV and Chromecast, for example.

The program includes its own software store where plug-ins can be exchanged. Via these plug-ins, content from various streaming services can be viewed, among other things. In addition, there is PlexPass, a paid service that gives early access to new versions in addition to discounts on ‘Premium features’. Version 1.9.1, among other things, continues the controversial policy for collecting telemetry. Since version 1.8.4, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Plex Media Server 1.9.0

New:

• (Streaming Brain) ABR streams will now balance their BW usage among each other (#7414)

Fixes:

• (DVR) Sort by release date more sensibly in the Program Guide – Movies view (#6981)
• (DVR) Fixed intermittent crash when tuning live TV (#7383)
• (DVR) Recorded shows were occasionally mistagged based on show year (#7328)
• (DVR) In certain cases, tuners could be shared inappropriately, leading to bad behavior (#7170)
• (Streaming Brain) Reduced wasted segments during quality change (#6623)
• (Transcoder) Portrait videos would be stretched out when being transcoded (#7287)
• (Music) Artist album sorting was sometimes overridden incorrectly (#7349)
• (DVR) Parse timestamps out of XMLTV original air date fields (#7379)
• (Hubs) Crashes when getting hubs (#7419)
• (Transcoder) Potential deadlock with static and streaming transcodes (#7410)

Plex Media Server 1.9.1

New:

• (Crash Reporting) Preference to opt out of crash reporting
• (Privacy) Updates for new privacy policy

Fixes:

• (Transcoder) Deadlocks when performing concurrent static and streaming transcodes (#7554)