Plex for Samsung App Manual v2.002

App Manual Ver. 2.002

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Copyright 2015 Plex Inc. All rights reserved.

Plex for Samsung

Application Manual

Developed by Orca

for

Plex Inc.


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Contents 1. Release notes ................................................................................................................... 6

2. Important information ........................................................................................................ 7

1 Preparations .................................................................................................................. 7

2 Functions of the App ................................................................................................... 10

3. How to use the app ......................................................................................................... 11

Lets get started .................................................................................................................. 11

Connect with your Plex account ......................................................................................... 11

User selection screen ......................................................................................................... 13

4. Home view ...................................................................................................................... 15

Home screen navigation ..................................................................................................... 16

5. Grid View ........................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.

Alphabet menu ................................................................................................................... 18

Filter Menu ......................................................................................................................... 19

Play All ............................................................................................................................... 20

Shuffle All ........................................................................................................................... 20

Gridview navigation ............................................................................................................ 20

Listview mode .................................................................................................................... 21

6. Preplay view ................................................................................................................... 22

Play .................................................................................................................................... 22

Audio track selection .......................................................................................................... 23

Subtitle selection ................................................................................................................ 24

Playback mode selection .................................................................................................... 26

Playback Modes explained: ................................................................................................ 27

Mark item as watched or unwatched .................................................................................. 27

Delete an item from your library .......................................................................................... 28

Trailers and Extras ............................................................................................................. 29

Browse content .................................................................................................................. 30

Navigation .......................................................................................................................... 30

7. TV Shows: Season View ................................................................................................. 30

8. TV Shows: Episode view ................................................................................................ 31

9. Music: Artist View ........................................................................................................... 32

10. Music: Album View ...................................................................................................... 34

11. Music: Playback .......................................................................................................... 34

Loop playback .................................................................................................................... 36


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Screen Brightness .............................................................................................................. 37

12. Video Playback ........................................................................................................... 38

1. Select audio track ........................................................................................................ 39

2. Select subtitle .............................................................................................................. 40

3. Enable Overlayed Subtitles ......................................................................................... 40

4. Subtitle offset .............................................................................................................. 40

5. Subtitle Size ................................................................................................................ 40

6. Subtitle Color ............................................................................................................... 40

7. Subtitle position ........................................................................................................... 40

8. Save current settings ................................................................................................... 40

9. Jump to ....................................................................................................................... 40

10. Aspect mode ............................................................................................................ 40

13. Photos ......................................................................................................................... 41

14. Playlists ....................................................................................................................... 42

15. Channels ..................................................................................................................... 43

Channel Preferences .......................................................................................................... 45

Channel Search.................................................................................................................. 46

16. Watch Later ................................................................................................................. 46

17. Recommended ............................................................................................................ 49

18. Search ......................................................................................................................... 49

19. Shared Content ........................................................................................................... 51

1. Preferences .................................................................................................................... 52

2. Preferences: General ...................................................................................................... 53

1 Display clock in 24h format .......................................................................................... 53

2 Clock Adjustment ........................................................................................................ 54

3 Send debug to PMS .................................................................................................... 54

4 Use transition animations ............................................................................................ 54

5 Request timeout in seconds ........................................................................................ 54

6 Screensaver timeout in minutes .................................................................................. 54

7 Enable Smart Control .................................................................................................. 54

8 Auto login last user and skip pincode .......................................................................... 54

3. Preferences: Player ........................................................................................................ 55

1 Playing Theme Music .................................................................................................. 55

2 Fast Forward in seconds ............................................................................................. 55

3 Rewind in seconds ...................................................................................................... 55


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4 Initial Buffer ................................................................................................................. 56

5 Pending Buffer ............................................................................................................ 56

6 Total Buffer.................................................................................................................. 56

7 Playback Mode ............................................................................................................ 56

8 Number of Trailers ....................................................................................................... 56

4. Preferences: Plex Media Servers .................................................................................... 57

5. Preferences: Sound /Subtitles ......................................................................................... 57

1 Switch audio output based on media ........................................................................... 57

2 Audio Boost when transcoding .................................................................................... 57

3 Subtitles font size ........................................................................................................ 57

4 Subtitles color .............................................................................................................. 58

5 Prefer Overlayed subtitles over embedded ones. ........................................................ 58

6. Preferences: System (Plex account) ............................................................................... 59

1 Sign in to your Plex Account ........................................................................................ 59

7. Preferences: Advanced ................................................................................................... 60

1 Local Quality ............................................................................................................... 61

2 Quality from remote servers ........................................................................................ 61

3 Always use highest resolution ..................................................................................... 61

4 Always use first part .................................................................................................... 61

5 Use Plex Account to update Server List ...................................................................... 61

6 Send anonymous usage data to Plex .......................................................................... 61

7 Menu Sorting ............................................................................................................... 62

8 Reset all app settings .................................................................................................. 62

8. Preferences: About Plex ................................................................................................. 62

20. Special Functions ........................................................................................................ 63

1 Playing 3D content ...................................................................................................... 63

21. To transcode or not to transcode, thats the question .................................................. 66

1 Why would I need transcoding? ................................................................................... 66

Remote playback is stuttering ......................................................................................... 66

I can only use Wifi but my movie stutters ........................................................................ 67

2 Local Transcoding V.S. Remote transcoding ............................................................... 67

3 Local Transcoding ....................................................................................................... 67

Direct Play list. ................................................................................................................... 67

4 Local Transcoding Quality ........................................................................................... 68

5 Remote transcoding .................................................................................................... 68


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6 Transcoding is not always optional .............................................................................. 68

22. Troubleshooting .......................................................................................................... 68

1 I got an update and now nothing works anymore......................................................... 68

2 Connection issues. ...................................................................................................... 68

3 Audio out of sync ......................................................................................................... 69

23. End Word .................................................................................................................... 69


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1. Release notes

v 2.002 2015.05.08

- Fixed: Deleting an item was not possible if the app was not connected to a Plex account.

- Fixed: Menu positions were not remembered if the app was not connected to a Plex account.

- Fixed: Items without a duration could cause the app to freeze.

- Fixed: Direct play setting did not override transcoding in some cases.

- Fixed: Some of the color buttons were still active when a slideshow was started from the main screen.

- Fixed: Restored playback for some for channels that stopped working after the update.

- Fixed: FF/RW would sometimes break the display of subtitles, and speed indicator would not hide.

- Fixed: "Play All" didn't work for items in the "By Folder" view.

- Fixed: Right-side (B) menu allowed disabled items to be selected.

- Fixed: Starting First unwatched episode would skip episodes with a resume time.

- Fixed: Logging in with a real user account will now allow access to that user's 'Watched Later' and 'Recommended'

sections.

- Fixed: Anamorphic videos could get a wrong aspect ratio when transcoding was used.

- Fixed: External subtitles were not always shown when direct streaming was selected.

- Fixed: Some selecting issues with the right-side (green button) OSD.

- Fixed: When used in combination with a slower PMS, building the play Queue could run into a timeout.

- Fixed: Some of the left side icons were missing support for Smart control.

- Fixed: If a server was no longer reachable, the main screen would not load.

- Fixed: Music player would show "Various Artists" instead of the real artist name.

- Fixed: Right-side OSD was not active on music videos and when an episode-'Autoplay' was started from the On Deck

menu.

- Fixed: Resume time was not always updated at the current position when a video is stopped.

- Fixed: Added Smart Control to more of the helpbar buttons.

- Fixed: Info Button would not react when playback was started from the grid view.

- Fixed: Up/down would get stuck when selecting "Reset all app settings".

- Fixed: Improved readability of episode counters.

- Fixed: User image now shows a default image when user is not logged in.

- Fixed: The top bar text on the grid wasn't always updated when switching sections.

- Fixed: Added the server as a variable for storing different section filters.

- Fixed: When selecting a lower resolution from the popup, the highest resolution would still be played.

- New: Added delete function for Tracks, Episodes and Seasons.

- New: Added 'push up, to go to last' in episode and season view.

- New: Watched status can now also be set for a whole TV show or season.

- New: The "By Folder" view for movies now has better readable labels.

- New: Added "Recently Aired, Last viewed Episodes" and "Last Viewed Shows" selections for TV Shows.

- New: Global search. Searches everything all at once.

- New: Subtitle font is now selectable between: Arial (fixes detached Arabic characters issue), Open Sans-regular or Open

Sans-bold;

- New: More aspect modes are now available from the right-side (B) menu.

- New: Several new selections have been added to the grid filter menu.

- New: Added item search to the grid filter menu.

- New: Added 'Play All' and 'Shuffle All' for artists. All tracks has been removed.

- New: Added support for Vevo music videos on the Artist view.

- New: Added option to auto login the last user. This will skip the user selection and pincode.

- New: Added the much requested listview mode. Use the D button to swap views between list or grid.

- New: The selection, filters, sorting and view mode are now saved per user, per section, when you exit the grid.

- New: Use Channel UP/DOWN in the grid to jump page by page.

- New: Extended filter selections, this includes "moods" for music tracks. (PlexPass only)

- New: Added option to reset the app. This might help with update problems.

- New: Added option to continue watching all remaining episodes of a TV Show from "On Deck".

Use "Play" to immediately start auto-playing, use "Enter" to open the Preplay screen as normal.


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2. Important information

1 Preparations

Important Note:

This app is a client for the freely downloadable Plex Media Server.

Before you can use this app you will need to setup a server first!

This app will not work correctly without a Plex Media Server!

The only exception to this rule is Shared Content, but we will get to that later.

Use a browser to go to: https://www.plex.tv/downloads

Then pick the setup file for the OS type you are planning to use:

Download and install the Plex Media Server software for your platform.

After installing we need to configure the server.

To do so open up a browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:32400/web to configure the server.

You must replace the 127.0.0.1 with the IP address of the server where you installed the PMS

software, if your browser is not on the same machine.

Now follow the wizard and make sure to add at least one new section and some content to the

server.


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We strongly suggest to connect your server to your Plex account on https://plex.tv

This version of the app can communicate with your Plex account and is able to connect to

your server(s) without any configuration. Connecting your devices to your Plex account

creates a so called dynamic DNS service. That means that it will update your account when

the IP address of your server changes. Because the app can communicate with your account,

it will always use the right IP address, even when you are using it from another location than

your home.

The following features are only available if the app is connected to a Plex account:

Automatic updated server list

Queue and Recommended sections

Shared Content section

Cloud Sync sections

To connect to Plex you need to have a Plex account. Dont worry its free and secure!

Step 1: Go to https://plex.tv and create your account.

Step 2: Open the mediamanager of you server in a browser

(http://127.0.0.1:32400/web)

Step 3: Click the tools icon to open the settings screen.

Step 4: Select Connect and sign in to your myPlex account.

Step 5: If all went well you are now logged in and your server has been connected to

Plex

If you get an error you can click Show advanced settings for more options.

Click on the highlighted word here to get additional help on setting this up.


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If your server shows 2 green check marks as shown in the image, then we are ready to

proceed with setting up the app.


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2 Functions of the App

The main objective of the Plex for Samsung app is to provide access to a user's Plex Media

Server. The Plex Media Server catalogs, and gathers metadata for a user's personal media

(movies, TV shows, home movies, music and photos) and streams that content over the user's

network to Plex clients (such as the Plex for Samsung app) in a rich and attractive manner.

The app will make streaming content from a user's network a much simpler, much more

beautiful, much more exciting experience!

You can use Plex to:

Browse through your Media collection

Watch your Movies, TV Shows and Photos and listen to your music

Connect to our Plex cloud service and access your content from anywhere.

Share your home movies and photos with your friends and family.

Set Up different accounts and regulate access to certain content.

Select your favorite channels and watch or listen to them from your TV.

Resume the content where you stopped it (Movies, TV Shows and Clips only)

Watch 3D content (Half-SBS and Half-TAB)

Delete content from your Plex Media Server (*if the server setting is enabled to allow

this)

If you have an A/V receiver connected to your TV or BD-Player then the app

automatically changes the audio output format to AC3, DTS or PCM depending the

audio format of your content.

Autoplay feature that allows you to play one item after another and the user doesnt

have to touch his remote.

If your TV Show has Theme music the app plays this music when you enter the TV

Show (only if there is a theme available online)

You can set a Movie, TV-Show, TV Show season or a single Episode as

watched/unwatched.

When you finish a Movie or Episode the app sends to the Plex Media Server that you

watched this content and changes the indicator on that item.


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3. How to use the app

Lets get started

Before you can use the app you have to install the Plex Media Server (PMS) on a PC in your

network. If you have not yet set up a Plex Media Server, please read the previous section and

do so now before continuing.

When you first start the app it will ask you to connect the app to your Plex account

Picture 3.1

Connect with your Plex account

If you have already set up a Plex account and previously connected your server(s) to Plex as

described in section 1, the setup is very easy.

Just leave the app open on the current screen and use a nearby computer or other device with

an internet connection and go to the Plex website.

Open up a browser and login to your Plex account on https://plex.tv

When logged in, enter the url https://plex.tv/pin as instructed.

Enter the code that the app showed you and press the connect button.

When entered correctly, the browser should show you the PIN activated screen like below.


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Wait a few seconds longer for the app to download the needed information from your account. It will continue on its own, after it is done.

Do not press any buttons until the app has successfully connected or you will have to do it all over again!

After you are connected, the app will automatically detect any servers that are connected to

your account. Initially, it will try to connect to the first owned server it can find, but you can

change that later on.

The next screen you will see depends on your setup.:

If you have setup a Home on your server and added users to it, you will always get

the select user screen first.

If you have no Home setup or are the admin, and only user, it will continue to the

Main screen.


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User selection screen

If you have setup a Home within Plex, you may have several accounts added to it.

In this screen you can pick the account of your choice. Just select it and press enter.

If you have more than three accounts, a scrollbar will appear and you can use the UP/DOWN

buttons to select the ones that are not visible.

The administrator account is marked with a small crown icon.

If the account has a green pinlock symbol, it means this account is protected with a pin code.

If you select a protected account, you will have to enter the pin code in the next screen as

shown below.

If you are using a normal remote control, you can use the numeric buttons to enter the

pin code.

If you are using a Smart Control, first bring up the onscreen display by pressing the

Keypad button and select the numbers from there.

If the code is correct , entering the last number will take you to the Main screen. There is no

need to press enter.

Entering an incorrect code will show a popup and you will not be able to use the app, until the

correct code has been provided, or a different user without a Pin Code has been selected


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4. Home view

This is the main page of the app, from this page you can reach all other parts within the app.

On the left side you can see all your sections you have access to. This section menu can

scroll up and down, and the current selection is always marked with an orange color.

On the right side you get one or two rows depending on the content you are viewing.

These bars are marked with orange titles on the right, to indicate what they are representing.

In the screenshot we can see two rows. One shows the Recently Added items. This row will

give you quick access to newly added content. The other row is called On Deck.

On Deck items are items that are still in progress. This means that you have started to watch

this item earlier, but did not finish watching until the very end.

For TV Shows, the On Deck bar will show you the episode where you last stopped watching.

If the last episode was not completely watched, that will be the one to start with. If you finished

that episode, the On Deck feature will automatically select the next in line for you.

Tip: If you want to continue watching a TV Show and also want to watch more than one

episode, press the Play button instead of Enter.


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You may have noticed the orange dots on the movie images. These dots represent the so

called watched status. If an item is new and you havent watch it yet, it will show a star

symbol.

If you watched this item before but didnt finish it to the end, it will show a half circle.

Items that have no indication are things you already watched.

This indication is only present on video items.

At the bottom you can see the help bar. This bar will show you the most common buttons you

can use on that screen. On the left side it will also show the current user and a small clock.

Home screen navigation

Select section:

Push UP or DOWN on your remote to select the desired section.

If you have a SmartControl you can also use the pointer to activate the menu.

Point to the upper or lower part of the menu, and a chevron will appear.

When the chevron's color is white, you can push enter to advance one section in that

direction. If you move the pointer to the upper or lower edge, it will turn orange.

Wiggle the pointer slightly to start moving through the sections automatically.

After you have marked the desired section, press ENTER to open that section.

Using the Smart Control you must point to the orange item and press ENTER.

This will give you access to all your content in that section.

Select fanout item

If the item of your choice is already showing on one of the right side fanouts, you can

press the RIGHT button to select it. Or point the Smart Control on the item. The

selected item will be surrounded by an orange border. Point the Smart Control to the

edges to start scrolling in that direction.

After selecting the desired item press ENTER to go to view the item details.

Where this will take you depends on the type of content.

- Photos will show full screen

- Music will take you to the Album view

- Episodes and Movie will take you to the Preplay view.

Tip: If you scrolled a row to the far right, just press RETURN to jump back to the main

section menu instantly.

Open Preferences

If you want to make changes to the settings of the app, you can get there in two ways:

- Push the LEFT button while on the main menu.

- Push the RED button on your remote.


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Switch User

If you push the GREEN button while on the main menu, it will take you to the User

Selection screen where you can pick a different user.

Switch Server

If you have more than one server, or other users have shared content with you, you

can push the YELLOW button to get a list of servers, that you have access to.

The list shows a green checkmark for your own servers and a blue one for shared or

remote servers. Initially the icon may show a looking glass symbol to indicate that the

app is still busy trying to contact the server. If the server is not reachable it will show a

red X.

Please wait with selecting a server until the icon is either green or blue.

You will be unable to connect to the server until the connection has been confirmed.

If you have more than 4 servers, use UP/DOWN to select the non-visible ones.

Change Audio and Video settings

This feature is not available on BD-Players and Home Cinema sets.

In order to access the on-screen menu of the device, you can push the TOOLS button.

This will show a popup where you can either go to the default Audio or Video menu of

your device. The button is also available during playback.

Exit App

If you want to close the app, press RETURN with the section menu selected.

A popup will show with the option to quit the app.


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Continue watching

This button will only become available when you select an episode from a TV Show.

Clicking the button or pressing Play on your remote, will start the show immediately

without showing the Preplay screen. When the episode finishes and there are more

episodes available, the next episode will be played without any user action

Gridview

After selecting a main section from the menu, press ENTER to get to the grid view.

The grid will show all items you have is this section. Depending on the section it may show

eight columns (movies, tv shows and music), or six columns (photos, channels and online

content)

Lets have a closer look at this screen. In the center area you will see small images of your

media. The top bar shows the title of the items we are looking at, in this case All movies.

The top right corner will show you how many items there are in your current selection.

At the bottom of the grid you can see the so called:

Alphabet menu

This menu will allow you to jump to the first item starting with that character. As you can see

the menu is smart as it will only show you characters for items you actually have in your

library.

The alphabet is only available in the All items mode and when sorted from A to Z, it will not

work when a filter has been applied. It will also only work for Movies, TV shows and Music.


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You can switch between the grid and the alphabet by pressing the YELLOW button.

Pressing up or down will highlight your current character with an orange border. Press ENTER

to make the jump.

With a Smart control you can simply point and click the desired character to perform a jump.

On the menu bar to the left side of the screen, there are 3 icons visible which represent these

actions:

Funnel icon: Open the filter and sorting meu.

Play icon: Play All items in the current selection sequentially

Shuffle icon: Play All items in the current selection in a random order.

Filter Menu

After clicking the funnel icon, or if you keep pressing LEFT, the screen will move to the right

revealing the filter and sorting menu on the left side of the screen.

Use the UP and DOWN arrows to select one of these items:

Quick selectors: They use a common preset, like Recently added or On Deck.

Filters: By using your own filters you can narrow down the selection.

Filters can stack, so you can have: All Movies, By Genre: Cultfilm, By Year: 1959

Sorts: You can sort the grid by one of the indicated sorting parameters.

Press ENTER again to swap the direction between ascending and descending.

Depending on your library, some filters may contain a large selection of possible values.


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You can press UP /DOWN when you reach the end of the list, to show the previous or next

page. If you want to skip through whole pages, you can use the CHANNEL UP/DOWN on a

TV and the |>| keys on any other device.

When a filter has been added it will be marked with a check. Also note that a new item will

appear on top of the filter list, named clear filter. Select this item if you want to remove the

current filter.

To return to the grid, press RIGHT, RETURN or click the funnel icon once more.

Play All

If the PLAY icon is available, you may select it and press ENTER to start playing all the items

in your selection in sequence. The items will be placed in a queue. When an item has finished

playing, the next item will start playing without the need for user interaction.

Shuffle All

This works the same way as Play All, with the difference that the items will not be played in a

sequential order but they will be shuffled first. The items will then be played in a random order.

Gridview navigation

The gridview will show you the current selection you made. You can navigate through it by

using the arrow keys. If your library is large, it may not fit on screen. When that is the case,

you will see a scrollbar to the right of the gridview to indicate that there are more items

available.

Either keep pressing UP/DOWN to scroll through to the next page, or use the CHANNEL

UP/DOWN (or |>|) to skip through pages quickly.

You can select an individual item by pressing ENTER while it is highlighted.

This action has different results based on the media you have currently selected:

Movie: will take you to the Preplay screen.

TV Show: will take you to the Season screen.

Episode: will take you to the Preplay screen.

Album: will take you to the Album screen.

Artist: will take you to the Artist Screen.

Photo: will show the selected photo full screen.

Photo directory: will take you to the Gridview, one level deeper.

Channel: will take you to the List view for this channel.

Online content (Watch Later): will take you to the Preplay screen.

Playlist: will take you to the List view for this playlist.

Library items will use paging, because these collections, could become very large.

Other sections like channels and online content, use scrolling because these items currently

do not support paging on the server.


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Listview mode

For some tasks it might be easier to see the items in a list instead of in a grid.

You might also want to select listview mode when viewing content By Folder.

To switch to listview mode, press the BLUE button on your remote.

Note that the view mode will be saved to the current section, so you can have sections in

gridview mode and others in listview mode.


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5. Preplay view

The Preplay screen will show you detailed information about your media and will allow you to

make changes for the selected item.

All actions are controlled by the left side menu bar. Use the UP/DOWN buttons to select one

of the icons and press ENTER to perform the action.

Play

If you do not want to make any changes, you would only need to press ENTER to start playing

your media, since the PLAY icon is the default on this page.

After pressing the play icon a swirling indicator will show while the action is being prepared.

Your media should start playing when it is ready.

There are situations where you might get a popup first:

You started playback of a movie that was stopped before it was finished.

As you can see in the example, this movie was watched for 44 minutes before.

In this case you will have the option to restart the movie from the beginning, or to

continue where you left off.


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You are playing a new (unwatched) movie and enabled the Trailer feature in the

Preferences screen. Many trailers are available in several qualities. If there are, you

could be presented with a choice to select the quality. By default this feature is turned

off, but if you enabled it in the Preferences screen, it will ask you to select a quality

first.

Audio track selection

The second icon from the top, represented by a headphone, will give you access to the audio

track selection. If your media contains more than one audio track, you may change it here to

the one of your choice. If you setup your server to select the audio track based on your

language, that language will be selected as default. Changing the track here will also set it as

preferred track on the server. Scroll with UP/DOWN and select with ENTER. Use RETURN to

cancel.


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Subtitle selection

The third icon from the top, represented by a speech balloon, will give you access to the

subtitle selection. If your media contains subtitles, you may change it here to the one of your

choice. If you setup your server to select the subtitle based on your language, that language

will be selected by default. Changing the subtitle here will also set it as preferred subtitle on

the server. Scroll with UP/DOWN and select with ENTER. Use RETURN to cancel.

This app has three ways to show you subtitles. We will try to explain how these different ways

work and what options you have.

Subtitles come in a lot of different formats. Plex supports many of them but some are easier to

use than others. The preferred format to use with this app is .srt also known as Subrip.

It will give you the most options and will allow you to set font size, position, offset and color

during playback. Srt files can be played using the built-in subtitle player which will display them

on top of the movie. This is also known as overlayed subtitles.


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Subtitles also come in different types.

The selection will show you which type you are dealing with:

External subtitle files

You can place a .srt subtitle file alongside the movie.

The subtitle file should have the same name as the movie file but with the .srt

extension.

You can also add a language reference if you wish to do so.

Example:

Movie filename: The.Fast.and.the.Furious.Tokyo.Drift.1080p.2006.mkv

Unknown Subtitle filename: The.Fast.and.the.Furious.Tokyo.Drift.1080p.2006.srt

English Subtitle filename: The.Fast.and.the.Furious.Tokyo.Drift.1080p.2006.en.srt

If you named it correctly, a library scan on the server will pick it up and it will become

selectable in the app.

Internal subtitles

Some movie formats like MKV will allow you to add the subtitles inside the movie file.

These subtitles cannot be accessed directly by the app. It needs help from the

Samsung API to get these from the movie stream. If the subtitles are added to the

movie in a standard way, it is possible to retrieve the subtitle and show them as

overlayed subtitles.

Unfortunately this only works for text based subtitle formats. If your movie has

VOBSUB or PGS subtitles, which are based on images instead of text, this option will

not work.

These types of subtitles are marked with an asterix (*). If you select these subtitles the

app will have to switch to the last option it has for showing subtitles, which is burning

them into the movie. To accomplish this it will switch the playback mode to Direct

Streaming (Transcoding also works), and instructs the server to create a new movie

stream in which the subtitles are already visible inside the movie. This is also known as

Burned-in subtitles.

Using Burned-in subtitles is no problem if you have a powerful server. It may become a

problem if your server is less potent, like a NAS device. Playback modes other than

Direct Play are putting a strain on the server, which some devices may not be able to

handle. In this case your only option is to extract the subtitle from the movie and use it

as an external subtitle file. There are several programs available on the internet that

can do this.


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Playback mode selection

The fourth icon from the top, represented by a movie frame, will give you access to the

playback mode selection. The support for different codecs is very good on Samsung devices,

however there still might be some items in your media collection that can not be played in

direct play mode. In this case it might be needed to switch the playback mode, in order to to

ask the server to help out. Scroll with UP/DOWN and select with ENTER. Use RETURN to

cancel.

Note, that setting the playback mode here will not change your default playback mode.

When you exit this screen your default setting will be restored.

If you want a particular mode to be the default, it can be set in the Preferences screen.

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Playback Modes explained:

Auto: This is the default setting. Your media will be played using Direct Play, if

possible. That means it will stream the file directly from your server to the TV without

influencing it. If the app encounters a format that we know it cannot play, it will fall back

to transcoding the media automatically. This will make it possible to play formats that

are not normally supported by your device.

Note: We cannot detect badly encoded movies, we only check if the codecs and

containers are supported by Samsung.

Direct Play: This forces the app to always use Direct Play without any fallback.

Direct Stream: This forces the app to use Direct Streaming to play your file. That

means the server will build a new stream using your media, but it will just use the data

without any conversions. Direct Streaming may help you to play files that are badly

encoded or suffer from issues with timing.

Transcoding: All Media will be transcoded on the server. This means the app will

instruct the server to fully rebuild the media stream before it is send to the device.

This is a good option if you have problems with some files that wont play. Most

common problems are fixed when the media is re-encoded. Transcoding can also be

used to to limit the bandwidth of a movie in case you have a bad connection.

Note that your server will need a potent CPU to be able to use transcoding

Mark item as watched or unwatched

The fifth icon from the top, represented by a filled circle, will mark the current item as watched

The sixth icon from the top, represented by an open circle, will mark the current item as

unwatched.

If you have a substantial library it may become hard to track which items you have watched.

The app will automatically marked them as watched when you viewed them to the end.

If you wish to make corrections to that status, you can do so by using these two icons.

In a multiuser environment, these settings are personal, so they only apply to the current user.

You will not overwrite the watch status for someone else.

Select with UP/DOWN. Press ENTER to apply.


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Delete an item from your library

The delete item action, represented by a trashcan icon, will allow you to remove the current

item from your library (for real!). Because this is a dangerous feature there are a few

limitations on its use:

If you are not the admin (owner of the server), the icon will not be available to you.

Restricted users, or users that you shared your content with, will not have the icon

either.

Deleting items is only possible if you explicitly gave permission to do so on the server:


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Trailers and Extras

The last icon, represented by a plus sign, will give you access to the Trailers and Extras.

This icon is only available while viewing movies and shows only when there are actual trailers

or extras to show.

Select the icon and press ENTER to show the Extras. Use UP/DOWN to select an item.

Press ENTER to start playback. You may get a popup to select the desired quality first.

Press RETURN to close the Extras view and return focus to the Preplay screen


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Browse content

Even after you made a selection first, you may still want to review the items before you decide

what content to watch. In order from preventing you to go back and forth between the Gridview

and the Preplay screen, we added a browse function. This is comparable with the previous

carrousel mode if you used the old version of this app.

In the right top corner you can see at which position you are in your selection.

Just press the LEFT or RIGHT arrow to move to the next item. Note that this will stop when

you reach the end, its not an endless loop as it was in the old version.

Navigation

To leave this screen you can either press RETURN to return to the previous screen or select

the A button on your remote to return to the main screen instead.

6. TV Shows: Season View

The TV shows section is a bit different from other content, because a TV show also has

seasons. From the Grid view you can select any TV show, to go to the Seasons view.

You will have two choices here. If you have episodes from more than one season, you will

have the options to either, view All Episodes, or select a specific season. If you only have

one season, the All Episodes option will not be available.

A marker may appear in the right top corner of the season with a number in it.

This number indicates how many unwatched episodes there are left inside the season. If all

episodes in that season have been watched, no marker will be visible.


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If there is theme music available for the selected show, you will also hear the theme played in

the background. Not all shows have theme music. If the server could not make a match, there

will be no sound.

Select an item by using the arrow keys. Press ENTER to open it.

Press RETURN to return to the previous screen, or A for the main screen.

You can use the two circle shaped icons in the left side bar to set all episodes, in a season or

show, to watched or unwatched at once.

To delete a season, selected it so it is highlighted and press the BLUE button.

If there are no more seasons left, the show will also be removed and the app will return you to

the grid. You will need to be an administrator and the server setting to allow deletion must be

enabled.

7. TV Shows: Episode view From the Season view you will be able to access the Episode view.

This screen will show you all the episodes available for the selected Season, or in case you

selected All Episodes, the whole collection of episodes for this TV show.

On the right hand side of the screen you will see a grid with all the available episodes.

Each episode contains a small image, the episode number, name of the episode and the

original air date. If an episode has not been viewed it will also show an orange star as seen in

episode 9.

If not all items fit on the page, a scrollbar will appear to the right. You can push UP/DOWN to

make the off-screen items visible.


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To select a single episode, highlight it so it has orange border and press ENTER.

This will take you to the Preplay screen to give you more details and options to start the

playback. Remember that you can use the LEFT and RIGHT buttons in the Preplay screen to

switch between episodes.

You may also want to play several episodes after each other. In that case use the icons, in the

left hand side menu bar. Pressing the Play icon will show a popup that will give you the

option to start from a specific episode and continue from there. If you have any unwatched

episodes in this season, you also get the extra option to start from the first unwatched

episode.

If you use the Shuffle icon, this popup will not be shown, since you selected to play the

episodes in a random order.



You can use the two circle shaped icons in the left side bar to set all episodes in this season to

watched or unwatched at once.

To delete an episode, selected it so it is highlighted and press the BLUE button.

If there are no more episodes left, the season will also be removed and the app will return you

to the season view, or if there are no seasons left, to the grid view.

You will need to be an administrator and the server setting to allow deletion must be enabled.

8. Music: Artist View In the Grid view you can view your music media based on artist or on album.

If you select an artist and press ENTER you will be taken to the Artist View.


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Like with the season view, there is one option to open All Tracks, or you can select a specific

album. If there are more than 9 items, a scrollbar will appear on the right side.



You can use the Play All and Shuffle All icons in the left side bar to start playing all

available tracks for the selected artist.

I the current Music library was created as a Vevo (premium) library and there are Music videos

available for this artist, then you will also see a Plus icon in the left side menu bar.

Highlight the Plus icon by means of the arrow keys and press ENTER.

A submenu will appear where you can select and play any of the available Music videos.

Use the arrow keys to select a video and press ENTER to start playback.


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9. Music: Album View You can get to the Album view from different points: from the Gridview in album mode, the

Artist view or straight from the main page when selecting a recently added song.

You will have three choices here to start playing songs:

Use the Play icon to start playing all songs sequentially.

Use the Shuffle icon to play all songs in a random order

Select a single song and press ENTER.

Note that even if you selected on single song, you can still use the CHANNEL UP/DOWN

buttons to skip to the next or previous song. The only difference with the Play icon is that you

can start from any song instead of the first.



To delete a track, highlight it and press the BLUE button.

You will need to be an administrator and the server setting to allow deletion must be enabled.

10. Music: Playback When you start playback of a song, the app will switch to the music player mode.

It will show the background for the playing song (if available) and show you additional

information such as duration, album and artist. if you play music continuously, the app will stay

in this mode and automatically plays the next song in line.


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If you want to skip a song, press the CHANNEL UP. Use CHANNEL DOWN to replay a title.

(|>| on none TV devices)

You can return to app by pressing RETURN. Music will still keep playing in the background.

You can toggle between the music player and the app as long as it is playing, by pressing the

PLAY button on your remote.


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If you want to make adjustments press the UP arrow or INFO to show the progress bar OSD.

Press DOWN or INFO to hide it again.

Note that next upcoming song title is displayed at the top right of the progress bar, and the

current playback mode is shown at the bottom.

The progress bar now comes equipped with player controls. Use the LEFT and RIGHT arrows

to select the control, then press ENTER to perform the action.

The selected control will have an orange border.

The current active play status is indicated by a grey filled square.

If you have a Smart control you can operate the controls by pointing and clicking.

The Smart control also works on the progress bar. During playback you can click on the

progress bar to jump to the desired position.

Loop playback

With the YELLOW button you can control what should happen when you have reached the

end of the queue. In normal mode it will stop and return to the last screen. Press the YELLOW

button to toggle between normal and loop mode. Now the queue will restart from the beginning

after the last item has played.

Normal mode

Loop mode


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Screen Brightness

This option will allow you to darken the TV screen while the music plays, or even turn it

completely black. Press the GREEN button to bring up the brightness control. Select any value

between 0 (off) and 10 (brightest) and press ENTER. This setting only applies to the music

player screen. If you press RETURN, the app will show in normal brightness. The brightness

screen and the progress bar OSD are still visible even when the screen is set to black.

Note, that this setting will be applied until you change it again, so dont be alarmed if the

screen turns black when playing music the next time. Jus press GREEN again to change it

back.


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11. Video Playback

When you are playing video you can bring up the progress bar OSD with the INFO button on

your remote

When playing a movie the OSD will show you the movie title and year it was released.

On episodes it will display the TV show name and the title of the episode. On the bottom left

side it will also show the current playtime, total playtime and the end time of the video.

The progress bar now comes equipped with player controls. Use the LEFT and RIGHT arrows

to select the control, then press ENTER to perform the action.

The selected control will have an orange border.

The current active play status is indicated by a grey filled square.

If you have a Smart control you can operate the controls by pointing and clicking.

The Smart control also works on the progress bar. During playback you can click on the

progress bar to jump to the desired position.

To jump forward use the RIGHT arrow button on your remote.

To jump backwards use the LEFT arrow button on your remote.

Note: Press and hold the < > buttons to do several jumps in a row. During this time only the

indicator will move until you stop pressing. After releasing the button the movie will jump to the

assigned position. In some cases when a movie has timing issues its possible that the player

will cancel the jump to avoid further problems.


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To Fast-Rewind (2x, 4x, 8x, 16x speed) and Fast Forward (2x, 4x, 8x, 16x speed) use the

buttons marked with > on the remote.

Note that not all movies support FF and RW. If it is not possible to use FF and RW, please use

the LEFT and RIGHT arrow to jump instead.

The buttons [PAUSE], [PLAY] and [STOP] work as you would imagine.

When you push the [GREEN] button the OSD will slide down and the right OSD will appear.

There you can see information about audio tracks and subtitles.

The right side OSD allows you to make adjustments but only if the current playback mode

supports it. For example: Except for the subtitle size, none of these settings have any effect

when you are using burned-in subtitles in combination with Direct Streaming or Transcoding.

In this case the options will be greyed out, and you will have to stop the movie to make

adjustments from the Preplay screen. The reason is, that the server will need to build a new

stream based on your choices.

The right side OSD has the following features:

1. Select audio track

Many movies have multiple audio tracks in different languages.

Normally you would set the correct language before you start a movie, but if you didnt label

your audio right, it might be hard to determine which language is on what track.

Press LEFT and RIGHT to switch the audio. This only works when the movie is Direct Playing.

If you are Direct Streaming or Transcoding, you will have to stop the movie to make changes.


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2. Select subtitle

If you have several subtitles for your video, you may change them on-the-fly if you are using

the overlayed subtitles. Press LEFT or RIGHT to change the subtitle. Note that it may take a

few seconds for the subtitle to be parsed before it will be visible on screen.

3. Enable Overlayed Subtitles

This will show or hide the overlayed subtitles.

4. Subtitle offset

This enables you to show the subtitles earlier or later when they do not run in sync with the

movie. Note: this might not always work correctly in combination with the Samsung API.

5. Subtitle Size

Controls the font size of the subtitle. (Also for Burned-in subtitles)

This can also be set under Preferences > Subtitles.

6. Subtitle Color

Pick the color you would like to use for the subtitles.

7. Subtitle position

This adjusts the position where the subtitles are shown onscreen.

8. Save current settings

Press ENTER while this is selected to save the current subtitle settings.

9. Jump to

Enter numbers with the number pad to set a specific time where you would like to jump inside

a movie. When a time is set beyond the duration of the movie, it will turn red.

Press ENTER to jump to the selected time.

10. Aspect mode

If your movie is shown with borders, you can use this to stretch the movie to full screen.

Sometimes it can also be used to fix videos which are displayed with a wrong aspect ratio.


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12. Photos

Photos can be browsed in the grid view or shown full screen by selecting them and pressing

the ENTER button. Just like the other sections, Photos have their own filter menu. Only now

with specific photo attributes. The filter menu is however only available when used on All

photos.

If you are in a subsection, like entering from the fan-out on the main screen, no filters will be

available.

Only photo section can have nested folders. If a folder is among the content, it will be

marked with a grey label at the bottom and it will show 4 random images from that folder.

Select it and press ENTER to go down one level. Press RETURN to return to the previous

level.

If a photo is shown full screen, and there are more pictures available in the current selection,

you can press the play button to start a slideshow. For a brief moment an indication will be

shown on screen about the current display time. You can increase or decrease the time with

the UP and DOWN button while the slideshow is playing.

If the slideshow is paused, or hasnt started yet, you can press the UP and DOWN arrow to

change the desired transition effect between photos. Play around with what you like best.


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If the slideshow is not playing, you can step through the photos either with the LEFT and

RIGHT arrows, or the CHANNEL UP/DOWN buttons. Press RETURN to stop displaying

photos and return to the previous screen.

13. Playlists This version of the app does not allow you to create playlists, but it does offer you to use

playlists you have created on a different Plex client, like the Plex web app that comes included

with the Plex media server software. Playlists are personal, so any user has their own

playlists. For now, only movies, episodes and music can be part of a playlist. A Playlist can be

selected from the Main page or you can enter the section to show all playlist in the gridview.

Select a playlist by using the arrow keys, and open it by pressing ENTER, or point and click

when using a Smart Control. Playlists are always opened in a listview.


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If the list contains more than 12 items, you can use the CHANNEL UP/DOWN to flip through

the pages. Playback can be started by selecting a specific item and pressing ENTER, or by

using the Play or Shuffle icon to the left. When playing a video playlist, unlike with normal

video items, there is no Preplay screen shown first, all items will start instantly.

14. Channels

What are Channels?

Plex offers a development model for third party developers to add online content in the form of

a channel. You could look at it as a kind of app store inside Plex.

A special note on Channels: Channels are not part of the app, they are created by other

developers and we are not responsible for the working or content of these channels

We do have a moderating team that will make sure that only approved channels will be made

available, but we cannot guarantee that all channels will work on your device all the time.

Some channels are region/geo bound and may not be available, or do not function, outside

that specific region. Also, many of the channels require transcoding; this will require a PMS

server with enough CPU and memory to do so. Some channels use Flash, Silverlight or other

external products to work. At this point the App does not support every available type of

channel.

Channels are mostly using websites to grab their content. Sometimes a website may change

and the channel may break. We have a team that works hard to keep these issues to a

minimum, but in short:

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To add, update or remove channels from the app you can use the so called Channel

directory, but channels can also be added from most other Plex clients like Plex web.

The Channel directory is not directly visible as it is part of the Settings menu, which is

reachable from the main page. To enter the Settings menu, you can either keep pressing

LEFT, or press the RED button while it is labeled as settings. The main section menu will be

replaced with the Settings menu.

Lets have a closer look at the Channel Directory. Select it from the menu and press ENTER

As you can see there are several ways to explore the available channels.

Lets selected Featured and push Enter.

There are 3 kinds of channels: Video, Music and Photo channels. Browse until you find

something interesting. Press enter, select Install and press enter again to install the channel

on the server. It may take a little while so please be patient.

After the installation has completed you will get a popup with the result.

Note: Every server has his own set of channels. Make sure you select the correct server to

add channels if you have more than one server. For the best result, It is recommended to use

the server with the most processing power available, so transcoding will not be a problem.

With the installation complete lets now look what has happened. Keep pressing return to

close the Channel Directory and the Settings menu, until you you reach the main screen.

Your new Channel should now be available under the Channels section..

At first, the image for the channel may appear blank as the content is updating.

This can take up to a minute to complete, but it will only happen once.


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You can now use the channel just like you would use a movie section. Depending on the

channel you can browse and watch the content that the developer has made available.

Channel Preferences

Some channels require you to enter details before you can use them. Items like that will be

marked as Preferences. This app does not allow you to enter details since a TV remote isnt

very practical for that. Instead, you can use the Plex web app that is built into the Plex Media

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Channel Search

Some channels offer you to search for content. (like youtube).

Selecting items marked as Search will bring up the onscreen keyboard, to allow you to enter

a search text. Press OK to start the search.

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The Queue and Recommended section will only become available after you connected your

device to your Plex account. You also need to have a local server available and have to be the

main user (administrator). Restricted users in a Home do not have access to this content.

Watch Later allows you to mark online videos on the major video sites, so you can watch them

later from any Plex client. To add a movie to the queue, you need to add the Plex-it

bookmarklet to a browser on your PC.

You can get your bookmarklet from the Plex.TV website.

- Log in to your Plex account on a browser

- Click the orange button with the word Launch on it.

- Select your user account, if needed.

- Select Watch Later from the Menu in the right top corner (Picture 38a)

- Now click the small question mark beside the word Watch Later (Picture 38b)

- This link will take you to the page with instructions on how to install the Plex-it widget.

- Click and drag the orange button marked as >Plex It! to your favorites bar.

- Now go and visit a video site like YouTube and select a movie of your choice. Click the

new Plex It link in your favorites bar, and a sidebar will appear, to show you that your

movie has been added to the Queue. (Picture 39)

Picture 38a

Picture 38b


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The direct link for this page is: http://plex.tv/web/app#!/playlist/queue/help

Picture 38c

Note: Not every moviesite is supported and not all movies can be played or added this way.

Picture 39

Refresh the Watch Later section in the app by briefly selecting another section.

The video you just added should now show up as a new item in the app.

You can now play back the video clip by selecting it and pushing ENTER

If you select an online movie you often have a choice of several formats, just like you would

when playing the movie directly in a browser.

If you disabled the Always show highest resolution option under Preferences/ Advanced, a

choice menu will be shown. Use the arrow buttons to select the desired format and press

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After you watched a clip to the end, it will disappear from the main page, because that will only

show the newly added items. Your clips will however still be available from inside the section.

Select the section Watch Later in the main Menu and press ENTER to go to the Gridview.

You can remove a Watch Later item from the server from the Preplay screen, by using the

Trashcan icon. (only for Administrators)

16. Recommended The Recommended section is very similar to Watch Later. The only difference is that you

do not pick the content yourself, but any friend you have on your Plex account can

recommend clips to you. Playing these items is exactly the same as on Watch Later.

Note: Only some Plex clients offer the feature to make recommendations.

You can remove a Recommended item from the server from the Preplay screen, by using the

Trashcan icon. (Only for Administrators)

17. Search There are several ways to find the item you are looking for.

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But we also have a Global search on the main menu

Select it on the left side and press enter.

Now type in a search term and click OK.

The search result view will open and as soon as it found some content, it will be added to the

view. Note that while the indicator in the top left corner is still visible, that the app is still

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18. Shared Content

If you have used the previous version of this app, you might notice that there is no section

called Shared Content anymore. Sharing content is however still possible.

Say you have a friend that has a Samsung TV, but no Plex Media Server and you have a nice

movie evening planned together. The only thing you will need to do, is to create a new Plex

account for your friend. Then log in to your own Plex account and share some content with the

newly created account of your friend. Your friend will get a mail about the shared content.

Click the link in the mail to confirm you are ok with sharing the content.

At your friends house, install the app on the Samsung device and connect the device to your

friends Plex account by using the PIN code login. Your server should become available as a

choice in the serverlist. You are now able to show your content right from your friends device.

Maybe you made a great video and some photos of your new born baby, and you want to

share them with your parents that live abroad. Just share your home videos and photos

sections with them and they can watch them instantly!

In previous versions the app would display content from several servers at once. This concept

has changed. You will only connect to one server at any time. This allowed us to create a

better user experience. For you as a user there will be no difference between using the app

with a local server and connecting to a remote server, that a family member or friend shares

with you.

Note: A local server is not required, if you only want to use Shared Content.

You do however need to be connected to your Plex account to be able to select the remote

server. When you start Plex the first time just follow the login procedure to connect your app to

your Plex account by entering the PIN code as described in the section 3.2.

From the Main screen you can show a list of all servers you have access to. This includes any

servers with shared content. Press the YELLOW button on your remote to bring up the server

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Browsing and playing the content works just the same as with the local content on your own

server. Note that if the content is on a remote server, it needs to travel over the internet, so

everything can be a bit slower than normal.

If you watch a video from a remote server and your internet connection is a bit slow, you may

experience that the video will start to buffer often because the content cannot be delivered fast

enough. To reduce the used bitrate (read: size) of the movie in order to have a smoother

playback (with the cost of reduced quality), you can switch the playback mode to Transcoding.

Keep in mind that this may put a significant load on the remote server. If the server is not

powerful enough it may not be able to handle that load.

The default quality setting for transcoding from a remote server is 7 on a range from 1 to 12.

If needed you can in- or decrease this value to get either a better image or an even lower

bandwidth. To change the value, go to the Preferences > Advanced tab.

And adjust the Remote Quality setting.

1. Preferences

Lets have a look at the apps Preferences.

If you want to make changes to the settings of the app, you can get there in two ways:

- Push the LEFT button while on the main menu.

- Or push the RED button on your remote while its labeled Settings

Next select Preferences from the main menu and press ENTER.

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2. Preferences: General After selecting General and pressing enter, you will see the list will general settings.

1 Display clock in 24h format

This will change how the clock will be displayed.

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2 Clock Adjustment

With this option you can adjust the clock from -12 hours up to +12 hours. On some devices the

clock didnt work correctly so we added this option.

3 Send debug to PMS

This should only be enabled for debugging.

This is good to help the user if he has problems with something. If you enable this the app will

send the log data to your PMS and the PMS will write it in his log file.

4 Use transition animations

The app uses many animations and fade transition effects. This can be a bit much for the

slower devices to handle. When this option is disabled, it will speed up the navigation at the

cost of having no special effects. If you have a single core Blu-ray player you will want to

disable this.

Special note for slower devices:

You should keep this feature disabled when running the app on a slow device, like an low

powered Blu-ray player. The animation and fading effects do not work well on these devices

because they lack a powerful CPU. Disabling them will give a much better and faster

experience.

5 Request timeout in seconds

This will set the time that the app will wait to abort a request to a server or online resource.

It has no influence if the connection works fine, but it may help for slow starting servers that

have to wait for the hard-disk to spin up.

6 Screensaver timeout in minutes

When some TV models (plasma mostly) show the same image over a longer period of time it

might cause the image to burn-in. To prevent this the app has a screensaver. The time it

takes for the screensaver kicks in can be set in minutes. Any key press will reset that time and

hides the screensaver for the set duration.

7 Enable Smart Control

If you own a TV that came with a Smart Control, you can now use it to point and click your way

through the app. If you dont want to use that functionality, you can switch it off. The Smart

Control will then work like a normal remote control.

8 Auto login last user and skip pincode

If you do have a Home set up, but you rather do not want to select a user or enter the

pincode all the time for this device. You may enable this setting to skip the login screen.

It will automatically log in the last user and applies that users pincode if needed.

Note that the pincode will still be required to switch to another user if that user has it enabled.

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3. Preferences: Player

After selecting Player and pressing enter, you will see the list will player settings.

1 Playing Theme Music

The first setting only applies to TV Shows. The Plex Media Server downloads theme music for

many popular TV Shows. The app can play this theme when you enter a TV Show.

With this setting you can enable or disable the playback of theme Music.

2 Fast Forward in seconds

When you watch content you can push (and hold) the RIGHT arrow on your remote and it will

jump forward in steps of 60 seconds (default). If you want bigger or smaller steps you can

change the value here.

Note: If the content length is not very long, the steps are adjusted accordingly.

This setting will only indicate what the maximum allowed step value will be.

3 Rewind in seconds

When you watch content you can push (and hold) the LEFT arrow on your remote and it will

jump backward in steps of 60 seconds (default). If you want bigger or smaller steps you can

change the value here.


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Note: If the content length is not very long, the steps are adjusted accordingly.

This setting will only indicate what the maximum allowed step value will be.

The next three settings should only be changed if you want to play high bitrate content and

you are having issues where the video stutters or the audio goes out of sync!

Note: All buffers are set to 0 by default and will show as auto

This mode will let the player use the default buffer values for the specific device.

4 Initial Buffer

Indicates the buffer size that needs to be filled before content will start playing.

5 Pending Buffer

If the buffer drops beneath this value during playback, playback will stop and buffering will take

place. This buffer needs to be filled before playback will continue after a buffering stop.

6 Total Buffer

This buffer specifies the total buffer size for video + audio playback.

7 Playback Mode

You can set a preferred playback mode if you always want to use something else than Auto

Playback modes can also be changed before playing a movie, but those changes will revert to

the setting you made here afterwards.

8 Number of Trailers

If you have enabled trailer support on your server, you may set the number of trailers you

would like to see before the selected movie is played, to give you the feeling like you are in a

real theater. The kind of trailers you will get is dependent if you have a PlexPass or not.

Note: If a trailer is playing that you dont like, you can press CHANNEL UP to skip it.

Note: Trailers have some rules before they will be start before a movie:

Trailers should be enabled on the server.

Trailers should be enable on the app.

The main movie you are about to view, must have a rating (stars)

The main movie must be unwatched.

If it has a resume time the trailer will be skipped.


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4. Preferences: Plex Media Servers This section is only here for backwards compatibility. Manual configuration of servers is not

recommended, but if you have a special use case and still want to do the setup yourself, then

please refer to section Special Functions/manual configuration at the end of this document

5. Preferences: Sound /Subtitles

1 Switch audio output based on media

Most TVs are equipped with an external output to which you can connect an amplifier or a

home theater system. To save you the trouble of switching the output with every new media

file you are playing, enabling this option will do that automatically for you. If you have

equipment that does not support DTS playback (like some sound bars), then this is not for

you. You should disable it, and make sure the TV output is always set to PCM manually.

2 Audio Boost when transcoding

When you encounter a movie where the audio volume is very low, you can boost the volume

by giving this a value above 100%. Note that this will only have an effect when you use Direct

Streaming or Transcoding.

3 Subtitles font size

You can change the size from your subtitles here. Default value

Documents

Plex for Samsung App Manual v2.002