The company said it expects to launch its TVOD store (transactional video on demand, aka rentals) by the second quarter of this year, if not sooner.Īsked what the holdup was, Plex admitted the project was more challenging than it first anticipated.
Now Plex says it’s finally nearing the launch of a marketplace that will allow consumers to find movies and TV shows for rent or purchase, making Plex even more of a one-stop shop for all your media content.
The company then also faced a host of other issues, including technical concerns, that required the company to reprioritize its plans. It will allow you to get back your results in seconds if you need to do a clean install or to rebuild your whole library.Media streamer Plex was promising to expand its free streaming service to include rentals years ago, but that announcement arrived just ahead of the pandemic - at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2020. Since analyzing users' libraries to detect end credits use a lot of processing power - and "all that processing isn't cheap," the company said - Plex built a cloud-based repository where it will store users' results. Plex will then analyze your collection, say as a scheduled task and whenever new media is added, in order to identify when credits begin in your shows and movies. If you want to enable Skip Credits for your collection, you'll need to have the latest Plex Media Server and perform "Analyze" on your whole library. It admits that the feature might still have a few hiccups and might not work as intended all the time, but it said those cases "should be few and far between." The company said it developed its own Skip Credits technology by training a machine learning algorithm to be able to detect markers like text and dark frames. But you can also enable it for your personal collection, so long as you have Plex Pass subscription, which will set you back $5 a month or $40 a year. This new credit detection feature is available throughout Plex's entire free streaming catalogue, giving it a viewing experience similar to Netflix's in that regard. It appears the moment credits start rolling, allowing you to play the next episode in a series or to automatically jump to a mid- or post-credit scene in a movie with a single click. The streaming media service has introduced its new "Skip Credits" feature, a couple of years after a similar feature debuted for intros, and it shows up as a button at the bottom right corner of the screen. Plex now has the capability to skip intros and credits, so you don't have to sit through them if you don't want to.
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