It's just updated on my PS4.
This is a Google Translation of the official patch notes from a German website:
This is a Google Translation of the official patch notes from a German website:
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PS4 Media Player 2.0 update
- Thread starter Blue Lou
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lucablight
Member
What are accessibility features?
Dirtyshubb
Member
Noticed the update this morning, not much added clearly.
I tend to just use plex these days, the system and presentation is so slick and it remembers where i left off with a video. The media player app had a tendency to either not be able to play certain files or would stop working and since 99% of the time it woudlnt allow me the fast forward back to my position it became useless to me.
I tend to just use plex these days, the system and presentation is so slick and it remembers where i left off with a video. The media player app had a tendency to either not be able to play certain files or would stop working and since 99% of the time it woudlnt allow me the fast forward back to my position it became useless to me.
Hellraider
Member
How is the PS4 streaming(DLNA it's called?) media player compared to PS3's? I have pretty much zero issues compatibility wise on my PS3 but something faster that doesn't lag so easily on heavier content would have been nice.
Which also reminds me, has the PSV gotten any better? I literally couldn't get it to work with anything...
Which also reminds me, has the PSV gotten any better? I literally couldn't get it to work with anything...
Transistor
Banned
Plex is godlike. I'll never use anything else.
MasterForm
Member
Is Plex a paid service?
Sidewinder
Member
VR porn: yes/no???1??!
31GhostsIV
Banned
Ugh...
For years now, a 'games console' encompasses not only game playing, but applications and media playing functions also. We're way past the SNES cartridge 'does one job' days.
It's a nearly three-year-old game console that waited the best part of two years to match the media features of its predecessor. The PS4 should have started with all of the PS3 media features, not slooooowwwwllly patched them in.
How adding two codecs is a '2.0' update I have no idea. I can't ever get it to play anything regardless, the PS3 meanwhile handled everything you threw at it (MKV aside).
spons
Gold Member
Not for its basic functionality (indexing, streaming and transcoding).
TheLegendOfMart
Banned
Still no HEVC support?
The £30 little android box I have with cheap chinese CPU can play back 4K HEVC 10bit files but games console cannot...
The £30 little android box I have with cheap chinese CPU can play back 4K HEVC 10bit files but games console cannot...
spons
Gold Member
PS4 doesn't include a hardware decoder for HEVC video. Unless they're going to implement a software decoder (they're not going to), HEVC will never be supported.
family_guy
Member
Maybe Neo will.
Please be excited for Neo.
TheLegendOfMart
Banned
Keyser Soze
Member
Wonder is the green line issue fixed
Literally all I want/need is for the dashboard icon to apply the same rules as other system icons when using a custom theme. The fact all the TV/Settings/Disc apps are runic-styled on my Journey theme and the Media Player (probably my most used one) is a big ugly blue hurts me in my heart's core 
spons
Gold Member
PS4 supports about the same media features as the PS3. It came too early for hardware HEVC support. And that's the entire problem: unless we are going to see almost yearly updates in console hardware, they will never support whatever the latest inexpensive dedicated hardware media player supports.
If Neo/Scorpio are coming, and it sets the precedent of frequent upgrades, only then will a game console as a media device work. On the other hand, both Sony and Microsoft barely support even the most basic of subtitle formats in their media players. Come on.
Poor little CPU can't decode 4K HEVC. They're going to fully support the spec or not at all. If the Neo supports the UHD spec it'll come with a dedicated decoder.
FunnyPirate
Neo Member
This player still not support subtitles?
Schrödinger's cat
Banned
It is more responsive than the PS3, but it is missing some extremely basic features. For instance, when listening to an album, it will only play songs in alphabetical order, not in track order.
I gave up on it and just switched to using Chromecast.
What more do you want?
HEVC?
Dunno, but it might fall under accessibility features.
mkv, when?
It does. At least some of them? When playing something press start, go to "cc" on the far right.
It has a bit of a delay though from what I remember.
It does. At least some of them? When playing something press start, go to "cc" on the far right.
It has a bit of a delay though from what I remember.
jeff_rigby
Banned
PS4 and XB1 are officially UHD Capable. Firmware update in a linked (April 2015) paper was supposed to be Jan 2016.
MKV is an open source container that will be supported by all UHD platforms.
Do you want more formats or something? There's the official Plex app if you want more bells and whistles. I'm cool with a straightforward DLNA client like this.
Came here to ask if this had been fixedLiterally all I want/need is for the dashboard icon to apply the same rules as other system icons when using a custom theme. The fact all the TV/Settings/Disc apps are runic-styled on my Journey theme and the Media Player (probably my most used one) is a big ugly blue hurts me in my heart's core
potatohead
Member
How do you even stream from PC to PS4 anyway?
RealityCheque
Banned
Wait, its only just added .mp4 support?! Seriously, that's pretty much the #1 video format AFAIK.
No wonder I only fired up that media player once or twice then forgot about it completely.
No wonder I only fired up that media player once or twice then forgot about it completely.
double jump
you haven't lived until a random little kid ask you "how do you make love".
this is the first thing I checked this morning and I had the same issues.
It already supports MKV. But they have to be :
Code:
* MKV
Video: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level4.2
Audio: MP3, AAC LC, AC-3 (Dolby Digital)http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps4/music/mp_format_m.html
MPEG4 =/= mp4
Was it ever confirmed that Neo will have a UHD drive?
It already does.
Not all work for me though.
spons
Gold Member
PS4/XBO cannot decode HEVC. They can output 4K through their HDMI ports, yet cannot playback any material released under the marketing term "UHD" because a) they lack a dedicated, hardware HEVC decoder and b) the CPU is too slow for software decoding or even GPU-assisted decoding.
You are right in theory but not in practice.
Fucking Brofist, Plex is the most used app on any device in my house
Also, these things passed just being games consoles when most of the old school gamers got families and old and stuff.
Welcome to the future. You're welcome.
RealityCheque
Banned
A-ha! Thanks for the clarification. Comment cheerfully withdrawn.
Media player is still rubbish tho.
It is, but the PS4 app has major issues. The good news is the Plex devs said there's a major update coming soon that'll bring it up to somewhat adequate.
giant_frying_pan
Member
Before stability, you need to be able to access it. Patience!