QuasiTV 0.4

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QuasiTV will now work for users who do not own their own plex servers.  I had assumed this worked after 0.3 added support for remote servers, but discovered it was broken when testing the ability to report play status to the plex server.  Play status reporting will let the server know what you are watching and how far into the episode you are.  As of right now it should reset playback progress when the current episode finishes, the channel is changed, or the app is closed.  Since the progress gets reset, it should not clutter your "Current Watching" section or mark episodes as played.  I also added a setting to disable this completely.




I also made some smaller quality of life updates like showing error messages and making it easier to see which episode is selected in the channel browser.



My previous post had mentioned working on transcoding, but after looking into it, it does not really work with the flow of QuasiTV where episodes just play back to back with no pausing and you can instantly switch to another channel.  Fortunately FireTV/Stick and AndroidTV do support a lot of formats, so it shouldn't be an issue with most users.  If there is enough demand for transcoding I will reevaluate the possibility of adding it.

0.4 (2020/05/28):
-Added support for accounts that arent an owner of a plex server
-Playback info is now reported back to the plex server
-Selected show is now highlighted with the theme color
-Adjusted seekbar and loading progress bar's color to match banner
-Added 30 minute timeout when paused and QuasiTV is in the background
-Added error messages
-Other fixes

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