QuasiTV 1.0 Released

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After a year of development, QuasiTV is finally out of early access and available on both the Amazon Appstore and Google Play.

For those not familiar with QuasiTV, it is an Android TV / Fire TV app that will turn your TV/Movie collection on Plex, Emby, or Jellyfin into a "Live" TV viewing experience.  Channels can be automatically generated based off a show's associated studio/network in the metadata and by genre for movies.  Custom channels can also be created where you can select the shows / movies.  Shows will play back in episode order in blocks of 1 to 4 episodes in a row.

Select what to watch using the channel guide (press up button to access).




Press the down button to access the player controls.


The back button will bring up a menu that will allow you to access the settings and channel editor.  You can create up to 10 custom channels for free or purchase the 'unlimited channel' IAP to unlocked as many custom channels as you want.


Search UI


Note: There are issues auto generating channels if your plex server uses the new beta tv agent.  The "studio" field gets populated with the actual studio instead of the network.  Plex has confirmed on their forums that they will be exposing the network, but until then QuasiTV will have trouble generating channels if you use the beta agent.

Changelog:

1.0.1 (2021/04/23):
  • Fixed issue finding some plex servers and some emby servers using emby connect
  • Fixed other various crashes
  • Note: Auto channel generation will not work correctly with Plex's new beta tv agent.  Currently waiting on Plex for a fix.

1.0 (2021/04/12):
  • New banner
  • Fixed login issue with jellyfin/emby
  • Fixed transcode error when transitioning to another video
  • Fixed issue when only movie libraries are selected
  • Fixed channel creation issue when a tv channel and movie channel have the same name

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