VitaPlex

VitaPlex
General
Author	Breezyslasher
Type	Media Players
Version	1.1.9
License	N/A
Last Updated	2026/06/26
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VitaPlex is a native Plex client for PlayStation Vita and beyond. It streams movies, TV, music, and live TV from a Plex Media Server directly on the device, with controller and touch support.

Features

• Home and browsing:
  • Continue Watching, On Deck, Recently Added, and per-library hubs.
  • Library tab with grid view, batch operations, and library-specific sections.
  • Music tab with artists, albums, playlists, and album hubs for Albums, Singles, and EPs.
  • Search across movies, TV, music, and Live TV.
  • Hidden libraries and custom sidebar order.
• Player:
  • mpv-based player.
  • Hardware-accelerated decoding where supported by the platform.
  • Direct Play first, with transcode fallback and quality/bitrate controls.
  • Subtitle search with OpenSubtitles.
  • Subtitle size presets and default language.
  • Auto-skip intro/credits using Plex markers.
  • Auto-play next episode.
  • Resume playback.
  • Adjustable seek interval.
  • Configurable controls auto-hide.
  • Optional on-screen mpv stats overlay for diagnostics.
• Music:
  • Background music playback after leaving the player.
  • Configurable default track action: queue, play, or ask.
  • Artist hubs grouped by Albums, Singles, and EPs.
• Live TV and DVR:
  • Full EPG grid with on-now hero card, per-row horizontal scrolling, and sticky channel column.
  • Configurable guide window of 6, 12, or 24 hours.
  • Hover live-updates the hero with the show under focus.
  • One-press recording from the guide.
  • DVR settings for default target library, start/end recording padding, partial recording toggle, and minimum recording quality.
• Plex Home users:
  • User picker at login and app boot.
  • Toggleable auto-login as last-used user.
  • Switch User option from Settings without logging out.
  • PIN-protected user support.
• Downloads and offline:
  • Download any movie, episode, or album for offline viewing.
  • Bidirectional progress sync, including pushing local progress and pulling server progress.
  • Delete-after-watch option.
  • Full offline mode when the server is unreachable.
• Customization:
  • Light, dark, and system theme options.
  • Hide libraries, reorder sidebar, and collapse sidebar to icons.
  • Hide titles in grid.
  • Skip single-season seasons view.
  • Toggle Collections, Playlists, and Genres in library views.
  • Per-platform sensible defaults for quality, bitrate, and controls auto-hide.
• Supported mobile platforms:
  • Android.
  • iOS/iPadOS.
  • PS Vita.
• Supported console platforms:
  • PS4.
  • Android TV.
  • Nintendo Switch.
  • Apple TV/tvOS.
• Supported desktop platforms:
  • Windows.
  • macOS.
  • Linux.

Installation

Requirements:

• Plex Media Server running and accessible.
• Plex account, with sign-in via username/password or plex.tv/link PIN.
• Network connectivity between the device and server.
• PS Vita requires HENkaku/Enso.

Instructions:

• Download the VPK file from Releases.
• Transfer it to the Vita via USB or FTP.
• Install it using VitaShell.
• On first launch, sign in via username/password or plex.tv/link.

Screenshots

Changelog

Beta 1.1.9

• Search was rebuilt from the ground up.
• Added a built-in on-screen keyboard.
• Added physical keyboard typing for devices with a real keyboard.
• Search results now appear as home-style carousels.
• Requests up to 100 results per type.
• Episode result cards are larger and use the correct aspect ratio.
• Episode results are filtered more intelligently and restore S#E# prefixes.

Beta 1.1.8

• Artist page releases are split by type, including albums, singles, EPs, compilations, and live releases.
• Fixed category scroll focus so off-screen artist sections can take focus.

Beta 1.1.7

• Movie and TV show detail pages were substantially reworked.
• Added Cast & Crew and Recommended rows.
• Selecting a cast member browses their other titles in the library.
• Added a full-page scroll with fixed header.
• Added centered scrolling.
• Combined actions into one row: Play, Mark Watched, Audio, Subtitles, Download.
• Audio button icon now reflects selected track channel layout.
• Cast-member results screen now uses a hero-header layout and filter chips.
• Poster cells now show rating, role, and popcorn-percentage badges.
• Home tab gained a Recent Channels rail.

Beta 1.1.6

• Added SyncLounge watch party support.
• Added host-following playback sync.
• Added auto-join prompts.
• Added a content matching engine for different Plex libraries and servers.
• Added cross-server episode matching.
• Improved drift correction.
• Added take/hand-off host support.
• Added Room Auto Host control.
• Added Party Pause.
• Added Party Members dialog.
• Blocked non-host followers from manually dragging the party out of sync.
• Saves SyncLounge server URL and room code.
• Improved host exit handling.
• Improved outbound episode metadata.
• Improved transcode-aware seeking.
• Fixed seek-bar duration handling.
• Added corrupt-transcode recovery.
• Fixed Direct Play still using an HLS transcode URL.

Beta 1.1.5

• Merged the audio and subtitle dialogs into one tabbed picker.
• Online subtitle search results received a dedicated result row layout.
• Polished subtitle dialog badges and navigation.
• Description handling was reworked so descriptions are display-only.

Beta 1.1.4

• Context menus now use a compact anchored popover design with icons.
• Improved popover styling.
• Added missing album and track options.
• Added a working Download action for individual tracks.
• Fixed Downloads tab UP navigation.
• Fixed LEFT/RIGHT navigation between download rows and action buttons.

Beta 1.1.3

• Redesigned Plex Home user picker and PIN entry.
• Fixed keypad D-pad navigation.
• Cleaned up server card version display and PIN-link spacing.
• Downloads tab gained All, Movies, Shows, and Music sub-tabs.
• Left in Downloads returns focus to the sidebar.
• Fixed an empty-state layout regression.
• Reverted warm-charcoal surfaces to neutral dark greys while keeping the gold accent.

Beta 1.1.2

• Reworked sign-in and server connection flow.
• Login now leads with device-link PIN sign-in.
• Redesigned server picker.
• Redesigned connecting dialog.
• Added scrollable, focusable probe list.
• Removed redundant server-select footer hints.
• Removed duplicate Server URL field.
• Refreshed login visuals.
• Added Home user picker at login/boot with auto-login and switch-user option.
• Fixed handling of restricted Home users versus PIN-protected users.
• Swapped app-wide accent to Plex yellow.
• Reorganized Settings into a two-pane master/detail layout.
• Added Live TV settings.
• Restored MPV Stats Overlay toggle.
• Added real Network Test on every platform.
• Added disk-backed HTTP cache.
• Added hold OK to open Options on Android TV.

Beta 1.1.1

• Fixed Live TV frame rate by avoiding unnecessary per-frame work.
• Ported text-rendering patches from Vita_Suwayomi for sharper and more reliable text.

Beta 1.1.0

• Live TV was substantially reworked.
• Added On Now hero and full-width guide.
• Added live hero preview on hover.
• Added full 12-hour guide.
• Added per-row horizontal scrolling with sticky channel column.
• Restored channel logos with numbers.
• Removed the Favourites row.
• Added per-channel EPG fallback.
• Fixed duplicate channels.
• Fixed recordings via subscription template.
• Improved Live TV navigation and scrolling.
• Improved Live TV guide performance.
• Fixed tuning connection hang.
• Fixed several Nintendo Switch crashes.
• Added diagnostic logging for Switch.
• Added experimental iOS/tvOS build support.

Beta 1.0.2

• Added responsive and orientation-aware layout.
• Added live relayout on rotation.
• Album cover now scales to screen.
• Added foldable support.
• Tightened portrait grids.
• Fixed Android TV player OSD behavior.
• Fixed album track list navigation.
• Added per-platform button art.
• Linux tarball now bundles required libraries for SteamOS and Bazzite.
• Settings now shows a friendly version string.

Beta 1.0.1

• Added START button context menu to episodes.
• Downloads tab no longer constantly rebuilds during active downloads.
• Added live group-detail updates.
• Fixed group-detail crash.
• Preserved focus on rebuild.
• Fixed UP-to-Play navigation.
• Added tap feedback on in-progress downloads.
• Fixed delete-after-watching crash for last episode in a group.

Beta 1.0.0

• First release where Vita Plex runs beyond PS Vita.
• Added support targets for PS Vita, Nintendo Switch, Android, Android TV, PS4, Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• Added platform-aware playback and layout.
• Added long-press context menus on touch devices.
• Reduced memory usage for PS Vita.
• Improved grid culling.
• Media cells now paint their own cover art.
• Fixed detail view summary display.
• Scoped transparent background to video playback only.
• Added TLS hardening.
• Hardened token and credential handling.
• Reviewed security headers.

Beta 0.6.1

• Added extras support for trailers, deleted scenes, and featurettes.
• Moved TV show extras to the show detail page.
• Added CLIP media type.
• Added music videos on artist pages.
• Expanded EPG guide to 12 hours.
• Added channel/EPG caching.
• Added EPG channel matching strategies.
• Fixed Live TV tuning.
• Added DVR recording support.
• Improved detail view descriptions.
• Added music album-by-type rows.
• Added settings to hide movie/show titles and skip seasons for single-season shows.
• Removed Load More button.
• Fixed resume time display and slider seek with resume offset.
• Improved Downloads tab stability.

Beta 0.6.0

• Added auto-play next episode.
• Added credits-to-next-episode behavior.
• Fixed playback end detection.
• Reset intro/credits state when auto-playing next episode.
• Stops background music when video starts.
• Added full Plex Play Queue API support.
• Improved queue performance for large playlists.
• Reworked drag-to-reorder performance.
• Fixed cover art and ImageLoader issues.
• Added UI improvements for pill-style buttons.
• Cleaned up detail view and context menus.
• Fixed shuffle and playback issues.
• Improved offline mode behavior.

Beta 0.5.1

• Fixed crash when opening playlists in music library.
• Fixed image cache clearing on every track change.
• Improved search result metadata extraction.
• Improved QueueItem thumbnail fallback chain.
• Fixed cover art race condition.
• Standardized cover art thumbnails to 300×300.
• Reduced album art size to fit Vita screen.
• Hid empty artist label in player controls.

Beta 0.5.0

• Reworked video downloads to use HLS segments.
• Added proper Plex headers on download requests.
• Added decision response parsing.
• Added unique session IDs.
• Added transcoding progress indicator.
• Disabled Download Queue API for video downloads.
• Downloads tab now groups items by playlist, album, artist, or TV show.
• Added full-screen group detail view.
• Added context menus on grouped items.
• Added cover art on all download items.
• Added skip already-downloaded behavior.
• Fixed offline null texture crash.
• Offline mode now shows only Downloads and Settings tabs.
• Added offline error notifications.
• Player now prioritizes local cover art.
• Improved queue touch drag-to-reorder.
• Fixed auto-play next song and audio-only end-of-file detection.
• Split music search results into Albums and Tracks.
• Added START button menu for albums.
• Added B button dismissal for context menus.
• Improved queue and shuffle performance.

Beta 0.4.2

• Warning: video playback remains unstable and may crash; music and audio playback work correctly.
• Reworked download reliability, thread safety, and UX.
• Added thread-safe download access.
• Fixed progress callback race.
• Removed 10-minute download timeout.
• Added write error checking.
• Added retry logic.
• Capped transcode error retry loop.
• Made direct file download the primary method.
• Audio downloads now use direct part path.
• Video downloads use Download Queue API with polling.
• Added TRANSCODING state.
• Added HTTP for LAN downloads.
• Fixed Plex API parameters.
• Added fast-fail on unsupported Download Queue API.
• Improved download button state handling.
• Added offline playback progress saving.
• Saved music cover art with downloads.
• Added Offline Mode button on login page.
• Added offline local music playback.
• Play button detects downloaded content.
• Fixed playlist loading.
• Added Add to Playlist.
• Added playlist context menu.
• Added playlist support in sidebar music libraries.
• Improved large playlist performance.
• Improved queue overlay lazy loading and batched row creation.
• Fixed music library 401 error.
• Added focus and crash fixes.

Beta 0.4.1

• Added hold-to-drag queue reordering.
• Added START button context menus for all media types.
• Added artist view using Plex hubs API.
• Fixed Plex API type codes.
• Fixed downloads crashes and URL encoding.
• Added Debug tab.
• Moved Network Test to Settings.
• Added dialog and exit fixes.

Beta 0.4.0

• Major music experience overhaul.
• Refreshed music player UI.
• Added swipe gesture on album art for previous/next track.
• Added track duration and total queue duration display.
• Added queue touch gestures and reorder.
• Improved queue and shuffle display.
• Added and then removed timed lyrics support due to persistent crashes.
• Changed track click behavior to play only the selected track.
• Added Play This Track Only option.
• Fixed album START button and context menu.
• Artist/album descriptions now expand inline.
• Added MPV audio configuration fixes.

Beta 0.3.1

• Warning: video playback remains unstable and may crash; music and audio playback work correctly.
• Warning: Downloads system has known bugs.
• Added shuffle toggle button.
• Added repeat toggle button.
• Added new shuffle/repeat icons.
• Lyrics now load as external subtitles.
• Stream cache resets on track change.
• Repositioned Start button hint.
• Removed misleading artist view download button.
• Player stays open when queue ends.
• Corrected default track action and settings persistence.

Beta 0.3.0

• Major music player overhaul.
• Added always-visible controls in music mode.
• Added song info between cover art and controls.
• Enlarged album art.
• Added dedicated lyrics toggle button.
• Added scrollable queue overlay.
• Added queue button.
• Added background music setting.
• Fixed resume without restart.
• Added configurable default track action.
• Fixed album track list layout.
• Added context menu on album cells.
• Added track row download shortcut.
• Fixed artist view layout.
• Fixed music progress reporting.
• Added Skip Intro and Skip Credits.
• Added resume near-end behavior.
• Continue Watching now plays immediately.
• X button pauses/unpauses when controls are hidden.
• Rebuilt download system for correctness and thread safety.
• Added 401 reauth handling.
• Improved remote/relay login timeouts.
• Fixed fatal startup crash caused by invalid XML attribute.

Beta 0.2.3

• Warning: video playback remains unstable and may crash; music and audio playback work correctly.
• Settings previously present in the UI but with no effect are now functional.
• Removed unsupported settings.
• Seek interval setting now works.
• Resume playback setting now works.
• Auto-play next episode setting now works.
• Delete after watch setting now works.
• Force transcode, Direct Play, subtitle display, subtitle size, and connection timeout settings now work.
• Burn subtitles option removed.
• Added bidirectional progress sync on connect.
• Disabled screen dimming during playback.
• Added Controls Auto-Hide setting.
• Subtitle toggling now takes effect immediately.
• Track/subtitle switching no longer restarts from the beginning.

Beta 0.2.2

• Warning: video playback remains unstable and may crash; music and audio playback work correctly.
• Audio and subtitle track selection work correctly.
• Subtitle search crash was resolved.
• Added audio, subtitle, and video track overlay UI.
• Audio tracks are sourced from Plex metadata.
• Audio track switching triggers stream reload.
• Subtitle overlay includes Off option.
• Added subtitle search.
• Added controller focus handling for overlay open/close.
• Added video track button.
• Fixed getTrackList memory corruption.
• Fixed subtitle search lambda capture.
• Fully resolved subtitle search crash.

Beta 0.2.1

• Warning: video playback remains unstable and may crash; music and audio playback work correctly.
• Redesigned player control bar.
• Added Material Design icon PNGs for player buttons.
• Play/pause icon now updates in real time.
• Tap, Start, or Y toggles control overlay visibility.
• X cycles audio tracks and Y cycles subtitle tracks in video mode.
• Queue mode hints show X for Shuffle and Y for Repeat.
• Improved touch targets.
• Episodes now display landscape still thumbnails.
• Added dynamic media cell sizing.
• Improved progress bar conditions.
• Added album track list scrolling.
• Added collapsible description.
• Added music year info.
• Replaced HScrollingFrame with HorizontalScrollRow.
• Improved row-to-row navigation.
• Added auto-scroll to focused item.
• Added touch pan scrolling.
• Added search result counts.
• Added stale result prevention.
• Extended crash prevention guards to all tabs.
• Added ImageLoader cancel on disappear.
• Eliminated use-after-free from async callbacks.

Beta 0.2.0

• Warning: video playback remains unstable and may crash; music and audio playback work correctly.
• Improved video playback rendering.
• Fixed render callback timing.
• Corrected GXM FBO format.
• Added MPV_RENDER_PARAM_FLIP_Y.
• Reverted rendering through brls::sync().
• Added fullscreen video layout.
• Deferred render enable until first decoded frame.
• Added GXM pipeline flush before render.
• Fixed audio duration handling.
• Fixed progress slider infinite seek loop.
• Improved Live TV API usage.
• Rewrote channel fetching.
• Fixed EPG grid data and parsing.
• Improved channel matching.
• Populated full EPG window.
• Populated nextProgram field.
• Added tune fallback to transcode.
• Fixed DVR URL construction.
• Parsed channelVcn field.
• Added internal and build improvements.

Beta 0.1.0

• Warning: video playback is currently unstable and will crash; music and audio playback work correctly.
• Full UI rewrite using Borealis.
• Added activity-based navigation.
• Added tabbed main navigation.
• Added hardware-accelerated rendering.
• Added flexbox layout system.
• Added automatic controller navigation.
• Added touch support.
• Added Vita-compatible fonts.
• Fixed GXM build issues.
• Added PIN and credential login.
• Added auto-detect servers after login.
• Added local-first connection preference.
• Added Plex relay support.
• Added settings persistence.
• Added Accept: application/json header to server API calls.
• Added debug logging.
• Added Continue Watching row.
• Added Recently Added rows by type.
• Added horizontal scrolling rows.
• Added async content loading.
• Added Library tab with library sections, browse, collections, categories, hidden libraries, sidebar libraries, and sidebar ordering.
• Added Music tab.
• Added Search tab.
• Added Live TV tab.
• Added Downloads tab.
• Added Settings.
• Music playback works.
• Video playback remains unstable.
• Installation notes: download VitaPlex.vpk, transfer to PS Vita, install with VitaShell or similar, launch from LiveArea, and sign in with Plex account.

External links

• GitHub - https://github.com/Breezyslasher/Vita_plex
• Reddit - https://old.reddit.com/r/vitahacks/comments/1ubwv0g/made_custom_plex_client_like_switchfin_called/