<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:36 AM, John Pilkington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:J.Pilk@tesco.net" target="_blank">J.Pilk@tesco.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On 07/04/14 15:06, Tom Bongiorno wrote:<br>
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On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 6:57 AM, John Pilkington <<a href="mailto:J.Pilk@tesco.net" target="_blank">J.Pilk@tesco.net</a><br></div><div class="">
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On 06/04/14 23:15, John Pilkington wrote:<br>
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DLNA access now works via the Plex plugin after I set<br>
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all eth+ devices as trusted, and the TV now plays DVB-T recordings<br>
converted to mpeg2-ps, which fail with the Myth DLNA server.<br>
Perhaps<br>
because of the Panasonic device profile in Plex?<br>
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They play in Firefox on my SL6 laptop,too.<br>
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John<br>
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... but in both modes it's CPU intensive and HD playback stutters.<br>
It seems to be doing real-time transcoding, which shouldn't be<br>
needed, IIUC, at least for DLNA. When Myth does that, it does it<br>
with no sweat. Back to reading the instructions...<br>
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Transcoding is CPU intensive. The format of the recording file is<br>
dictated by the source, not MythTV. MythTV doesn't care if it is MPEG2,<br>
MPEG4, h.264... If your BE is not powerful enough to do realtime<br>
transcoding, you may need to setup a post recording job that transcodes<br>
all recordings to a client friendly format.<br>
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-Tom<br>
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Agreed; but all these recordings are already in a format that my TV will play via DLNA, if suitably presented, *without* any transcoding.<br>
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For example, mpeg2-ps presented by the MythTV DLNA server as a Myth 'recording' hangs at 'please wait'. If presented via a softlink as a 'video' it plays fine - but with no display of elapsed time, and from a very long menu. I hoped that Plex might work around that but, as I have it at present, it doesn't.<br>
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Thanks, though.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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John</font></span><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Are there installation instructions for this somewhere? I hate to be ignorant but I have no idea how to install this in Plex. I'm running a dedicated VM for my media server that handles all my transcoding. For a while I've gotten tv shows into Plex using Mythlink.pl to create friendly-named symlinks that Plex can index appropriately but it's a bit flaky. If I could automatically see recordings in Plex it would be fantastic.<br>
<br></div><div>Usually I just drop a zip file in the plugins folder in Plex and configure what files are needed, but I'm confused by the file layout on this page and hope I'm just missing a readme file. MyPlex machine is Windows but I am running PlexHomeTheater alongside MythTV on my dedicated FE if that helps.<br>
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