<div dir="ltr">If anyone wants to play with my script:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/jbalcorn/mythtv-plex">https://github.com/jbalcorn/mythtv-plex</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-- <br>Justin B. Alcorn<br>PGP Fingerprint A36D D691 C5B0 BE15 5A2A AF49 AA1C 372C</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Justin Alcorn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin@jalcorn.net" target="_blank">justin@jalcorn.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Greg Oliver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oliver.greg@gmail.com" target="_blank">oliver.greg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 9:21 AM, James <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jam@tigger.ws" target="_blank">jam@tigger.ws</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi all, opinions please<br>
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My Samsung TV chokes on myth’s uPnP files. I need to transcode (or put my recordings on a thumb-drive !!)<br>
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One of the solutions I’ve been looking at is Plex media server.<br>
But I’m naive about this whole area.<br>
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Will some knowlegable please comment.<br>
eg I think appleTV’s mythtv app uses mythtv streaming<br>
Is the interface ‘nice’?<br>
What are the options to receive (and watch) a stream. eg plex has an appleTV app. eg (australian) ABC has a streaming app on the Samsung so some sort of SDK must exist.<br>
I want a stream server. Is myth video a good generic library server?<br>
(I do use myth video, but that is my *only* experience of hosting a stream)<br>
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Apple may be akin to shark droppings, but (to seamlessly drain all your money while you smile) they do make very nice hardware (eg bluetooth mouse and keyboard work at the bios screen eg their trakpad is a joy to use (left click, right click, double click, scroll, click-and-drag etc)<br>
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James</font></span><br></blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I use Plex for watching anything remotely (off my local network). For realtime transcoding per watching device, etc - it is definitely the best out there. I use mythfrontend inside the house, and tinker with Kodi inside the house. Kodi lacks on comm skipping, or I would use it full time with low power devices / Android devices.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Plex DVR sucks a$$ though. The decisions they make for the user makes me think they are all ex apple engineers who want to make it so easy for the end user, they just figured "no one ever needs more options than this".. etc.. They support a lot of capture cards nowadays, but their guide makes me want to go get a monkey from the zoo to throw feces at the TV.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I smlink mythtv recordings into my plex directory with readable names and plex adds and plays them well though. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Like another user just posted, there is also Emby. It does not transcode nearly as well as Plex (not even close actually). Plex will take a raw bit/s number and make sure that when it transcodes, even the places who need higher bit rate to remain smooth will get pre-buffered in their client. The yspent a lot of time on that part of their solution and got it right. No other software out there does this - none that I know of.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The only drawback to Plex is if you run it natively on TVs, etc.. You are up to the TV manufacturer to update their app. I have a high end Samsung, and once the initial year was over, it no longer receives updates. I can buy a Smart replacement module every year for a couple hundred dollars, but I never use the native TV apps after I learned they were all dipshits who have no business putting products on an IP network. You would think the smartphone arms of all of these companies would be supplying the TV people with IP interfaces to use, but nah - it is just easier to sell really expensive TVs that can be easily hacked :)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Just my .02</div><span class="m_4341182983301931233HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-Greg<br></div></font></span></div>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>Have to agree about the Plex DVR. Probably great for people who don't want to play with options, useless for this audience. I use MythTV to record, allow it to mark commercials, then I review and run a script that transcodes to MP4 and puts it in the Plex directories with the names Plex likes. I stole and heavily modified someone else's script, happy to share if anyone is interested and promises not to snicker at my scripting style.</div><div><br></div><div>I transcode both because I want it to cut commercials and because my Plex server isn't the beefiest box and it works better if I get it out of the MPEG format.</div><div><br></div><div>I stick to Rokus (and one Roku TV), they tend to keep the Plex app up to date and it works nicely. Now, if I could get them to make the Roku Playstation Vue app usable in any sense..... </div><div><br></div><div>I wish TV Manufacturers would keep making "dumb" tvs for us that like to connect them to cheap and easily replaceable content devourers.....</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><br></div></div>
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