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On 2018-01-26, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Grant Edwards |
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><grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I'm guessing that Android client support is going to be better with |
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>> Plex than with the others. |
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> I know nothing of TVheadend. MythTV on Android has always been kludgy |
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> at best, though I haven't touched it in two years. |
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> Plex on Android is a thing of beauty, especially with offline sync. |
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That's a big plus for Plex. |
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> For managing shows the web interface is still better than |
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> Android/Roku. |
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That's fine -- I prefer using a web browser for that sort of thing. |
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One of my complaints with MythTv and SageTv was that the web UIs for |
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backend configuration and recording scheduling were after-thought |
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add-on/plug-in kludges. My current SageTv setup lacks a web ui |
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completely. :/ |
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The config/scheduling UI for TvHeadend is purely web-based. |
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> That's the other thing - the Plex server/clients do a good job |
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> negotiating codecs, with the server doing all the transcoding. You |
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> can pre-transcode files if you want to in order to reduce server load, |
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> such as if you have many Rokus you use at the same time. |
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Pre-transocoding from MPEG-2 TS to MPEG-4 h264 would be nice. |
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> When transcoding you do get a bit more latency, especially if you |
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> want to seek around a lot (no issue at all if you just hit play and |
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> watch the show) - you end up with bufferbloat on both the server and |
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> the client when you transcode. |
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When watching recorded TV shows, I do rely heavily on "jump forward |
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30s" and "jump back 5s" for manually skipping commercials. |
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> Still, it all just works, and it is no worse than Netflix/etc. You |
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> can also configure quality rules for LAN vs WAN streaming, both on |
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> the clients and the server. |
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That's cool. |
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One open question is handling of closed-captioning in ATSC recordings. |
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Results with Plex seem to be mixed. |
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I think I'll try out Plex DVR this weekend and see how it works with |
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the Roku and Android frontends. |
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