Yeah, you’re not gonna get a lot of support here for the “free” streaming service. I’d heard a poll on some site listed it’s usage by people like us (Plex pass and/or forum go-ers) is less than 1 in 4.
This setting should allow you to see video previews when skipping around in a recorded DVR file (and video, really). I set it to generate these markers when adding a file despite the warning that it takes up space and processor time. My server is beefy enough to do a 2+ hour movie in 10 seconds.
I… haven’t seen this happen. I use a HDHomeRun, with Plex controlling the recordings. You say the DVR is also on this WD MyCloud? Does that mean you do not use the Plex interface to select and record these videos? If so, then Plex is just detecting newly added video files to a shared library? Perhaps its the file format.
I post-record transcode all my DVR recordings to reduce size and… I just don’t like the video-stream files the HDHomeRun generated.
What a waste of my time Please Plex enjoy your addition to the MAIN STREAM CROWD and keep pushing away the people who really believed in what you started out as, a program for YOUR MEDIA! Now just another app for Advertised Content Revenue.
Not all of us pirate everything, Discover is the idea that many of us have wanted to make our lives a little easier. Paying for content can be annoying at times so I for one am really glad that Plex doesn’t only listen to a small forum but understands the extreme majority.
Why would you assume people who don’t like this “feature” are pirating their content? Have you seen the amount of $5-$10 DVD’s in the multiple bins at any Walmart?
Speaking for myself, I don’t have cable because the cost was absolutely ridiculous for 99 channels of crap I didn’t watch with content I could careless for. Now it’s just a push for people to spend the same (or even more) to get this service or that service. I have built up quite a collection of stuff I want to see, not be suggested to go somewhere else to view what I already own? I have an antenna in the attic and 6 tuners attached and the DVR function along with MCEBuddy takes out the commercials I don’t want to see.
Great, go forth and use it. Just give those who don’t want it the choice to turn it off from all pages and view of Our content. Which is why we are using the Application to begin with.
I feel a lot of people don’t like to hear that those of use running our own server for viewing are own content that we have (I really don’t care how you attained it) didn’t get into doing this just to be told "you can get that over hear too and look at what else we have while your here". What would be the reason to run your own server or pay for the plex pass to use it outside of your home and be able to add friends and family when you could just download the free app, watch all the content crammed with commercials and let them tell you where else to go spend your money? This isn’t why I paid for the full PMS app with lifetime pass.
The extreme majority that at one time (not to long ago) was clambering for “Ala, Carte” ways to view only what they wanted to see, but is now being billed at, or in some cases more than the cable cord they wanted to “cut”? That majority?
Compare the numbers who pay for their content to those who don’t. And then come back and tell me those who do pay haven’t been wishing for an app that would let them see the content on their subscribed services and just… open it and start playing it. Like magic.
It’s not the majority, I said the extreme majority. You paid your lifetime pass for an ever evolving system and that has been the case with digital services since forever, it doesn’t matter if you didn’t want a feature or not.
Should you be able to disable it? Sure, that would be nice for some. But don’t believe that a service will ever implement what you want, when you want just because that “isn’t why you paid for the full PMS app with lifetime pass”. If Discover becomes always on when it is out of beta then that is just business as usual and nobody should ever expect a service to operate in a different way. Services change to try and increase the userbase, and a service that isn’t “main stream” will always struggle for its survival.
There are things to be annoyed about such as putting everybody in a beta, but adding a feature isn’t one of them and you comment was pretty clear it is the latter that irked you. So Plex is appealing to the mainstream, big deal. It means the company might still be around in a few years time.
Yep, let me just go ask everyone to please inform me (and the whole internet) if you are violating any copyright laws to get that information, I’ll be right back
Because no one ever would circumvent paying for content. Netflix would have to be cracking down on shared passwords then
I would think they would be in that app already, not looking in one app and thinking “I hope they have this exact same thing over on another app so I don’t have to watch it in this one that’s all ready open” magically of course.
Nope, I downloaded the PMS to manage my own content, I paid for a lifetime pass to be able to watch that content outside of my home, add users to invite to use my sever, be able to cut the cord and add Live OTA Tv and record the shows. All under one media server app (the old mantra) and not have to use multiple apps and programs to do it. I didn’t buy it for the hope it would evolve into a hub to advertise other services to me like cable tv does nor do I run the stable versions of things to be thrown into be a beta tester.
Great end of debate! It was great hearing your opinion.
Is it just me or does Discovery do what practically every Tivo or smart TV that hosts the Plex app already does? It seems like a huge waste of time. I have yet to see Discovery show me shows from my paid subscription apps that I would be interested in. I subscribe to Netflix and HBO Max and after telling Plex that, would think I should be seeing suggestions for shows from those apps. Instead, I continue to see shows from ad supported apps like Crackle being recommended.
The other kicker is that Podcasts was discontinued at the same time Discovery was added. Did anyone at Plex not realize that what you are attempting to accomplish with Discovery was basically the same functionality you couldn’t seem fix with podcasts? Granted, you had to look up podcasts from the populated list and manually subscribe to them, but Plex apparently had problems populating the list. Now you are basically trying to do the same thing with steaming services that you couldn’t get right with podcast services. Maybe you should stick to what most of us ‘bought in’ to Plex for which is being the best personal ‘owned’ media server and stop trying to be on the streaming service bandwagon.
Please Plex enjoy your addition to the MAIN STREAM CROWD and keep pushing away the people who really believed in what you started out as, a program for YOUR MEDIA! Now just another app for Advertised Content Revenue.
