“We don’t provide a roadmap”…”can’t divulge”…”no eta”…and all after years. This isn’t customer service, this is a middle finger to the customer. I would have paid for this upgrade that your incompetent lawyers don’t seem to be able to manage but apparently TV manufacturers have had no issue with, I may have sympathized with an unreasonable position taken by Dolby…but a complete lack of transparency is unacceptable. I will begin testing of competitors products. I’ll let y’all know how it goes.
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Try Channels DVR, about $80/per year but it handles ATSC 3 and the developers interact with the community on a daily basis
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Yeah, I checked out Channels and it looks great, but I needed something that also handles local Movies/Music/etc., so I plan to give the next version of Emby a try since it also has a Lifetime option and seems to handle all those other things.
Unfortunately, I don’t think the Plex side really cares about all of us LifeTime pass members jumping ship since they already got our money. The only thing they really lose out is us maybe pushing it to new people, but who knows. Just keeping my fingers crossed that Emby 4.8 checks all the boxes I need. 
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If you decide to go with Emby, I would appreciate your feedback. I’m thinking about jumping this spring if thinks don’t improve. I really like Plex, but in my market atsc3.0 has great quality and I just can’t take advantage of it because of the sound issue.
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I’m testing Emby also. There are several live tv related features that I prefer over Plex. However, the time it takes for it to transcode ATSC 3 channels is way to long for me. As mentioned, they are revamping the system, so hopefully 4.8 fixes the streaming issues.
I am still here because of my fantastic lifetime pass. However, I’ve long shut down the Plex server. I’m using Emby and there is no issue. It might be a little complex at first to set up but it works and I’m a pragmatist. And as I mentioned in a previous post Roon blows away anything, and everything that Plex does with audio. So to all of you, as I said before the only way for Plex to figure it out is to move on. Yes, they have our money but that will run out.
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Channels supports local content for Movies, TV, and Videos. Just not music and photos.
Does anyone use JellyFin? I can’t determine if it can decode ac-4 audio or not.
Please stay on topic. If you want to discuss issues/troubleshooting on other products, please do so on their forums.
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Please fix the issue, been like 2 years. We are hearing same excuse all the time.
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@DaveBinM Unless Plex can provide us with a solution, I don’t see how my question is irrelevant to the topic of finding a solution to Plex’s inability to decode AC-4 sound.
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If you want to know what a competitor is capable of, visit their own site or forums.
Regardless of what others do, we legally have to license this codec, and that takes time. It’s something we want resolved as much as you do.
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I hate to wet towel this whole thing but affiliates are turning on DRM for ATSC3 now so this could be a waste of time anyway as other affiliates follow their lead. By the time AC-4 is supported there’s a chance we will be DRMed out anyway. Silicon Dust claims they intend to support the DRM eventually in their own app but that won’t help Plex.
Is PLEX planning to support DRM for ATSC 3.0?
Not sure why people are stressing over this. Ive toyed with ATSC 3.0 quite a bit. In its current implementation, here is what you get
Same video quality as ATSC 1.0. The same feed is just upscaled to 1080P. Your TV does this anyway or more likely to 4K
Slower channel changes
Better multipath performance (the only real benefit)
The choice to use AC-4 VS EAC3 (DD+) which every streaming service uses and any modern device supports was extremely poor. AC4 has no real benefit over EAC3. Now add DRM, the ability to put popup ads on the feed, are just another reason to just ignore this mess. If they ever support higher res video/HDR (I doubt it) that will be many years from now. That requires sunsetting ATSC 1.0 to have the BW to move the broadcast to that. You are better served just using ATSC 1.0
I’m looking forward to using ATSC 3.0 for the smaller file size and because PLEX doesn’t handle MPEG2VIDEO as well as other file type on my WD NAS. Using PLEX to transcode the recording as it records it results in the occasional PLEX crash.
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Can y’all get this sorted out already? I’m going to jump to Channels DVR if you don’t provide an ETA soon.
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In my case I need ATSC3 to work because of the better reception I get with it. My local fox atsc1 is still broadcasting in VHF, which I cannot see at all. Their atsc3 channel I can see perfectly. My other main broadcast channels also come in much better because of the anti-ghosting\multipath improvements in the encoding. I dont care about the 4k possibilities, I just want to be able to watch (and hear) my local channels without issue.
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Yes, that would be the biggest reason to use ATSC 3.0. That is a genuine benefit. In my case, I am close enough to towers that ATSC 1.0 is no issue
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I did some testing with HDHR. Random NBC show I recorded 44 min. 1.67GB or in this test 2.27G/hr. We record Jeopardy each day via Plex. 30 min yesterday was 1.37 Gig so 2.74 Gig/hr. This will of course vary depending on the bitrate that the broadcaster is using in each case.
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