# Deinterlace Live TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Created:** [November 25, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/deinterlace-live-tv/336947 "2018-11-25T18:26:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![daveyboy864](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@daveyboy864](https://forums.plex.tv/u/daveyboy864)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/deinterlace-live-tv/336947/1 "2018-11-25T18:26:50Z")
Some Live TV channels are interlaced and we would benefit to have an option to deinterlace Live TV. This option can be - experimental - and hidden as appropriate if the Plex Devs believe it to be too troublesome. But I am sure that this feature will become a prominent feature once implemented. Any form of deinterlace would be appreciated, even frame doubling - with appropriate performance warnings. ---
**Author:** ![daveyboy864](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@daveyboy864](https://forums.plex.tv/u/daveyboy864)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 11:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/deinterlace-live-tv/336947/2 "2019-01-26T23:02:05Z")
No-one uses live tv? no-one has interlaced content issues? This affect Fire TV sticks. ---
**Author:** ![vishal207](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@vishal207](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vishal207)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/deinterlace-live-tv/336947/3 "2019-01-31T16:16:23Z")
I too would love this. Emby pvr deinterlaces on the server with live TV making the aftv products worthwhile again. However, the Plex interface is superior ---
**Author:** ![daveyboy864](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@daveyboy864](https://forums.plex.tv/u/daveyboy864)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/deinterlace-live-tv/336947/4 "2019-01-31T18:38:52Z")
You need to vote for it. Or it might not happen. You say Emby does deinterlace? I’ve not seen it recently but when I did try it, my interlaced TV feed was not changed. I’ll check it again. Also, I agree about their interface, it’s pretty rubbish for live TV. I’m not convinced that Plex had it right just yet either. ---
**Author:** ![daveyboy864](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@daveyboy864](https://forums.plex.tv/u/daveyboy864)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2019, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/deinterlace-live-tv/336947/5 "2019-01-31T21:32:51Z")
Just tried Emby and yes, an option to deinterlace HD sources now exists (SD was there last time I checked). And the TV guide has improved by a lot. I’ve just spent the best part of the evening playing with it. I’m happy with that. I have both systems setup anyway. Oh, and Chromecast functionality is amazing. I love what they’ve done. Using the mobile phone as a remote is great. Only downside is it’s a bit slow. Fire TV stick works brilliant. I’m sold on that. ---
**Author:** ![vishal207](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@vishal207](https://forums.plex.tv/u/vishal207)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 1:28am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/deinterlace-live-tv/336947/6 "2019-02-01T01:28:13Z")
Yeah, being able to cast live TV anywhere is a game changer. Just voted. ---
**Author:** ![xppx99](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/xppx99/32/197140_2.png) [@xppx99](https://forums.plex.tv/u/xppx99)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/deinterlace-live-tv/336947/7 "2020-10-07T21:25:40Z")
This is very important to me ---
**Author:** ![FefeHome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@FefeHome](https://forums.plex.tv/u/FefeHome)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2026, 8:28am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/deinterlace-live-tv/336947/8 "2026-06-19T08:28:30Z")
+1 — this is exactly my situation, and it’s still very relevant in 2026. My local DVB-C HD channels are H.264 broadcast as interlaced 1080i. On the Plex Samsung (Tizen) TV app I can enable “Force Direct Play”, which sends the raw interlaced stream to the TV and lets it deinterlace in hardware — perfectly smooth, zero server load. But on the iOS app and the Web client there is no equivalent option, so Plex falls back to a server-side deinterlace/transcode. My server (Synology DS416play, Celeron N3060) cannot deinterlace live HD in real time, so Live TV constantly buffers on those clients — even on the local gigabit LAN, so it’s not a bandwidth issue. The key point: I loaded the exact same tuner stream into VLC on the same iPhone and Mac, and it plays perfectly by deinterlacing on the device. So the client hardware is fully capable — only the Plex iOS/Web client forces a server transcode. Please bring a “Force Direct Play” / client-side deinterlace option to the iOS and Web players too, matching what the TV app already does. It would make interlaced Live TV usable for everyone running Plex on a low-power NAS.