Sorry if this has been covered already, the search function didn’t find much relevant info on the problem I am having.
I recently purchased an HDHomeRun Extend. My intentions were to network that tuner into my Drobo 5N running Plex Media Server. I have purchased the lifetime PlexPass and I have no issues with setting up the DVR service on my Plex server, it finds the HDHomeRun Extend, downloads the program guide, etc.
Now… when I try to watch the channels live through Plex, regardless if it’s through a Roku, Windows Laptop, whatever, it takes forever to retrieve and then will buffer every 2-3 seconds.
I have read that it depends on the power of the NAS or PMS because Plex always transcodes the stream, but why is Plex transcoding when the HDHomeRun Extend will already transcode before sending the stream to PMS? Isn’t that an inefficient redundancy that is causing my problem? The HDHomeRun is transcoding, sending the stream transcoded to PMS which is then transcoding AGAIN before allowing my devices to view the stream… I assume that’s why I cannot stream live tv through my Drobo?
Did I just waste $200 dollars because Plex isn’t ready for Live TV streaming on a Drobo NAS ?
@Loreaden said:
Sorry if this has been covered already, the search function didn’t find much relevant info on the problem I am having.
I recently purchased an HDHomeRun Extend. My intentions were to network that tuner into my Drobo 5N running Plex Media Server. I have purchased the lifetime PlexPass and I have no issues with setting up the DVR service on my Plex server, it finds the HDHomeRun Extend, downloads the program guide, etc.
Now… when I try to watch the channels live through Plex, regardless if it’s through a Roku, Windows Laptop, whatever, it takes forever to retrieve and then will buffer every 2-3 seconds.
If I have my quality set too high in the settings, mine will do the same. I think the auto quality doesn’t work at all with live tv at the moment. If your computer is powerful enough, you could try dropping the quality down so it does more transcoding and uses a bit rate that the network can handle more reliably.
Though, I use a dual-hd and not a HDHomeRun. So it might be another issue. Sometimes when I start a channel it’ll pause on/off for like 30 seconds or so, then stop doing that. I would imagine this issue will be fixed eventually though… and it doesn’t stop me from watching live tv.
I have read that it depends on the power of the NAS or PMS because Plex always transcodes the stream, but why is Plex transcoding when the HDHomeRun Extend will already transcode before sending the stream to PMS? Isn’t that an inefficient redundancy that is causing my problem? The HDHomeRun is transcoding, sending the stream transcoded to PMS which is then transcoding AGAIN before allowing my devices to view the stream… I assume that’s why I cannot stream live tv through my Drobo?
Plex might be transcoding because the data it’s receiving from the stream is in a different format than the client can play in. If it was me, I would just turn off the transcoding on the HDHomeRun so it’s not being transcoded twice. (resulting in poorer quality and wasted time/computing power)
Did I just waste $200 dollars because Plex isn’t ready for Live TV streaming on a Drobo NAS ?
If you just purchased your Plex pass, you might have luck requesting a refund. I’m not really sure.
