Yeah, there is nothing like seeing the score of your NFL game before going back to the beginning to watch what happened up to that point.
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Iāve had to move over to Emby and it does very well, but it doesnāt have commercial skip. That is the only downfall of Emby that I know of. Channels DVR has commercial skip and does look solid, but has the monthly fee with no lifetime option.
If you search the Emby forums for ācomskipā I think they do have some post processing scripts for that.
Emby also doesnāt have an easy way to save to a specific library or record a sports team. Itās stable though and theyāre extremely responsive.
Just wanted to chime in that this is my number one grievance with Plex as well. Canāt āWatch from startā using Shield TV or Website (firefox) clients.
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It is soooo obnoxious for NFL like others have said.
Not sure if it was a fluke or what but my 4k Google TV stick let me play a show from start this morning. Tuner is a HD Homerun Extend and server is Windows PMS Version 1.24.4.5081.
Edit: Mustāve been a fluke as it didnāt work today
I recently tried DVR-ing a football game. I hadnāt tried using Plex DVR for months - because Iāve given up. Thought maybe an update had finally resolved the issue. I tried starting the game about halfway through. I was given the options āStart from beginningā or āview liveā. I definitely chose āstart from beginningā. It went to Live. I saw the score of course, thus spoiling the first half of the game.
For those who said this issue has been going on for 6 months - itās been going on for years. For those who says the problem is limited to Android TV - it isnāt. Plex DVR has been riddled with issues from day one, on any client Iāve tried to use - Android TV, Roku, LG Web OS, Windows. And here we still are.
Given that many people purchased a Plex pass primarily due to this feature that was released with so much fanfare, the fact that it has never worked correctly in all these years is borderline fraudulent.
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Seven months pass and still broken in the latest episode of this sad tale.
Lest we forget:
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Week 7 of the NFL season, and weāre still here asking for this to be fixed. And to think, I ALMOST went and bought a Shield TV Pro to replace my Fire TV thinking that would solve this problem.
After a couple times of ruining football scores Iāve gotten pretty good and remembering to mute my tv, look away, and know what buttons to hit to go to the beginning after giving it 10 secs or so to load the time shifting bar. Sad that this is still happening. It did work decently for a while. I think even last football season though it could be the one before now. I use both firestick and google tv sticks with Windows 10 PMS
You also have to remember to do this before the game goes beyond its end time on the grid. My experience has been that If not there is no way to even get to it before the recording is over.\ - note : if you have a workaround for this, please share it.
You just canāt watch football with friends on Plex even live as the app crashes randomly. - itās embarrassing. even more so when you admit to them that you PAID for thisā¦
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Yes, user experience for sports fans on Plex Live TV/DVR seems to be pretty pathetic at the moment. All possible ways to watch reliably appear to be blocked.
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Record with 60 minutes extra padding time - During the regular scheduled time for the event, you can choose watch live or watch from start. As many have noted, āWatch From Startā goes live for a lot of users, causing you to see the score and spoil it for you. When the regular scheduled end-time is reached (i.e. excluding the padding), the stream will likely fail. At that point, Plex removes the playback ui in the guide. With no way to start playback, you have to wait for the recording to completely finish to begin playback - like us old people had to with VCR tapes. By the time you can actually start watching, chances are that the result will get spoiled somehow (news/browsing/family getting home). I encourage Plex to tell me how any part of this doesnāt suck.
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Watch Live and pause TV when needed - The current bug is that live tv aborts whenever the current program in the EPG ends. So when that happens and you have paused LiveTV for a total of 20 minutes for whatever reason, that last 20 minutes is gone for good. Sure you can start Live playback again, but youāre never going to see that 20 minutes that you missed.
And next month, Iād be telling you about completely new problems, but just as stupid, that make watching sports with Plex just HORRIBLE.
Edit: Less than a week and now it appears that Live TV is broken in the web player, Itās just never ending.
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Hahah I done the same. During formula 1 race, I ask my son to rewind to beginning and let me know when I can start looking at the TV 
First chance I get few hours at home alone, Iām getting rid of Plex DVR, I feel like an idiot
This is the new state of IT (devOPs) Push untested crap faster than ever before and let marketing team to run wild.
It happens in expensive enterprise software so donāt be surprised it happens with software like Plex. Vote with your dollar/time/views/clicks.
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Do you have an update on this problem @DaveBinM ?
I donāt have anything further on this at this time, Iām afraid.
I have this feeling that the Android devs are gonna get Live TV & DVR working real nice very soon.
Great. Iāve got a bridge to sell youā¦
Itās amazing how this thread has kept on going, though saying that, itās a shame it has too. Iāve just had to post up two more issues with regards to recorded TV and playback. One has an issues that files can play at ādouble timeā when commercials are skipped, the second is I canāt playback files in my Chrome browser!
ā¦ I really hope some time is ploughed into sorting out these sorts of problems. This āwatch from the startā issue might only be the tip of the iceberg if people are no longing the DVR function because of all the problems?
What I donāt understand is if I can click the little |< icon to go to beginning after loading up a currently recording show why canāt plex do that for meā¦ 
While I agree this feature should be working by now but since you can just rewind to the beginning as a workaround there are more pressing issues to fixā¦ like having the guide advance forward when time changesā¦ andā¦ a handfull of other things that I will post about when I get the time.
I have faith in the Android team @sixones
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