I just tried the new option to record live TV and then play it back on the Roku player and have a few thoughts if I want to use it full time
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Add an option to ask (after viewing the recording) if the Roku user would like to delete the file. Either an always available option on the Roku end, or as a new option in the [Delete episodes after watching] drop down on the Plex End and let us make that the default for all new recordings. Sometimes we know that no one will want to watch it later and would like to delete it right then and there. Other times someone probably fell asleep mid-show and we will want to save it for watching again later. Every other DVR I have ever used works this way. Having our only option being to delete it automatically X amount of time after viewing is, in my mind, a useless and horrible option as it could easily accidentally delete a file we never watched because we fell asleep and never thought to deal with it later. As it works now, I have no option whatsoever to delete the file within the Roku player and I have to remember what I watched so that I can later delete the file manually. I have the Roku Ultra.
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Add an option to record/save the file in a smaller file size. Perhaps an auto-convert to MP4 after finished recording. The file is needlessly large currently and there are so many shows that I would like to record, it will fill up my hard drive very quickly and the larger the file, the slower the responsiveness in playback control becomes. Shows are recording at 24000kbps for current shows and 15000kbps for old 640x480i B/W TV shows when 2000kbps and 1000kbps is plenty good enough. My Plex server has plenty of horsepower to do so without it affecting anything else.
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Video preview during FF/RW of the episode would be appreciated to know where the start and end of commercials are. The smaller filesize in 2) above would likely help with that.
