I love that I can add my HD HomreRUN connect to Plex. However, I don’t need a DVR and it seems to always record live TV. ANd I can’t set it to not record live TV. And the second I start to watch LIVE TV my mac mini servers fan kicks on and starts to get beat up.
Why are there no settings to disable this? I don’t care to pause or whatnot with live TV.
If you’re going to try to watch MPEG-2 video in a browser - it’s gonna transcode. When things transcode at my house - the blowers kick in.
Use Plex for Windows/Mac/Other
Use Plex Media Player
Use anything, except Plexweb - and preferably something that can Direct Play an MPEG-2 video stream.
There are two buttons (hopefully) - a ‘Play Button’ and a ‘Record Button’. Don’t hit the record button if you just want to play.
You’re transcoding the stream for playback from Mpeg-2 in a .ts container to x264, this is normal behavior, you do however have the option to watch as direct play in some clients. As Juice pointed out, if on a PC/MAC use the Plex client app, if using a streaming device, some of them have a settings that says “Allow Direct Play of Mpeg” you need to enable that. My FireStick TV does not have this option, therefore I cannot accomplish this, but I’ve seen others in the forums with Roku’s and Android TV’s that possibly have that option.
Yep, My Roku Ultra is the ONLY device I have that will Direct Play an MPEG-2 video stream.
I do have Plex Player for Windows and Plex Media Player - when things really go South. They’ll Direct Play everything I throw at em.
And, to this specific point, it is not actually recording live TV. At least not in the sense that what it buffers sticks around after you stop playback. It doesn’t. That “Recording Live TV” notification you see when you start watching a channel just means that a live TV session has started. I suspect the reason it says “recording” is that it uses the same back-end code due to the pause/scrub functionality. Unfortunately, you can’t turn those features off.
You’re right - and - the stream is actually recording - to a buffer/temp file, I guess, but it is recording - technically.
Plex could call it something else if they wanted to, but that’s a topic for another thread with 1000 posts in it - before they’d notice…lol
I addressed this in my reply.
The thought I was trying to convey was that it is not permanently storing the stream.
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