Live TV constant buffering *FIXED* - remove Plex and install Emby

Live TV & DVR
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This with the new app?

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Correct.

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Thanks for the log. I do see where the player appears to be in a loop between playing and pausing. Iā€™m not sure whatā€™s causing this but Iā€™ll pass this along to the devs to take a look.

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I think it actually might be even worse than before, which is amazing.

plexlog5.log (4.0 MB)

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plexlog6.log (4.1 MB)

@anon18523487 So badā€¦

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@anon18523487 Continues to be a major problemā€¦ Completely garbage experience.
plexlog7.log (4.7 MB)

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Live TV stops every few minutes for all channels.

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Live TV is broken on the Android app. Starts in a paused state on the Firestick. Buffers off a PCI tuner card for no real reason. Guide doesnā€™t advance forward by itself as time changes (XMLTV). Player constantly tunes to different audio streams. Stream pauses when pulling up the guide. Canā€™t play from beginning. Parts of the guide fail to load unless you scroll down and then scroll back up (mobile).

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:clown_face: bump @anon18523487

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mine always buffers too, even on the new beta 8.28. do you guys ever actually fix anything? why are you charging people money to use live tv?

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if anyone is having the same problem you should get a refund for your plex pass and switch to emby. theres no issues with live tv on emby.

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heres my client logs like youre going to even bother to look at them
plexAndroidClient.log (3.3 MB)

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Wanted to update this thread as well. Plex Live TV is garbage with constant buffering, exiting to the guide, and numerous of other issues, stream diesā€¦ etc. I have moved all my users off and onto Channels. Channels has 0 of these issues, there is no buffering, no streams being killed. It doesnā€™t make sense and has been like this for two years now and getting worse and worse.

A big WTF to this engineering team.

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Youā€™re absolutely correct if youā€™re using the Android app. Itā€™s a hot mess and has been for over one year.

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Apple TV also has an issue where it just exists to the channel guide after the channel buffers.

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@anon18523487

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I have a build that includes more logging to help try to identify the issue. If you are willing to and know how to sideload this and test, PM me.

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PMā€™d.

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Live TV & DVR unable to connect when remote watching on the plex android app outside the network, this issue has happened after the updates, I donā€™t get why update something that isnā€™t broken, even after the update Lost my server connection so I had to recrate everything back from scratch. which is an headache.
When using plex on a browser Live TV & DVR work fine its the android app thatā€™s the issue

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bump.