Honestly, there’s nothing constructive here with the feedback you’re giving us at the moment. There’s enough going on in the world right now as it is. If you want to provide feedback, please make it constructive.
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I’m merely telling you that Plex is the slowest system out there, even Kodi is faster. If telling you this isn’t welcome then what’s the point in trying to improve Plex?
Not cool dude, where are you being constructive. If you like channels it’s your prerogative to move your alliance. Please guys stop being so critical, I know it hard at present and you have a lot of time for the keyboard. We are all in a huge situation globally, yet this is paramount. I don’t get it. 
Then they might as well shut down the forums if they can’t take light criticism. I’ve highlighted speed issues with Plex no different to many other users, if you have a problem with that don’t read the forums.
Ok dude, your out of touch, I don’t have your issue. So it’s all about Simon says
It seems it’s not universal but your manter.
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@DaveBinM Are those points still on the road map?
It doesn’t even take me that long to tune a channel from a Roku running on WiFi. If you’re not exaggerating, I wonder if something else might be at play.
QNAP TS-253A with 8 tb storage and 8gb Ram
Nvidia Shield with 1tb SSD
Hdhomerunner Quattro
Gigabit network
Other than Channels DVR and Plex nothing else running on the NAS which is using 2 X 1Gb NICs for load balancing. Had Emby on but no longer. Load is around 3%
Emby Android Cient/Server and Kodi can switch channels in around 3-5 secs, Channels DVR in around 2-3 secs.
Plex app on Nvidia Shield 12-20 secs.
Plex on Google Pixel 3a doesn’t work, errors out.
I have a feeling Plex is doing some additional processing of the Hdhomerunner stream when really they have no need, it’s just a video stream and should just be passed through to the client app.
Even my IPTV via Tivimate changes channels quicker and that has to buffer a few seconds on switching.
We’d need to see some logs to see what’s actually going on, without speculating.
Most of the hard work is done by the HDHR and the video stream is presented as a nicely formatted URL…
http://(IP):5004/auto/v?transcode=native
Is Plex doing any further transcoding of the stream before presenting it to the client app? If not I can’t understand why it takes so long to open a channel when the likes of Emby Client & Server do it so much quicker.
Well, without some logs from both client and server, it’s impossible to know what’s going on.
Dave I’m just asking is Plex doing additional transcoding of the stream, you don’t need logs to tell us this.
The answer is yes or no, depending on the case/your client/your settings.
Does this answer satisfy you? Probably not.
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No, only Plex know how they are handling video streams from a HDHR device.
True, what do I know. Good luck for the rest of your conversation.
Channel change for me is 5 to 6 seconds using Plex (client is an Nvidia Shield; tuner is a HDHomerun Quatro; Plex server running on Win10 PC i5 / 8GB Ram).
Unfortunately, there is no way to compare with Channels DVR as it’s not available here in Australia (in fact, it looks like it’s only available in 4 countries compared to the 60+ countries that officially support Plex DVR, plus Channels DVR is crazy expensive from memory?) :
Channels DVR was out of the question for me 1 hour into the trial. No Roku client.
In general plex will sometimes transcode the video. This is based on some client settings, e.g. Quality and client capabilities. In your case, if you are playing at the original resolution it shouldn’t be transcoding, which is why they want logs to see if it’s transcoding, and if so, why it’s transcoding. This could potentially be a bug in plex, and as a part of fixing bugs sometimes they need logs, I’m not sure why you’re resistant to sending these privately to a plex staff member.
If Plex was my only option I might be willing to, but I have no desire in becoming a beta tester constantly sending logs on what is a commercial product not open source. My home time is limited and their are more reliable products I can use for a small cost that work out the box The family just want a product that works minimal effort but reliably.
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I would be surprised if you roasted a single calorie pulling the logs and posting them here. If it helps, you can even drag and drop!
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