Live TV Quality

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My son and I installed Plex Server on a new high end fully loaded workstation.

  • Window 10 Pro
  • Intel Xeon CPU E5-2620 V4@2.10GHz
  • 64 GB RAM
  • 10TB internal SATA RAID

We also added the following components into the server:

  • HAUPPAUGE WinTV-quadHD PCI Express TV Tuner Card 1609
  • Long Range Lesoom Indoor TV Digital HDTV Antenna HD VHF UHF
  • NVidia GeForce GTX 1070 Graphics Card

We have also purchased the Plex Pass

We are watching the videos on an Amazon Fire stick on a large HDTV.

We can successfully use all the Plex features (e.g., recording broadcasts, watching channels, publishing and view our own media)

When we watch LiveTV, we notice that the video quality is not acceptable, meaning when there is a lot of movement, there are a lot of artificial artifacts such as pixelation. When we watch recorded shows, there is also artificial artifacts.

My questions:

  1. Is there a limit to the quality of the video displayed through the Amazon Fire stick?
  2. Is there a way to know if a GPU is in use in the recorded or live broadcast mode?
  3. Is there a way to enforce the highest quality video for recorded or live broadcast?

Any insight is appreciated,
Andy

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It almost sounds like you may have some network issues, What happens when you play content back on the Win10 box hosting PMS? As good as Amazon Fire stick maybe, Wireless is not your friend with trying to stream media from Plex. As for selecting the quality, You can set that when setting up the recordings for shows. It will say something like HD only or anything.

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@RayAdmin said:
It almost sounds like you may have some network issues, What happens when you play content back on the Win10 box hosting PMS? As good as Amazon Fire stick maybe, Wireless is not your friend with trying to stream media from Plex. As for selecting the quality, You can set that when setting up the recordings for shows. It will say something like HD only or anything.

I agree with Ray
And you have gone all out on your server then send it to a Fire Stick.
Get your client hardwired!!