Setup Plex DVR with my HDHomeRun, so far recording, program guide, and everything else is working great. I am actually having a problem with playback of anything recorded from the tuner.
I have tried multiple players, including Roku and the Windows store app, but the results are the same. It takes a long time to buffer, and frequently throughout playback it has to stop and load again. When playback ends or stops it gives a message starting the server isn’t powerful enough.
I believed the message, and setup a new Windows 10 VM running on Hyper-V on my desktop rather than my home server which is about 8 years old. Assigned it up to 32GB of memory and 4 cores available on a Core I7 Gen 6 Intel based host with storage running on an SSD. Unfortunately even after all the effort to build the new server setup, the performance when playing TV recordings is the same.
Any suggestions? Is there anyway for the recording to encode using a better codec?
On Windows you could use mcebuddy to cut commercials or just mark them and convert from mkv Plex creates to some other container format such as MP4. I use the MP4 Unprocessed profile in mcebuddy. A 60 minute HD program is processed in 9-11 minutes with commercials removed and video converted then placed in Plex library. Conversion is on a 3rd Gen i5 so your performance might be even better. Can also just install comskip for commercial removal and ffmpeg or some other tool to do video transcoding and create your own post processing.
@johnm_ColaSC said:
On Windows you could use mcebuddy to cut commercials or just mark them and convert from mkv Plex creates to some other container format such as MP4. I use the MP4 Unprocessed profile in mcebuddy. A 60 minute HD program is processed in 9-11 minutes with commercials removed and video converted then placed in Plex library. Conversion is on a 3rd Gen i5 so your performance might be even better. Can also just install comskip for commercial removal and ffmpeg or some other tool to do video transcoding and create your own post processing.
Even if this doesn’t solve my problem (I’ll try to test tomorrow) I would hug you for just letting me know things that can automatically remove commercials exist!
