Dear Plex, Live TV is not working anymore on my Roku. Stream is quitting just 2 seconds after start since latest update. Waiting for a solution. Thanks

Let me repeat: I cannot use live tv since the latest awesome update. Plex is quitting after displaying around 2 seconds of the stream. Please revert the latest wonderful change or give an option to revert to a previous version. I’m f…g tired of this. TAKE AS MANY TEST CASES AS NECESSARY TO AVOI…

I’m also seeing the Plex app crashing on my Roku when trying to watch Live TV. A workaround that seems it may work for me is to go into the video settings on the Roku app and set “Direct Play” to either “Auto” or “Off”. If it does direct stream then the Roku Plex app doesn’t crash at least. I’m c…

Thanks for trying to help. Unfortunately I cannot accept transcoding as a solution. Roku Streaming Stick+ can handle every format that one could think of via direct play. Plex has to keep things working the way it should. If it did direct play before an update on plex side, than it should keep pl…

I’m not suggesting transcoding… I can’t use transcoding on my old PMS hardware either. Direct stream is closer to Direct Play than it is to transcoding, and direct stream has much lower CPU use than transcoding. I just posted a series of test cases. I want this fixed also, but I do believe that d…

Indeed it is a workaround, thanks for suggesting. Still I don’t think that this should be the normal way of publishing updates for something that is a core feature of plex… Imagine you get home after a hard day and want to watch your favorite show, when suddenly live tv won’t work anymore - not fo…

I totally agree with you. Currently there seems to be a lot of reliance on the user community testing the previews/betas. Ideally they would have a test lab with all of the supported servers and clients, and have fully automated regression testing. Until that happens… I’m also trying to also do …

Sorry for the troubles, and thanks for the report. We have identified a crash when a channel supports direct play. We should have a fix coming out this week.

This is great news. Thank you so much for the quick turnaround on the fix!

The fix has been published to our Preview channel. Please let us know if anyone can confirm. [image] Plex for Roku Announcements We’ve released an update to the Plex preview channel - 6.3.14 FIXES: (Live TV) Fix crash direct playing channel. (Playlists) Editing playlist…

Confirmed. I’m watching football with direct play on one of my rokus using the preview, thank you!

Roku Live TV quitting stream after 2 seconds

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ljunkie August 23, 2019, 12:20am 10

The fix has been published to our Preview channel. Please let us know if anyone can confirm.

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Roku Live TV quitting stream after 2 seconds

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