On recorded TV, it takes forever to fast forward or rewind. I get the spinning circle for 3 - 10 seconds. Is this typical? How do I resolve?
A little background: I am moving from Windows Media Center, and am using the same hardware - Server with i3-4130 CPU and an HDHomerun Tuner. For clients I have moved from XBOX360 to Xbox One and a Roku 4.
On WMC, I used to be able to FFWD 30 seconds at a time extremely quickly at the touch of a button. I could also RWD 10 seconds at a time almost instantly. It was awesome. Now with Plex, the performance is brutal. Fast Forwarding is almost useless. Any help here?
I’m trying my best to position Plex as a replacement to WMC, but little things like this are making it tough. This does not pass the wife test.
Any comments? Can anyone confirm if their DVR acts the same way? Seems weird that WMC worked so great, but Plex is so much slower for FFW and RW on the same hardware.
I have exactly the same issue with live tv recordings taking a long time to fast forward / rewind. Downloaded shows fast forward / rewind fine and are almost instant… Just Recorded TV that has the issue for me…
It sounds like the issue is because the file is being transcoded(probably mpeg2 recordings). due to the device.
This happens for me if the file is being transcoded.
If the file is direct playable(h264)… FFW/RW is instantaneous even on my FireTV 1st gen connected via wifi.
I believe the XBOX 360 is capable of mpeg2 playback.
I find that the Roku devices have a really bad time with this. skip forward works OK on my ancient Visio TV app, but the Roku app is unusable. Windows Media Center is the gold standard for this. Very fast.
Did you try to increase the pms transcoder setting “Transcoder default throttle buffer”?
I don’t own a Roku, but I find that it’s a little bit easier to skip through commercial when this parameter is set to 240 seconds or 300 seconds when mpeg2video needs to be transcoded.
