The issue is that they haven’t been able to get watching live recordings working properly and reliably in over 27 months that I’ve had it. There are so many open threads on the crappy Live TV/DVR problems that they just can’t keep up.
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This hasn’t been an issue before for me on the Nvidia Shield - however, running the latest version of Plex Media Server when trying to play a recording that’s still being recorded - it plays the first two or three seconds over and over again - trying to skip ahead doesn’t work and the only way to watch the Episode is to wait for it to finish. Anyone else seeing this issue with the Shield?
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Been following this for over a year myself -
Switched to Channels DVR and havent looked back. Works great for Live TV, Watching a recording in process, Timeshifting - you know DVR stuff
I think Plex is too busy trying to get us to pay to play some crappy atari games from the 80’s to address core functionality
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That’s exactly what I am getting on my Sony android TV. Plays the first few seconds of the recording in loop. Previously it use to work for me.
Yup i’m on nvidia shields and they are now doing the loop. I tend to get a couple of minutes watching OK and then the loop starts.
I just gave up and went back to Emby. Really disappointed to miss the skip ads, but if it doesn’t work anyways, no point in trying.
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@cire12 any help with this? I reinstalled my Plex Media Server and Plex on my Nvidia shield and it worked fine for a couple of days. Now it’s appeared again.
Windows Media Center was a fantastic bargain! It was a software DVR that JUST WORKED!!! Oh, and it was free. I miss WMC for DVR. Plex could be great if they just fixed the DVR features, but it is no bargain.
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Channels DVR picked up where Windows Media Center left off… Channels DVR is not free, but it does ‘just work’ like WMC did. The best part of Channels DVR, other than ‘just working’ properly, is that I never have to watch commercials.
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Timeshifting completely useless now this looping is happening.
Android and Android TV affected for me (Mobile and Shield TV, 2017 and 2019)
I don’t trust watching a recording in progress anyway, numerous times it freaks out when trying to skip the ads (don’t press the skip button to fast now lol), and then skips to the end of the recording, straight into the live programme and ruins it!
I’ve taken to manually browsing to the Plex grab folder in Kodi, a total nuisance, but it works until I catch up, then I just browse out and in again to have the file size refresh.
Two weeks this has been going on now - isn’t it great to know your paid for product is top of the list for urgent bug fixes to make it usable!
Never mind eh, the last server update had loads of gaming “fixes”…
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I’m getting the looping when trying to watch an in-progress recording too. This is very bad for the WAF.
This is one of the saddest and longest thread I’ve ever read…
I’m frustrated by this almost now 2 years old issue!!!
Not being able to what live tv at the same time that you’re recording is certainly not expected when you cut the cord using a Plex setup…
I would recommend Plex to put higher priority on this issue than all those new gaming features and bug fixes…
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Almost three (3) years actually…
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It is very frustrating. A year or so ago Plex was actively working on this and they made some good progress. But unfortunately it seems to have regressed and is still not reliable at all. It’s basically not possible to watch an in-progress recording without it dumping you out at some point. Skipping backwards or forwards is perilous and watching from start just spins (have to start at Live and skip backwards). So disappointing.
Can a Plex employee please let us know what is going on and if this is still being worked on?
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Well I finally decided to give Channels DVR and Emby a go. Channels DVR is more expensive (I think $8USD/month or $80USD/yr), but it does give you a one month trial. Emby has no trial, so you have to pay for a month (about $5USD).
For watching a recording while it is in progress, Channels DVR is the clear winner for me. It just works! For me, the interface is not as nice as Plex, but you quickly move past that and it’s such a great feeling to be able to skip back and forward, jump around anywhere and just not have any issues! Another nice feature is that a current recording shows up in a Recording folder, so not only is it easy to find but it keeps track of where you are up to, which means you can stop it and come back to it and resume from where you left off.
Emby - disappointing - I had issues skipping around in their client (both mobile and TV), for that to be the first experience means I won’t continue with that.
But so far (it’s been a few days of pretty heavy use) I can recommend Channels DVR. I’ll be using this from now on for watching recordings in progress. I’ll keep checking back in on Plex - and I just wish they would just focus on it and get it working.
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Thanks for sharing this. I’ll give it a look. It doesn’t seem that we are getting a lot of traction from Plex on this issue and this thread so better not waiting for them…
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Agree 100% on all counts. Channels DVR has some Pluto TV goodies to add to your guide grid too if you read the forums.
Ugh. I get the looping now on my Shield TV so now I have to wait for the recording to finish. This was working at the end of last year. Very frustrating…
I’ve got the same looping issue, but only if I select to watch from the start, super frustrating. A workaround for me is to select Watch Live, then you can skip back to the beginning, but of course, spoilers!
After nearly 3 years of live tv issues it’s so disappointing, the product could be so good.
I can no longer watch any recording that is in progress. Neither watch live or from the beginning are working. Not sure why this is getting worse, a few months ago watch while recording was about 50% reliable now it fails 100% of the time. I’m using Shields for playback.
