I started to write a long and involved explanation of my problem, but I see I’m not alone. Rather than go on at length about a seemingly common issue, I’ll give you my specs and leave it hanging.
I’m running my server on a Synology 218+. NVidia Shield client. HDHomerun connect quatro Ethernet all around, Plex Pass (duh, DVR). Everything is 100% up to date, settings are whatever Plex decided out of the box.
I CAN watch a show that is currently recording, and am sort-of able to pause and/or FF-RW. But it’s a crapshoot where in the recording I’ll actually end up. Frequently have to just stop, then start again several times to get where I want to be. I missed roughly 1/3 of yesterdays preseason Seahawks game. Sad face.
It would seem to me that there should be a central post for this problem, where everyone can post the issue along with their specific hardware contingent. Perhaps there already is and I’ve just missed it. I did see that somebody is getting tired of being pinged about it, so…
It’s pretty frustrating. I get that Plex is trying to have a ton of features across many, many different hardware environments, and that must be difficult. But I just last year stopped using Windows Media Center (not by choice, I’ve used it from the very, very beginning). So I’m used to something that (sorry Apple) “Just works”.
