There are some new options for shows if you bring up the Advanced preference pane. Be careful, you can DELETE YOUR CONTENT. I like setting the episode sort to put newer episodes first for nightly type shows. If you look carefully in the music Artist Advanced preferences you’ll see a similar sorting option.
You can add remote devices using a URL. I’ve personally tested with devices hosted in Australia and NZ.
There is fledging support for XMLTV in there (just one of several little easter eggs). I’ll leave you this slightly mysterious HTTP endpoint. The lineup encodes the path to the XMLTV file, as well as the title of the lineup. Without a DVR setup, issue this request:
POST http://localhost:32400/livetv/dvrs?device=device%3A%2F%2Ftv.plex.grabbers.hdhomerun%2F123032B8&lineup=lineup%3A%2F%2Ftv.plex.providers.epg.xmltv%2FUsers%2Felan%2FDownloads%2Ffreeview.xml%23Freeview&language=eng
Under the hood, there is support for multiple devices per DVR, and even multiple DVRs (imagine one in the US, one in the UK).
Thanks for these tips! I had never noticed those settings in the episode editing area.
Thanks also for implementing the DVR solution into Plex. It works great for my situation since I don’t really watch live TV and I don’t have any DRM requirements (even with my cable subscription with Bright House)
Great job Plex!!! This was the final missing piece for us cord cutters. I am extremely excited to get this going.
My only disappointment was that my older Homerun Tuners didn’t make the supported device list.
I have the HDHR3-US and HDHR-T1 which work perfectly fine with WMC.
I have been using Plex for quite a while but was holding off buying a Plex Pass in hopes the lifetime price might be reduced. Your addition of the HDHomerun DVR settled the issue for me. I immediately paid the premium price. I hope you will eventually integrate live TV and also provide the ability to search by TV station. Can’t praise the Plex team enough for such a marvelous program.
Convert Video While Recording
This is an experimental feature with the following options: Off - Don’t do anything to the recordings at all. For most devices, that means you’ll end up with .ts files encoded with MPEG2 in your library. Remux Only - Remux the recording into a standard MKV container. The content will remain in the original encoding (usually MPEG2). Transcode - Transcode the video stream to H.264 and place it in a standard MKV container. This helps save space and make the content more compatible, but it requires a fast CPU. (Audio is always retained as-is.)
The Transcode option could use some tweaking. I’d like to be able to set the output quality and certainly alter CPU priority. My friend couldn’t watch a video which required transcoding while Plex was transcoding a recording the other night.
Interesting that you say it saves space, when I had Transcoding enabled on my server I ended up with files of 4GB+!
Any plans to add a tv scheduler to the DVR functionality? Currently it is difficult to plan out my recordings with the interface. It is also difficult to see a listing of other shows that may interest me at that the time I am looking at plex. Other than that this is a big upgrade that is appreciated.
@Drhalloweenguy said:
Great job Plex!!! This was the final missing piece for us cord cutters. I am extremely excited to get this going.
My only disappointment was that my older Homerun Tuners didn’t make the supported device list.
I have the HDHR3-US and HDHR-T1 which work perfectly fine with WMC.
I finally broke down and bought a PlexPass specifically because of the DVR announcement. I may finally be able to migrate away from Tivo and have all my media on one box that I can access from practically any device. I now find myself in the same boat as @Drhalloweenguy with an older, HDHR3-US. I will probably order a supported model but I wanted to add my vote that I’d like to see support for the older HDHR boxes.
@Wperry1 said:
I now find myself in the same boat as @Drhalloweenguy with an older, HDHR3-US. I will probably order a supported model but I wanted to add my vote that I’d like to see support for the older HDHR boxes.
If you do decide to go with a current model be sure to take advantage of this bit of news
Tip!: If you already have an older, unsupported HDHomeRun model, you can email SiliconDust details and the Device ID for your tuner to discuss a possible discount on a new, compatible model.
probably because most transmissions are MPEG2 and mp4 container does not support MPEG2, so you have original container TS, or remuxed MKV, or fully transcoded to H264
