On 2018-01-26, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Grant Edwards ><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm guessing that Android client support is going to be better with >> Plex than with the others. >> > > I know nothing of TVheadend. MythTV on Android has always been kludgy > at best, though I haven't touched it in two years. > > Plex on Android is a thing of beauty, especially with offline sync.
That's a big plus for Plex. > For managing shows the web interface is still better than > Android/Roku. That's fine -- I prefer using a web browser for that sort of thing. One of my complaints with MythTv and SageTv was that the web UIs for backend configuration and recording scheduling were after-thought add-on/plug-in kludges. My current SageTv setup lacks a web ui completely. :/ The config/scheduling UI for TvHeadend is purely web-based. > That's the other thing - the Plex server/clients do a good job > negotiating codecs, with the server doing all the transcoding. You > can pre-transcode files if you want to in order to reduce server load, > such as if you have many Rokus you use at the same time. Pre-transocoding from MPEG-2 TS to MPEG-4 h264 would be nice. > When transcoding you do get a bit more latency, especially if you > want to seek around a lot (no issue at all if you just hit play and > watch the show) - you end up with bufferbloat on both the server and > the client when you transcode. When watching recorded TV shows, I do rely heavily on "jump forward 30s" and "jump back 5s" for manually skipping commercials. > Still, it all just works, and it is no worse than Netflix/etc. You > can also configure quality rules for LAN vs WAN streaming, both on > the clients and the server. That's cool. One open question is handling of closed-captioning in ATSC recordings. Results with Plex seem to be mixed. I think I'll try out Plex DVR this weekend and see how it works with the Roku and Android frontends. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I'm definitely not at in Omaha! gmail.com