Plex Channel for NextPVR

[besweeet]

Managed to get the plugin installed and working fairly easily. Two problems:
1) In Plex on desktop, live TV doesn't play; the spinner will just keep on spinning.
2) In Plex on mobile (iPhone 6 Plus in my case), live TV will play, but there's heavy interlacing on 1080i60 channels (720p60 are obviously fine).

So far, as far as I know, the better route is to use NextPVR's web interface to grab the direct stream link to play it manually in a separate player (VLC, for example).

[psycik]

[quote=besweeet]Managed to get the plugin installed and working fairly easily. Two problems:
1) In Plex on desktop, live TV doesn't play; the spinner will just keep on spinning.[quote]

Is that plex/web? or Plex via Windows App store (or Plex HT). Can't say I've tried the latter for a while, but I thought plex/web was fairly happy.

[quote=besweeet]
2) In Plex on mobile (iPhone 6 Plus in my case), live TV will play, but there's heavy interlacing on 1080i60 channels (720p60 are obviously fine).

So far, as far as I know, the better route is to use NextPVR's web interface to grab the direct stream link to play it manually in a separate player (VLC, for example).[/QUOTE]

Have a look at your client settings, but I don't have a lot of control over that...when giving plex the stream you construct an episode or video object - and there are options for specifying resolution, audio channels and formats etc. I tend to leave most of this unspecified as if I forced h.264 and then someone from the US that was mpeg2 based tried using it, then I doubt it would work. But the flipside is maybe by not specifying it, the transcoder over compensates.

[besweeet]

Is that plex/web? or Plex via Windows App store (or Plex HT). Can't say I've tried the latter for a while, but I thought plex/web was fairly happy.

Plex's desktop site inside of Firefox.

Have a look at your client settings, but I don't have a lot of control over that...when giving plex the stream you construct an episode or video object - and there are options for specifying resolution, audio channels and formats etc. I tend to leave most of this unspecified as if I forced h.264 and then someone from the US that was mpeg2 based tried using it, then I doubt it would work. But the flipside is maybe by not specifying it, the transcoder over compensates.

Client settings within Plex's advanced settings?

[psycik]

Plex's desktop site inside of Firefox.

Ok, that's plex web. Plex desktop is a windows app (and app for mac). They would all have different capabilities.

Client settings within Plex's advanced settings?

When I'm watching a video on IOS or on plex web, there are some settings on the top right that allow you you set video quality - looks like 3 vertical lines line an old school equaliser.

[besweeet]

When I'm watching a video on IOS or on plex web, there are some settings on the top right that allow you you set video quality - looks like 3 vertical lines line an old school equaliser.

I was looking for that initially, but never found it like I do for regular Plex content:

[psycik]

I was looking for that initially, but never found it like I do for regular Plex content:

Hmm, yes I guess being a channel you can't normally control it.

So under plex/web, in the player settings maybe play with some of these.

I'll see if I can put something in to set the resolution to force it.

[jmillend]

I'm having a problem implementing this setup and I'm sure it's something stupid I'm doing. First of all here is the hardware...

Windows 10
I7-2600 CPU
8mg ram
Silicon Dust HDHomeRun Prime

I can view tv natively in NextPVR but when I try to view it through the channel in PLEX it immediately dies. I can see the channel attempt to activate on the HDHomerun, but no video. Log from plex channel attached.

[greekislandlover]

Hi,

I have a Plex server running on a Ubuntu 16.04 headless box accessed via Putty. Sounds this plugin will add something good to Plex. Problem is I'm a bit of a duffer with installing stuff - I can follow tried and tested tutorials though. Is there a tutorial for installing this on Ubuntu please?

[odin]

I run Plex headless on a Centos 7 LXC container - this is what I did to get Plex and Nextpvr 'talking'..

on the linux server, download the Nextpvr Plex plugin: wget https://github.com/psyciknz/NextPVR-Plex...master.zip

unzip master.zip

copy the NextPVR-Plex-master/NextPVR.bundle directory to /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-ins/

In the Channels section within the Plex app, set the Nextpvr ip address/port, save and restart Plex.

[psycik]

Thanks. Hope that works for you.