Optimal Roku settings for live TV

[Jason'sEmby 29]

Using the preset settings on Enby don't seem reliable as live TV stops playing after about 60 minutes. I'm thinking about switching from Plex but I have 10 roku's and 5 Android boxes (5 hdhomerun Primes). The Android boxes seemed very reliable. What are the optimal settings for the roku's to get them to run longer? I'd like them to get to the 4-Hour are you still watching mark. 

[speechles 2055]

To make Roku more reliable once it starts playing a Live TV stream immediately press DOWN and open the OSD. Go to the COG/gear and press it. Use the Playback Correction option. This will cause the app to switch play methods and use transcoding of the MPEG2 stream into H264 rather than copying. This will eliminate any transport issues in the MPEG2 stream that may reach the Roku. We initially COPY the video stream of the live broadcast if it is MPEG2 or H264 (and your Roku device shows support for these codecs). We only convert these when there is an error (..or an error is simulated via playback correction button). Once the playback correction changes your play method it should become a MUCH more reliable stream. This will introduce transcoding which may not be desirable but it is the only thing we can do to correct these issues. Ffmpeg will smooth out the rough edges of the stream (any dropouts, missing frames, etc) before they reach the Roku. The Roku is not tolerant of encoding issues or framerate drops.

 

The Roku 9.3 firmware introduced new issues in playback which cause playback to terminate or error repeatedly changing play methods for no reason. We are waiting for Roku to address these issues. Your issue may be something caused by Roku and not by our copy of the stream.

We apologize for the issues and will do our best to correct this by any means in our control. We want you happy. Happy users make us happy.

Edited July 17, 2020 by speechles

[Jason'sEmby 29]

1 hour ago, speechles said:

To make Roku more reliable once it starts playing a Live TV stream immediately press DOWN and open the OSD. Go to the COG/gear and press it. Use the Playback Correction option. This will cause the app to switch play methods and use transcoding of the MPEG2 stream into H264 rather than copying. This will eliminate any transport issues in the MPEG2 stream that may reach the Roku. We initially COPY the video stream of the live broadcast if it is MPEG2 or H264 (and you Roku device shows support for these codecs). We only convert these when there is an error (..or an error is simulated via playback correction button). Once the playback correction changes your play method it should become a MUCH more reliable stream. This will introduce transcoding which may not be desirable but it is the only thing we can do to correct these issues. Ffmpeg will smooth out the rough edges of the stream (any dropouts, missing frames, etc) before they reach the Roku. The Roku is not tolerant of encoding issues or framerate drops.

 

The Roku 9.3 firmware introduced new issues in playback which cause playback to terminate or error repeatedly changing play methods for no reason. We are waiting for Roku to address these issues. Your issue may be something caused by Roku and not by our copy of the stream.

Thank you for the quick response, what I did is I lowered the internet allowance down to 4 megabits which caused it to transcode but it's still only playing for 45 minutes to 60 minutes and then stops. Probably just the roku software:(. 

[Jason'sEmby 29]

Do you know if I can share hdhomeruns with Plex and emby? Will they see if a tuners in use and go to the next one?

[speechles 2055]

I know Emby will play nice and will notice the tuner in use by the other guys and go to one unassigned. I cannot speak for the other guys playing nice though with servers from our side and how they assign tuners. You would have to see if their logic also plays nice. If it does not they have some work to do to catch up.

Edited July 17, 2020 by speechles

[ebr 16169]

32 minutes ago, Jason'sEmby said:

but it's still only playing for 45 minutes to 60 minutes and then stops.

Is it possible your server is running out of disc space?

There is no reason the stream should stop.

[Jason'sEmby 29]

Unless it's using 14tb I don't think so lol

[speechles 2055]

Do you have transcode throttle enabled? That will cause problems with the latest Roku update to 9.3.

[Jason'sEmby 29]

I do I'll give that a shot and disabled that. Thank you!!

[Jason'sEmby 29]

1 hour ago, speechles said:

Do you have transcode throttle enabled? That will cause problems with the latest Roku update to 9.3.

That got me to 30 minutes exactly haha. Trying to figure out if I can do a mix where I can have my Android devices on emby and my Roku devices on Plex. I just need to figure out how to configure my tuners to wear I have enough capacity on both sides.

[ebr 16169]

2 hours ago, Jason'sEmby said:

Unless it's using 14tb I don't think so lol

The system drive or drive where you pointed your transcoding temp folder has 14TB available?

[Jason'sEmby 29]

6 minutes ago, ebr said:

The system drive or drive where you pointed your transcoding temp folder has 14TB available?

Correct the pool drive has 14 Tb. I also tried mapping it directly to the C drive which is an M.2 400gb available with the same results.

[Jason'sEmby 29]

Here is some logs, user Eddie. Tried on 3 Rokus and same problem.

 

 

 

Edited July 20, 2020 by Jason'sEmby

[Jason'sEmby 29]

I am not sure how to read logs but I think it is what Speechles was saying .