The Airwave is designed to wirelessly push OTA signals to the same lineup of media streamers. Mohu is expected to release Mohu Airwave antenna sometime in “early fall”. I just finished reviewing ClearStream TV, a single-band tuner that wirelessly stream OTA channels to Roku, Google Chromecast and Fire TV devices.
This year, cord cutters and folks looking to break away from costly cable bills are getting more options to take advantage of OTA television. Live OTA options expanding for cord cutters You’ll also need a TV antenna, a HDHomeRun or Hauppauge TV tuner and storage space like a hard drive to set up a Plex Media Server. To take advantage of Live TV and DVR options on Plex, you need a Plex Pass subscription, which costs $5 per month.
If you hit the fast forward button, Plex jumps back to the live feed. With rewinding, Plex jumps back several seconds when you hit the rewind button on the Fire TV remote. Pausing and rewinding live TV works well. I’ve been trying out the new Live TV features on Fire TV and so far, Plex is off to a solid start. You can read more about how I’ve set up a desktop computer, and a NVIDIA Shield TV as Plex media servers. A HDHomeRun or Hauppauge tuner is needed along with a TV antenna for your setup. Your server acts as storage space for your DVR content. desktop PC, or NVIDIA Shield TV), you can stream, pause and rewind live over-the-air (OTA) channels. Plex’s Live TV function now also works the web.īy connecting a TV tuner to your Plex server (e.g. The company announced on Wednesday in a blog post that Amazon Fire TV and Fire Stick devices were the latest to gain support for streaming live OTA television. Some other things you could try is also enabling the experimental player as well as tweaking the transcoding settings.Plex upgraded its Fire TV app so users can now stream live TV channels from an antenna and set up a DVR. Hopefully, these settings above work for you as well. Then turn off “Direct Stream” and turn off “Direct Play.”Īnd that’s it! After setting these options above I no longer suffer from jerky or stuttering playback in Plex on my Amazon Fire Stick. Then turn off “Network discovery.” Step 3īack in the Plex options click into “Advanced.” Step 2īack in the Plex Options click into “System.” Make sure the quality over local network is set to “Maximum.” Note: I am running my setup on 5Ghz Wireless N. Step 1Ĭlick into “Options” in your Plex app on the Amazon Fire Stick. I no longer have any stuttering or jerky playback. Settings to fix jerky and stuttering playbackĪfter fiddling around with the settings and reading multiple posts in the Plex forums I seem to have finally fixed it. I know it wasn’t my network as I have a pretty beefy wireless router with Wireless N. It was happening on 650MB avi files as well as HD mkv files. After a couple weeks of using it I started to notice jerky playback occasionally and stuttering.
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