I looked around and nothing was obvious but is this even possible?
Can I take a show or movie and add it to the hd and then see it on the Tablo?
This may put the Tablo in the same arena as say a Kodi or Plex but thinking if this is possible.
As a side not, this would also beg the question of the use of a NAS drive to store Tablo files directly, thus saving the need to have a external drive connected and can use my network for recording. Has that been explored? It may be similar to cloud storageā¦not not on the āreal cloudā.
Any info would be nice to have. Really curious if people out there see a use case for these options.
What I do with videos is either store them on my NAS or a USB flash drive, and play them on my TV via either my Roku or Nexus player. Of course, the videos need to be in the appropriate format for playback.
There is actually a ton of reasons. You would think that Tabloās idea was good, until you get to that person who asks
āI found this device in my back alley, actually one of my cats buried it in their litter box. I looked it up and itās a Whack-a-doodle 9000, with the OhMyGoodness ARM chip that was developed by that 12 year old Indonesian genius currently in seclusion somewhere in Alaska. It runs a secret version of Android called Sugardaddy. Can I get a Tablo app for this? My Lexus needs a new cup holder, so I really canāt afford a Roku, Fire TV, etc.ā
I agree with all the variances that exist but here is the killer.
It should not be up to Tablo to give you hardwareā¦ Just make the option possible. Is it is possible, people will try to find a way and maybe just a export button on a separate advanced GUI could be enough to get recordings off, maybe a standard transcoder that works in the background.
As for adding files. If they will be in a standard format like mkv or Aviā¦ Whateverā¦A import button that would browse the network you are on for a drive and then would just place it in the HD. Then Iād it displays on the tablo GUI as a separate files added folder, that may be all. We click, it plays.
I donāt think it is far fetchedā¦ People allot smarter than me can do this.
This changes Tablo from a network accessible OTA DVR to a generalized media server. Thereās already many tools out there that can do that better than the Tablo ever could. So why bother?
I would love to see this, too, but have come to the conclusion that with the slow development cycle, itās best to just consider Tablo to be a recording device, and to use a separate Media Server as a playback device. Itās sad, because Tablo is ALMOST a media server, but I donāt have much hope that itāll ever bridge the gap.
I like this idea but not possible for this current deviceā¦ I think It would slow down the system badlyā¦ I prefer Tablo to stay the way it is as simple as it can be and just add a must needed features thatās useful in a DVR senseā¦
There is no reason to develop this, if you have a device that runs the tablo app then you already have a device that can run a media player app that can pull from network drives, usb drives, or cloud drives.
