I’m with ericgus on that. I don’t want to have to necessarily have my phone or tablet with me at all times just to see what’s coming up on TV but in reality that is exactly what I have to do if I want to know what’s coming up. Not sure if it’s possible just from Brightscript but having the ability to have video continue in push-back mode while viewing the guide would be ideal, no need to actually perform the channel change until you selected the new channel to watch. We’re using Roku 3 devices as our primary device and so far everyone loves all the other apps (like HuluPlus, Netflix, Amazon Prime and to a lesser extent but still better UX than Tablo is Plex), and Tablo on the web looks great but I don’t want to have that be the only option. I take that back, I would consider maybe buying a separate tablet as a pseudo universal remote control that had an IR blaster to control my TV/receiver IF the Tablo web app allowed me to use the EPG on the tablet but have it control play out on one of the Roku devices (kinda like how Comcast does with X1).
Add my name to the list!! This update has been unbearable and has made my tablo useless. I can not watch live tv or recorded tv without constant buffering. Is there any solution? I am using a Ruko 3, Ipad, Galaxy Tab S, Iphone 5, and a Galaxy S4. All devices give me the same result! It took my wife and I 15 minutes to watch 5 minutes of a recorded show. HELP!!!
@pantherman … yes … just pause playback say for 1 minute …
@ericgus, that doesn’t always work (there are many variables though). And of course, being 1 minute off isn’t exactly “live TV” … depending on how picky you are.
@ericgus, that doesn't always work (there are many variables though). And of course, being 1 minute off isn't exactly "live TV" .... depending on how picky you are.
Is live TV really live anymore??.. with all the encoding delays right at the station … thru to transmission… (and any intentional delays imposed by the tv station/network …ala the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction incident)
I like to try the simple solutions first before getting into more complex and esoteric protracted situations. the brief pause may work well for Patherman.
I just setup a new Tablo 4-tuner on Tuesday and it has worked great with this current firmware (which it updated to during setup).
I like to try the simple solutions first before getting into more complex and esoteric protracted situations. the brief pause may work well for Patherman.
the simple solution is to just not use the Tablo for live TV instead of introducing a 1min pause every time you want to change the channel
I did a test before watching Bones tonight. I disconnected all devises expect the Tablo and My Roku from the network.
@roraniel - I agree with you that Tablo needs to improve this buffer issue. Tablo support will login and downgrade your firmware if you contact them. As we use our Tablo only for recorded content at this time, I’m going to stay with current firmware as the sync time is much improved. Your speedtest.net result is a measurement of internet speed to your laptop. Your actual network speed is probably much better but your conclusion is correct that your home network is not the problem. I’m on gigabit home network and my speedtest.net numbers >100 mbps so my network isn’t the cause of Tablo on Roku3 buffering with live TV either.
I like to try the simple solutions first before getting into more complex and esoteric protracted situations. the brief pause may work well for Patherman.the simple solution is to just not use the Tablo for live TV instead of introducing a 1min pause every time you want to change the channel
That works too…
@snowcat - I suppose I could have them downgrade me but unless they give the option to choose which buffering schema to use or fix it for everyone I will be permanently downgraded.
Bug report after updating to this firmware 2.1.18
While I appreciate Tablo Supports earlier post…is that all we are going to hear on this situation?
@kennethervinyoung Very odd. We worked on this yesterday and this morning to try and reproduce this but we can’t seem to replicate this behaviour… We’ve heard of another report like this, so we’ll continue to investigate.
@DaFury We've been investigating and doing some thorough testing on the delivery of the shorter segments for live TV startup, and it appears that in some cases, it can lead to more buffering.We don't have an ETA yet, but we're looking at implementing a 'switch' to toggle the fast start for Live TV, this way users can enable the feature and to see if it works for them. I don't have too many others details to share just yet, but we absolutely intend to address this as soon as we can.
Ok…glad to hear it’s being worked. Thanks for the update.
@tablosupport Maybe a future enhancement would be to have the tablo be able to record the stream directly in MPEG2 as a option. This would free up the transcoders for realtime transcoding to H264 but for a 4 tuner device you could only watch on 4 devices at a time. The 2 tuner would suffer even more as it would have only 2 streams available.
@tablosupport Maybe a future enhancement would be to have the tablo be able to record the stream directly in MPEG2 as a option. This would free up the transcoders for realtime transcoding to H264 but for a 4 tuner device you could only watch on 4 devices at a time. The 2 tuner would suffer even more as it would have only 2 streams available.The bad news is almost no devices support MPEG2 video streams, Maybe another alternative is to maintain the streams as 1080i but the roku for instance only supports progressive video.
Would eat space like crazy …
@ericgus It would use about twice the space it does now. Like I said, the biggest problem is that nothing would be able to play the streams directly, Plex could consume them and for users that like to download their shows it would be cool, maybe a few smart tv’s would be able to accept the streams but that isn’t a given.
@Davidvr An interesting thought! I’ll pass it along 