It’ll never happen, just get used to DPL2
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There must be a technical issue here.
I wish the developers of Tablo would shed some light on this. If that’s the case, would it be possible for Tablo to enable a … Non-trascode feature maybe under an advanced setting? Just save the raw OTA steam to disk for us enthusiast, that use Tablo Ripper etc. to be able to pull the un-altered MPEG-2 stream? This way we can keep AC3? I would think that something along those lines would be possible, and satisfy the enthusiast even more so that use MCEbuddy/Plex etc anyways.
Any help retaining the original MPEG-2 stream with AC3 would be appreciated.
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Can we get a Tablo Representative response please?
They might respond, but frankly this question is asked so many times on so many threads and they’ve answered it so many times… that… well… they might not answer… you know?
With the existing device you will never see the epensive non-streamable mpeg2 streams (an oxymoron). That’s a given.
However, they have said that there might be a way to do 5.1. Myself, with my own technical knowledge, I say “no”. And so far it has been an effective “no”.
I swear there has been official response on this issue from Tablo in this thread. Too many posts to scrol through.
This was posted in Aug 2015.
Time and hours from chip providers? So they must be talking the ASIC’s SIP encoder(s). Which is why I asked about retaining original MPEG2 stream.
I find it hard to believe that an non re-encoded stream (untouched MPEG2) can’t simply be saved to disk, but perhaps not?
Well… a few things would be required. Sure, save to disk (takes lots of space… but sure… can be done).
But… does it make sense to do that if Tablo makes no provision for retrieval of it?
Sure… there are 3rd party community things that could be augmented for this maybe, but I think if Tablo were to do this, they’d want there to be a way to get at the data somehow, and that’s something else they’d have to write.
I just think it’s not exactly what this Tablo generation model was all about, so very very very unlikely.
And this is the ONLY reason I have not bought one yet. I want the 5.1.
Guess I just keep getting torrents, and /or TiVo
Just have way to much invested for 2 channel audio…
You’ll get older, and not be able to hear the difference.
Just speaking from experience. 
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Im already old !! LOL
This is why it would be nice if it was listed under an advance/expert (even state not recommend) feature. Possibly with a support link explanation. Looking a the “TabloRipper” thread, its quit obvious that a lot of people would appreciate the option. It would produce less heat, consume less power, improve MCEbuddy re-ecode/trans-code quality, add surround sound support, and make more people than you realize happy. Yes it might consume a little more space, but the extra space is a non issue for us advanced users…
I was once those quite sideline Tablo thread readers, I’ve upgraded to participant in recognition that a lot of us want this support, yet are too lazy to even ask.
So now I’m adding myself to the list of customers asking for AC3 support, yet stating that we would still prefer non-native AC3 support, in recognition that native AC3 support most likely will never surface.
Please Tablo, don’t you think it would be nice if those searching the threads for AC3 support, actually ran into a viable option for AC3 vs a flat NO?
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I vote this!
I use my Homeworx for recording programs where 5:1 matters most like musical specials, etc. For most of my viewing I don’t miss it.
JerryG said: I use my Homeworx for recording programs where 5:1 matters most like musical specials, etc. For most of my viewing I don’t miss it.
How does that work? Do you plug that in before the Tablo? After??
It is a separate DVR. It doesn’t connect to the Tablo at all.
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Was watching “Celtic Women: Destiny” (PBS) on the Homeworx the other night. Great picture, super sound, beautiful music.
BTW talking about flash vs drive for the Homeworx. I noticed that even with a 3.0 USB flash, I would still get an occasional hiccup. Several weeks ago I noticed a guy running on the ten yard line and a millisecond later he had scored.
So I looked again at the flash vs drive issue and noticed people saying that drives have a larger buffer area. So speed isn’t necessarily the only factor in recording streams. I replaced my 3.0 flash with a 2.0 drive I had handy and no hiccups at all. However this drive has a large buffer cache that compensates for fast streaming.
I know you have a super fast flash. Mine was fast but not the fastest.
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Can’t beat pure OTA HDMI. I’m using a USB 3.0 128GB SanDisk “Ultra”. Plenty of storage for hours of playback. I noticed the Homeworx specs limited storage to 64 GB. Not so. Working beautifully, nary a hiccup. Forget what I tried previously but it was a disaster.
Love the portability of a flash drive. I load it up with recordings from Homeworx then plug in and play back on PC via VLC media player when I"m on the road. As you say, great pic.
Homeworx is a separate DVR selling for 29.95 on line. Kinda clunky, single channel only, and not very user friendly but ultimately gets the job done of recording OTA with direct HDMI output for great recording quality with 5:1 audio and instantaneous live channel switching. I’m using 1080I resolution which is max for my somewhat ancient 50" plasma (still tops IMNSHO). .
Quite a few guys here, like myself, are using it to supplement their Tablo experience.
Fills in some gaps that are glaringly absent from Tablo…
I don’t know how you feel about chains the Tablo puts on a drive, but like you I love the freedom of unplugging storage from the Homeworx and plugging it in elsewhere. The song and dance one has to go through to replace or upgrade a drive on a Tablo, the inability to take it out of the Tablo and stick it in another machine is positively North Korean! I though the whole idea of USB was stick it in and pull it out anytime anywhere without fear and trembling.
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