What TV app do you use to record "live" TV and access VOD?
YouTubeTV is getting rude and inserting commercials on recordings that don't already have them.
We have been using Tablo TV https://www.tablotv.com/ for probably about 10 years. You can just plug in any external hard drive drive to it and there are multiple TV tuner versions. Playback is on anything that their app is on such as Samsung TV or Roku. And then we use Plex for downloaded files. - Adrian Gordinier
On Feb 5, 2024, at 9:58 AM, Jonathan Hutchins hutchins@tarcanfel.org wrote:
What TV app do you use to record "live" TV and access VOD?
YouTubeTV is getting rude and inserting commercials on recordings that don't already have them.
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I try to use invidious these days: Invidious Instances - Invidious Documentation https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
It's not a "TV App" though, or, I'm not sure what TV App means. invidius is an alternate frontend to youtube, without ads. Combine with Redirector ( https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ ) and you can even browse/search via youtube or someone send you a youtube link, but right as it starts to load their add-bloated player, it redirects you to invidius' add free version.
On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 10:29 AM Adrian Gordinier adrian@gordinier.net wrote:
We have been using Tablo TV https://www.tablotv.com/ for probably about 10 years. You can just plug in any external hard drive drive to it and there are multiple TV tuner versions. Playback is on anything that their app is on such as Samsung TV or Roku. And then we use Plex for downloaded files.
- Adrian Gordinier
On Feb 5, 2024, at 9:58 AM, Jonathan Hutchins hutchins@tarcanfel.org wrote:
What TV app do you use to record "live" TV and access VOD?
YouTubeTV is getting rude and inserting commercials on recordings that don't already have them.
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On 2024-02-05 10:28, Adrian Gordinier wrote:
We have been using Tablo TV https://www.tablotv.com/ for probably about 10 years. You can just plug in any external hard drive drive to it and there are multiple TV tuner versions. Playback is on anything that their app is on such as Samsung TV or Roku. And then we use Plex for downloaded files.
- Adrian Gordinier
On Feb 5, 2024, at 9:58 AM, Jonathan Hutchins hutchins@tarcanfel.org wrote:
What TV app do you use to record "live" TV and access VOD?
Thanks for the response.
huh. So you're looking for a *Roku App* it sounds more like.
The Roku built in/stock media player app can read upnp servers. I have used that functionality briefly and it did work, even over a vpn to datacenter. It's the same app that would play an mp4 file from a usb stick plugged into the roku.
You could combine that with yt-dlp to download your favorite channels to a fileserver (without ads) and watch them on your Roku via the media player app. it can sort by time so you see most recent first, but you will admittedly need a lot of storage.
It would surprise me not, if the various MythTV, Sage, Boxee, include a ytdlp component or plugin.
I also wrote a Roku Command script that takes place of the remote, and another that plays on Roku whatever url you provide assuming its one of the limited compatible formats. I believe you can even send it urls to google's youtube cdn objects, and stream the mp4's directly into your roku without ads.
sorry my scripts are a bit crusty. and note, that you must call the roku by IP, not dns name, in the event you have proper DNS at home. an http hostname squirrels it up. with my commands you can turn the tv on from standby (off-looking) state, and start any app on it. The api it uses can also give you status info of the roku.
I've never used YoutubeTV I don't think. I thought it was a paid service like YoutubeRed or Youtube Plus or something.
On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 10:37 AM Jonathan Hutchins hutchins@tarcanfel.org wrote:
On 2024-02-05 10:28, Adrian Gordinier wrote:
We have been using Tablo TV https://www.tablotv.com/ for probably about 10 years. You can just plug in any external hard drive drive to it and there are multiple TV tuner versions. Playback is on anything that their app is on such as Samsung TV or Roku. And then we use Plex for downloaded files.
- Adrian Gordinier
On Feb 5, 2024, at 9:58 AM, Jonathan Hutchins hutchins@tarcanfel.org wrote:
What TV app do you use to record "live" TV and access VOD?
Thanks for the response.
-- Jonathan _______________________________________________ KCLUG mailing list KCLUG@kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug
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