We need automatic refresh rate on Android TV

Channels Android TV
#22

Have a 2017 Sony TV. Was having similar issues.

To solve the issue for me, In the channels app on the Sony TV i went to Settings > Streaming Quality > Original Quality Delivery > Stream. I get upto 2 slight stutters while the live buffers (first 30 sec of playback?) then is good as gold.

Edit: I got confused who I was replying too, but i think this info might still be useful.

In contrast to your experience, I've gone from the HDHomeRun DVR service (3rd), to Plex (4th, by far the worst), to NextPVR (2nd) to ChannelsDVR (so far, 1st)

With plex, deleting shows is not easy. It makes sense really - its a media server, not a native DVR, but that means going into a menu and going down 6 or 7 options to delete a show. In my time, the Guide data changed twice, breaking all existing recordings. The worst part is that recordings would randomly appear and disappear on the guide. You would genuinely not know if you had recorded something.

The HDHomeRun DVR system had its issues. Guide data would just disappear. I gave up on it after it started to crash regularly on an Android 12 client.

NextPVR was so so close. However, I tried both the Linux and Windows backends. Windows would crash after 5 - 8 days, needing a manual restart of the machine. It would often do this in the middle of the night, meaning morning recordings were lost. The Linux backend had a memory leak for me, that slowed down the client to a crawl (the server rendered the client image for nextPVR). Shame as it only asked for a donation and had some really neat features. Edit: i also remember the deinterlacing was SHOCKING like genuinely terrible on non HD channels.

So far, the only way i've found to "break" channels DVR is to hold down right on the guide. the selection will eventually get lost needing you to press back. I'll finish 2 months then see if the year is worth it.

#23

All too late for me now, sub expired on 31st Jan so I couldn't try any new troubleshooting measures now.

Back to Plex for me as it's bought and paid for and it seems a little better than when I last relied on it a year ago, still with its own problems but then so is Channels, might start tinkering with TVHeadend again.

The main issue for me I think was Channels inability to deal with 50Hz content on 60Hz displays. Even the basic HDHomeRun app could manage it.

Also it's still a few button presses to delete (or "trash") a recording on Channels so that's a bit of a moot point (more so if the Channels app has "forgotten" that you were already in the programmes "watch" menu with the trash button right there then you have to go through finding the show and going through the explore menu...).

I think I'm done with paying because if there's not a more or less perfect solution in comparison to paying for Sky (I remember paying them a tenner a month years ago just for the recording facility and, well, it just worked so I got what I paid for) or having a Freeview or Freesat box - which Channels, as a premium paid for service is certainly not, then I may as well just make do with what I've already got or what else might be out there (TvHeadend etc.)).