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tivo premiere and readynas transcoding
I just discovered readynas and have a question. i was thinking of geting the 422 model. I’m aware that you can take shows from tivo premiere and archive to NAS and then put them back on tivo. But ca...
the readydlna seems to be what i was looking for. id love to move all my videos to a NAS then just use my tivo premiere to pull them and have the NAS transcode just like pytivo does for me now from my laptop.
would like to free up laptop space as well.
i'm hoping someone on the forum has a tivo premiere and can report theyve done this as i've read about some issues with netgear and tivos but i believe they were the newer ones like bolt. not my old premiere.
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im having a problem on my new nas 422. i made a new folder called plex and even installed plex of course. i also made a folder called tivo which i think tivo can back up into but thats not my concern right now.
i put tv shows in a few of the folders (just to be sure) and the folders all show up on tivo but none of the files in the folders show up. i thought maybe the naming was the issue so i renamed the one file david.mp4 which i'm assuming would be considered valid by tivo and/or plex since no special characters like sometimes files have. also the file plays thru plex on the web interface
i admit i have NO clue how any of this works between plex and tivo and i'm grasping at straws and looking at the manual there is really no documentation about this. but since the folders are visible on tivo i think i did most of this right. any idea why i cannot see any files?
in each folder i did click on the dlna option and its green if that matters
luckyinpa wrote:
in each folder i did click on the dlna option and its green if that matters
Plex is not the same as ReadyDLNA, so clicking that option will have no effect on Plex.
I don't have a Tivo, so I don't think I can help much. But I do know that it's not enough to just install plex - you also need to install a plex app for Tivo. There's more information here: https://support.tivo.com/articles/App_Information/Plex-App-Information
You might find it easier to troubleshoot this by installing the plex server on a PC - then adjust the NAS setup after you've figured it all out.
thanks for the link to tivo. this is the point i'm at:
1. tivo has archived some of the shows it has recorded, onto the NAS. however it has not archived them all. for instance if i have 3 recordings of the news, it only archived 1. any idea why?
2. in the past i used tivo to pull shows from my laptop and it transcodes with pytivo. those shows that reside on the tivo are NOT archived back to NAS. so somehow they are excluded. of course i know i have the source until i delete it manually but still i'm curious why it doesnt archive.
3. i still cannot get on tivo and go to the NAS folder and see any of my downloaded shows from my laptop that i transfered to the NAS. this is critically important to me and one of the goals of getting NAS
4. i installed the plex app on tivo. the interface stinks compared to tivo and i dont like the startup time of the app and the inability to see the shows along with my tivo list. the FF and rewind features are very clunky. BUT, i was able to put even MKV files in the plex/tivo library and they were able to be played thru tivo but using the plex interface/app. I dont know if i can get used to that way of looking at my shows since i prefer direct tivo access but if i cannot figure out how to import shows to tivo directly, i guess i'm stuck. i wanted to move all movies and shows over to NAS to take the load off my laptop.
4a: while the goal was using plex to transcode to tivo and using the tivo interface, not plex app, id consider manually using anyvideo converter to convert to tivo format then putting in the tivo folder on NAS IF i could get tivo to import that kind of file but i need help there since it wont even let me see the videos in the folders while viewing thru tivo
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