SimonP
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SimonP's post in Plex - trouble playing 4K videos and adding a TV tuner was marked as the answerTo update:
Plex Pass seems to have resolved the buffering problem by allowing hardware decoding, although the CPU still runs at 60% when playing 2160p @ 60fps.
In case anyone else wants to install a TBS tuner card, with help from ChatGPT I did the following:
Go to Tools > System Devices. Look under PCI Devices and IOMMU Groups to confirm the TBS6281SE is detected.
Unraid Web UI > Plugins. Click Install Plugin and paste:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ich777/unraid-dvb-driver/master/dvb-driver.plg
Click Install.
Go to Settings > DVB Driver, select TBS-Open Source.
Reboot UnRaid
ls /dev/dvb shows adapter0 adapter1
dmesg | grep -i dvb should show the TBS card initialized.
Edit the Plex container and enable Advanced View
Scroll down to Extra Parameters and add --device=/dev/dvb
(If there’s already something in this field (like --runtime=nvidia), just add a space and then paste --device=/dev/dvb.)
Go to Plex Web UI.
Navigate to Settings > Live TV & DVR.
It should now detect your TBS tuner.
Proceed to scan channels and set up DVR.
That worked and plays SD channels nicely but it doesn't see the DVB-T2 (HD) tuners. Apparently this is a known problem in Plex, not helped by my tuner not being in the approved list.
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SimonP's post in Audio and network issues was marked as the answerAh-ha, with the aid of that video and ChatGPT I've got it working!
In Network Settings I set Enable Bridging to yes, added both adaptors to 'Bridging members of br0:', set my normal static address, pressed 'Done', restarted the array and now I have a single network cable connecting the two computers and one from the UnRaid server to the switch, with UnRaid passing the Internet connection through to my PC while giving me fast file transfers between the two computers, exactly as I'd hoped.
It looks like the problem was not adding the second adaptor to 'Bridging members of br0:' - obvious in retrospect but he didn't do that in the video and for some reason it wasn't working at first.
Thank you so much for your help, I really appreciate it and as I become more familiar with UnRaid I hope to pass on my experience to others.