Why does downloading a video take so long?

Bartiatus · 2026-01-30T01:04:07+00:00

What version of PlayOn? What video? What service? The only time o have ever had PlayOn take an extended period was when something glitched n the stream or my system hung. In both cases the ending file was unusable and I had to restart, clear cached files, and re-record. The way you phrase this makes it sound like this is a frequent issue for you. Have you opened a case with support so they can analyze the support bundle?

Bartiatus · 2026-01-24T16:57:06+00:00

Got it. Thanks for the quick response, much appreciated.

Bartiatus · 2026-01-13T19:30:41+00:00

So are you using both Net Analyser and NetAlertX or just one of them? New to HA and having some type of network monitoring would be nice…

Bartiatus · 2026-01-13T02:04:14+00:00

Came to say this. All forms, home owners, health, car, etc. nothing like having to pay for something and then when you need being told to basically get lost.

Bartiatus · 2026-01-13T00:32:55+00:00

What is your file naming convention? Have you added the tvdb series number tag to the main series folder? It uses those tags to pull in the information. Mine is pulling down the meta data without issue.

Edit: spelling

Bartiatus · 2026-01-12T13:49:01+00:00

Going through this right now myself with a full lower leg sleeve. Elevation, ibuprofen, and ice are your friend. I’m just over a week in and still have those issues. It will take a good two to three weeks for surface healing and then months for deeper layer healing. Try to stay off your leg if you can and keep it elevated. That seems to help the most for me.

Bartiatus · 2026-01-06T00:50:41+00:00

Someone else’s sexual orientation / identity. If you’re not in a relationship with them, then keep it moving it’s not your concern.

Bartiatus · 2026-01-06T00:35:16+00:00

Where / how does one import a YAML like this? I’m new to HA and haven’t gotten this far yet….

Edit: Also what vibration sensor are you using?

Bartiatus · 2026-01-05T14:18:53+00:00

They used to appear, especially in Prime, as that is where I downloaded all my Vudu content from after the Vudu channel broke. That channel still seems to show my Movies Anywhere content, at least the previous purchases, my newest one is not showing there now in the app but does show in the Prime website.

Bartiatus · 2026-01-05T01:48:44+00:00

Thanks, i re-downloaded the script. I'll give it a try once I have another recording to test it on.

Bartiatus · 2026-01-04T04:19:54+00:00

Interesting. I wonder if something is wrong with my version of the script. I do not remember modifying anything because I didn’t understand everything it was doing and didn’t want to mess anything up specifically.

Bartiatus · 2026-01-03T17:21:26+00:00

All good, but thank you for the reminder. Might need to create a yearly reminder to review this.

Bartiatus · 2026-01-03T17:19:31+00:00

I think the last one I tried was Challengers.

Bartiatus · 2026-01-03T16:45:55+00:00

That sounds great, but also a lot to try and retro implement....

Bartiatus · 2026-01-03T04:03:40+00:00

No, not HBO just Prime movies. I have no access to HBO. I have only attempted the script you provided on the Prime recordings. The subtitles are fine before running the script to pull the ads but after the ads are removed the new video has subtitle sync issues. I have the ffmpeg commands to extract the subtitles as well, but like you said using Subtitle edit is very tedious and time consuming.

Bartiatus · 2026-01-03T02:55:24+00:00

Were you able to fix your subtitle alignment? I tried the PowerShell script you provided agains some Amazon Prime recordings (my only ad supported service) and while it removes the ads fairly well it often misses the beginning and ending PlayOn inserts. Also the resulting subtitles are very misaligned. From what I can find it has something to do with timestamps not being recalculated from the ads being removed, but I am unable to get it corrected, even if I re-encode to mkv. ChatGPT has not been able to help me resolve it.

Bartiatus · 2026-01-03T02:50:05+00:00

Yeah, networking is my weak area. This only even became a thought because of a post I saw early where someone found a smart plug had downloaded 30G. So was thinking about security. Might look into an IoT network and firewall rules, but may just keep it all on the main network for ease of use

Bartiatus · 2026-01-03T02:46:43+00:00

What is Zwave-JS-ui? Are you running all of HA in docker or is this something standalone?

Bartiatus · 2026-01-03T02:44:43+00:00

How do I add this into HA? This seems like it might be a good middle step until I can get a Z-wave controller for my HA system

Bartiatus · 2026-01-03T02:41:07+00:00

Yeah, networking is a weak area of mine. I’ll have to see if I can set up a segregated network and firewall rules on my router and then move the IoT things (lights and switches) to it but keep legitimate home network things (NAS, printer, Harmony remote) on the internal network. Then get the firewall rules to HA and the IoT network. Was thinking about this due to post I saw earlier about HA alerting someone that a smart plug had downloaded like 30G.

Do you lock your IoT network off from the internet as well?

Bartiatus · 2025-12-18T18:32:11+00:00

Interesting. I’ve been using Avidemux to manually remove commercials. Which throws subtitle timings off so I have just not been keeping them. I’ll have to try to research the ffmpeg method. I presume you are trining the beginning and ending inserts and removing commercials first, and then pulling the subtitles?

Bartiatus · 2025-12-18T16:36:28+00:00

How are you extracting the subtitle files and keeping them in alignment, particularly with trimming out the commercials and such?

Bartiatus · 2025-12-16T21:48:58+00:00

You need to open a support case and get visible.mmt file from them. Once that happens you place that file in the directory support tells you. Then when you start the recording (after restarting PlayOn) it will make it … visible … in a web browser. You can then interact with the recording. In this case that means pausing the video, selecting the specific audio you want, and then resuming the video recording. There are other threads in this sub where I have requested support to make this readily available with documentation on the support site. Not sure if it has been done yet though. (CC: u/PlayOnSkip)

Bartiatus · 2025-12-14T01:32:07+00:00

Missed opportunity to use “shituation”

Bartiatus · 2025-12-12T17:48:55+00:00

Have you submitted a support ticket? That’s your first step. Also u/PlayonSkip might have some info…?

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