My Shield records to a drive on my Win 10 computer on the same LAN just fine and has not failed so far. But I have to have to either not use a VPN, or use one that allows the Shield (or since I am using Split Tunneling, the app) to see the LAN and Surfshark doesn’t do that. I haven’t tried recording 2 simultaneously since I only have a single subscription from my IPTV service. So that would limit me from being able to do that.
I’m not sure what you are saying when you mention choosing a VPN server close to your location. What problem did that solve?
From what I have read, Proton VPN is the only decent free VPN. And no free VPN will be as good as a paid one. The free Proton VPN isn’t as good as its paid one. The free Proton VPN has many fewer options/settings and the servers you can connect to are very limited and fairly crowded.
Greetings and thanks for the reply. With the IPTV service I’m using TiviMate would not process (initialize or update) a playlist while SurfShark was active. I’m in RI and SS typically connected to a server in upstate NY. By connecting to a server closer to me (Boston) TiviMate would process the playlists but very slowly and often had to hit Retry… I had been using IPVanish for years on my PC’s so with the addition of their new Kill Switch I thought I’d install it on my Firesticks and give it a try. ‘For me’ IPVanish works way better than SS. In speed tests I get twice the speed with IPVanish working. I still have SS installed but I’ve turned off everything so it’s just dormant. Nice to have a spare - just-in-case.
For recording my provider claims to not support recording but I don’t think they can tell the difference between a stream going to a screen vs one going to a file. The service ‘says’ they support multiple streams but I’ve never been able to get a pic in pic to work seamlessly. I’ve attempted multiple recordings typically the 1st one to launch records fine with the second showing a lot of pixelation - but… this is on a fairly cheap Firestick 4k - I suspect your Shield device has a lot more horsepower that was my main question. I’m going to purchase a better device it’s just a matter of which one. Recording however is Very important to the wife so I need to come up with a way to get that done. I’d actually prefer to be able to record on/from a pc connected to the TV but have not found anything for Windows that records streams well.
Again thanks for the reply and if you have any insight to what I’m attempting to do please let me know.
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Greetings - no I had not heard of this one previously but as we speak I’ve downloaded the free vers (3/25/25) and installing now - on a first pass it loaded a HUGE .m3u file from an IPTV provider which chokes some players. My goal eventually is to have a much managed .m3u file containing only the items I’d ever wish to record. - Thanks for the tip - I’ll write a review eventually.