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moronim · (This post was last modified: 2016-01-17, 07:39 by moronim.)

Is there any chance serverWMC and / or pvr.wmc will support the live TV time shift/buffer indication that was introduced in Jarvis?

I stumbled across this thread which provides a some details of the feature request:
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=226287

However, in order for this to be supported the skin and the associated pvr pieces both have to have this implemented.

I noticed that the Titan skin supports this for Jarvis, now hoping that the PVR side I use can do the same.

Also here is a link to the PR to support this: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/7536

Thanks for considering it!!!

krustyreturns · 2016-01-17, 19:20

This is news to me. I would love to see this too. What do you think @scarecrow420?

moronim · 2016-01-17, 19:38

GREAT - thanks, Krusty! Looks like not many people were aware of it either (except for the tvheadend and vnsi backend folks which support it). Glad to see this is something you'd like as well!

scarecrow420 · 2016-01-19, 15:02

Im just not sure if we are able to implement or not, it seems like we need to provide info about when timeshifting started, what position the user is currently at etc. Since we are just handing off the file to Kodi to play, are we even aware of where the user is currently watching, whether they are paused or fast forwarding or whatever?

krustyreturns · (This post was last modified: 2016-01-19, 19:22 by krustyreturns.)

Kodi should know where in time it is currently playing from or paused at, so it seems like all it would need from serverwmc is how far backward and forward in time the live buffer extends to, and we can provide that.

I am travelling right now so have trouble looking up what is required in the api. Do you have a link?

scarecrow420 · (This post was last modified: 2016-01-20, 02:59 by scarecrow420.)

The way it looks to me is that WE need to provide the timeshift buffer start, end and the PlayingTime (current) position, as well as the boolean IsTimeShifting() which causes Kodi to know that it should start to request/display these values

From the PVR API

Code:
bool IsTimeshifting() const;

time_t GetPlayingTime() const;

time_t GetBufferTimeStart() const;

time_t GetBufferTimeEnd() const;

krustyreturns · 2016-01-20, 03:59

Yeah I guess we are stuck if we have to provide the current play time. Any chance this is just an option to override kodi's play time? wishful thinking mode on...

krustyreturns · 2016-01-20, 04:00

If you can capture it in a wtv that would be interesting.

Rjsachse · 2016-08-24, 01:30

Did you get anywhere with this krusty?

krustyreturns · 2016-08-24, 04:57

The preview version of serverwmc supports this, but it also requires the pvr.wmc that is compiled with krypton. Having said all that, the skin needs to support it and last I checked I couldn't find a skin that did - but it was a long time ago when I checked. If you find out anything new let us know.

moronim · 2016-08-24, 15:57

I *think* Estuary may support this. Haven't tried myself as I'm still on the stable serverWMC version and Kodi Jarvis. Would love to hear feedback from the forum if anyone can verify whether Estuary (or other skins) support the feature.

Rjsachse · 2016-08-26, 00:37

Good because I want to add this to a skin but couldn't find a ovr addon to support this. Will have a look. And will look at estuary and if it don't have it might have to push a pr

krustyreturns · 2016-08-27, 02:53

Please let us know what you find, or if I can help.