2012-01-16, 22:25
Hi Partypeople,
one of the most requested and used function for me and my wife (you know - WAF ) is the timeshifting while recording .. this function is atm not natively supported .. BUT there is a little circuit to get it without massive C++ hacking ..
put the DVR path location of TVHeadend to a directory that is accessible by XBMC. Then simply stop LiveTV [not recording ], go to Videos -> Files -> your TV directory and - yes - press simply play you'll see that the end time / duration of the video increases while playing .. and if you reach the end, it stops .. [I used MKV for recording, don't know if that matters] ..
you can test playing the file from the records menu but I discovered that this is much more unstable and breaks XBMC at least if you reach end of file ..
Don't know if this works with other PVR Backends ..
Now 'XBMC + PVR supports at this experimental stage everything a good PVR needs
Btw. I'd like to see a XBMC function to copy recordings to "regular" Video / Film directories / locations .. if you delete a recording it's really gone (totally okay) .. so moving would help to keep and organize recordings ...
So long
LastCoder
one of the most requested and used function for me and my wife (you know - WAF ) is the timeshifting while recording .. this function is atm not natively supported .. BUT there is a little circuit to get it without massive C++ hacking ..
put the DVR path location of TVHeadend to a directory that is accessible by XBMC. Then simply stop LiveTV [not recording ], go to Videos -> Files -> your TV directory and - yes - press simply play you'll see that the end time / duration of the video increases while playing .. and if you reach the end, it stops .. [I used MKV for recording, don't know if that matters] ..
you can test playing the file from the records menu but I discovered that this is much more unstable and breaks XBMC at least if you reach end of file ..
Don't know if this works with other PVR Backends ..
Now 'XBMC + PVR supports at this experimental stage everything a good PVR needs
Btw. I'd like to see a XBMC function to copy recordings to "regular" Video / Film directories / locations .. if you delete a recording it's really gone (totally okay) .. so moving would help to keep and organize recordings ...
So long
LastCoder