2013-03-09, 19:33
The timeshift buffer is a ringbuffer. It will start overwriting the contents at the beginning once reached the end. In case yo have paused playback and the write pointer reaches current position it has to drop new packets.
You can navigate the entire buffer. Consider the buffer is full and you have 30 min content, seeking at the beginning brings to to time X. Then you watch some video and navigate forward. If you navigate to the beginning 5 minutes later, you get time X + 5 min becuase the write pointer moved forward.
A 1080i@50 recording of 2 hours has something between 10-12 gig. In this case you won't get far with 500MB. You may want it set close to 2 gig.
I think I need to increase the read cache for the file method. It worked ok on my dedicated vdr server but I has problems on the other machine using a USB HDD.
Thanks for the info with other skins. I will look into it, it should not crash.
You can navigate the entire buffer. Consider the buffer is full and you have 30 min content, seeking at the beginning brings to to time X. Then you watch some video and navigate forward. If you navigate to the beginning 5 minutes later, you get time X + 5 min becuase the write pointer moved forward.
A 1080i@50 recording of 2 hours has something between 10-12 gig. In this case you won't get far with 500MB. You may want it set close to 2 gig.
I think I need to increase the read cache for the file method. It worked ok on my dedicated vdr server but I has problems on the other machine using a USB HDD.
Thanks for the info with other skins. I will look into it, it should not crash.
