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I have been waiting for this for a long time too. The problem is that obviously none of the skinners use PVR and cares much about this.
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Is this even possible? Never tried it and my TV cable is broken atm (Thx to my neighbour)
I would prefer an improved progress bar to indicate the timeshift and real-time position.
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+1 !
MediaPortal does this, and together with small steps (introduced in the next kodi version) I really miss this.
I changed over to kodi on my main htpc as soon as I got tv working properly and it's acceptable now, but just.
My main problems lay with what the current backend support; there hasn't been much development on that part as once it's working sort of it's enough...
Never understood what took so long to get proper PVR support in kodi anyways, now it's here and such small requests as this really make the experience a whole lot better.
This is also useful for timeshifting in livestreams at some point such as iptv.
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Have been thinking, maybe buffer indicator is a better name?
Also I think FernetMenta means PVR development keeps stalling as few devs and skinners actually use PVR.
Like I said before I never understood why xbmc came so late to the PVR party, it is really a must and while they're not lightyears behind anymore they're still far behind. Now they have to support more platforms so it might not be as easy and you have to give the devs that but with every backend there are still some serious problems. Just as example look at here;
https://github.com/manuelm/pvr.dvbviewer/issues (this use the backend I currently use as it's the best and most stable for my setup. issue #2 is just killing my setup as for my setup the buffer gets written to the ramdisk... and my HD streams are 150 MB/minute which means with a ramdisk of 6GB (out of 8GB) I can't watch a movie without changing channels at the point of the commercials. Could go on and on with examples. Just wish more people would develop PVR more; as it is it's just about acceptable and usable now.
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This is not restricted to live tv/timeshift, same is required for showing the buffer of a web stream (youtube addon).
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Was researching a bit and found some other threads here, obviously it's not the first request and you've been busy with this for quiet some time now.
Also got an additional comment, don't know how far it's related but maybe if the code is being worked on at the same time support for commercials and com skip can be added a bit like this random pic from the internet;
http://davidvielmetter.com/wp-content/up...omskip.jpg
It would allow you to see for live tv where the commercials are and how far you need to scroll. Most backends support comskip but no support is currently in the mainstream version of kodi yet. Just an idea though, not to make your live any harder
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Ah ok, nvm then
Thought they might be close related to each other.
Unfortunatly Kodi doesn't support com skip yet so hopefully in a non to distant feature
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(This post was last modified: 2015-05-28, 13:00 by da-anda.)
Nice. Thanks for working on this guys. As we already have buffer indicators for online streams, can't we simply extend this with a lower end indication? That way we wouldn't need two progress bars (which IMO clutter the UI too much and are quite confusing). Having a totally different concept for timeshift than for our other buffer indicators is IMO the wrong way.
The only downside of having the buffer indicator within the progress bar is, that when the next show begins, the progress bar will already show the info for the new show and not the info about the show that's still on in the buffer - but this info could be made match the buffer position as well I think, so you would see when you run out of buffer.
MediaPortal also handles timeshift indication within the progress bar by using different colours and IIRC it was the same for any settop box (Humax and D-BOX with Neutrino) I used so far.