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2015-11-25, 03:48
(This post was last modified: 2015-11-25, 03:51 by Big Aero.)
I'm running latest tvheadend with pvr.hts 2.2.9 on Openelec 6 - Kodi 16b2.
I get constant live tv lock ups when I either skip back or rewind, I then have to press stop and start the tv channel again - completely defeating the point of timeshit.
This has been an issue ever since Kodi 15, on 14 I used the negge pvr.tvh 0.9.8 client and that worked.
Does timeshift work for any of you guys running Openelec 6?
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Nope for me it also locks up. First it starts but after a few seconds it stops with buffering message.
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Same thing here. It has been working fine for a short period of time when using pvr.tvh.
Watching and pausing works as expected but skipping/rewinding/fastforwarding brings me back to the beginning of the timeshift buffer.
I'm always running Milhouse's newest builds hoping that one day it will be fixed.
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Same here. Completely unusable.
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2015-11-28, 22:55
(This post was last modified: 2015-12-08, 18:00 by Nachteule.)
Not really completely unusable - but very very unreliable.
Seems I have to return to vdr - there is timeshift really bulletproofed
Kodi 18.6 @ openSUSE 13.1 x86_64 - Asus E35M1-I DELUXE | 8GB Ram | 240G 2.5" SSD
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should maybe try VDR then, is it hard to setup?
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For me it has never worked properly.
The only scenario in which it functions, is when I pause and then resume once. If I re-pause, fast-forward or try to skip something, the stream always halts. So it's always been pretty unusable for me. I'm running tvheadend on a Debian Linux x64 machine with regular updates from the git master source, with up to date Kodi versions the last few years. I haven't really tried it with Jarvis though.
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I thought the whole timeshift process was rewritten in TVH 4.0 or at least should be?
Does anyone know when timeshift will be working again?
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Yea, me too. I've been tracking git for Kodi, TVHeadend, and the pvr addon. The issues described have been happening for a long time. I gave up and just turned off timeshifting at the server. Otherwise I'd occasionally make the mistake to timeshift and it'd hang.
It would definitely be nice to have it working.
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In my humble opinion never ... it's so sad... tvheadend is a good software for a tv-streaming-server and i love it, but i gave it up to post debuglogs and try to help for improving the timeshift-feature... i offered my help serveral times, but with only a few C skills its so hard to understand the sourcecode
furthermore there are so much requests but no response from the developers...
if there is an working timeshift i would spend 10€ per month for the project; its not a nice to have feature, but one of the biggest advantages and reason for having a tv server...
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There is a bug that will cause TVH to crash if you enable timeshifting to RAM and then fast forward past the current point in time. Setting RAM timeshift size to 0 makes it stable for me. This is using Kodi Jarvis beta 3 and TVH 4.1.
I've only been using Kodi/TVH for about a week. Coming from MediaPortal I find the timeshift to be sadly lacking in functionality, but at least it seems to be fairly stable as long as I turn off RAM buffering.
