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2018-06-01, 05:31
(This post was last modified: 2018-06-03, 20:09 by tjharris.)
One thing Mythfrontend does extremely well is working very poorly for me in Kodi (librelec, Kodi Leia, mythtv dvr). Basically, what I'm referring to is when you start recording something, like a basketball game and then start viewing it one hour into the game. With Mythfrontend, the end time keeps increasing as more is recorded and I keep getting closer to live tv as I skip through commercials. But, with Kodi, the end time stays as whatever it was when I started the game, and the skip ahead behavior seems to get skewed as I skip ahead further into the program.
Is this just a limitation, or are there any settings changes or tuning needed to 'time shift'? This is a pretty core function for DVR usage, so I'm hoping this has improved since I last tried Kodi over a year ago.
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Hi, not really. The end time still to progress and you can watch a current recording in progess until end. The only limitation is when you skip forward ahead the player can stop the playing as you are at the current end. But playing ahead works as expected.
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2018-08-01, 12:01
(This post was last modified: 2018-08-01, 12:07 by LeKodeur.)
Well ... no, not really as 'would be expected'.
Scenario:
- Use timer to record a show.
- Show starting, recording starting.
- After one hour recording, go to 'Default' recordings and start watching the show.
- Watch recording for 15 minutes.
- Use Fast Forward to move forward 1 hour (should be OK because by now there is 1hr + 15 minutes = 75 minutes of recording on the HDD)
- When coming closer to the 1 hour mark (using Fast Forward) the time-skip function only skips a maximum of a few seconds at a time (about 8 sec on my system) even if you try skipping 1 minute. This should not be happening as there is more than 15 minutes of recording left on the HDD.
- The last 15 minutes can only be Fast Forward 8 seconds at a time until catching-up with real-time broadcast.
So it seems that there is a timing calculation performed when you first 'open' the recording, which in the above scenario example takes into consideration that there is one-hour of recording material. However, the Fast Forward function does not account for the extra recording material recorded after starting to watch the recording (i.e. now there is more than 1 hr recorded). The recording length calculation only accounts for the total recording material on the HDD to be 1 hr when it is really 1 hr and 15 minutes (in above scenario). I would not say that this is expected PVR behaviour ... there is something wrong somewhere with how the length of the actual recording on the HDD is evaluated during Fast Forward (not refreshed).
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This bug has been fixed in addon release 5.8.2 (kodi v18)
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Fantastic ... will give it a go tonight when I get home (if addon update available) and will report back - thanks for your efforts!
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2018-08-20, 11:25
(This post was last modified: 2018-08-20, 11:27 by LeKodeur.)
Your package kodi-pvr-mythtv-dev for rev 5.8.2 still does not load successfully in kodi V18 (for Ubuntu Bionic). The packages install OK (.dev and .dev.dbg) but won't start with Kodi and is automatically disabled.
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2018-08-22, 15:09
(This post was last modified: 2018-08-25, 09:30 by LeKodeur.)
Seems perhaps the developers have broken Kodi? Some of the Live-TV controls have gone missing since the last 2 Kodi 18.0 updates (in last few days)? Changed skins and went back to 5.8.1 but makes no difference ... so seems Kodi has a new live-TV bug. The missing Live-TV (PVR) controls play/pause, skip forward, skip backwards, fast forward and rewind work OK with other video play modes (movies, TV shows, recorded TV, YouTube, video addons, etc). Has anyone else noticed or is it just me?
Edit: Forum Moderator, please remove this post as I'm currently getting nightly updates of Kodi 18.0. My apologies. Thanks