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Not that I have noticed. For me it’s less than a second for a seek so I don’t notice it.
Maybe try some different stream types. TS streams will work better than m3u8 generally. Some m3u8 stream can require a lead in so can cause a delay on seek.
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Sorry to hijack this thread, but didn't want to create an identical one...
i am having issue with choppy playback with time shift enabled, to the point where i cant watch the channels. i have a few installs on old S905x boxes with Matrix Beta 2, and they work fine with time shift, but i just tried to set this up on my new android TV, and time-shift is not working well at all. if i disable time-shift playback is smooth, turn it back on an channels are not watchable freezing and stuttering. are there some things i can check / optimize, or is it likely my TV CPU (i don't know what CPU it is) is simply not up to the task?
Thanks!
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It could be your TV. The timeshift feature uses a local on disk buffer for storage and reads/writes a lot of data. It’s likely the TV was not designed for this kind of read/write operation and may be struggling. So more likely storage than CPU. But very hard to tell on a TV.
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2020-12-29, 01:01
(This post was last modified: 2020-12-29, 14:06 by thecubasekid.)
I got it to work well on the TV!!!
i found that my VPN broke my Ethernet connection and was forcing the TV to connect through WIFI. Every time VPN connected Ethernet was suddenly disconnected and the TV re-connected with WIFI. if i disbaled WIFI, as soon as VPN tried to connect Ethernet would disconnect and refuse to recognize i had a cable plugged in. i got around this by setting a static IP on my TV Ethernet connection instead of DHCP, and disabling WiFi and now VPN connects through Ethernet and time shift works writing its buffer to a large smb share. i guess the ROM in my TV has some bugs in it, anyhow...very happy.
fyi if anyone is interested or having network issues, my TV is a Toshiba 49UA3A63DB. setting IP to static on Ethernet was the fix!
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Glad to hear you got it working.