Shared buffer between clients

[danny.bcn87]

Hello,

I would like to know if it's possible to enable any option to share the buffer from the same channel on two or more clients.
My idea is start viewing a channel on one device, then turn on the second device and shutdown the first device.

The current behaivour is that every client has it's own buffer, so when I start the streaming on the second device I can only seek back the stream few seconds (since I started the streaming on the second device)

I'm using the native client for Apple TV and the website.



Regards,
Danny

[pkscout]

Pretty sure the answer is no. That would be a kind of fundamental change to the way Live TV buffering works.

[BrettB]

I would like to know if it's possible to enable any option to share the buffer from the same channel on two or more clients.
My idea is start viewing a channel on one device, then turn on the second device and shutdown the first device.

The current behaivour is that every client has it's own buffer, so when I start the streaming on the second device I can only seek back the stream few seconds (since I started the streaming on the second device)

I'm using the native client for Apple TV and the website.

I don't have an Apple TV, so I don't know if this would work for you or not. But if I recall correctly, when you are watching Live TV, you can press the record button and then NextPVR will save the current program (including available buffers and the rest of the show to the end per the guide).

So, at least theoretically, you would be able to go to the other client and play the recording. (I don't know if NextPVR saves a resume point for the current time when it writes out the buffers or when you stop watching a Live program which was then marked to have the recording saved. I'm guessing not since this is a pretty fringe case.)

Your best bet if you know you wanted to do this in advance would be to just do a quick record rather than a live tv to begin with. Then play the recording on the first tv. You should then be able to stop playing the recording on that TV and go to the next TV to resume playing the recording (which should start at the point where you stopped watching on the first TV). And you would still be able to go back in the recording to the point where you started the quick record.

[mvallevand]

Recordings start from when you click record, the buffer is ignored. Sub did have an optional EPG mode in v4 but he was never really partial to it and it was dropped in the netcore conversion.

I do have a utility called Stitch that would do this but I didn't update it for v6. When you hit record it would search back for the longest buffer based on the current show. I thought I might do an update over the winter but it seems even with the polar vortex I didn't find the time. It is hard to work on utilities that no one uses. I was hoping sub would enable multi-rec for IPTV too, without multi-rec there is no way to join the streams.

Martin