Skip Forward in Kodi not working

[octopus]

Just installed Kodi 15.2 with NextPVR 3.6.6 as backend. When I used NextPVR to watch a recording, I was able to use the skip forward (1 minute) and skip backward buttons. When I used Kodi to watch the same recording, the skip forward button did nothing and the skip backward button rewind the recording to the beginning.

Any idea? Please help.

FYI - When I first installed NextPVR using LAV codec to pay MPEG2 recording, the skip forward and backward buttons would not work. After I switched the codec to use PowerDVD-12, the skip forward and backward buttons work properly. Is this the same issue with Kodi? Does Kodi use its own codec to play the recording rather than using the codec in NextPVR? If this is the case, is there anyway to change the codec in Kodi?

This is a deal breaker for me since my family use the skip forward button to skip commercials all the time. This is the first time that I used Kodi and NextPVR. We used WMC for 10+ years.

Thanks.

[sub]

After I switched the codec to use PowerDVD-12, the skip forward and backward buttons work properly. Is this the same issue with Kodi? Does Kodi use its own codec to play the recording rather than using the codec in NextPVR? If this is the case, is there anyway to change the codec in Kodi?

Kodi uses it's own integrated codecs. It's not possible to change these. I doubt it'll be the decoders though.

It's more likely a recording with funky timeline (due to broadcaster), and Kodi has read the first and last timestamp in the file to determine the duration, and it's got the wrong duration, screwing up the skipping. NextPVR's player doesn't rely on these so doesn't have the same problem.

I know very little about how Kodi makes decisions on duration and skipping etc though, so I'm not well placed to give you any advice on this.

[stustunz]

Use arrow pad in kodi not skip keys

[octopus]

Thank you sub for the insight of how kodi/nextpvr is working. After reading many posts in the Kodi forum, I found out that there is a build in Skip steps feature in v15. That seems to be working for me.

http://kodi.wiki/view/Skip_steps

FYI - the skip forward button in Kodi is definitely not working since I have tried different recording from different OTA channels.

[TRiddle]

Are you familiar with the Kodi keymap? (http://kodi.wiki/view/Keymap)

It has always been my experience, regardless of remote style I use (currently have two Harmony remotes and a Dragon Touch X10 with the Yatse app running my 3 Kodi boxes) that I have to create a simple user defined keymap to change "skipnext" and "skipprevious" to "stepforward" and "stepback" respectively.

Creating a user defined keymap and placing it in the appropriate folder is rather easy if you have access to NotePad and a bit of patience. As a matter of fact, I just recently got my Dragon Touch X10 tablet late last week, so I updated the remote.xml keymap for that particular instance of Kodi to use StepForward/StepBack instead of SkipNext/SkipPrevious.

Hope that helps.