Problem with Pausing live TV for extended period of time

[jal#]

Awesome. Thank you so much for the help.

[eastavin]

i get a similiar issue. If I leave it on pause past the hour or half hour mark on the clock and a new show starts at the top of the hour or half hour then the request to continue playing from the paused position fails and the current show plays instead.

[jal#]

If you are familiar with registry editor you can use the following path and create a "DWORD" and then add a value to increase the time. From what I am told the default is 20 minutes. (1200 =20 minutes).
The regedit path is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\NPVR Then create the DWORD and name it "SlipSeconds" I changed the Data Value to 25000 which I believe is 7 hours. Shouldnt need that much time but sometimes I am called away while watching a game and one time it was for over an hour so 7 hours for me is way more time then I need. You can set this value to what ever is best for you and that will fix your problem. If you are not familiar with regedit let me know and I will try and explain it better for you. FYI the DWORD you create is 32 bit even if you are running windows 64 bit the DWORD is still 32 bit.

[eastavin]

Does this value get over written when you install the next build of Nextpvr?

[sub]

No, it'll stay there.

[eastavin]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\NPVR
SlipSeconds=1200 (DWORD).

This is the default value if not specified. 20 minutes is 1200 seconds.

Is this the correct location for windows 10 home 1709? I dont see anything in this location about npvr.

[mvallevand]

Is this the correct location for windows 10 home 1709? I dont see anything in this location about npvr.

If you are running 32bit there will be no Wow6432Node it is directly under software.

Martin

[sub]

On 64bit Windows the key is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\NPVR

On 32bit Windows the key is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\NPVR

The setting SlipSeconds wont exist in a normal install. You'd have to create it. If not set to something, the default is 1200.

[eastavin]

I have successfully edited the registry and it appears that I have now been paused for over 60 minutes. when it starts playing it plays your message skipping to buffer and the indicator shows close to 59:47 sometimes 59:52 with a Dword of 3600.

Odd stuff needing checking:
1) When paused a long time the status bar and info at the bottom of the tv screen go away and dont come back even if you hover your mouse over the bottom of the screen until you hit unpause. Then you see how long you have been paused.

2) another mystery is in my c:TEMP folder. It seems I have over 200 files dating back months from having paused the video....sucking up some 200 GB of drive space. It seems NPVR is failing to clean up after itself or perhaps the question should be why is it creating a new file each time pause is pushed rather than overwriting the old pause file? I will paste a picture of my directory. Maybe these files are something else and I misunderstand?

[sub]

when it starts playing it plays your message skipping to buffer and the indicator shows close to 59:47 sometimes 59:52 with a Dword of 3600.

Yep, that's normal. There is a bit off buffering etc, and aims to be a few seconds ahead of the end of the buffer.

Odd stuff needing checking:
1) When paused a long time the status bar and info at the bottom of the tv screen go away and dont come back even if you hover your mouse over the bottom of the screen until you hit unpause. Then you see how long you have been paused.

There is a change for the next build which helps with this. (there are complications trying to update OSD graphics when paused since the renderer only updates these graphics when showing new frames, but the next release has a work around)

2) another mystery is in my c:TEMP folder. It seems I have over 200 files dating back months from having paused the video....sucking up some 200 GB of drive space. It seems NPVR is failing to clean up after itself or perhaps the question should be why is it creating a new file each time pause is pushed rather than overwriting the old pause file? I will paste a picture of my directory. Maybe these files are something else and I misunderstand?

It doesn't create a file when you press pause. When you're watching live tv, it's always trying to keep the last 20 (or in your case 60) minutes of live tv. It does this in a continually rolling set of four files, deleting the oldest whenever it's time to create a 5th file. Pressing pause is effectively just stopping playback - the live tv buffer files continue to get created, just as they did before you pressed pause.

Do you use Kodi? There is one reported scenario with Kodi that can cause the files to get left behind sometimes, but I've not been able to reproduce it here.