Live TV Timeshifting vs Scheduled recording.
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2012-03-26, 03:45 PM
Since I'm a short of available time right now, and as far as I can tell it's always been that way, and was in GBPVR too, and never been a big deal to anyone up til now, I dont think it's in need of an urgent patch. I've noted it down to fix for 2.5 though.
2012-03-26, 04:24 PM
sub Wrote:Since I'm a short of available time right now, and as far as I can tell it's always been that way, and was in GBPVR too, and never been a big deal to anyone up til now, I dont think it's in need of an urgent patch. I've noted it down to fix for 2.5 though.Thanks, it's not really urgent but damn annoying when it happend. And (of course) it always happend at the worst moment :o "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"
2012-03-26, 06:12 PM
sub Wrote:...as far as I can tell it's always been that way, and was in GBPVR too, and never been a big deal to anyone up til nowIt's one of those things where we've all just gotten used to the notion that watching LiveTV is somewhat risky; it may go away at any moment without warning, so if I stumble across anything I find really interesting I set it to record and then watch the recording. My wife has been burned so many times by pausing or skipping back in Live TV that she just doesn't do it any more - she watches live as if NPVR is nothing more than a tuner. NPVR is getting much better at Live TV, so fixing this remaining issue would do a lot for the user experience. As has been requested before, some means to convert the existing livetv buffer file(s) into a recording as GB-PVR could do (right?) would also be most welcome. Agreed though, none of this is anything I'd expect as a patch to an existing release; both are significant new features, not bug fixes.
server: NextPVR 5.0.7/Win10 2004/64-bit/AMD A6-7400k/hvr-2250 & hvr-1250/Winegard Flatwave antenna/Schedules Direct
main client: NextPVR 5.0.7 Desktop Client; LG 50UH5500 WebOS 3.0 TV
2012-03-26, 06:51 PM
johnsonx42 Wrote:As has been requested before, some means to convert the existing livetv buffer file(s) into a recording as GB-PVR could do (right?) would also be most welcome.That is one feature I'v been missing too, and it should not be so hard to accomplish. "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy"
2012-03-26, 06:59 PM
johnsonx42 Wrote:As has been requested before, some means to convert the existing livetv buffer file(s) into a recording as GB-PVR could do (right?) would also be most welcome. When it was recording to disk GBPVR/PVRx2 had the fantastic ability to record as shows and it just switched from show to show in Play All fashion. There was no concept of a rolling file of limited length and because it was already recorded to showname.mpg/ts transferring it to a recording was trivial. It was near perfection for me. However if the tuner was needed I think you would still lose the file. Martin
2012-03-26, 07:05 PM
I think it's a case of viewing through rose color glasses...
GB-PVR did have the ability to record the current file show when in using timeshift mode, but there was a total of about 2% of users running timeshift mode due the horrendously slow channel change times, and even then it had numerous problems with it.
2012-03-26, 07:29 PM
I musta been one of the 2%. I had it set to default into timeshift.
The record current program option would be a fantastic option to have back. As well as being able to watch the timeshift to the end would make me a happy camper. Certainly isn't life or death or a rush. NPVR 2.3.6 with skip R2 is treating me very well.. Stuck with GBPVR until the collussus was available in my area.
2012-03-26, 07:31 PM
yes, but you've made livetv so much better in NPVR, now we want to use it.
I'm sure you're right that very few users had "always timeshift" enabled in gb-pvr, but I often hit pause & play as soon as I found a show I was interested in to switch to buffered mode. I think that with the last release or two it would automatically revert to preview mode as soon as you changed channels, so it actually made going into timeshift mode relatively painless.
server: NextPVR 5.0.7/Win10 2004/64-bit/AMD A6-7400k/hvr-2250 & hvr-1250/Winegard Flatwave antenna/Schedules Direct
main client: NextPVR 5.0.7 Desktop Client; LG 50UH5500 WebOS 3.0 TV
2012-03-26, 09:53 PM
sub Wrote:I think it's a case of viewing through rose color glasses... I guess the NMT and MVP users are all in that 2% and I was lucky, but this video from 2008 sure doesn't "feel" any slower http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...6FBkQpZSm0 to me. Martin |
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