Kodi timeshifting with version 5

[mvallevand]

Ok I have updated post one with some links. In previous testing some users have reported they had to remove an existing version and restart before being able to upgrade.

Martin

[VCR58]

Impressive!

Installed latest Kodi Matrix from nightly builds on my Win 10 Pro laptop and used Jenkins build 4.3.0 x86_64 addon. The NPVR v5.01 server is on a Linux Debian 10 PC. Tried both extended and regular Timeshift and both are absolutely rock solid! No crashes. No quirky behavior that I noticed.

On my HTPC with Win 10 Pro I already had Kodi 18.4 installed so installed Martin's build 3.3.17 x86_64 addon. NPVR v5.01 server runs on a Win 10 Pro PC. Tried regular timeshifting with the same rock solid results.

So far so good!

[mvallevand]

That really great to hear, but I have a comment on the first test. Even though you are might be configured for extended or regular timeshift, with a v5 server it silently falls back to the new timeshift mode so you don't need to test both.

Martin

[mvallevand]

My normal production clients are RPi 3b+'s running Libreelec. And I've also got an Odroid N2 with Coreelec which is currently still a "test" system. So the Odroid N2 would probably be my most ideal system to test with.

I have updated the first post with a build of 3.3.17 for the N2.  Install their version and stop Kodi and then unzip it in .kodi/addons to update the version and it is working here. I used 9.2.1 for my testing.

CE is one build behind 3.3.15 and is missing 3.3.16 but I think I fixed the compile to get it to go.

Martin

[pkscout]

OK, I tried this on my Mac running a Kodi 19 nightly from 12/14 (kodi-20191214-29cbd865-master-x86_64) and a v4 backend. There is one nightly newer, just FYI.

Using Timeshift in the options (with no other changes from default), if I pause LiveTV and then come back, hit play, and then skip forward, Kodi crashes. When I look at the Kodi debug log, the last entry is the pause (not sure why the play isn't recorded) and nothing after that. The Mac version doesn't seem to generate a crash log, so I'm not sure what to check to give you more info.

Using Extended Timeshift is fine.

As to the backports, Unless the Kodi folks backport the Estuary changes into v18, I'd vote for just having the new tags available for v19 moving forward. But now that I know that v19 supports the new tags, I might have some time to figure out what they changed in the skin and backport it myself (in my mod) and submit a PR for 18.6 (assuming it's not too late).

[mvallevand]

That is consistent with what I expect.  The timeshifting code was not changed so it will continue to be unstable which is why I steer people to Extended Timeshift when they report problems with v4.  To tell you the truth I am not sure why sub doesn't see this problem, but it might be the stream content he uses.  In any case I am glad that Extended Timeshift continues to work.

We haven't submitted anything for 18.6 yet i am hoping to do it soon.

There is no need for new tags to show the new flag or original air date. I just updated your v18 skin with the changes that work for Estuary and it seems to work ok.  Changes attached.  v19 works slightly differently but you get the idea.

Unfortunately I won't have have a macos build until Jenkins does it for me.

Thanks for the feedback.

Martin

[mvallevand]

Sub approved the Matrix changes and they are now in the Kodi Matrix nightly builds. This includes LE testbuilds for the RPi and apk's for Android.

Martin

[mvallevand]

Post #1 has been updated with the Kodi build for Leia for Jenkins build. Hopefully this can go to Leia nightlies and v18.6 in the not too distanct future. The Leia release will not have all the features in Matrix.

Martin

[Lao Pan]

I Have installed i686 version on Leia 18.5 (32bit desktop - 64 bit Leia 18.3 & 4 always crashed on opening second time, requiring a reboot to sort)  on Windows 8.1 64 bit with v5 server on same machine. Using subs NPVR addon - Ive tried knewc 2.8.0 rc4, but couldn't get it working with Aeon Nox Silvo skin yet.

Setting to extended timeshift = the only problem so far is the pr-roll time, taking about 10 seconds for DVB-T Mepeg2, 15 seconds for DVB-T2 1080p and 18 seconds for DVB-T2 standard definition.

Would going to Leia 18.6 have any advantages?
 
I'm thinking of going back to Windows 10 before installing Matrix -when it is released, just got to work out how to get 5.1 DTS over SPDIF, or even maybe try linux.

[mvallevand]

Thanks for the feedback Lao Pan, are the times for testing against v5? There is no extended timeshift in v5 so you can try lowering the pre-roll time in the settings to 1. 18.6 won't offer any advantage for playback that I am aware of.

You do need to set knewc to Classic skin if you don't use Estuary or Confluence. I really should change that before 2.80 is released.

Martin