Kodi AFTV4K resume

[VCR58]

I'm watching two in progress recordings. NFL Vikings vs Cowboys and the World series. Sometimes when I switch to the other game and select resume it starts at 0 instead of where it left off. This happened a few times. The last time I decided to capture some logs.

Kodi 19.3 android client Nextpvr v5 running on Linux.

The logs should show that last resume attempt and maybe a couple more earlier in the logs.

[mvallevand]

Kod.log is zero bytes and without it I can't help solve the problem. I do see why NextPVR is reporting zero because Kodi is reporting the end time is greater then the end time plus the end time won't even have happened.

2021-10-31 19:53:47.950 [DEBUG][61] PlaybackPositionHelper.StorePlaybackPosition(2021 World Series_20211031_19002200.ts, 10980, 10860)

2021-10-31 21:37:00.728 [DEBUG][185] PlaybackPositionHelper.StorePlaybackPosition(2021 World Series_20211031_19002200.ts, 10980, 10860)

If I had go guess I feel it is somehow related to you playing the file way too close to real time, I do see a lot of of opens with seek. You could also be seeking over commercials too close to real time, that information is all hidden without the Kodi log.

Martin

[VCR58]

Kod.log is zero bytes and without it I can't help solve the problem. I do see why NextPVR is reporting zero because Kodi is reporting the end time is greater then the end time plus the end time won't even have happened.

2021-10-31 19:53:47.950 [DEBUG][61] PlaybackPositionHelper.StorePlaybackPosition(2021 World Series_20211031_19002200.ts, 10980, 10860)

2021-10-31 21:37:00.728 [DEBUG][185] PlaybackPositionHelper.StorePlaybackPosition(2021 World Series_20211031_19002200.ts, 10980, 10860)

If I had go guess I feel it is somehow related to you playing the file way too close to real time, I do see a lot of of opens with seek.  You could also be seeking over commercials too close to real time, that information is all hidden without the Kodi log.

Martin

Sorry, here is the real kodi log.

I believe the recording was at least 15 minutes from live when I tried the resume.

[mvallevand]

Thanks the Kodi log helped and I can duplicate it.  Because you are watching the recording effectively at live point and because there is no content length from NextPVR for in progress recording Kodi gets confused and they can be marked as completed by Kodi rather the passing the current playback position.  This "watched" logic doesn't seem to kick in until about 23 minutes into the recording so my normal testing didn't catch it.

I was handling this in the code for recordings by passing NextPVR the full duration but for in-progress recordings I should be passing the clock time.  Unfortunately this is not a trivial problem.

Martin

[VCR58]

Thanks for the explanation. I don't typically watch watch two events like this switching between the two.

The most common way for me is to join one recording about an hour after it starts. Then I skip commercials and halftime programming until I get caught up to live. At this point I usually cancel the recording and just watch it live. Most of the time I don't have any issues. Occasionally, when skipping ahead Kodi will freeze and require me to restart the recording. I'm guessing that if the resume time is too close to live I will have the same problem.

[mvallevand]

The issue is Kodi deciding to mark it watched in error before it is really finished. If you watched a recording to the end it would be fine but if you exit close to live you could lose a resume point. I figure out a solution.

Martin

[mvallevand]

@VCR58 because of the bug in the NextPVR backend with art from Kodi NextPVR recordings I recommended that sub not release this PR until a backend patch is available. This will allow Windows users to remain on 19.0.0 Since you already have 19.0.1 on Android feel free to download 19.0.2 and test it yourself. https://jenkins.kodi.tv/blue/organizatio.../artifacts

They best way to test it start a recording and test with 19.0.1 after 22 minutes and try and force seek to the end of the recording and exit. It should reset to no resume quite often. Then update to 19.0.2 and on the same recording it should not go back to the beginning.

Martin

[VCR58]

@VCR58 because of the bug in the NextPVR backend with art from Kodi NextPVR recordings I recommended that sub not release this PR until a backend patch is available.  This will allow Windows users to remain on 19.0.0  Since you already have 19.0.1 on Android feel free to download 19.0.2 and test it yourself.  https://jenkins.kodi.tv/blue/organizatio.../artifacts 

They best way to test it start a recording and test with 19.0.1 after 22 minutes and try and force seek to the end of the recording and exit.  It should reset to no resume quite often.  Then update to 19.0.2 and on the same recording it should not go back to the beginning.

Martin

Thanks Martin, the new PVR 19.0.2 works great. I was able to perform the testing you recommended. The new one gave me the correct resume time and the old one started over from the beginning.

Here are the logs if you want to check them. The Firestick has the new PVR 19.0.2 and the TiVo has 19.0.1 in the logs.

[aderlopas]

The issue is Kodi deciding to mark it watched in error before it is really finished.  If you watched a recording to the end it would be fine but if you exit close to live you could lose a resume point.  I figure out a solution.

Martin

Possibly the below settings in Kodi will help mark something at watched at 100% and not before?

HOW-TO:Modify automatic watch and resume points - Official Kodi Wiki

[mvallevand]

Yes using <ignorepercentatend>0</ignorepercentatend> could help here but it would need to be tested, I didn't find it consistent and it has to be on every machine. Not everyone is comfortable editing advancedsetting especially on Android but Kodi Team wouldn't let me modify them in the addon There are a few I'd like to control via pvr.nextpvr settings.

Knowing those is important not just for in-progress especially if you don't use post padding.

Martin