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Hi all,
Apologies if this is covered elsewhere, but I couldn't get a definative answer from a forum search.
Scenario:
I have TVHeadend recording a show, and wait 30 minutes before starting to watch it over NFS (to skip through the ads).
TVHeadend using the TS file format allows this ok.
Problem:
When you start the playback the file is only 30 minutes long, but by the time you watch (and skip ads) the recording is now 45-60 minutes long.
XBMC doesnt know that the file is growing while it is being watched.
Options?
Does anyone know what can be done about this (if anything), or is it an internal feature that might be addressed down the track?
Cheers Nathan
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I have the same problem with mediaportal, I want to move from windows media center to xbmc with pvr but unlike wmc, if I press record i cannot see the program.
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indeed, this info isn't refreshed yet. known issue. if there's no ticket about this on trac, feel free to create one
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this is working with vdr-backend using xvdr-addon. I know xvdr isn't officially supported, but it is working.
But maybe the difference to your setup is that playback of recordings is running directly through the pvr-frontend/xvdr-addon and not over a fileshare (if I understand you setup correctly).
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2012-10-15, 10:16
(This post was last modified: 2012-10-15, 10:16 by Frank-NL.)
I have the same issue with Tvheadend but I'm not using NFS, just a local harddrive. Should I open a separate ticket for that? And can this still be fixed before the release of Frodo? Right now I have a simple menu link to the recordings folder, but my recordings are not shown nicely there, it's missing the EPG info that is shown via the MyPVR recordings screen. Fixing this would make up for missing timeshifting at the moment, since you can watch the recording live as if it's a timeshift buffer.
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will only be called when the add-on itself actually provides the stream
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Is the poor navigation of growing files on the file system (including nfs/cifs) being treated as a general XBMC issue or is it left in the realm of the PVR developers?
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I even know what exactly is causes the problem. It's ffmpeg which only analyses the size at the beginning. Fixing this means finding some kind of work around. I can not promise a fix for Frodo because it's a sensitive area of the code.