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Does the Kodi plugin support FW/RW as well as skip?

Added by Chris Beasley over 7 years ago

I know that the plugin supports skipping (tried it this morning) but does it also support fast forwarding and rewind similar to STB type PVRs?


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RE: Does the Kodi plugin support FW/RW as well as skip? - Added by Mark Clarkstone over 7 years ago

IIRC it does but it's not very reliable.

RE: Does the Kodi plugin support FW/RW as well as skip? - Added by Chris Beasley over 7 years ago

Are you able to say why? I presume on higher speed seeks it suffers from the issues of the recording device being remote?

RE: Does the Kodi plugin support FW/RW as well as skip? - Added by Mark Clarkstone over 7 years ago

I can't say for sure, but I think it's something to do with the way htsp works. Hopefully someone will correct me.

RE: Does the Kodi plugin support FW/RW as well as skip? - Added by Robert Cameron over 7 years ago

REW/FFW work fine for me. I can use 2x, 4x and 8x speeds without issue, but 16x and higher give odd pauses while cuing through file. I've never really worried about it, because I always felt it was a filesize issue. (My main TV downstairs is wirelessly connected over 802.11ac, but my TV streams are MPEG2, and while the average program is about 8-10Mbps, the bitrates at times can go up to 20Mbps.)

I have found I much prefer using the right and left arrow keys to seek in a recording. By default Kodi sets these steps as: 10s, 30s, 1m, 3m, 5m, 10m. So each time you press the arrow key, it will advance to a specific point in time. Seeking this way is much faster, so I use this almost exclusively.

RE: Does the Kodi plugin support FW/RW as well as skip? - Added by Chris Beasley over 7 years ago

Cools thanks. I've tended to just use skip with other programs but do like the ability to RW/FFW too so good to know that it works for you.

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