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Timeshifting recorded media

Added by John W over 4 years ago

Hi everyone,

I have installed Tvheadend on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian, and everything is set up and working. I am trying to play my recorded shows on my Android TV device. I can do this by pointing VLC to the recordings folder on my RPi, connecting over SFTP.

The problem is that the recorded shows do not seem to have any timeshift capability. I can play a recorded show from start to finish, and I can pause. However, I cannot seek forwards or backwards.

Does anyone know how to fix this? Do I need to encode the recording into some other format?

Many thanks.


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RE: Timeshifting recorded media - Added by Dave Pickles over 4 years ago

You'll have to use a network protocol which allows VLC to 'seek' to different points in the file. NFS works if you set up a file share through the operating system, also SMB using Samba on the Pi, or HTTP by installing a web server.

Alternatively it seems that the latest VLC will use SAT->IP, maybe that would connect to the TVH SAT->IP server.

RE: Timeshifting recorded media - Added by Ron L over 4 years ago

I don't believe the problem is with VLC and sftp, I do that all the time and it works fine. I believe it a problem with the Android TV. Smart TVs are notoriously stupid and video files that play perfectly on any regular computer regardless of OS simply don't play on the smart tv or have other issues such as this. I believe all you can do is experiment with different container/codec combinations and see what your Android TV is happy with.

RE: Timeshifting recorded media - Added by Dave H over 4 years ago

It could well be down to the Android TV implementation of VLC. It's a different (pronounced 'crippled') version from the normal one with much restricted facilities, apparently based to some extent on the developer's assumption that it's not possible to use a keyboard. I asked about it a couple of years ago; perhaps it's changed by now. My problem was you can't use NFS with it. I went with Kodi instead.

RE: Timeshifting recorded media - Added by John W over 4 years ago

I've played around a bit more, and it certainly looks like the problem is with the implementation of VLC on Android TV. I can play recorded .ts files from a network share on my Windows PC with VLC, and timeshifting works normally. Looks like I need to find another media player app for Android TV.

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