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[mjray]

How is the playback control intended to work? I can press fast forward but then when I press play, it jumps back to where I was before pressing fast forward. The long press seek pop-up seems to work but that doesn't seem to allow small jumps.

Also, when something is recording, is it possible to rewind it? That was a useful feature on my previous Alien-based receivers.

Zgemma h9s, openpli 6.2, recording made from FTA satellite channels. Thanks for reading.

[Pr2]

The problem with Fast Forward/Rewind is that it is not always working really fine (this really depends on the STB manfufacturer), but what is always working is skip/jump in time. For this you already find the long F.Fwd that open-up a screen where you give in minute the skip that you want.
But you can also press the numerical keys (3,6,9) this will jump forward, (1,4,7) to jump backward.
 
3 : 10 seconds
6 :   1 minutes
9:    5 minutes
 
I stop using F.Fwd long time ago. ;-)
 
 

Also, when something is recording, is it possible to rewind it? That was a useful feature on my previous Alien-based receivers.

When you are recording you can start playing back the current recording without any problem. Once in playback you can rewind, forward, etc... but there is no feature to rewind when recording because it is an independent process from watching TV (even if you are watching what you are recording).

But what you are asking here is called Permanent Timeshift, you can enable it by default in the menu, you define the time after which the permanent timeshift will start when staying on the same channel.

[mjray]

When you are recording you can start playing back the current recording without any problem. Once in playback you can rewind, forward, etc... but there is no feature to rewind when recording because it is an independent process from watching TV (even if you are watching what you are recording).
But what you are asking here is called Permanent Timeshift, you can enable it by default in the menu, you define the time after which the permanent timeshift will start when staying on the same channel.

Thanks for the 147/369 skip controls. I thought they were skipping to positions. I hadn't yet realised they moved on/back.

It's also great that I can access the menus while recording. Alien wouldn't do that.

If I enable permanent timeshift, would that spin the disk continuously? I'm not keen on that and going into the playback menu is good enough for me.

[Pr2]

Yes the HDD will spin when timeshift is on.

But you can redirect the timeshift to an external USB stick formated by the STB (in ext4 format), go into the recording menu and you can define the path for recording and for timeshift.

[mjray]

Thanks. I'm out of USB ports (maybe I'll fit a hub once things settle down) and I think it'd be fairly hard on the flash chip in the USB stick. Being able to play back recordings while recording is probably good enough. How difficult would it be to add the 147/369 skip controls to the Help display? It's not clear to me where to start with the github links on the homepage and wiki is now punting me back to the openpli homepage and I don't understand why.

[Pr2]

I agree with you there are many practical small tips all around OpenPLi to know to really fully enjoy it. I am still learning and discovering many by reading daily this forum. 

 

I have create a request on the ticketing system to add the 1,34,7 and 3,6,9 in the help screen.

 

But if you have time and willing to help us, would be nice as a newbie if you can help us to complete the wiki with all those little things that you discovered.

I think that you can connect and edit the wiki pages with your forum credentials.

[mjray]

Thanks. I think that's https://devtools.ope....org/issues/315

[Youpla]

 

If I enable permanent timeshift, would that spin the disk continuously? I'm not keen on that and going into the playback menu is good enough for me.

 

You can activate timeshift manually with play/pause when watching TV. The problem is that, once activated, it won't let me change channel despite me having 2 tuners.

[Rob van der Does]

Related to 'Playback control: why do the pause button and the play button do the same thing? To me this makes only sense when only a combined play/pause button is present, not when both are.

Even in the settings there is a dedicated setting for the pause button (setting the pause button to play/last speed/GOP).

[littlesat]

Because some boxes have only one of both buttons or have them combined... and it is also difficult to do a systeminfo or so by when remote x is in use... and when you split it you have also a blind spot... and with hotkey you can redefine one of them...

Veranderd door littlesat, 26 augustus 2018 - 09:08

[Rob van der Does]

I presume that RC's with a combined Play/Pause button sent a different key code then 'Play' or 'Pause', namely 'Playpause'  (like VU & Xtrend do)?

[Rob van der Does]

..... and with hotkey you can redefine one of them...

Not that I could find. One can assign all kind of actions to the play/pause/play-pause button(s), but 'Play' and 'Pause' are not among them.

[Pr2]

 

 

If I enable permanent timeshift, would that spin the disk continuously? I'm not keen on that and going into the playback menu is good enough for me.

 

You can activate timeshift manually with play/pause when watching TV. The problem is that, once activated, it won't let me change channel despite me having 2 tuners.

 

 

That's normal Timeshift is not recording! So if you can zap while in timeshift you will lose your timeshift thjis is a protection mecanism against wrong RCU manipulation.

Each time you zap a new timeshift is created so you cannot come back into the timeshift once you have zapped.

 

There is an automatic timeshift that you can activate in the menu, so it will start automatically when you stay on the same channel for the time mentioned in the parameter. This is probably what you want to have.

[Youpla]

If I enable permanent timeshift, would that spin the disk continuously? I'm not keen on that and going into the playback menu is good enough for me.

 

You can activate timeshift manually with play/pause when watching TV. The problem is that, once activated, it won't let me change channel despite me having 2 tuners.

 

That's normal Timeshift is not recording! So if you can zap while in timeshift you will lose your timeshift thjis is a protection mecanism against wrong RCU manipulation.

 

I'm not using Timeshift so I don't really care, but what if I want to start recording another channel while "timeshifting" ?

[Pr2]

Press EPG button select the program that you want to record, press green button.

Press Menu go into Timers menu and schedule your recording (green button).

 

You don't need to zap to a channel to schedule a recording on it.

[Rob van der Does]

 

..... and with hotkey you can redefine one of them...

Not that I could find. One can assign all kind of actions to the play/pause/play-pause button(s), but 'Play' and 'Pause' are not among them.

 

 

Would it be possible to add 'Pause' & 'Play' as assignable actions?

[Rob van der Does]

Please?

[Pr2]

Hi,

 

I just check on my develop image and in Hotkey have 3 keys:

 

Play

PlayPause

Pause

 

Checked on my Solo4K which has separated play and pause button.

[Rob van der Does]

Yes, that is correct: the keys are available as hotkey. So all kinds of actions can be assigned to those keys.

But the problem is that the actions 'Play' and 'Pause' are not available, so it is impossible to assign those actions to any key.

[Rob van der Does]

..... and with hotkey you can redefine one of them...

Not that I could find. One can assign all kind of actions to the play/pause/play-pause button(s), but 'Play' and 'Pause' are not among them.

 
Would it be possible to add 'Pause' & 'Play' as assignable actions?

Please?