Issue; If you begin to watch a show, while it is being recorded… Fast-forward scrubbing or skipping 30s yields various results. (IE; to skip commercials) Sometimes it will accurately go to where you want… Other times, it will jump 2, 5, 10 minutes ahead into the recording. However, once the reco…

Bump Basic scrubbing functionality of any Live TV / DVR service that’s been around for over a decade… is bugged / broken. And not a single peep or response from Plex. Even an acknowledgement from them of this issue would be progress at this point.

Latest Plex Media Player and Plex Media Server (updated today) on macOS 10.14.5 (18F132) on Macmini8,1: Viewing an OTA program from HD HomeRun while recording: Clicking on Forward button results in arbitrary Backward position of playback. This has been happening through several versions of Plex Me…

I am having this problem too, PLEEEEEEAAAASE get this fixed! I record my football games and starting watching them from the beginning while the recording is still ongoing (game is still in progress). I try to skip forward 30 seconds to skip a commercial, and bam, I am in the totally wrong part of th…

Guys I’ve been having the exact same issue. Buggy before, but I’d kind of figured out how to ff and rewind back and forth to get to the spot I wanted. It would sometimes go back to the same random moment in a show, but about half the time it would do the expected behavior. So it was quirky, but work…

Yup, what everyone said above. I am having the exact same problem ONLY during recording of shows. If I click start from live, sometimes it starts in the middle of the show and cannot rewind or fast forward. If I click watch from start, its usually the same as start from live. Latest Plex Server …

Still broken. Yet Plex continues to advertise that they have a functional DVR service. Plex, you don’t. And false/misleading claims can lead to bigger problems. At least acknowledge you have a problem guys. Come on. This is beyond infuriating (for example) when trying to start watching a rec…

I agree this is beyond frustrating! The recorded shows are fine, even happy with the commercial removal but Plex come on, there is NO way you guys don’t know about this issue, it’s 100% of the time. One fix I have tried only once so it might have been a fluke. I noticed that shows I plan to watch …

I just want to amend my previous post. After further testing, ALL time-shifting is completely F-ed now. Whether you are recording the show or not. As I mentioned above, it used to “kind of” work. Now, completely unusable. Come on, Plex - FOOTBALL SEASON IS FAST APPROACHING. I can’t not have a worki…

Not holding out much hope, but they did release a new beta for tvOS today. I haven’t had the chance to download and test but once I do I will report back with hopefully good news.

Nope. No good news, latest beta (7/10) still has the exact same problem. Please Plex, fix this problem. It is very annoying.

DVR scrubbing / fast-forward during recording jumps around

Live TV & DVR

hamish_18 November 7, 2019, 4:23pm 28

I’ve had a thread open about this but just couldn’t figure out a great way to explain it. I am glad i have finally found this… IT IS SUPER ANNOYING! WHERE IS PLEX ON THIS!!! Here is my thread for reference:

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