If you pause Live TV, where you end up is anyone's guess (bad timeshifting)

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Scenario: I’m watching Live TV - not recording Live TV, just watching it. Today’s example was the Vikings at the Giants (yes, I know the score :cry: ). I paused Live TV for approximately 2 minutes. When I un-paused it, the show resumed at the exact point I paused it. No problem. When I hit the “advance 30 seconds” button, I was taken to an unknown time in the game, but clearly in the past. I didn’t think to look at the game clock. I hit the “rewind 10 seconds” button a few times and then it took me to close to where I had paused.

This isn’t the first time this has happened so I was scared to try to advance forward again. I watched the remainder of the game about 2 minutes behind live TV. Near the end of the game, I hit the Advance button to take me to live TV, as in, real-time. I was taken all the way back to the halftime show. Even though the slider showed both the right time (about 4:05 PM EST) and no buffer (I was supposedly at live TV), it was playing the halftime show that occurred about an hour and a half ago.

This sort of defeats the purpose of being able to pause live TV. Is there something misconfigured on my end? Could it possibly be my hardware (Hauppauge Quad-WinTV)? I’m happy to post logs if that will help.

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I am experiencing issues just like this with my Plex on Roku. If I pause or rewind and then resume I start exactly where I paused or stopped the rewind but from that point forward Plex thinks that point is now live and I cannot advance without exiting the show and then coming back into the show. Please advise.

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I consistently experience weird things around timeshifting too. I’m recording Monday Night Football but I’ve started watching it from the beginning. If I click 30 second skip, the picture flashes black for a fraction of a second like it’s skipping but it doesn’t actually move. (That is the behavior in Chrome on my desktop). It works ok on my Android phone. On my Roku 2, I can skip ahead but after watching/skipping/fast-forwarding for a while, I end up wildly mis-aligned between the actual progress through the show and what the progress bar shows.

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I’m getting weird issues on three devices as well. I have tried it on a Fire TV stick, Android TV, and Android Phone. This seems to point to a server side issue. Anyone find a solution?

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