Plex Media Player live TV seeking/time shifting BROKEN

Live TV & DVR
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Hi @mik3,

According to me, you should keep channels for another year. But, to be honest, I haven’t tested Plex for a month (since I started to use ChannelsDVR) now so I may be out of date
My server version is: 1.20.3.3483
AppleTV version: 7.8 (beta)

  • Seeking shifting does not work with LiveTV or recording in progress.
    Examples:

    1. LiveTV, starting to watch TV at 8:00pm, pause at 8:05pm for 5 minutes. It’s impossible to fast-forward to catch up LiveTV (8:10pm) or go back earlier than 8:05pm. The cursor does move on the timeline but as soon as the playing is resumed it goes back to 8:05pm.
    2. Same behaviour with Recording in progress. Even if I start from the beginning. It’s not possible to rewind/fast forward. Let’s say the recording started at 8:00pm, I start to watch it at 8:30pm from the beginning. It’s not possible to bypass any commercials, it brings me back at the minute I was before trying to FF (or RW) Very frustrating.
      There is another (2 years-old) thread speaking for seeking problem. One of the Plex employees (who is very active BTW), said that it seems to be a known server bug, but almost 6 laters, AFAIK, I still do not see any improvements.

    The 10 seconds jumps do work though.

  • Overlapping scheduled recordings are not working properly.

    Let’s stay I want to record a game which starts at 8:00pm and should end at 10:00pm but I add 1h extra to be sure to cover overtimes. Trying to rw/ff even the 10s jump after 10:00 make the player hangs forever. Moreover, if you quit and try to play it again, it’s not possible. Plex does not show the menu. “Starts from beginning, Starts at x minutes…”. It brings you to LiveTV directly. The recording does not show up in the library until it finishes.

  • Top option menu does not always work. (The menu which display what’s next, or other channels programs). It often displays the last movie information I watched. It eventually resets itself but I cannot tell when and how.

EDIT: I have just updated the server and the client to
My server version is: 1.20.5.3600
AppleTV version: 7.10 (beta)

  • Seeking shifting does work with LiveTV. I can rewind/fast forward as expected (at least with AppleTV, not web player).

All other bugs still remain.

I forgot two other things that Plex still does not have but Channels does.

  • Preview on seeking. With Plex, you need to wait for a recording to complete to get the thumbnails generated. (It means no preview for LiveTV). It’s not very user-friendly when you want to skip commercials.
  • Fast switching channels. It takes ~5s with Plex. it’s almost instant with ChannelsDVR.
Pausing a Live Program and then fast forwarding