Skip forward while recording still in progress broken

[b_wayne89_gmail_com]

Server Version#: 1.37.0.2706-5b2cfe50
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Tuner Make/Model: HDHomerun Flexc DUO, hauppauge WinTV-dualHD
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When I record a football game and decide to start watching the recording while the recording is still in progress, I have issues trying to skip 30 seconds ahead. This has been an issue for several years now and I keep hoping it just gets fixed… it has not.

Basically the problem gets worse the longer you watch. So for any Plex employees that want to duplicate the issue: Set up a recording of a football game. Wait until the game is half over and start watching the recording. After you have watched for a while, you will come to a commercial. Take note of how much time is left in the game before the commercial starts. Let’s say there is 10 minutes left in the 1st quarter. Click the Skip 30 sec button. Maybe click it a few more times. You would expect to come out of the commercial with 10 minutes left in the 1st but instead you find yourself somewhere in the 3rd quarter, much closer to live. It sucks because it spoils the outcome of the game!

Now take note, it doesn’t seem to be as big of a problem when you first start watching… But the longer you watch the recording, the more of a problem it becomes. So lets say you have been watching for an hour, you might click the 30 second skip button once when 2 minutes of commercials start and immediately you find yourself 45 minutes later in the recording.

I haven’t been able to fully detect a pattern on what it is doing but I do know it is all jacked up and it always has been. Doesn’t matter if I am watching on an iOS app, the server, a windows app, the web app… all jacked up.

Here is another thread of the same problem that has been happening forever:

DVR scrubbing / fast-forward during recording jumps around

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 recording finishes… You can restart watching the recording, and all fast-forward/scrubbing will work properly. Server Type and Version#: Intel NUC8i7BEH, running latest release, as of 1/28/2019 DVR Sto…

[PeterRicc]

If I am reading this correctly, I, too, am plagued by this as well.

Server version: 1.25.2.5319 (Windows 10 PC running Plex Server)
Player: Apple TV app
Tuner: HDHomeRun Quattro

Scenario: Join a Live TV broadcast 10-30 minutes after start of broadcast while it is currently being recorded.

Choose option to START at beginning of recording, watch broadcast for 10 minutes, come to a commercial and click the skip forward.

Long pause of black screen, spinning wheel, and then recording sometimes: Starts over, skips to current live portion, or maybe skips ahead.

Note: If the show is not live and the recording is completed when I watch the recording, the skip forward is GREAT! The skip is accurate and instantaneous.

I really would love for my Plex DVR to become my replacement of live, local TV over my paid TV subscription so I can drop that cost.

Please fix this.

[b_wayne89_gmail_com]

@PeterRicc Yep, that is exactly what I am experiencing as well.

I have had Plex for a couple years now, and it has always been a problem from day one. I keep hoping it will get fixed. Skipping ahead during a recording that has finished works great but it is something about the recording still in progress part that messes everything up.