# Streaming live "recordings". **URL:** \ **Category:** Dev/API Corner\ **Tags:** plugin-dev\ **Created:** [March 7, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/streaming-live-recordings/30285 "2013-03-07T00:56:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jkiel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/jkiel/32/4301_2.png) [@jkiel](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jkiel)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/streaming-live-recordings/30285/1 "2013-03-07T00:56:26Z")
Wondering what's the best way to deal with a "live"/"growing" video stream in a channel plugin.   I think there's a better term for the stream I'm describing but it escapes me, so I'll take the long way around explaining it;   You start a recording.  From a PMS Channel plugin point of of view, it doesn't know how long the video will be.  You can seek up to the ever shifting point currently recorded, but not past it.   I'd like to be able to seek forward and backwards within the recorded portion, but not seek beyond the current end.  Is this something that's easily handled in a channel plugin?   ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/streaming-live-recordings/30285/2 "2019-12-20T23:00:40Z")
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