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Timeshifting when viewing recording program and return to 'now'
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<blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 1114839" data-attributes="member: 82144"><p>Oh, I see what you mean now. Sorry.</p><p>I think you can do that by pressing the "home" key on a keyboard, as specified in the wiki:</p><p><a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/20_Reference/Keyboard_Shortcuts/2_TV#TV_Guide" target="_blank">http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/20_Reference/Keyboard_Shortcuts/2_TV#TV_Guide</a></p><p></p><p>Maybe you can map a remote button to that function if important enough to you?</p><p></p><p></p><p>In one sense I can see the value of what you're suggesting. However I don't see how the use case you're describing would fit MP's current behaviour.</p><p></p><p>Consider that MP keeps the buffer when you hop between channels. In other words, you can skip back to the previous content you were watching even after changing channel multiple times. Suppose that you were to hop to a channel that was recording and we had magically added the ability to use the "recording" as buffer instead of the regular timeshift buffer. So, you're switched over to the recording and can skip within it as described. Fine. But what happens to the timeshift buffer at that point? Is it lost, somehow "paused", or does the part of the recording that you watch somehow get written into it? ...and what is used as the timeshift buffer after you hop away from the recording to a non-recording channel? ...and what happens (what content do you see) if you skip/rewind back once on the non-recording channel?</p><p></p><p>The usability you've described makes sense to me if the timeshift buffer were reset on each channel change. When changing to a non-recording channel you'd just get a fresh buffer, and can't skip back until you've watched a few minutes; when changing to a recording channel you'd get the recorded buffer and can skip back to the start of the recording. However, like I said above, MP doesn't start a new buffer on each channel change. That's intentional. Other people have asked for that behaviour, and I think we'd have a riot on our hands if we changed it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mm1352000, post: 1114839, member: 82144"] Oh, I see what you mean now. Sorry. I think you can do that by pressing the "home" key on a keyboard, as specified in the wiki: [url]http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/20_Reference/Keyboard_Shortcuts/2_TV#TV_Guide[/url] Maybe you can map a remote button to that function if important enough to you? In one sense I can see the value of what you're suggesting. However I don't see how the use case you're describing would fit MP's current behaviour. Consider that MP keeps the buffer when you hop between channels. In other words, you can skip back to the previous content you were watching even after changing channel multiple times. Suppose that you were to hop to a channel that was recording and we had magically added the ability to use the "recording" as buffer instead of the regular timeshift buffer. So, you're switched over to the recording and can skip within it as described. Fine. But what happens to the timeshift buffer at that point? Is it lost, somehow "paused", or does the part of the recording that you watch somehow get written into it? ...and what is used as the timeshift buffer after you hop away from the recording to a non-recording channel? ...and what happens (what content do you see) if you skip/rewind back once on the non-recording channel? The usability you've described makes sense to me if the timeshift buffer were reset on each channel change. When changing to a non-recording channel you'd just get a fresh buffer, and can't skip back until you've watched a few minutes; when changing to a recording channel you'd get the recorded buffer and can skip back to the start of the recording. However, like I said above, MP doesn't start a new buffer on each channel change. That's intentional. Other people have asked for that behaviour, and I think we'd have a riot on our hands if we changed it. [/QUOTE]
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