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R2-D2

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:28 pm

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If [Kt] KeepTimeshift is working as well as the silence suggests then it's worth looking at saving the timeshift buffer for the times when it's necessarily dumped.

TSSaver is an attempt at doing this. Whenever the timeshift buffer is going to be dumped and it's actually in use (i.e. you are behind live), this TAP will cause the whole buffer to be saved under the name of the programme that was being watched, with a bookmark at the interruption point (if the programme info cannot be found the file will be called "_TS-" followed by the channel name and a possible number to make it unique).

(You can stop it running using TAPCommander.)

Edit: info updated to v0.5 functionality.

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Andy K

Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:53 pm

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chris_s

Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:18 pm

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Given that this problem/fix seems to be closely associated with the slot allocation, am I right in guessing that it isn't applicable to 5.14.xx / 5.15.xx which still drop out of playback when a second recording starts?

Chris.

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R2-D2

Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:28 pm

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chris_s wrote:

am I right in guessing that it isn't applicable to 5.14.xx / 5.15.xx which still drop out of playback when a second recording starts?

Well, "timeshift" is not "playback", so you'd be right. Smile

With playback you can restart it (and there's a bookmark at the interruption point), but with timeshifting the buffer is (normally) deleted.

And if you knew how many months' work it took between starting to look and finding the CYR issues on 5.13.X, then you'd understand why the changes Topfield have made in 5.14.X/5.15.X aren't being investigated, especially when they could (and really should!) be making more changes.

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R2-D2

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:01 am

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Currently testing a version (5.13.40 only) that adds a bookmark at the interruption point, renames the file according to the programme that was being watched, inserts that programme's info in the header, and sets the time and duration properly. It may take a while to generalise to other firmwares, though.

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mossman

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 9:31 am

Frequent contributor Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 582 Location: South of Birmingham, TX: Sutton Coldfield

Now that version sounds really good. Smile

I eagerly await developments for 5.13.65.

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R2-D2

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:03 pm

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TSSaver v0.2 does the stuff mentioned above.

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chunkywizard

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 3:20 pm

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5.13.40 only? Or do we have hope if we are on .65?

CW

R2-D2

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:13 pm

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chunkywizard wrote:

5.13.40 only?

That was the internal version at 8am.

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chunkywizard

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:14 pm

MyStuff Team Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 9319 Location: Sindlesham, Berkshire Tx: Hannington

Oh you're quick... So by that statement I assumed it supports every known firmware under the sun including those Russian ones? Wink

mossman

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:17 pm

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Was that a "yes" then? Or a "no"? Or a "erm, it might work"?

Well, I'm feeling brave, so here we go .......

chunkywizard

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:27 pm

MyStuff Team Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 9319 Location: Sindlesham, Berkshire Tx: Hannington

Pretty sure that was a yes for all UK firmwares. It's in Auto Start for me, i'll see how it goes...

CW

mossman

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:28 pm

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Could be a "no" on 5.13.65..... Press "Pause", leave for at least 1 min, then change channel. V0.1 was OK, produced an apparent zero-time file in the native archive which played back yesterday (and appeared in Badfiles in the MS archive).

V0.2 produces nothing at all for me (unless of course I did something wrong).

Checked that it was running using TAPCommander, and yes, I did reboot.

mossman

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:46 pm

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Er, as I thought - I did something wrong

Yesterday I started watching the timeshift from pause, today I just changed channels without unpausing

Start watching by unpausing, AND IT WORKS!!! - correct name and time (although MS archive still has it in Badfiles)

Sorry R2_D2 for doubting your work. Embarassed

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mossman

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:51 pm

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Just looked again at the native arcive - although the paused buffer was more than a minute, the archive has it as 0 mins, which I guess would explain my MS puts it into the Badfiles folder. Although when you play it (from native archive) MS info box gives a time of 2 mins.

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