Watch, pause, and rewind live TV

[francesco75]

I'm wondering if there is any way to stop, pause and rewind live events like what it'spossible to do with any kind of Media Center. Expecially when I'm watching streamed events it would be nice if It was possibele use some kind of dynamic buffer to put in pause what I'm watching.
There is any way for doing that ?
Sorry for my english and thanks for yours help.

Francesco

[karlar]

yeah it would be great, i know that the realplayer has something like that implemented also, is very cool.

[francesco75]

Have you any idea if real player can work with vlc acing like a streaming server ?

[dionoea]

You can pause (i'm not sure about rewinding). You need to enable the "timeshifting" access filter in the preferences. Then just use pause/play to pause/play the video.

[karlar]

It doesnt seems to work for me, but its perhaps some options that I have set.

I am using :rtsp-tcp could that be a problem.

and using vlc 0.8.5 running on xp.

[dionoea]

It indeed could be a problem. The "timeshift" filter has an option (in the prefs) to force it to work... try enabling it.

[karlar]

I am not sure that i found the option, is it inside Playlist->SAP? Dont think so. Could you point me in the right direction ?

[dionoea]

in Input/Codecs->Access filters->Timeshift (i can't remember what the option is called though ... but it should be easy to find)

[karlar]

I have enable both record and timeshift and create a folder for the recordings + set timeshift granularity to 700. But i cant pause the live stream and resume it at a later point.

Thats the only thing i have done have i missed something

[dionoea]

The option is was telling you about is called "Force use of the timeshift module".

[karlar]

thanks found it in the long help options list, but still cant it in VLC Settings menu, but nevermind that.

But is there some req. to use it.

thinking about if i can use any protocol and any options like rtsp-tcp to together with timeshift-force

[dionoea]

(i stay calm)

In the prefs:
Input/Codecs->Access Filters->Timeshift. Click "Advanced Options" and you should see that option.

[karlar]

hehe
Think i misunderstood you, thought you were talking about another options, well nvm - that one does not work for me, i have enable it(nput/Codecs->Access Filters->Timeshift) and made folders, but still no pause.

You said something about RTSP-TCP could be a problem or well thats the way that i understood it.

So i guess i should disable it, right ? It there anything that you could think of that could intervene with timeshifting ?

[DOOM]

As a workaround you can record the live event with one VLC instance, and use another for the playback.

Works great, testet with a Nokia Dbox2 set top box as video source (MPEG-TS). But the kind of source should no matter.

DOOM