"Fast Forward" button not working on recorded program

[ezjob]

I recorded a program and when finished I opened it and started watching it.

Every time I click on the fast forward button the program starts over at the beginning.

It does it on the screen "FF" button and the remote "FF" button.

[dishuser]

what player are you using?

[stdly]

I had this problem with BuzzTV 4 if I started the recording on a show that already started. If i scheduled a full recording I could fast forward.

Not sure if this is true with BuzzTV 5 I have only done scheduled recordings and they are working as expected.

[Emporium]

Actually, I have seen this on one of my main services.  And after a lot of testing, it is the original stream from the service itself which has an issue.   I was lucky enough to have it on a channel that also had catchup, and that is where I had first encountered the issue.  Try to skip commercials and always restarting.   Most other channels and streams were not an issue.   Have you tried other channels ?

I had tried it, using at least 3 different apps with various players and they all exhibited the exact same issue (at least on the catchup).  I suspect it has something to do with the way the encoding embeds the video stream key frames.  I had tried recording to see if it was just a catchup issue, but all recording of the affected channels was doing the exact same thing.

Since the testing, the service I use had a major issue and completely redid all the servers and upgraded the whole service backend and panel (many here will know what service I am referring to).  Since the server change, most of the channels streams that had these issues seem to have been corrected (can't reproduce).  There was the odd one still, but they are not channels I typically use, so never bothered.

The only thing I don't recall if I tested was switching stream type (HLS / TS etc..). 

Have you tried switching stream types ?  IF server has the option it would be the last option on the bottom of the settings->configuration menu,  You will have to restart the app for the change to take effect I believe.

 

 

[dishuser]

I have recordings using both stream formats and have no issues fast forwarding

[dishuser]

also if you change stream format you only need to change the channel for it to take effect

[Emporium]

7 minutes ago, dishuser said:

I have recordings using both stream formats and have no issues fast forwarding

Bottom line, it depends on the server stream encoding.  Since the server change on the service I had done my testing on, I have not encountered any streams that exhibit this behaviour any longer.   It used to happen quite often, that out of habit, every time I use catch-up, I always use ffw and rew as I start to watch, just to see if it works normally (not to find out after first commercial, that I need to restart).  But have not seen it with the new servers.