swindmiller 5 Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 Just installed Emby Theater (windows desktop) and trying to figure out why you are able to fast forward past the end of the buffer (or where the show is actually live). This is a real annoyance as if we pause live tv we usually just hit the ffw button a few times to get caught up (through commercials). If we go past the “live” part it hangs until it catches up to the point you told it to seek to. Why not just not allow you to go past the buffer? Is this in the works to be fixed? Also on the windows desktop version, I do not see the actual buffer in the bar, is this normal? I see it in the Windows store version (and it does not allow you to go past the buffer) but that version does not work the same with our WMC remote. I wanted to switch from WMC to this but this will be a deal killer for my wife. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waldoverkill 0 Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 This is an issue for me too. Cheers for raising it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaGeorge 0 Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 I seem to recall that the rational for switching from Madvr to MPV was that "live TV would just work". Also, Linux would "just work" since MPV could run under Linux, i.e., an easy port from Windows version of ET. Seems that live TV and Linux ET still have a long way to go. Maybe it was a mistake switching from Madvr, which was promised from the start would be integrated for advanced users (videophiles) wanting the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 mpv isn't the problem. If you use mpv directly, it doesn't happen. The buffer is created by the server, so anything around that, is emby. But yes, this has never worked correctly, in Theater. Theater needs some TLC. It's a bit rough 'n' ready. Not a lot of finesse. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swindmiller 5 Posted May 2, 2019 Author Share Posted May 2, 2019 It works well but with just a few annoying issues. Unfortunately, this will not pass the wife approval and frankly I don’t blame her. Can’t wait for this to become a bit more stable, it scares me to death to try to run a Win7 machine just so I can have WMC which does “just work”. Is there another option besides ET that I could use on win10 that would allow me to use a remote? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 There's the store app, but you'll probably have a lot of remuxing/transcoding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swindmiller 5 Posted May 2, 2019 Author Share Posted May 2, 2019 Yeah I tried that and it does show the buffered content in the bar and does not allow you to go past the buffer but, the remote control just does not work well at all. Thanks for the option but unfortunately that won’t work for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swindmiller 5 Posted May 6, 2019 Author Share Posted May 6, 2019 Just checking back in to see if there is a plan to correct this or if I should just try to stick to Windows Media Center for TV.....as horrifying as that sounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36879 Posted May 7, 2019 Share Posted May 7, 2019 We will be improving live stream seeking in a future update. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
otatv 13 Posted September 7, 2019 Share Posted September 7, 2019 Just installed Emby Theater (windows desktop) and trying to figure out why you are able to fast forward past the end of the buffer (or where the show is actually live). This is a real annoyance as if we pause live tv we usually just hit the ffw button a few times to get caught up (through commercials). If we go past the “live” part it hangs until it catches up to the point you told it to seek to. Why not just not allow you to go past the buffer? Is this in the works to be fixed? Also on the windows desktop version, I do not see the actual buffer in the bar, is this normal? I see it in the Windows store version (and it does not allow you to go past the buffer) but that version does not work the same with our WMC remote. I wanted to switch from WMC to this but this will be a deal killer for my wife. Agreed this issue is a showstopper for the WAF and is one of our top issues that needs to be fixed in Emby Theater win desktop before we can consider a premier subscription. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red5ive 30 Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 Has there been any progress on this Luke? Any testing in a beta version etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36879 Posted December 15, 2019 Share Posted December 15, 2019 Not yet but hopefully soon. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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