Can't seek recording that is still running

[LittleWizard 31]

I have a very big problem.

If I record a long event (for example a F1 race) and I start watching it while still in recording, I can't seek. Total runtime is an absurd negative number.

This is a huge problem for me. With Tvheadend I din't have this problem...

Maybe the only workaround is to create a copy of the already recorded file, but not very pratical. I didn't try beta server (I'm on latest stable).

Use Emby server on Synology and Client on android.

[Luke 42077]

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Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

 

 

[LittleWizard 31]

Step to reproduce it:

Star a recording in live tv. Wait for example 15min, star playing the recording while in progress, try to seek.

I'll look into the log and I'll attach it...

[Luke 42077]

That would be great, thanks.

[LittleWizard 31]

Here it is.

Fo example at about line 1528 (2023-11-19 15:35:24) I:

- Stopped live TV of Channel TV8

- (I think line 1554) Started to play the recording still in progress of the same channel "F1 Gara GP Las Vegas (Diretta) 2023_11_19_14_00_00"

- Tried to seek with no success (also total time at the end of seek bar was a strange number like -xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:xx:xx

Then I stopped it and:

- Started to play the live channel again (not the recording)

- Pressed PAUSE to to Timeshift

- Waited about 30sec

- TRied to seek in timeshift and also to return to live with no success (to return to live I had to press stop and restart the channel again)

embyserver (2023.11.19).txt

[ebr 16169]

Hi.  Please post the ffmpeg log(s) too.

Thanks.

[LittleWizard 31]

I have done the steps to reproduce the problem, but when I go in Logs, I only have server log with actual date.

FFmpeg logs (remux and transcode) are of yesterday.

Maybe no remux is done? Maybe this is the reason why I can't seek?

I attach screenshot of strange timecode.

[LittleWizard 31]

Also, playing an already ended recording I have several issues in time seeking. Sometimes does work, but frequently it only seek lot of minutes ahead, if I try seeking few minutes, most of the time it jump back like there are key points where it can seek to. I know that it can happen with TS files when there are corruptions maybe due to imperfect TV signal, but with TVheadend and other similar app I had no issues in seeking TS files and also seeking still in progress recording.

There must be a way to do it, I think (I don't know exactly how anyway).

Don't know if maybe new server version will fix this, as soon as it will exit from beta I'll try it!

[Luke 42077]

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Maybe no remux is done? Maybe this is the reason why I can't seek?

Hi, yes this could be it. We are looking into imrpoving this. Thanks.