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Hitting Rec while watching Live TV starts recording late


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TheWebMachine
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While tinkering with the server (I had the DB lock and bork some recordings so I was trying to reproduce to ensure it wasn't a fluke, but that's not what this is about) and I encountered something I think could be adjusted; consider it an Improvement, not so much a bug:

While watching a channel live (device agnostic), if you press Record to start recording that show, the recording starts from the current *live* timepoint. I feel when you press Record, the recording should either start at of the point you are actually at in the stream -or- from the start of the show/start of the live buffer (whichever is later). 

Of course, it's not a big deal if you are DirectStream (because live position is synced) viewing, but if you are watching on something that needs transcoding (Roku, for example), the recording could start way later than you think because you can only get so close to the live timepoint when streaming a temp transcode. You effectively miss where you wanted to start and recording starts at some unknown timepoint beyond that. You only find out when you go back and look at the Recording. I think it's also a point of convenience. If I press record at a timepoint I'm at, I'd logically expect recording to start there if possible.

Did I make any sense? I hope I explained what I mean well enough. I could be missing some technical limitation that precludes such a change, of course. I'm just curious if an improvement can be made here without opening a can of worms.

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HI, yes we can look at improving this. Thanks for the feedback.

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