Watching F1 Qualifying (126 minutes) and pausing after 86 minutes - Channel DVR marks entire show as Watched and does not save to Resume later.
If you add extra time to a recording it doesn’t take into consideration the extra time when marking the show watched.
That kind of makes sense but a lot of sporting events can go long. Still Channels should keep the Resume time stamp based on total remaining unless I delete it. Having to hunt to find where you were in a show is the worst, especially if going too far can spoil an ending.
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This is how it works. The alternative means that most sporting events never get marked as watched because you didn't watch until the end of the padding.
This is just one of those decisions that has a negative outcome either way, and we chose to go with the one that is less likely, and that one has pleased most everyone for many years.
Best compromise: Mark it as Watched, but don't delete the Resume time stamp. If I resume later, I can find it from the watched shows but it'll still pick up where I left off.
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I delete almost every sporting event after I watch it. For the very few that I save, I know that it's been watched.
If you're watching a game and get interrupted, you end up having to fast forward through three plus hours of program to try to find where you left off. If you have to add additional padding, you end up fast forwarding again, unless you use a different device to update it.
It's worse on Android devices since they don't show padding on the timeline, unlike the Apple Tv.
I'm watching primarily in Nvidia shield Android TV and don't see any indicators on the timeline.
I guess I'm but sure why the resume stamp can't be saved separately when a Sporting event is marked as Watched.
I would also like to vote for this to become somehow configurable. Is it possible to turn off the feature that automatically marks as watched at least for Sports events? Personally, i would turn this off for all recordings, as i always delete a recording myself after watching it.
If you REALLY wanted to mark a sporting event as watched, you could do it in the Web interface.
What do you mean? I'm looking to disable to automatic making as watched once you reach a percentage of the recording as it appears in the guide
If the DVR didn't automatically mark sporting events as watched, then "resume" would work with padding.
But if anyone wanted to mark the event as "watched", they could do it manually.
I'm still struggling with this problem for a little different reason, Currently, I'm using the Channels for Chrome Capture thing to record SNY. I haven't figured out how to get the guide to work correctly so I've been manually starting the recordings each night using the generic one hour time blocks that Channels puts in the guide by default. I simply extend the one hour recording for 4 hours or so, and the recording works great. But anytime I pause the game after the one hour mark, it doesn't save my timeline. Very annoying. Is there a way to edit the meta data in the recorded file to trick Channels into thinking it's a 5 hour show I'm trying to watch?
Are you extending before or after it starts recording?
Can you submit diagnostics from your dvr
@tmm1 Are you asking me if I edit the recording thats in progress to extend the ending of the recording (No I don't) or if before I click record if I extend the recording 4 hours after or before the 1 hour block in the guide. (After by the way)
... That brings up an interesting thought though, if I was to try pick a one hour block 4 hours from now, and pad the recording 240 minutes before, how would the Channels logic handle the marking of the recording as watched? I'm ok if it never masks it as watched, as I always delete the recording after watching it.
Here are my diagnostics:
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Thanks,
Seth