Try pressing the instant recording button, then watch the resulting recording in chasing playback.

J_Oz – 5 minutes ago  » 

Hi Graham, are you suggesting that as a work around or try this and see if it works? I do need it to be on a scheduled record and the PVR should not be doing something which I’ve not asked it to do.

I don’t have a FVP-4000T but this works on all the Humax pvrs I own or have owned. If you have a scheduled recording, then rather than watch the live transmission, watch the recording as it is being recorded from the media list (Chasing Playback). Hint using the forward skip key when near real time playback avoids jumping out of the recording to live TV.

If you watch a ITV 1 HR recording about 15 minutes after it starts, then by skipping the ads you will finish watching about the same time as the live programme finishes.

The problem is the way the box resets the time shift buffer to reflect the new programme. It’s this behaviour that allows you to record a complete programme you have watched from the beginning by simply pressing the record button.

J_Oz – 11 minutes ago  » 

OK, get your idea about watching the recording but I still believe the box should not be doing something I’ve not asked it to. Worse, I’ve asked it to watch in time shift mode and the box says No! you can’t.

IT’s doing what it is supposed to do. The ability to record a complete programme you have started to watch in it’s entirety by a single button push, is because the box resets the internal pointer to the current time shift buffer point when a new programme starts. That’s how it knows at which point to start recording from the time shift buffer. I don’t understand your last post. Watching the recording as it is being made is time shifting.

J_Oz – 1 hour ago  » 

Hi Graham, I would say that time shifting is watching a program at a different point in time other than the point at which it is currently into the broadcast.

I don’t understand what your point is about the internal pointer. What function are you saying can be performed.

The machine should do as I have requested (I do know more about what I want to do with the PVR than it does)

If you select and watch a recording as it is being recorded you are watching a programme at a different point in time to the current live broadcast. You can watch at any point from the beginning of the programme to approx. 2 minutes behind the live transmission (depending on what setting you have for the forward skip time).

The box is designed to allow recording a programme from the time shift buffer.

If you start to watch a programme and then decide you want to record all of it (perhaps you want to go out or switch to another live programme), if you press the instant record button it will record from the beginning of the current programme to the end of it with a single button press. To do this the box needs to mark the point at which the programme started within the time shift buffer file.

Obviously if have a scheduled recording already in progress there is no need to use the time shift buffer in the above manner, simply select the recording file instead. You can then watch from any point within the existing recorded content, which seems to me exactly what you want to do.

J_Oz – 33 seconds ago  » 

No Graham, what I want the box to do is exactly what I have asked it to do.

As for the time shift buffer you are referring to, it must be possible to set up more than one of these, after all it is nothing physical, merely a software pointer.

There is only one time shift buffer file, it is continuously recorded to when full it starts recording at the beginning (It has a reserved area of the hard disk allocated to it). I honestly cannot see why you simply cannot play back the ongoing recording. End of discussion for me. Afiak no one else has posted this as an issue incidentally.

J_Oz – 23 minutes ago  » 

Fair enough if you have nothing further to say on this but you did not respond to my wish that the box should do as I ask, rather than what it thinks is best.

Just because nobody else has reported this does not mean they haven’t encountered it.

Not sure what you expect me to say. The box is working as it should. It’s capable of doing what you want by using a slightly different method. Quite why you think it’s somehow different using a different file on the hard disk to time shift a ongoing recording I haven’t a clue. If you are watching the programme live, why do want to record it as well, and what is your objection to watching the recording rather than the live stream ?

J_Oz – 33 minutes ago  » 

The whole point I was making is that the box should do what I ask it to do. It is not doing that. I do not not understand why you cannot see that.

I do not understand why you think the box should do something it’s not designed to do. Basically you want to watch time shifted content on a programme you are recording without missing the end. I have told you how to do this repeatedly, why don’t you try it out, it’s not exactly hard to do so ?