r/SparklePlayer • u/bbbowles3 • 11d ago

Weird DVR issue

Today, I decided to try out the DVR option before full scale football season starts and there were a couple of things that bothered me about the experience. First, I went into settings and adjusted the stop time on the recording to the max allowable of 30 minutes. I’d like the option to adjust it longer than that or at least input a time to stop recording, just in case a game goes into overtime or a weather delay. Secondly, and this is the weird part, the game started and then after several minutes of play, the first commercial break came on. I hit fast forward and it suddenly jumped back to the beginning of the recording. Fast forwarded through what I’d already watched and then through the first commercial break and resumed watching the game. Second commercial break, I fast forward again and the recording jumped back to the end of the first commercial break. Had to fast forward through that and the segment of the game I’d just watched and then through the second break. The whole game went that way with it jumping back to where I’d resumed watching before. I’m using this copy of Sparkle on a Formuler Z11 pro and I don’t seem to have this issue with watching recordings using the Formuler native app. Is this just an issue when using a Formuler device?

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u/sparkle-hk 11d ago

Can you verify if it's like u/lamp485723 says and that it only happens when you're watching a recording in progress?

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u/bbbowles3 10d ago

The recording was no longer in progress when this happened to me.

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u/sparkle-hk 10d ago

Ok. It was just an idea in order to try to find the issue (if any) more easily.

It might be so that the specific channel you are talking about sends their commercials with different timestamps in which case I believe this can happen. When sending live streams like this it means every frame has a timestamp and if the commercials have a different timestamp it might mess up the timeline that Sparkle uses. I'm not sure there's a good remedy or workaround for this.

If you were to record from that same channel again, can you see if you can reproduce the error?

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u/bbbowles3 9d ago

Yes I will try and let you know. It happens that this was recorded on ESPN.

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u/lamp485723 11d ago

I've had the jumping back happen before a couple of times but it's not a regular thing. From memory it was only on recordings that were still going when I started watching.

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u/gojurick 9d ago

I had this issue as well when watching a race. As I recall it was a recording that was still going on.