I found an issue with pausing playback. If I rewind and pause not yet finished event, or pause live playback and then resume playback after event finishes, it does not actually resume. It will skip to current program. No issues with fully finished events. Is there any workaround?
Not that I know of. You can try to rewind/ff by 10 seconds before releasing pause.
Hi, pvr.iptvarchive has been upgraded to 3.9.8. Where can I download it?
It’s in the nightly builds.
https://relkai.coreelec.org/?dir=addons/9.2/Amlogic/arm/pvr.iptvarchive
There is no version 3.9.8 there.
That’s known bug I guess. Any plans to fix it?
Not really. The problem is with the stream timing out at the server, I don’t see a way to solve that.
Ok, but when timeout, why stream is restarted at current live position and not from position where pause has been set? Addon knows pause position and also addon knows playback has been released from pause before timeout happen. So playback should be restarted with catchup, currently it restarts without it, so it skips to current event, showing archived title from epg, which is confusing
I guess it depends on your IPTV provider. In my case it resumes at the point it would be if I never paused it.
I mean the case when I pause stream. From what you said, timeout occurs, so addon restarts the stream without catchup. This could be fixed by restarting stream with the same catch up as it has been paused on
In my case pvr addon does nothing after pause and then resume. Stream continues few more seconds and then dies.
And I don’t think addon knows anything about pausing and resuming stream. Addon gives stream url to Kodi and Kodi plays it. Because buffer is not filled when pausing it runs out. And because stream is already closed there is no more data.
At least this is how it works for me 
That’s why I hacked one solution in Python to save current stream position to a file and then when I start playing stream again it looks this file and continue from there. Sadly it is not just Python but also few things in addon itself. And whole solution is just ugly. But it works for more than 2 years anyway.
Maybe solution in Kodi Matrix will work better.
I am able to pause or resume. Unless the event I am watching finishes while paused. In this case, after releasing from pause it resumes and after a while it jumps to live stream without any catchup. Epg still keeps displaying archived event.
If I try with archived event, that is finished, for example, yesterday, it seems I am able to pause and resume without any issues.
I am also able to seek backward live stream I am watching and then it starts to play from archive.
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As I said, this is provider dependent. And it’s not something we can do much about.
Ok, even ugly solution (as @vpeter did that) is better than nothing.
Today I updated pvr.iptvarhive to version 3.9.8.
I need to change the User Agent because it is being checked on the server.
But this how User-Agent looks after enable it from advanced addon setting.
User-Agent: Restream / 5.20408.171030 (mag250, mag250) SmartSDK / 1.5.63-rt-25 Qt / 4.7.3 API / 0.30.0? Offset = -14495.
http://mod-edit/variant.m3u8
The archive does not work with such a request.This is from the proxy log. And here is the correct archive request from another client:
User-Agent: Restream / 5.20408.171030 (mag250, mag250) SmartSDK / 1.5.63-rt-25 Qt / 4.7.3 API / 0.30.0
http://mod-edit/variant.m3u8?offset=-32670
String for archive:
#EXTM3U catchup = “append” catchup-source = “? Offset = - $ {offset} & utcstart = $ {timestamp}” catchup-days = "3"
Could you help me please?
@TheCoolest Hi, the epg does not show the days of the past, it only looks the day before. The archive works, only the epg does not show the days of the past. What would be the problem?
@Feromon I will look into this and see if it’s related to my changes or the upstream changes and will update.
@Vuzzy You can configure in Kodi how many past days you want to keep in the EPG. Go to Settings --> PVR & Live TV --> Guide. There you can set the Past days to display.
@TheCoolest But why can’t I set the archive for more than 2 days?
You can do that in the Archive settings in the addon settings.
I set it, but it still looks so …