[raptorjr]

In movies, and ordinary recordings, the current position is saved when you exit playback. So you can resume later.
I think it would be nice if you choose to record LiveTV, that the position is saved if/when you exit playback or change channel.

[rpcameron]

If you are playing back a recorded program, it can resume from the point where you left off; this is implemented by the PVR client addon.

What exactly are you referring to about saving playback when exiting Live TV playback though? Because it doesn't quite make sense here ...

[raptorjr]

If you are playing back a recorded program, it can resume from the point where you left off; this is implemented by the PVR client addon.

What exactly are you referring to about saving playback when exiting Live TV playback though? Because it doesn't quite make sense here ...

You are watching LiveTV and then comes a family member with higher priority that would like to watch something else. So you press record and switch channel or exit LiveTV. Then when you finally are alone with your TV again and would like to finish watching your TV show the recording starts from the beginning. Not from the point where you actually were.

As you said, in recordings the position is remembered. But not when LiveTV becomes a recording.

[Dangelus]

If you are playing back a recorded program, it can resume from the point where you left off; this is implemented by the PVR client addon.

What exactly are you referring to about saving playback when exiting Live TV playback though? Because it doesn't quite make sense here ...

You are watching LiveTV and then comes a family member with higher priority that would like to watch something else. So you press record and switch channel or exit LiveTV. Then when you finally are alone with your TV again and would like to finish watching your TV show the recording starts from the beginning. Not from the point where you actually were.

As you said, in recordings the position is remembered. But not when LiveTV becomes a recording.

And which PVR backend are you using? This would have to be a feature of the backend as Kodi is just a playback client.

[raptorjr]

If you are playing back a recorded program, it can resume from the point where you left off; this is implemented by the PVR client addon.

What exactly are you referring to about saving playback when exiting Live TV playback though? Because it doesn't quite make sense here ...

You are watching LiveTV and then comes a family member with higher priority that would like to watch something else. So you press record and switch channel or exit LiveTV. Then when you finally are alone with your TV again and would like to finish watching your TV show the recording starts from the beginning. Not from the point where you actually were.

As you said, in recordings the position is remembered. But not when LiveTV becomes a recording.

And which PVR backend are you using? This would have to be a feature of the backend as Kodi is just a playback client.

Don't really understand why this should have to be a backend feature? Kodi doesn't need a backend to remember the last position in a movie?
Anyway I'm using MythTV and this feature is available in MythTV frontend. And Kodi does remember the last position in a ordinary recording. But not when turning LiveTV into a recording.

[rpcameron]

Then this is a feature that would need to be implemented in MythTV's PVR addon. In most PVR backends, when you press record while watching LiveTV, the recording starts from when the record button was pressed, not the beginning of the program.

The reason it works that way is because MythTV saves its timeshift buffer in a different recording group. When you press record during LiveTV, it moves the recording from the Live recording group into your default group. However, it sees it as a new recording, not the LiveTV. Therefore, it doesn't know where you were in the playback, because it treats it as a new/different recording.

And yes, this type of behavior is specific to your PVR backend, and therefore would have to be implemented in the PVR-specific addon.

As far as remembering the position in a movie: Kodi stores this information in its database. It does the same thing for LiveTV recordings. However, Kodi treats LiveTV, and the recordings from LiveTV differently: LiveTV is special and seen as a continuous stream to Kodi, but recordings as treated exactly the same as movies. (This is why if you seek beyond the current/live position of a recording-in-progress the playback ends, but if you seek beyond the current/live position of LiveTV you are taken to the end/current point in time.)

[janbar]

That was implemented in the pvr addon mythtv version 4.11.1. The current position of record start is saved to be retrieved later as last played position in the recording.