Configure Timeshift option for Video Streaming

This guide explains how to activate and use the Timeshift function (also called DVR) on your live video broadcasts. This feature allows your spectators to go back if they have not had the opportunity to attend your direct from the beginning.

Enable Timeshift (DVR) function

In order to access the Video Streaming service:

1. Click here in order to access the management of your product on the Manager Infomaniak (Need help?).
2. Click directly on the nameallocated to the product concerned.
3. Click on Configure under Timeshift from the dashboard:
   
4. Enable Timeshift.
5. Set the length of time your spectators will be able to go back (max. 240 min.).
6. Click on the button Enable:
   

Customize Timeshift function

It is possible to activate this option via the planning tool on a specific schedule and thus limit this possibility to certain programmes. The parameters defined in the planning tool will overwrite the default state defined from the dashboard.

To understand this, imagine a TV that broadcasts a 10h and 12h football game.

1. The TV only wants to activate Timeshift during the game

With this configuration, spectators who join the live at 11:59 a.m. will be able to see the beginning of the game again at 10 a.m., but they will not be able to see the shows that preceded the game before 10 a.m. For memory, the maximum duration. of the Timeshift is 240 min. ( 4 a.m.).
 

2. The TV only wants to activate a 20 minute Timeshift during the game

With this configuration, spectators who join the live at 11.30 a.m. will be able to see the previous 20 minutes, but they will not be able to see the beginning of the game again; only the last 20 slippery minutes will be accessible throughout the game.
 

3. TV wants to disable Timeshift during the game

With this configuration, spectators will not be able to see parts of the game again. They will only be able to see the shows before the match if the Timeshift function has been enabled by default from the feed dashboard

In summary, there are therefore 2 cases of use.

1. Enable Timeshift continuously, except for special events.
2. Disable Timeshift continuously, except for special events.

The default status is managed from the flow dashboard and exceptions from the planning tool.

Learn more about how it works

If you have set a Timeshift of one hour and you have just activated it, the return time will gradually increase to the chosen time from the time of activation.

If geographical restrictions are defined with a specific time range, they will in all cases be respected. In the event that a 4h Timeshift TV would book its sports program to visitors Swiss From 10am to 12pm, a spectator Italian which would connect to the stream at 1 p.m. could only review the emissions from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.