Watching and Recording TV with WinDVR

Time-shifting

You can use WinDVR’s Time Shift mode to pause, replay, or skip commercials while watching live TV. In Time Shift mode, you decide how to watch TV—you can watch your own instant replays, take a break from a live program then rejoin it where you left off, or instantly jump back to live view.

Time-shifting in Normal Mode

In Normal mode, Time-shifting is not the same as recording—no permanent file is saved to your hard drive. Instead, when you activate Time Shift mode, WinDVR begins temporarily storing (buffering) the program you’re watching, up to a preset amount of time (10 minutes, by default).

Note: You can change the default buffering time. Open the TV Panel, click the Setup button, then click the Time Shifting tab. Change the buffering time as desired, to within the limits of disk space available on your hard drive. Then click OK.

To activate Time Shift mode while watching a live program:

1Press Time Shift or Pause on the remote control. (Both buttons activate Time-shifting.)

Note: You can also click the Pause button on the WinDVR Control Panel.

WinDVR begins buffering the TV program. The Control Panel shows Delay above the channel display.

If you stay in Time Shift mode longer than the preset buffering time limit, WinDVR will keep only the most recent portion of the TV program in the buffer. For instance, if your buffering time limit is 10 minutes, WinDVR will keep only the most recent 10 minutes of the TV program in its buffer.

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