Same. I’m on the recommended 720-5 quality and I only get about 3 minutes of pause time on my R3. That’s not even close to acceptable. Might have to think about the Shield after all.
Last night I had a weird experience. I had paused a show and, of course, after a couple of minutes it started playing. So I backed out to the recordings list so I could go do something. When I started it up again, after pausing it did not start playing automatically. I waited more than 3-4 minutes but I don’t remember exactly how long it stayed on pause. The show was still recording though.
Never had this problem on Rokus until more recent firmware updates. Pausing indefinitely was never a problem for over a year of ownership.
New bug introduced with repairs of prior issues. Thankfully the fixed bugs make the Tablo really a pleasure to use nearly all the time so this pausing problem is a very minor annoyance.
I’m glad that someone finally shares my belief that the problem is with the newest Roku firmware.
It is a minor annoyance but still annoying.
I don’t know what’s changed (certainly not my HD space as I erase pretty much everything after watching it), but now I seem to be getting up to at least a half hour of pause time. I’ve been on v.7 - 9044 since 12/15/15 which is long before I started seeing the short pausing time.
This is still happening to me. You’d think after 8 months that they’d be able to figure this out.
I finally upgraded to the new Fire TV. That problem does not happen on the Fire TV.
Still happening to me. Could be 10 minutes, 5 minutes or 10 seconds. VERY annoying.
This was figured out months ago. Here is the explanation:
TabloTVDec '15
Hey everyone - Upon further review of Roku’s documentation, our experts have found that this is a limitation of the Roku platform.
Roku devices don’t have an infinite buffer for LIVE streams. What this means is that while you’re watching live TV, Roku will keep requesting segments of the playlist until its pause buffer is full, then it will automatically resume while it dumps the old segments from the buffer to make room for the new ones.
Those streaming at higher resolutions (like 10 Mbps) will see a shorter time window between the pause and the buffer overflowing (2-3 minutes) vs. a lower stream (3 Mbps) where it will be between 20-30 minutes.
Since we cannot control Roku’s root behavior, it’s not possible to generate a fix for this. The only recommendation is to move to a lower recording quality if you need longer than 3 minutes to run to the restroom.
This is not a Tablo issue. I have the same issue with all live streaming - such as Bloomberg News.
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To play Devil’s Advocate here,if this is a Roku problem then why did it start occurring recently and never did it before?
Roku firmware update.
If you try other live streaming services (like Bloomberg News), you will experience the same issue. I’m not aware of any live streaming where it is not an issue.
Any fix for this yet? Have the Tablo team contacted Roku for a fix? I have a Roku 3 7.7.0 Build 4135-04 with Tablo 2.2.16. Very annoying, not worth pausing so have to use back button instead.
Why would i want to automatically unpause after 5 minutes just rediculous man
I am fairly sure this has been fixed. Using latest Tablo v.20 firmware and latest Roku firmware I have paused and walked away at least once and forgot I had Tablo paused. When I came back much later (45 minutes maybe), the pause was still occurong. I resumed play with no issue.
Anybody else find this now working ok?
Larry
Nope, still live broadcasts are still un-pausing after a couple of minutes for me. Using latest Tablo and Roku firmware…
The pause time changes with almost every Roku OS update.
I’ve had it go from 1 minute to 20 minutes, and the only thing that changed was the Roku OS version.
you would think that after 3 years Roku would have found a fix for this.
They do, and then break it again.
Ground Hog Day
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