TV Archive, Timeshift and Recording

The TV archive turns live channels into catch-up: subscribers rewind a programme, jump back to what aired this morning, or watch yesterday tonight. Player apps show it natively — the archive icon on a channel comes from here.

Turn it on, per channel

Archive is a per-stream decision, on the stream’s server tab: pick the archive server — the machine that records — and the duration in days. The recorder does not have to be a delivery server; a storage-heavy box can hold the archive while the delivery fleet stays lean.

Player apps discover it automatically: the channel carries its catch-up window, and timeshift playback URLs serve any moment inside it. Keep the EPG window at least as long as the archive — subscribers rewind programmes, and it is the guide that names them.

Scheduled recordings

Create Recording captures a slice of a channel as a one-off: the source stream, a start date and time, an end or a duration — and a title, description, icon, category and bouquets for the result. Recordings run on the archive infrastructure and appear in a list with their status — in progress, complete, incomplete, failed — playable in the panel the moment they finish.

From archive to VOD

Anything inside a channel’s archive window can be clipped into a permanent VOD item: last night’s match becomes a movie entry with its own artwork and placement, long after the rolling window has moved on. Broadcast once, sell twice.

Archive playback re-serves what was recorded — how content gets encoded in the first place is the next page: transcode profiles.