Timeshift buffer remains until next channel opens

[monthou66]

Is it possible for this to be deleted on stopping a channel (whether by default or option)?
If a channel's been on for a few hours it can take up a lot of space that then interferes with other temp files (eg video-cache, which is deleted on stopping playback).
Thanks (again) for looking
Dave

[Donderstraal]

Does this get fixed any time in the feature at all? Have reported this quite long ago as well. In fact I suspect it's the standard failback way of handling streams in Kodi and proposed a different solution: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=259332
It's really frustrating.

[manuelm]

@Donderstraal this is another bug/feature request. This is about deleting/truncating the timeshift buffer after playing has stopped which is a simple change. You're asking about ringbuffer which is tracked here: manuelm/pvr.dvbviewer#2. But it's not easy to implement.

[manuelm]

One more thing: Kodi itself doesn't have support for timeshifting. This is PVR specific. In some PVRs this is even implement in the backend.

[Donderstraal]

Ah ok! I don't understand the issue enough so I thought it was close enough.
Basically I asked around a lot but nobody was able to explain it to me, got so frustrated I opened a topic for the simple try to get people telling me wrong, right or agree on it.
Still this would be a huge step forward I think, would solve the times when you don't timeshift.
After trying many backends I keep getting back to this one, no backend is issue free for me :(