This guide covers the control of live broadcasting (timeshift) that allows your listeners to pause, rewind, and then return to live on your HLS streams, with a rewind depth of up to 2 hours.

Preamble

• Unlike Video Streaming, there is no scheduling tool for Timeshift on the Radio side.
• Rewind/rewind is disabled by default on the Player to give you control over public exposure.

Offer live control to listeners

Prerequisites

• Create or edit an HLS stream in your Radio Streaming product.

Next:

1. When creating (or modifying) an HLS stream, set the Buffer Memory between 00:00:25 and 02:00:00. This value between 25 seconds and 2 hours corresponds to the maximum duration during which listeners can rewind and pause the live broadcast, before returning to live. It determines the depth of live control. Examples:
   • 00:00:25 → 05:00: minimum tolerance for short pauses.
   • 10:00 → 30:00: ideal for news / talk formats.
   • 30:00 → 02:00:00: maximum comfort for music shows and events.
2. Enable rewind in your Player (refer to this other guide) if you wish to offer it to the public (disabled by default).