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**Basje** · 2014-07-02, 10:18

With my add-on (XBMC Online TV) I have some live streams.

However if a watches that stream for a while and then stops it, that specific ListItem within XBMC is marked as watched. Because it is a continuous live stream, this makes no sense.

So the question is, how can I prevent a ListItem in an XBMC Video Add-on to be marked as watched?

sphere · 2014-07-02, 20:00

You can't really prevent this, however you can avoid this behavior by having unique (or random) ListItem's URLs together with the setResolvedUrl function.

**Basje** · 2014-07-02, 20:03

(2014-07-02, 20:00)sphere Wrote: You can't really prevent this, however you can avoid this behavior by having unique (or random) ListItem's URLs together with the setResolvedUrl function.

That was the exact hacky thing I had in mind, but that seemed dirty. But I will do it this way.

sphere · 2014-07-02, 20:05

OK.

If you find another way which I don't know, please let me know! Smile

Btw, I needed such behavior for a "Play Random" ListItem.

dag- · 2019-06-19, 21:05

Is there a better way to do this nowadays ?

We have the same need and a random URL seems a bad workaround (as it adds random URLs to a database every time).

dag- · 2019-06-20, 02:28

So after some testing it appears that adding infoLabel playcount=0 works perfectly well to achieve this for live streams.

Here is a reference to our feature request and implementation: https://github.com/pietje666/plugin.vide...-503773325