2015-06-08, 00:33
I'm pretty sure this is a feature request as I can't find any plugins or online sites providing this. But I want to make sure. It seems like this information could be pretty easily crowd-sourced:
In Kodi 14 (I think), the ability to bookmark a video or even a specific position in a position relative to a given episode was introduced. So if you have a DVD or Blu-ray set of episodes, you can jump right to the correct locations later.
The problem with that of course is that you need to spend ages precisely pinning every single episode, and then the resulting work is further dependent on your personal Kodi database which is generally safe, but I like to maintain the condition where blowing out my Kodi database has limited/no impact and can be regenerated at any time with minor exceptions like watched status.
So here we all are with the bookmark positions on the world's Blu-rays and DVDs as public knowledge and static, but no database exists that I know of to collate that information and provide it in an index form to Kodi. In the absence of a more complete BD-J implementation to replace the woeful one in the current Kodi, being able to jump to episodes directly without creating our own bookmark libraries would be extremely useful.
Am I missing something out there that already provides this? It is this level of convenience which distinguishes commercial solutions (eg. Kaleidescape which clearly employs people to do exactly this kind of bookmarking that gets automatically downloaded for any BD/DVD) from open source solutions. The commercial solutions go one step farther in fact by bookmarking key scenes. Want to jump to the speeder race in ROTJ? Rest assured that's an indexed scene and you can jump right to it in a second. Establishing a public library of these indexes that can be referenced by Kodi seems like a powerful idea even after the BD-J people complete their implementation because waiting for BD menus is always going to be undesirable. OTOH ripping anything other than full BD ISO is a nightmare to manage all the special features and extras on today's media.
In Kodi 14 (I think), the ability to bookmark a video or even a specific position in a position relative to a given episode was introduced. So if you have a DVD or Blu-ray set of episodes, you can jump right to the correct locations later.
The problem with that of course is that you need to spend ages precisely pinning every single episode, and then the resulting work is further dependent on your personal Kodi database which is generally safe, but I like to maintain the condition where blowing out my Kodi database has limited/no impact and can be regenerated at any time with minor exceptions like watched status.
So here we all are with the bookmark positions on the world's Blu-rays and DVDs as public knowledge and static, but no database exists that I know of to collate that information and provide it in an index form to Kodi. In the absence of a more complete BD-J implementation to replace the woeful one in the current Kodi, being able to jump to episodes directly without creating our own bookmark libraries would be extremely useful.
Am I missing something out there that already provides this? It is this level of convenience which distinguishes commercial solutions (eg. Kaleidescape which clearly employs people to do exactly this kind of bookmarking that gets automatically downloaded for any BD/DVD) from open source solutions. The commercial solutions go one step farther in fact by bookmarking key scenes. Want to jump to the speeder race in ROTJ? Rest assured that's an indexed scene and you can jump right to it in a second. Establishing a public library of these indexes that can be referenced by Kodi seems like a powerful idea even after the BD-J people complete their implementation because waiting for BD menus is always going to be undesirable. OTOH ripping anything other than full BD ISO is a nightmare to manage all the special features and extras on today's media.
