Posts: 17
Joined: Apr 2013
Reputation:
0
Would love Kodi to auto recognise identical library items, especially those from different sources (eg Hulu, Netflix, local file), group as one library item and then prompt which item to use on selecting play item.
For menu selection sources may have to labelled or, worse case, just supply source directory/file name.
Auto-play with maybe time delay could be added. Auto-play enable/disable and source order for auto-play could be hidden away in Settings.
With the new world of various streaming services available I believe this would benefit lots of people.
Thoughts?
Posts: 137
Joined: Jul 2013
Reputation:
7
Congratulations, you just invented Boxee.
Posts: 17
Joined: Apr 2013
Reputation:
0
2016-03-11, 10:50
(This post was last modified: 2016-04-15, 04:53 by Bearhunter73.)
Really?! Never knew Boxee. I believe it's dead now, no?!
Posts: 31,445
Joined: Jan 2011
2016-03-11, 13:59
(This post was last modified: 2016-03-11, 13:59 by Ned Scott.)
A feature like this is being developed, or is at least on the "drawing board". It will come as a part of the media import work, but will also be its own feature even if media import isn't being used, IIRC. (
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=224794 )From what I remember, the idea would be much like you describe, where you select a movie or whatever and are given choices for which version to play.
That could probably be extended (in theory) to some kind of STRM file or external player for Netflix/Hulu/etc URLs that then launch an external client.
Posts: 47
Joined: Jan 2013
Reputation:
0
2016-03-13, 09:44
(This post was last modified: 2016-03-13, 09:44 by TwistedFaith.)
Would something like this work for Different versions of a Movie, Episode, or Song? ie Extended/Director's Cut of a Movie or Episode, Different Mix of a Song??
Posts: 17
Joined: Apr 2013
Reputation:
0
2016-04-15, 05:03
(This post was last modified: 2016-04-15, 05:04 by Bearhunter73.)
Thanks Ned (Kudos to you and Nate for KordKutters btw, I'm a watcher). I did do a search before submitting the suggestion but didn't come up with anything, doh! Yeah, looks like Montellese and others are hard at work already. Fabbo.... I'll keep an eye on the thread and potentially participate with testing.
Posts: 47
Joined: Jan 2013
Reputation:
0
How do you manage it with VideoExtras? Do all version still come up in the listings or just the one item and you can view the rest in the "Extras"?
Sent from my SM-G900P
Posts: 962
Joined: Sep 2007
Reputation:
32
Yes Exactly. If your skin supports it, you will see what things have extras and you can just select any of the extras you want to watch
[4 Kodi Clients + 4 Norco RPC-4224 Media Servers w/376 TB HDD Space]
