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This thread is NOT in danger of being binned, and that would only happen if it starts promoting piracy. But users, please be aware that posting logs showing banned/illegal addons will get your post binned, as will questions about how to use this addon with banned/illegal addons.
That's it, please carry on, this addon seems very useful and I will be trying it out soon.
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Yes I saw it offers metadata, but it also offers a play option which when I tried it just sat there, which looks suspiciously like a slow or crappy server trying to provide something. Hence why I asked for the clarification, as obviously it's difficult to tell in such a case what should be happening.
As for the other point, is it standard stance concerning expandable add-ons like this. But again as I already said if a case can be made for this add-on being different then it can be treated as such. So far as I said I'm leaning towards allowing it on the requested trial basis, but it needs to be discussed with the other mods first. That will take a little time.
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It "provides no links", but offers a play stream option. That for me is a link.
That was what made me ask for the clarification, especially given some of the included movies and shows. As I've now repeatedly said, the clarification given is entirely satisfactory and answers that point fully. I'm also happy with the add-on thread being here, as evidenced by the fact that it still is.
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This is a super cool addon!!
I would love to see trakt integration. I don't mean for scrobbling. I mean for showing my trakt collection. So when you open Meta you could have two new sections.
My Movie Collection
My TV Show Collection
These would be based on my trakt collections. Then this could be setup as a emulated library.
Thoughts?
Really cool stuff!
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*Please* keep this thread clean.
- Trakt integration will be added in the future (would work on it as soon as the developer of the excellent trakt.py library finish implementing the device login feature). Though to be honest I'm not a trakt user so if you could list all the functionality you want me to add it would be great. So far I understand there is a need for my collections and my calendar. Anything else?
- I will change library folders to use names instead of numbers. Please open an issue on github so I won't forget it.
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for trakt integration i'd like to see collections,calendar,lists and watchlists
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When I first installed meta, it asked me if I wanted it to automatically add its library locations to the kodi library. I clicked yes and items showed up in the library. However when I went to check videos > files, there was no meta tv shows/movies folder in there. Anticipating that I might have to remove and re-add items meta libary items during bug testing, I added the meta movies and tv shows locations manually. This of course led to double library entries. The only solution was either to remove the manually created folders (which would mean losing the ability to change content type to unassign/re-assign) or to delete the MyVideos99.db file. I opted for the later and then re-added the meta library folders manually.
Anyone else have the same issue?
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2016-03-15, 04:12
(This post was last modified: 2016-03-15, 04:28 by metate.)
A restart of kodi is needed in order to show the automatically added sources in videos > files. I still haven't figured out a way around it. I should have added a warning in the dialog that asks about it. Thanks for the report.
EDIT: thinking about it, I should probably remove this option altogether and let users always add the folders manually. Although I used a confirmation dialog, the current approach is a bit invasive.
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The possibilities of meta are endless. I know you've only just started developing this, but here's an idea that struck me last night. Excuse any ignorance due to the fact that i've never written a line of code in my life.
Meta PVR / Meta LIVE
- A PVR live TV guide (borrowing from FTV guide etc) where launching a channel triggers a meta search of live TV video add-ons.
- Same principle as meta where players can be written for each video add-on
- Not sure how channel matching would be done. By name? I think most live tv video add-ons list channels with correct name?
- Additional idea: Upon opening Meta Live, it begins building cached meta results for all enabled channels sequentially in the background in order to enable speedy channel switching. Priority given to any user selected channel in the cacheing queue. Would possibily need some way of preventing CPU overload (perhaps the cacheing could be paused while navigating channels, and resumed during playback)
