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I highlight the tv show I want (and i can see the episode information) and then click ok. The episode that plays is not the tv show that was highlighted though. Seems to be playing the previous tv show listed in the epg.
this is the smart playlist:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="episodes">
<name>TV Comedy Channel</name>
<match>all</match>
<rule field="genre" operator="is">comedy</rule>
<limit>500</limit>
<order direction="descending">random</order>
</smartplaylist>
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Hmmm. I'll try and reproduce it. If you get a chance, can you turn on a debug log, start up the script, reproduce this issue, then send me the log? Hopefully I can see the same issue without needing it, but if you get a chance it may prove helpful.
One more question: are you using keyboard or mouse to navigate the EPG?
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Wow, that is some sort of special weirdness that you have going on there. Yea, try the newest version and see if you have the same problem. If you do, then I'll look into this a bit more.
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2011-01-17, 21:59
(This post was last modified: 2011-01-17, 22:02 by moontan77.)
ye still the same with new version, that particular show it lists in the log is the problem for some reason.
I got the playlist to ignore the problem show and it works ok now.
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This is going to come off wrong, but: what's the point of this plugin?
I mean, it sounds like a great idea (when you have a huge media collection, you often spend more time trying to figure out what to watch than actually watching anything), but I just don't "get it".
Here's my hang-up. Let's say I have a "70's and 80's sitcoms" channel. I've seen most of them before, so it doesn't matter if they're out of order. But, if I have a "current sitcoms" channel, I want to watch the shows in the order they aired. So, will this channel only offer up the episodes in order or will it randomize the whole list so that it might put Modern Family S02E03 before Modern Family S02E01?
Again, I'm not trying to be rude, I'm intruiged by the plug-in and am just not clear how it would work for me.
TIA
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@dvdapex: It's a perfectly reasonable question, and actually one a good friend of mine asked me. We talked about it for a while and it all boiled down to the fact that we watch TV in different ways. When he turns on the TV he plans on watching something very specific...some movie, a recorded show, or whatever. But he has a plan. When I turn on the TV it is primarily as background noise. Of course I'll flip through the channels and find something I actually want to watch, but I don't have anything in particular that needs to be on.
Since my wife and I will be getting rid of cable soon, this sounded like a good alternative. I don't have much need to watch the sitcoms I have in order, so that's not a problem, either.
Essentially, if it doesn't make sense to you, then it probably won't be useful to you.
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@moontan77: It looks like I might have screwed up making the channel playlist. Can you go into the userdata/addon_data/script.PseudoTV/cache directory and post the file channel_5.m3u?
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It actually will ignore individual episodes that don't have a duration. Hmmm...one problem you may run into, though, is if it can't get a duration for any file in a playlist.