[Veni]

Hello.

How do I disable this feature? If I've watched some p0rn I don't want any logs of it on the HTPC .

[gimli]

Do not watch p0rn then or ask your parents if you are allowed to do it.

[Veni]

Do not watch p0rn then or ask your parents if you are allowed to do it.

I'm not sure if I'm suppose to interpret this as a joke or a professional answer. In either case, please refrain from answering if you are not intending to contribute to the question at hand. You maybe already contributing to XBMC, but you do present characteristics of a child.
No disrespect intended, only an observation solely based on your answer.

If my question was not clear, when I will try to clear it up:
I do not want any logging of any kind to storage of what I have watched or not. If it want's to log, it may do so to RAM.

How do I turn this feature off? I have not found anything inside the advancedsettings.xml to turn it off.
Will I have to look it up in the source code, comment it out and recompile XBMC?
Is this the only solution?

[Martijn]

I certainly can assure you he is no child
What wrong with a little humor here


Beside that did you look at the as.xml and find this.

<playcountminimumpercent>90</playcountminimumpercent> <!--Minimum percentage that has to be played before it is marked as watched. Set to 101 to never auto-mark items as watched -->

[Veni]

I certainly can assure you he is no child
What wrong with a little humor here


Beside that did you look at the as.xml and find this.

<playcountminimumpercent>90</playcountminimumpercent> <!--Minimum percentage that has to be played before it is marked as watched. Set to 101 to never auto-mark items as watched -->

Thanks for the quick answer. Missed it completely. Read the advancedsettings.xml wiki yesterday, but missed this.

This is my first time on this forum, so I'm a little bit unacquainted with the audience. Was really not able to interpret if it was serious or a joke. Just started to use XBMC almost two months ago(my Xtreamer Sidewinder MK1 is back in the box after 2,5 years). Very configurable so far, so I had to ask in the forum because this could not be that hard-coded into the software. It had to be something I've overlooked. The configuration is now perfect at this point for my needs.

[transcender]

whether in the dbase as 'watched' does it not show up at all in any of the tables? I thought Ive seen some stuff show up in my tables that weren't scanned into the video library before, not sure I completely watched whatever it was or not.
Also I think the xbmc.log still shows you watched something when it starts ?

[Martijn]

whether in the dbase as 'watched' does it not show up at all in any of the tables? I thought Ive seen some stuff show up in my tables that weren't scanned into the video library before, not sure I completely watched whatever it was or not.
Also I think the xbmc.log still shows you watched something when it starts ?

Watched status is kept in files table do this prevents It from adding a watched tag.
Browsing through the database file would still it and the xbmc log also what you watched.
Rebooting would just overwrite the previous logs.
Nothing you can do about that

[artrafael]

Also I think the xbmc.log still shows you watched something when it starts ?

Sure, but I guess the question is whether or not one wishes to hide the what-was-watched information from computer forensics investigators or just from another user (spouse, parent, kids, roommate, etc.). No regular user is likely to look in the log and the log gets replaced each time XBMC is started... after two iterations, that potentially embarrassing log information is gone (xbmc.log > xbmc.old.log > oblivion) except for someone doing forensics.

[transcender]

Also I think the xbmc.log still shows you watched something when it starts ?

Sure, but I guess the question is whether or not one wishes to hide the what-was-watched information from computer forensics investigators or just from another user (spouse, parent, kids, roommate, etc.). No regular user is likely to look in the log and the log gets replaced each time XBMC is started... after two iterations, that potentially embarrassing log information is gone (xbmc.log > xbmc.old.log > oblivion) except for someone doing forensics.

Just brought it up for awareness and understanding is all...and the uber paranoid that while you would hide 'watched' and some history wouldn't be captured, there'd still could still be some 'residue'
If you loaded that plugin to auto load logs to xbmclogs or somethign, that could be embarrasing or whatever

[artrafael]

If you loaded that plugin to auto load logs to xbmclogs or somethign, that could be embarrasing or whatever

Hehe... I can just picture the following post :

I'm having trouble watching this video... sometimes the sound is weird and I can't make out the dialog... sometimes it's like slow motion, then it goes super fast... other times there's some mega overscan issue where the picture looks like it's zoomed in really really close.

Here's my debug log (wiki)

I can't make heads or tail out of it.

[ronie]

use advancedsettings.xml to disable logging:

Code:

<advancedsettings>
        <loglevel>-1</loglevel>
</advancedsettings>

[Csimbi]

Hello.

How do I disable this feature? If I've watched some p0rn I don't want any logs of it on the HTPC .

It's interesting you should ask that.
I'd like to achieve the opposite.
How do I enable it?
I am using the Neon skin and the checkmarks do not show up.

[artrafael]

Hello.

How do I disable this feature? If I've watched some p0rn I don't want any logs of it on the HTPC .

It's interesting you should ask that.
I'd like to achieve the opposite.
How do I enable it?
I am using the Neon skin and the checkmarks do not show up.

Whoa, are you Veni's parent?

The "watched" indicator is only set when you've watched a certain percentage of a video. I believe the default is 90%. See post #4 by Martijn regarding how to change this percentage setting in advancedsettings.xml (wiki).

[Csimbi]

No, it's no porn. It's DVDs, family videos (AVHCD) and a few MKVs.

I watch the video(s) to the end (when XBMC cuts it automatically, or, when I press 'stop' when XBMC kicks me back to the DVD menu afterwards).

Yes, I know that and it did work with the XBMCbuntu I installed first.
But, now, using the PPA, it no longer works.

The only difference is the skin. Maybe I'll try to switch that.

[Veni]

use advancedsettings.xml to disable logging:

Code:

<advancedsettings>
        <loglevel>-1</loglevel>
</advancedsettings>

Hello ronie. Thanks for the tip. Will try it.
I'm basically trying to get the box to run in a privacy mode.

Noticed that XBMC remembers even after a power cycle the movie I've watched but not finished because it asks me whetever to start from the beginning or from the former last position when starting the movie.