[Pghpunkid]

Basically what I am trying to achieve is, start a video with Player.Open, and set it to repeat that video until otherwise noted.

From what I can tell from the JSON RPC, the Player.Open takes a repeat parameter as an option, however I cant tell how to use it. In addition to that, the only value that I can see for Player.SetRepeat is Cycle, and from what I can tell just cycles the method of repeat between all, one or none (https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/5525...cc6e4ef3a2 Starting at SetRepeat).

A little bit of insight on this would be greatly appreciated. Ive been tinkering for 2 days on this API and have barely gotten to be able to play a video. The documentation is not for the faint of heart.

[Montellese]

Untested

Code:

{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "Player.Open", "params": { "item": { "file": "path/to/your/video" }, "options": { "repeat": "one" } }, "id": 1 }

Obviously you can replace the "file": "path/to/your/video" with something else like "movieid": 1 or whatever you need.

Player.SetRepeat supports multiple values for the "repeat" parameter:

• "cycle" will cycle through the available repeat functionalities
  
• "off" turns repeating off
  
• "one" only repeats the current item
  
• "all" repeats all items
  

[Pghpunkid]

Code:

{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"Player.Open","params":{"item":{"file":"Media/TPSReport.mp4"},"options":{"repeat":"one"}}}

This returns:

Code:

{"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"OK"}

But at the end of the video it stops, and goes back to the Media Menu. :/

EDIT: Ive tried the 'all' parameter as well, and get nothing. This should be the latest XBMC as well, for your info.

[Montellese]

You're right and I just remembered why. There's a known problem with Player.Open where it doesn't add an item to a playlist and then you obviously can't set a repeat behaviour. Unfortunately the issue is not that easy to fix.

What you can try as a workaround is add your video to the video playlist using Playlist.Add and then use Player.Open to open that playlist with repeat set to "one" or "all".

[Pghpunkid]

I had a feeling that was going to be the case. Is there a way to do this with one call? Compound the JSON calls if you will..

[Montellese]

You can do a batch request by putting all of your requests into a JSON array and sending it like that. But you'll also get an array of answers.

[Pghpunkid]

Awesome, I got the repeating to work with Playlists.

Last question, How would you do this batch request your talking of?

[Montellese]

Code:

[
  { "jsonrpc": "2.0", ... },
  { "jsonrpc": "2.0", ... },
  { "jsonrpc": "2.0", ... }
  ...
]

and as a response you'll get

Code:

[
  { "jsonrpc": "2.0", ... },
  { "jsonrpc": "2.0", ... },
  { "jsonrpc": "2.0", ... },
  ...
]

[Pghpunkid]

Awesome! This is extremely powerful for my usage. Thanks for your help, I appreciate it very much!