[dmdsoftware]

Hello and thank you for this add-on. I am trying to piece together the various bits of info around here on strm files into something I might understand, but having no luck. I get how they work and mostly what information ends up included, but I can't get the files to actually stream anything.

I'm using a Google Drive for Business account and all of my files are private. Do they need to public in order to work? I assumed that since the add-on uses log-in credentials that would be sufficient... but no dice.

What I'm aiming for is to have my entire movie collection stored in the cloud and have them accessible via placeholders in my local library.

Sorry that its a manual process. Next release will have options to create a directory full of STRM for your videos and populate the playback information in a Google Spreadsheet.

To create a STRM manually for playback there are a few options including playback of the streamURL for public shared videos.

To playback videos that private or videos without a URL, use the following in your .STRM

plugin://plugin.video.gdrive?mode=playvideo&title=title_of_video

Where title_of_video is the name of the video in your Google Drive account. If you want to transcode stream your private video, use:

plugin://plugin.video.gdrive?mode=streamvideo&title=title_of_video

This plugin fully works with Google Apps accounts. I use my Apps account exclusively.

Along with automatic STRM creation or playback by spreadsheet, I'm going to have options such as "playback the next unwatched video in folder X" or other options like "playback a random video" etc. This will be a huge asset for watching tv series without having to dig through a library. I am also actively working on a tvScheduler plugin that uses a Google Spreadsheet to create tv schedule line ups, so that watching content from Google Drives or other cloud providers because as simple as turning on the tv (no digging through menus, deciding what to watch, determining "did I already watch that?", etc)

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thank you for your work ,is it possible for you to add images support as i want to put movie back drop or folder image inside the folder so it shows up as a thumbnail while browsing the movies ....i done it once and two movies showed up with their own movie images as a thumbnails preview instead of video preview i'm not sure what version it was but two movies worked with image thumbnails just a suggestion i think it will be better that way since we can not add g drive to library

The plugin will use a video preview thumbnail when you navigate to a video within the plugin. It is generated by XBMC automatically and cached, so first time navigating to a video may not appear or take a few seconds to appear as XBMC downloads and creates a thumbnail.

If you want to a backdrop to load or fanart to load, that should be possible, but I'm not sure the best way to save this information unless for each movie, you store them in separate directories. Normally people store all their movies in one directory. TV series are typically split up in directories, and would be easy to load a backdrop for that TV series when you open a folder for it.

I'll integrate your suggestion in, but if you can elaborate or include additional specifications on how you would like it to work, it can then be done the way you want it. I was also thinking about including a feature to load NFO information stored in the same folder but deciding on the best way to accomplish this. It might be better to store the information in a spreadsheet in your Google Drive account rather than separate files.

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Found that google drive only gives you 85gigs for $2 a month. The other 15gigs you already had for free.

thx for the info. It'll be helpful to a lot of folks when deciding among the alternatives.