[SEIKT]

Going to lay down some enhancement ideas which may be out of scope/not possible.

Enhancements to improve newbies ease of use:

1. Rename STRMs to a Kodi friendly format:

Example 1 - if the movie file is named Ghost in the Shell 2017 BluRay CEE 1080p AVC Atmos TrueHD 7 1
gdrive creates a STRM named Ghost in the Shell (2017).strm inside a folder dedicated to movie STRMs.

Example 2 - a TV episode file named Fear Factor S05E18 WEB x264
gdrive creates a directory named Fear Factor (if non-existent) inside a folder dedicated to TV STRMs. gdrive also creates a sub-directory named Season 05 (if non-existent). Within the Season 05 folder a STRM is created named S05E18.strm

2. Gdrive monitors a movie folder and TV folder within Google Drive, scouting for changes. When a new movie/TV show is uploaded, gdrive automatically creates a STRM file and also updates the local Kodi library. Perhaps gdrive even fetches subtitles for that particular video too.

3. Sync STRMs to cloud - Option to encrypt them for those who have gone down the encryption route.

General enhancements:

1. Now that it's possible to locally resume and mark videos as watched using STRMs, this may be a possibility too - Display movie/TV episode information and its poster art within the Kodi player when playing a STRM file.

2. Ability to delete videos within the browser and when deleted, gdrive automatically deletes the videos associated STRM file and cleans/updates the local library.

All great ideas.

Added for tracking:

https://github.com/ddurdle/GDrive-for-KODI/issues/147
https://github.com/ddurdle/GDrive-for-KODI/issues/148
https://github.com/ddurdle/GDrive-for-KODI/issues/149
https://github.com/ddurdle/GDrive-for-KODI/issues/150
https://github.com/ddurdle/GDrive-for-KODI/issues/151

Cool as. Just realised plugins can add their own button to the Kodi context menu so I'll extend on the delete idea.

A user stumbles across duplicate movies when browsing the Kodi library, they want to know the name of each file listed on Google Drive and delete one of the two. The user then opens the Kodi context menu and navigates to a button called 'delete' and clicks on it. A new window appears which highlights the name of the file in Google Drive (in case the user accidentally double clicks). Below the filename lists confirmation options to delete or not delete the movie; 'yes' and 'no'. Clicking down on the remote will highlight 'no'. Clicking down followed by a left/right button click will highlight 'yes', to avoid user error. Another confirmation window could be added if the user were to press yes, but that just prolongs the process.

gdrive first deletes the the file from google drive and if this is successful, deletes the local STRM. If not successful, for a reason such as no internet access being available at the time of operation, gdrive returns an error and terminates the task, leaving the STRM untouched.

If a sync STRM feature is provided. Other devices will be monitoring a STRM folder in Google Drive for additions/deletions. So when the STRM file has been deleted from the users local STRM folder, gdrive also erases the STRM file that resides in the Google Drive STRM folder. - This process can be simplified if a STRM folder/media folder on Google Drive can be added as a source within Kodi. However, library scanning of cloud stored STRMs/media may be vastly slower compared to locally stored STRMs.
- Other devices detect this change and erase their local STRM.