[and7ey]

I am trying to log a filename on movie start. Here is my first attempt:

python:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-



import xbmcaddon

import xbmc, xbmcgui



__addon__      = xbmcaddon.Addon()

__addon_id__   = __addon__.getAddonInfo('id')

__addonname__  = __addon__.getAddonInfo('name')

__icon__       = __addon__.getAddonInfo('icon')

__addonpath__  = xbmc.translatePath(__addon__.getAddonInfo('path'))

__lang__       = __addon__.getLocalizedString





class MyPlayer( xbmc.Player ) :



    def __init__ ( self ):

        xbmc.Player.__init__( self )

        xbmc.log('>>>> ' + __addonname__ + ' <<<< ' + 'init')



    def onPlayBackStarted(self):

        xbmc.log('>>>> ' + __addonname__ + ' <<<< ' + 'onPlayBackStarted')



        if xbmc.Player().isPlayingVideo()==1:

            xbmc.sleep(2000) # do I need it to get file name?

            tag = xbmc.Player().getVideoInfoTag()

            path = tag.getFile() # getPath()

            xbmc.log(path.encode('utf-8'))

            #xbmc.executebuiltin('Notification(' + __addonname__ + ', ' + path.decode('utf-8') + ', 8000, ' + __icon__ + ')')



p=MyPlayer()



while(1):

    xbmc.sleep(500)

I have the following questions:
1) I am getting UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 32: ordinal not in range(128) when trying to xbmc.log. How to fix it? (NFS source is used, file path contains Russian symbols)
2) Do I need to sleep to get movie filename?
3) Do I really need to do while(1)?
4) What should I do to activate my addon at kodi start?

[ronie]

1) see this post for best practices to avoid UnicodeDecode errors: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=144677
2) in kodi v17 yes, for kodi v18 sleep shouldn't be needed if you use the onAVStarted method instead: https://codedocs.xyz/xbmc/xbmc/group__py...bdaa77aace
3) nope, you should use the abortRequested() function from the Monitor class https://codedocs.xyz/xbmc/xbmc/group__py...c82b79f1af
4) create a service addon, they get started automatically when kodi starts: https://kodi.wiki/view/Service_add-ons

[and7ey]

Thanks!
3) did I get you correctly - still I will have infinite loop, but instead of (1) I will check for abortRequested?

[ronie]

see the example code in the wiki link i gave you.

[and7ey]

Thank you.
Got the following code in result - 

python:
class LastPlayed( xbmc.Player ) :



    def __init__ ( self ):

        monitor = xbmc.Monitor()

        xbmc.Player.__init__( self )



        while not monitor.abortRequested():

            if monitor.waitForAbort(10):

                break



    def onPlayBackStarted(self):

        if xbmc.Player().isPlayingVideo()==1:

           ...



LastPlayed()

Is that correct?