2019-07-20, 15:30
(2019-07-20, 12:07)Comma Wrote: I like to know how people start the next episode of their progressing tv shows day after day.
How I do it is having the top widget as "Default Widgets > TV Shows > In Process TV Shows and then set the aspect to landscape, this is the only way I found the widget is showing the TV Show landscape.jpg which I do prefer, but it's not very smart and quick to start the next episode I know you can scroll down in the video info to "Next Up" where there is 3 episodes (after some loading) to choose, here it would be nice if you could scroll to the left to start the episode you fell asleep to last night.
Then there is Skin helpers service widgets "Next Episodes" which will get you directly to the video info of the next episode, what I think is a issue with this is 1. it will show the episode.jpg on home screen ugly and bad quality image and 2. when in video info the skin don't show episode no. like 03x12 or similar so it's hard know if what you are going to start.
Cartman.dos the dev of Titan Bingie mod has recently updated Skin helper service widgets with a new widget which sounds cool but I believe it needs skin support and from my testing in AZ2 it works like "Next Episodes", I guess what I am hoping for is some improvement on this part if possible or make use of the new widget Cartman.dos have made would be nice.
Here some info on the new widget.
Code:Skin Helper Widgets
I've also released an update for skin helper widgets, that adds a new widget that is now used by default in bingie (if you're not installing fresh you have to reset menu to default or set the widget manually via skin helper widgets node). This widget is 'Continue Watching Episodes' and it comes to replace the use of 'Next Episodes'.
The change is delicate but important - it will fetch the last played episodes and will return them for you to continue or the next episode after the last one you watched. Difference is that 'Next Episodes' is returning episodes only for unwatched tvshows (so no re-watch) AND it returns the next UNWATCHED episode, so if you've fallen asleep and tv kept going or your gf want to watch a different episode or you just want to re-watch the series you won't be able with 'Next episodes'. In sum, it's like the continue watching widget for netflix.
This widget must be in a fork by cartman.dos as I don't see it anywhere. Shouldn't need skin support though - you should be able to add it as a widget just like any other add-on path.
Personally though - I find widgets that "continue watching" or show "next episodes" to be a pain because often someone else in my house has been watching the same series as me, but at a different time and/or is up to a different episode and then that just messes up the widget. Also, I might be re-watching something that I've already seen, or maybe I fell asleep watching something and a few episodes went by.
That's why I prefer to use the "Recently Played TvShows" default widget playlist. That way I get a list of tvshows that I've recently watched and I can click on them and just find where I was up to rather than worrying about whether someone else has messed up the "next" episode.