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#16
yes, those are 3 completely unrelated players. one of which is a gpl violating piece of garbage.
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#17
Madlener Wrote:I would also like to see this feature happen.

... Being able to play the next video file in a directory full of video or strm files, just like with audio files...

Perhaps via a setting in an xml file.

Markus

In what file
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#18
spiff Wrote:yes, those are 3 completely unrelated players. one of which is a gpl violating piece of garbage.
In these players of video it is lost one after another
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#19
Seems that about a dozen people already requested this in the past @ http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=9150

... and this "functionality" is so "wanted" that already 3 people have written patches:
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/9587
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/6005
http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/10374


@spiff
playing the folder would be an option, but to quote on of the people who commented on the trac ticket 9587 - fuathurio:

Quote:Thinking outside the box though, it is no problem to queue a folder but if you say got halfway through a folder and then wanted to pick it up in the middle and watch till you felt like stopping how would you do this without having to individually queue 20 files?


... in my case - what I would like to do - is choose an item from XBMC's MAIN menu say for example "Live TV", then have it switch to a folder which contains a lot of .strm files

I do this by modifying Home.xml:

Code:
<onclick>ActivateWindow(VideoFiles, "My-folder-of-live-tv-strm-files")</onclick>

each .strm file contains an URL which streams one TV channel from a professional TV headend device using udp://......

so chosing the folder is not an option because I don't want to see the folder, the users (my parents) should be able to see the contents of the folder after clicking the main menu

(the contents of the folder would contain all TV channels such as tvchannel1.strm tvchannel2.strm)

If a user opens the first strm file, I would like him to be able to to skip to the next strm file (or tv channel) by pressing 1 button on the remote control (... without creating a playlist, etc)

I could of course add all URLs to one strm file, but then I couldn't access the .strm file directly from the main menu via Home.xml


At least one of the patches has not been commited yet, maybe because

To quote jmarshall:
Quote: I'm not against an option, I'm against a specific option that does not really solve the problem. Instead, I propose an option that will solve the problem in a more elegant way.

I fully understand, and just hope that somebody will eventually come up with a "more elagant" way Smile, ...

To me, it seems that quite a few people would like to be able to use XBMC so that it "automatically" plays the next video file, without having to do special things (such as 1. clicking play on the folder 2. creating a playlist 3. context menu etc), but simply by using XBMC intuitively and when pressing the "Next Track" button that the next Track or next movie, next video starts playing.

After all it does work great with audio files. Besides the 2 patches, couldn't just a developer copy the relevant code from the audio file section and put it into the video file section? (or perhaps it's more complicated ?) until the patches have been rewritten in a "more elegant way" ?

=> musicplayer.autoplaynextitem to => videoplayer.autoplaynextitem

I wouldn't at all mind enabling it in an advanced settings xml file !

And if it were to be disabled by default - could it really become "a major PITA"? ..
Please do correct me if I am wrong! I was just thinking that those who want it could have it..

Anyway:

Quote:A setting doesn't work unless you ALWAYS want it on. Almost all the contributions to this ticket (and other contributions elsewhere) don't always want it on. Thus, an advanced setting doesn't fit.

I am not quite sure how jmarshall assumes that all the contributions to the mentioned ticket would not always want it on. Maybe he is right, ... but I for myself would welcome such an option and have it on all the times.

Does anybody else reading this think in a similar way?



I wouldn't care if I press "Next Track" on my remote (pageup on the keyboard) and have XBMC skip to the next audio/video OR movie which comes next in the list. After all the "Next Track" Button is exactly for that function (in my humble opinion)

Also, some software movie players, and almost all hardware movie players behave in exactly this way. (For example USB Drives with video files on them and with an output to connect the TV, etc - also advanced DVD/multimedia players when you insert a mp3 CD or a DVD with movie files)

Maybe the patch could be committed, until somebody has found a better solution or has written a better patch?

No matter how it turns out, I am a really big fan of XBMC and I really love using it!
All developers deserve our outmost gratitude!!!! "hats off" :-)

Thanks!
Markus
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#20
autoplaynextvideo
http://trac.xbmc.org/attachment/ticket/6...ideo.patch

on WindowsXP no files - GUISettings.cpp, GUIWindowVideoBase.cpp, GUIViewStateVideo.cpp, GUIViewStateVideo.h.
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#21
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=6...post626101

Thanks. I will wait while command XBMC will add this option.
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