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Pressing stop or you're equivalent button exits out of the addon.
@Jason: I apologize on my side for getting a little off topic. Downloading mow and will liet you know how things go. I assume this update fixes the bug where clicking a show on the EPG played the previous show?
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Love how it works, as well as the concept.
Once You Get Movie Sets, and TV Shows Working I will fall in love with it.
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Can I just mediate here for a second on the Watched/Not Watched playlist debate.
If I am not mistaken there is the ability to generate a rule in Smart Playlists to not repeat a watched episode if it has been watched in a certain time period. that way the playlist would not entirely remove a watched episode, but remove it for a set time period. So say you have a "cartoon" channel. You can leave it on for a while and not repeat an episode .. maybe start it again and not repeat an episode, but 2-3 weeks from now, it may bring back an episode you have seen before ... just like real TV.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong. I do understand that in Sranshaft's case this is not what he wants, but for the many readers out there, there is a middle ground.
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@Beachfront: You are certainly correct. However, this script does not re-analyze the smart playlists every time it opens...it does it much less often in order to speed up starting. The result is that if you watch something so that it would not normally show up in your given smart playlist, it may still show up in your "channel". This "issue" is at least partially mitigated by the idea of resuming where you left off, hence "skipping" things that you've watched.
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2011-01-20, 20:31
(This post was last modified: 2011-01-20, 20:34 by Jason102.)
The issue is that XBMC doesn't know the duration of those files. Unfortunately, I don't know how to determine them via a script. I suggest going to Movies from the main menu and waiting until the total duration stops increasing. If you've done this and still have problems, I'll look into it more.
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Thanks for the quick reply.
I went into movies and my total duration is already at 89:00:37 and doesnt change, so looks like XBMC does know the duration already.
Could it be an issue with my database? I did a quick scan through some movies and they all show runtimes, but some showed the time at 81 min mins so I'm thinking my nfo files may have the run time not just as 81 but as 81 min and that is what is confusing it.
I'm going to create a playlist with a couple of movies with what looks to be correct times and report back..
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Hmm, it could be something to do with nfo files. I do an sql query to determine the duration of the file, but perhaps the database doesn't store it if it's in an nfo. I need to experiment a bit. I'm not sure how I'll get around it if that's the case, though...
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I doubt that it's an issue of how the data is formatted. If I don't understand what I'm given by XBMC (which presumably takes it from your nfo) then I search the database directly. In this case, though, the information isn't in the database. I can create a test build and check this out tomorrow (busy today). If I am being passed "81 min" then I might just take out the number and assume the rest is garbage.
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Thanks. It looks like TV episodes don't store their duration in the database or nfo files so not sure why they are failing.
I'm curious what people have that this is working for have for their durations for movies.