2011-05-10, 19:21
Jason102 Wrote:This is only in the stable-pre version. It is enabled by default, and is a setting in the addon configuration.?
So this feature is not in the version that I download and install via zip file into XBMC Dharma 10.1? I have to get his from Git or some such as that?
Jason102 Wrote:There is no setting that currently does this. Is this something people want? I've always had a bit of a problem with this setting, myself. The issue is that your playlist can only shrink when using this. After you watch more and more, the available media that meets the requirement of "unwatched" can only become smaller and smaller.
I would appreciate the setting as I don't care to have episodes of TV shows be shown multiple times on a reload. Granted with big libraries, it probably doesn't happen often that an episode is repeated very, but it could happen. I have no idea how hard it is to implement, but there are really two ways of doing this that would work. One of which will alleviate your concerns of libraries becoming smaller and smaller.
The first of course is the "playcount = 0" setting. If this were implemented, shrinking libraries could be overcome by simply right clicking on whatever show you may want and select "mark as unwatched".
The second way to do something like this would be to use the "lastwatched" "not in the last" rule you could set a number of days before an episode would be available again to be watched. Say you set it for "120 days". Once an episode was watched it could not be loaded again until those 120 days have elapsed. This option would automatically make every episode available again after the elapsed time, thus stopping the "shrinking library" syndrome.
Jason102 Wrote:Not currently. It may be worth clarifying what "serial mode" does. It does 3 things:
- It forces the channel to resume (as opposed to real-time or random mode).
- The show is displayed in air date order.
- Finally, the show is automatically paused when you're not watching that channel so that you don't miss anything.
I'm not sure how this would make sense with other types of channels...I don't feel the need for my movie channels or random tv show channels to automatically pause.
Is it this entire feature you want on something else? Or are you asking for some subset of this feature?
As for this request, it mainly pertains to TV Network channels for me. Take a network like HBO or Showtime. Their shows for the most part are serialized in nature (Deadwood, Band of Brothers, The Wire, Californication, etc.) as are shows from other networks (Lost, Fringe, 24, etc).
I don't know how it work or be implemented but my vision is for a network lineup of shows to all be serialized Seaon 1, Episode 1 through the end of the series. So you would have show1, ep1...show2, ep1...show3, ep1 through the end of each series.
Something similar to this can be done now by using the "by file" rule and ascending. However it has shortcomings in that if one series only has 12 episodes and another series has 24 episodes, once they get to episode 13, the series with 24 episodes will finish it's season before any more of the other series episodes are shown. So we would have each series alternate episodes until episode 13. Then you would get 12 episodes in a row of the series with 24 episodes.
I would think it to be a great feature if it could be done. I would hope that if so, they would selectable features for those that don't wish to have this.
Anyway....Thanks for your time and the great plugin.
Mark