2005-01-26, 03:29
hiya,
in xbmc, in both python scripts (using the xbmc.player().play function) and in the regular my videos playing, the player stops and drops you back to menus when it comes to the end of a file. is there any way to stop that behavior?
obviously it's desirable to have the player stop at the end of a file when you're watching pre-recorded stuff, but when you're using xbmc as a tivo style tv viewer, watching files (via smb shares) that are still being recorded on a pc, it means that if the user fast forwards too far during a live show, they drop out of the show and have to start again from the beginning. it's a real pain.
is there a switch or something that can be used in python to prevent this, and maybe drop the user back into play mode when fast foward hits the eof?
(by way of explanation about why i'm not using xns or http streaming, my digital tv recorder on the pc, digitv, can't stream. there is a way to stream http from a digitv card, using tsreader, but tsreader has no buffer and so you can't pause live tv. hence i'm using smb shares of live files as they are being recorded by digitv. it's a little slower to start (need to a few seconds wait for file to get created) but for what i want it does a better job and is more robust.)
cheers
john
ps: sorry about the cross post. i posted this in the wrong place at first.
in xbmc, in both python scripts (using the xbmc.player().play function) and in the regular my videos playing, the player stops and drops you back to menus when it comes to the end of a file. is there any way to stop that behavior?
obviously it's desirable to have the player stop at the end of a file when you're watching pre-recorded stuff, but when you're using xbmc as a tivo style tv viewer, watching files (via smb shares) that are still being recorded on a pc, it means that if the user fast forwards too far during a live show, they drop out of the show and have to start again from the beginning. it's a real pain.
is there a switch or something that can be used in python to prevent this, and maybe drop the user back into play mode when fast foward hits the eof?
(by way of explanation about why i'm not using xns or http streaming, my digital tv recorder on the pc, digitv, can't stream. there is a way to stream http from a digitv card, using tsreader, but tsreader has no buffer and so you can't pause live tv. hence i'm using smb shares of live files as they are being recorded by digitv. it's a little slower to start (need to a few seconds wait for file to get created) but for what i want it does a better job and is more robust.)
cheers
john
ps: sorry about the cross post. i posted this in the wrong place at first.
