2012-02-26, 21:20
One more post for today
With xbmc.mylibrary now filling my movie and tv library with strm files - i have a very rich library with makes my on demand viewing very easy. But as part of this project, i also wanted to create a lazy viewing experience - the best plugin i've seen for this is pseudotv.
pseudotv works great with local files and ok with streaming files. There are two differences namely. First - streaming files take a long time to initialize (up to 10 seconds), so channel surfing to a "streamed channel" is slightly irritating. (but i'd argue not much more irritating then what digital tv has to offer today... sob's). For this problem, i don't see a workaround, and i'm not really looking for one. Just argues for more locally stored content for quicker access
Second, where pseudotv has a slight stroke of genius (i think), episodes or movies start part way through and continue "playing" in the background when you switch to other channels. But, this requires that on channel startup, a start at time can be provided. Streaming files don't seem to support this. They always start at the beginning. Do you guys know why this is? Maybe an enhancement i should push out to another XBMC forum? I thought i'd start here with this community of users before hitting pseudotv or creating a new post.
With xbmc.mylibrary now filling my movie and tv library with strm files - i have a very rich library with makes my on demand viewing very easy. But as part of this project, i also wanted to create a lazy viewing experience - the best plugin i've seen for this is pseudotv.
pseudotv works great with local files and ok with streaming files. There are two differences namely. First - streaming files take a long time to initialize (up to 10 seconds), so channel surfing to a "streamed channel" is slightly irritating. (but i'd argue not much more irritating then what digital tv has to offer today... sob's). For this problem, i don't see a workaround, and i'm not really looking for one. Just argues for more locally stored content for quicker access
Second, where pseudotv has a slight stroke of genius (i think), episodes or movies start part way through and continue "playing" in the background when you switch to other channels. But, this requires that on channel startup, a start at time can be provided. Streaming files don't seem to support this. They always start at the beginning. Do you guys know why this is? Maybe an enhancement i should push out to another XBMC forum? I thought i'd start here with this community of users before hitting pseudotv or creating a new post.