[mythtv-users] Continuous play

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 6/7/2010 19:58, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Jason Ward<jasonfward at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to make either a "playlist" of programs to be played one
>>>> after the other?  Or a way to get all the programs from a particular
>>>> series played one after another?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sure, use a playlist.
>>>
>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:Watch_Recordings#Recording_Playlists
>>>
>>
>> Is there any such guide for creating playlists in MythVideo?
>>
>
> MythVideo does not currently support playlists.  While the capacity has been
> considered, it is waiting on some database and internal structure changes
> which would make it far more conducive to add.
>
> There are currently two options available.  You can specify a 'child' video,
> which will automatically play after the current video, and can be chained.
>  You can play all recordings in a single folder.  Note that with hashing of
> videos added to 0.23, you cannot have multiple instances of a single file in
> different folders to simulate playlists.\

or define a .pls filetype which is played with

mplayer [your normal mplayer options] -playlist %s