[mythtv-users] The watch list could actually be useful with a little work

[Paul Gardiner]

On 27/03/2022 14:09, Peter Bennett wrote:
> On 3/27/22 06:41, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> On 26/03/2022 21:47, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>> On 3/26/22 15:58, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>>> On 26/03/2022 19:12, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>>>> On 3/26/22 13:48, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>>>>> On 19/03/2022 18:53, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>>>>>> On 3/19/22 12:32, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>>>>>>> Maybe I'm missing something but, currently, the watch list seems 
>>>>>>>> entirely useless: everything is in there, and it takes an age to 
>>>>>>>> find what you want. I never use it. It just struck me that it 
>>>>>>>> could be useful if it behaved just a little differently:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  * Recording a series *doesn't* cause that series to be added to 
>>>>>>>> the watch list automatically.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  * Watching any episode of a series causes it to be added.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  * There's a way within the UI to explicitly remove a series 
>>>>>>>> even though you haven't finished watching it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm not sure I fancy taking this on, but just thought I'd see 
>>>>>>>> what people make of the idea.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>     Paul.
>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is what leanfront does in the "Recently viewed" list.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How do you order your list? I'm struggling to find a timestamp in 
>>>>>> any mythtv database table that keeps track of when a program was 
>>>>>> last viewed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Paul.
>>>>>>
>>>>> leanfront keeps its own database in the android device. The 
>>>>> Recently Viewed list is only applicable to what was watched on that 
>>>>> device. I know that is not perfect. I do have a script for 
>>>>> transferring it from one android device to another but that is an 
>>>>> overwrite not a merge, so the receiving device's previous list is 
>>>>> then lost.
>>>>
>>>> I don't really find that a problem. I wasn't expecting to be able to 
>>>> make use of the leanfront list in mythfrontend, but it does mean 
>>>> that improving mythfrontend's watch list would be more difficult 
>>>> than I thought.
>>>>
>>>> The one enhancement I'd like in leanfront's list would be for the 
>>>> next of episode of a series to be queued up automatically when 
>>>> you've finished the last.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I am not sure what you mean by "Queued Up". There is the ability to 
>>> make it automatically play the next episode when it finishes the 
>>> current one. This is the button called "Play Related Videos" in the 
>>> On Screen Display during playback. If you activate that, it will 
>>> continue playing all episodes of a series unit you stop it. I should 
>>> rename it as "Autoplay" because that is what the streaming services 
>>> call it. I also am considering adding a setting to allow users to 
>>> have it automatically activated for all playback, instead of having 
>>> to go in and select it after starting playback.
>>
>> Yeah, "Queued up" is not the best phrase. I meant, if I go back to the 
>> list after finishing one episode, I see the next episode already in 
>> there. I hadn't noticed autoplay. That sounds as good. I'll give it a 
>> try.
>>
>> Paul.
>> _______________________________________________
>>
> Another thing you may not have noticed: In the episode details page or 
> during playback if you press down arrow you see a list of the episodes 
> of the series that are not yet watched or deleted. This list can be 
> customized in the settings as to whether it should show watched or 
> deleted episodes or not. You can select the next episode from there and 
> play it.

I had found that feature: not knowing of autoplay, I've been using that 
feature to play just a few seconds of the next episode to make it appear 
in the recently viewed list, although I may have been making it 
unnecessarily awkward - ensuring I played the current episode to the 
very end, and then stopping it before using down arrow to find the next.