[mythtv-users] ***SPAM*** Re: The watch list could actually be useful with a little work
Paul Gardiner
lists at glidos.net
Tue Mar 29 10:34:02 UTC 2022
On 27/03/2022 18:13, Peter Bennett wrote:
> On 3/27/22 12:07, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> See this link in the documentation
>
> https://github.com/bennettpeter/android-MythTV-Leanfront#to-easily-get-back-to-a-series-you-were-watching-recently
Oh! Somehow I'd not before seen those recommendations for the settings.
Following that advice provides pretty much exactly what I was wanting.
Paul.
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