danz0l Wrote:Ah yes it does Jason, totally misunderstood the concept and assumed that on the user interface you would have these genres, tv networks etc selectable and drill down into them. Now i understand what your trying to do and yes, fantastic idea.

Going back to what i said though, what do you think about a latter addition including those features ? So we can define a frontend categories list ? I know it would mean extensive updates to the skins though so understand if its not something you have considered.

Sranshaft Wrote:@Jtucker: Man, if you're hard coding all of the TV shows to get it to work for the network channels (NBC, ABC, Fox...) I don't think that's going to be very productive and is really a lot more work than is really necessary. There are, quite simply, too many shows to do this for and there's always going to be the user that has some obscure show that doesn't fit in with the pre-determined channel list.

I think the best way to go about it, is to open a ticket, get in touch with a developer and have them add it in to XBMC's core playlist filtering. From there, you'd want a JSON call to get all available studios (mostly for TV Shows, this would have limited appeal for movies as there would be too many studios vs. movies per studio to decently fill a channel).

Again, I love the idea behind creating a simpler way to create channels but hard-coding names should always be a last resort. Like I said before, your time would be better spend getting together with a core developer and adding this into the core.

jtucker1972 Wrote:There is already a ticket opened for it. The earliest would be I believe release 12 which is over a year away. I do understand the limitations, but this is a stop gap measure until the developers add the functionality. I have no control over when that occurs.

danz0l Wrote:Think that going the TVDB way may be a valid option in creating predefined smartlists. Looking over the search engine they have genre and network already incorporated. So just a quick defined list of networks and a scrape through the API (must be source as its what xbmc does) will build a massive amount of smartplaylists quickly

danz0l Wrote:damn thats a huge shame. Oh well, was worth a thought LOL

If there anyway to get past the 200 search limits ?

jtucker1972 Wrote:If you are referencing TheTVDB, this is not the correct place for that discussion. If you are referring to something related to PseudoTV, please provide more detail.

Sranshaft Wrote:@jtucker: It looks like either Jonathon or Montellese might take a look at extending the filtering to studio for tv shows. At least he asked to open a ticket so that's promising. I referred him to the ticket you opened 4 weeks ago about this. If you can, can you CC him and Montellese?

http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=750739&postcount=5

jtucker1972 Wrote:Thanks. Looks like they have already updated the FR ticket I submitted. I will go ahead and plan accordingly.

halloween2311 Wrote:Greetings,

If I should post this somewhere else just let me know. I discovered this addon today and love it but there are a few shows I would like to watch in episode order without having to leave the Pseudo TV "Feel".

To test this out I created a custom channel that refers back to two smart playlists: One lists my tv shows that I haven't watched in the last four weeks in episode order, the second lists all of my sitcoms. My custom channel now looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="episodes">
<name>Comedy Channel</name>
<match>all</match>
<rule field="playlist" operator="is">Not Watched</rule>
<rule field="playlist" operator="is">Comedy</rule>
<limit>100</limit>
<order direction="ascending">episode</order>
</smartplaylist>

If I go to the playlist normally (outside of Pseudo) then it gives me show_a1x01, followed by show_b 1x01, etc. Psuedo TV however plays it back like this: show_a1x01, show_a2x01, show_b1x01, show_b2x01, etc.

In other words it is playing the first episode from each of the seasons then changing shows, then playing the second episode from each season.

Any ideas on how I can get it to play in episode order?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks,

jtucker1972 Wrote:Correct. Episode is the x01 part of the filename.

If you order by first aired, it will sort by the date the episode first aired, so the list episodes will appear in the order they aired in for the current tv channel. You can reference my existing playlist collection at http://tiny.cc/xbmcplaylists