Jason102 Wrote:Hmm, it looks like there are more issues with my JSON calls. I'll get the newest daily and see if I can reproduce this.

Jason102 Wrote:Ok, so I just realized that you're probably not running the stable-pre version of PseudoTV. This is needed for the nightlies. Also worth noting is that JSON calls appear to be very broken in the May 9th build, so you probably shouldn't update until it's fixed.

Jason102 Wrote:Yes, you require an existing video library to use this script.

Another version up in stable-pre. This one updates the Night skin (thanks Steveb), adds spanish translation (thanks CyberXaz), and adds background updating.

The background updating is designed to work best with the real-time mode. In "real time" mode, what you see on the EPG will play at the time that's shown. Background updating makes sure you always have at least 5 days worth of information in the future. Basically, the channel information is constantly updated so that it will make sure the EPG is always correct, plus it will change up the playlist, cycle in anything new you've added to the library, etc. Presuming you watch PseudoTV once every 5 days or so, you should never really see the channels spend a long time updating on startup.

So, try it out and see if it works for you. As always, report any bugs that you see. I'm a bit scared there will be some bizarre multithreading bugs, but I haven't seen any on my systems yet so I'm at least hopeful.

mwkurt Wrote:Could you tell me how do we know if we are in "real time" mode? Is there a setting somewhere?

mwkurt Wrote:Also...when PseudoTV makes channels automatically (i.e. Network, Genre, etc) are there any parameters included to prevent episodes or movies that have been watched, being included in the generated playlists?

mwkurt Wrote:Also, is there anything being done as far as watching episodes in serialized mode for playlists generated by PseudoTV, other than in the "TV Show" settings?

Jason102 Wrote:This is only in the stable-pre version. It is enabled by default, and is a setting in the addon configuration.?

Jason102 Wrote:There is no setting that currently does this. Is this something people want? I've always had a bit of a problem with this setting, myself. The issue is that your playlist can only shrink when using this. After you watch more and more, the available media that meets the requirement of "unwatched" can only become smaller and smaller.

Jason102 Wrote:Not currently. It may be worth clarifying what "serial mode" does. It does 3 things:

- It forces the channel to resume (as opposed to real-time or random mode).
- The show is displayed in air date order.
- Finally, the show is automatically paused when you're not watching that channel so that you don't miss anything.

I'm not sure how this would make sense with other types of channels...I don't feel the need for my movie channels or random tv show channels to automatically pause.

Is it this entire feature you want on something else? Or are you asking for some subset of this feature?

mwkurt Wrote:So this feature is not in the version that I download and install via zip file into XBMC Dharma 10.1? I have to get his from Git or some such as that?

mwkurt Wrote:The second way to do something like this would be to use the "lastwatched" "not in the last" rule you could set a number of days before an episode would be available again to be watched. Say you set it for "120 days". Once an episode was watched it could not be loaded again until those 120 days have elapsed. This option would automatically make every episode available again after the elapsed time, thus stopping the "shrinking library" syndrome.

mwkurt Wrote:I don't know how it work or be implemented but my vision is for a network lineup of shows to all be serialized Seaon 1, Episode 1 through the end of the series. So you would have show1, ep1...show2, ep1...show3, ep1 through the end of each series.

Jason102 Wrote:Ah, I see. I like this better than the "unwatched" flag. The trick would be to figure out how to automatically set this value so it gives the optimum number of not recently watched shows...it would suck to give 120 days and end up with an empty playlist. I'll think about this.

Jason102 Wrote:Huh, there is something very odd going on. You shouldn't need to configure channels, that's not the problem. The issue is that the path to the addon that XBMC is giving seems to be incorrect. I'm honestly not sure how I can fix this since no one else is seeing it. I don't see any bug reports about this...very weird. I...don't really have any answer for you. I'll think about it, and if I come up with something (or someone else encounters this) I'll report back.