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Hope this will get into the main repo, awsome feature for most users that watch allot of series / musicvideo's
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2012-07-24, 02:38
(This post was last modified: 2012-07-24, 02:39 by mksk88.)
I've just registered to lend my voice of strong support for this feature. I know everyone has different needs and habits, but I find myself among those shocked that this isn't a basic feature.
Thanks ScudLee & bossanova for the patch, and thank you to all the devs who make XBMC awesome.
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Not to nitpick, but this isn't so much of a feature addition as much as it is an implementation of the existing feature that we did have..
In any case, I'm all for this implementation. It's convenient and a lot of people easily missed the option in the contextual menu.
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Well, most of the time I just want to play one file. But then occasionally I want to 'play from here' - so don't remove the context menu option!! It's not quite the same thing as an option in settings which effects everything...
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With this patch, the play from here option is still available when autoplay is set to off. Bossanova808, you probably already know that.
Ned, your support is greatly appreciated. (and everyone else who has joined this forum to post their support in this thread).
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Another (possibly more complex) idea occurred to me that might simplify settings and defaults. I've got a video player (MPlayerX for Mac OS X) that will only auto play the next file if it is named in such a way that would suggest that it is the "next episode". So if I have in one folder a bunch of random stuff, it will auto play the episodes of the same show, but stop when it hits something else. This behavior would also play movies one at a time (in most cases).
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Woohoo! Over 5000 views!
I recently tried Plex on my Samsung Smart TV, they have added an autoplay feature. It s a hot button (press "A" to toggle autoplay on/off)
This seems to be a nice way to do it, however using Plex was sadly unfulfilling afer using XBMC.
The patched version of XBMC is still working perfectly.
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I really needs this feature too, but I am using Mac.
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this is the single most annoying "feature" (I'll rather call it a bug, or an issue with the design) of xbmc - every single media player I have used - WD TV, Xtreamer, popcorn hour - they all behaved the NORMAL - expected way by default. ie if you have a folder with 10 files and you choose to play the 5th file, it would continue with the remaining files until the end of the directory is reached.
Nobody keeps 5 different movies in a single directory, so there is absolutely no reason why the player should *not* continue playing the files that follow.
The only workaround I have found for this annoying *bug* is the following:
1. select a directory with files (in my case - videos)
2. press play, to have xbmc play the whole directory
3. once the first file starts to play, press the button for videos
4. press the button for context menu
5. choose Now playing
6. in the list of files in the directory selected in the 1st step, choose the file that you wanted to play in the first place
7. voila! the player will continue with the remaining files !
user-friendly as hell