2013-09-05, 21:53
Well get the authors of your player clients to update the watched status.
(2013-09-05, 21:52)edrikk Wrote:(2013-09-01, 10:36)Ned Scott Wrote: 2. Watched flags and resume status works great for UPnP in Gotham builds. Smart playlists will work if you make them on the UPnP hosting computer, but the others can only make basic playlists. This is another thing that might be overcome with the work mentioned above.
The main problem with this right now (as far as I know) is that the only way the status is updated is if the client is also XBMC. This is a much more rare (read: IMHO less useful) scenario than have the status be set regardless of DLNA client that's playing back the source. For example, when I use my iPad, I use MLPlayer Lite. On my PC, I *might* want to use WMP, on my 'big screen' I use XBMC (actually running against mySQL so no DLNA in that case for me).
Just my 2 cents. :)
(2013-10-15, 22:12)Ned Scott Wrote: With UPnP you can actually mix Frodo and Gotham, but both builds should be on a Gotham nightly or monthly for watched and resume status sync. You can use the Gotham test build and just install the final version of Gotham over that, with no need to start over from scratch. However, it's always a good idea to backup the userdata (wiki) folder just incase.
Playlists will work, but the way they work is that you need to use the playlists from the "server" XBMC instance. Smart playlists made on the client-side won't work because they don't see UPnP entries as being in the local library (something that will change in the future, yay!). So basically, set up those movie and TV sections on that main/server XBMC instance, and then you can use them on all the other instances. You should even be able to map them to custom home buttons if you want. The playlists show up under the UPnP instance in a "Playlists" folder".
(2013-10-17, 02:10)Ned Scott Wrote: With UPnP you basically set things up on a single machine as you want them. They can be local media files, SMB, a mix, whatever. You set up the playlists on the single machine as well. Then when you share this via UPnP the other XBMC machines will see it as a file server under Videos -> Files. Here you will see things like "library", "files", "playlists", etc. You can mark the correct playlists and folders as favorites on the second machine, then use a skin to use those favorites as custom home items.
(2013-10-17, 02:10)Ned Scott Wrote: With UPnP you basically set things up on a single machine as you want them. They can be local media files, SMB, a mix, whatever. You set up the playlists on the single machine as well. Then when you share this via UPnP the other XBMC machines will see it as a file server under Videos -> Files. Here you will see things like "library", "files", "playlists", etc. You can mark the correct playlists and folders as favorites on the second machine, then use a skin to use those favorites as custom home items.
You can use the MySQL instructions for exporting/reimporting ( http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW...edsettings ) to go from MySQL back to a local library. Basically, you export as individual files again, overwriting the old files so it updates the watch status. Then remove the MySQL parts of the advancedsettings.xml file, but keep the "import watched" part. Then when XBMC starts up, re-add the source and scan the library, and it should give you a new local library (assuming you don't have an original library from before MySQL was set up. If you do, you can just remove that or delete your userdata (wiki)/Database/MyVideos75.db file).
Make sure the UPnP settings are on (see UPnP/Share (wiki)) and you should be good to go.
Both machines can host content, but they won't mix the content together in single folders. Like you can't have a single TV shows folder with content from both, but you could have "action" TV shows on one, and "drama" TV shows on another, and just set those up as two custom home items. Or maybe "kids" and "adults" videos, etc. Being able to mix the content will be something that will come later to XBMC.