2014-08-06, 20:27
The "Play the Next Video Automatically" function is great, since a lot internal media players of TVs and consoles (PS3 got it more than a year after release!) are still missing such a fundamental function.
But it just doesn't make sense to have a function, which is used in every video part of XBMC/Kodi, since we utterly try to have every part look and behave differently.
Like my movies: I love it to have them sorted into sets, where it fits and/or see as much as possible fanart.
My TV series needs to show me the complete description of the episode I'm going to watch and a little screen of this episode.
And my music videos? Album art, video screenshot and only a little bit of text. You see what I mean.
And here we go back to "play the next video automatically" is working great in my music videos or in the file view, since most of the time, they are short, little files, which are in the folder, because they belong together.
TV series is great, most of the time aswell, since I want to watch multiple episode of the same show. But what happens, when I am falling asleep and I still have 22 episodes to watch? XBMC will continue and mark all of them watched, but I only got one or two of them at all. First thing, after waking up, will be to revert the watched state and find the episode I was falling asleep while watching.
And movies? Why do I have to tell you, that I (most of the time) don't want to watch the movie, which has been sorted into my database, after the movie I have been watched right now? I can understand, that I would make sense, when I am into a movie set, but most of the time, I am not.
So I would love to see additional settings for "play the next video automatically" as following:
Movies: - everytime | - only in sets | - never
TVSeries: - everytime | - only this season | - only X episodes | - never
MusicVideos: - everytime | - everytime (restart at the beginning, if reached the end) | - never
FileView: - everytime | - everytime (restart at the beginning, if reached the end) | - never
What do you think?
Should I open a ticket?
But it just doesn't make sense to have a function, which is used in every video part of XBMC/Kodi, since we utterly try to have every part look and behave differently.
Like my movies: I love it to have them sorted into sets, where it fits and/or see as much as possible fanart.
My TV series needs to show me the complete description of the episode I'm going to watch and a little screen of this episode.
And my music videos? Album art, video screenshot and only a little bit of text. You see what I mean.
And here we go back to "play the next video automatically" is working great in my music videos or in the file view, since most of the time, they are short, little files, which are in the folder, because they belong together.
TV series is great, most of the time aswell, since I want to watch multiple episode of the same show. But what happens, when I am falling asleep and I still have 22 episodes to watch? XBMC will continue and mark all of them watched, but I only got one or two of them at all. First thing, after waking up, will be to revert the watched state and find the episode I was falling asleep while watching.
And movies? Why do I have to tell you, that I (most of the time) don't want to watch the movie, which has been sorted into my database, after the movie I have been watched right now? I can understand, that I would make sense, when I am into a movie set, but most of the time, I am not.
So I would love to see additional settings for "play the next video automatically" as following:
Movies: - everytime | - only in sets | - never
TVSeries: - everytime | - only this season | - only X episodes | - never
MusicVideos: - everytime | - everytime (restart at the beginning, if reached the end) | - never
FileView: - everytime | - everytime (restart at the beginning, if reached the end) | - never
What do you think?
Should I open a ticket?