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arvvoid : First of all huge thank you for creating this "HBO Europe compatible" version of HBO GO addon. I have a suggestion regarding possible improvements of format used for "list item" titles/names for episode lists and movie lists (= the string value for "name" parameter passed onto addLink() method). It would be useful and desirable to conform with a typical format that is expected by most metadata scrappers and "filename parsers". So:
1) for episodes:
Code:
current format: SeriesName + " - " + SeasonIndex + ". " + LB_SEASON + " " + Name
example: Deadwood - 1. season episode 1
Code:
new / suggested format: SeriesName + " - " + "S" + SeasonIndex + "E" + Index
example: Deadwood - S01E01 (or Deadwood - S01E01 - Title)
2) for movies: Basically just append year after movie title: "Name + ( + ProductionYear +)"
The proposed changes would need to be made in SEARCH, LIST and EPISODE methods, for both types of content (episode , movie).
One concrete example of a benefit:
Since the addon currently doesn't offer "add/export to Kodi library" functionality I'm using
Add to Lib context menu addon to easily create appropriate .strm files for each TV show episode or for a movie. And because of atypical format for episode list item names/titles currently used by this addon "Add to Lib" addon fails to automatically parse show name and episode index and I would have to manually input name of the TV show when adding one season worth of episodes.
If the "filename"/ title complies with that typical format "show_name - S01E1" then creation of strm files and scanning the new content into Kodi library is just couple of mouse clicks worth of effort
because "Add to Lib" addon detects the show name and season, no need to use "Advanced adding" and manually input correct information.
Once .strm files are added and imported into Kodi library you get most of the feature available to local files in your Kodi library: marking watched / unwatched, visual indicator of progress made etc. Although resuming videos at correct timestamp doesn't work (it is not offered, the HBO GO video will always start from the begging) auto-magically fortunately a workaround of using Kodi VideoPlayer's Bookmark functionality (creating a bookmark before stopping your video and later (re)using that bookmark after the plugin starts streaming from the beginning to skip to correct timestamp) to skip to correct timestamp is working.
