Recently watched movies?

Is it possible to create another sub-menu underneath Movies or Videos that will show a number of recently watched movies?

If it's not possible or easy I'd like to suggest this as a new feature.

The use case for is like that: I started watching the movie but did not finish and I want to continue watching it another day. Instead of searching for it in the movie list I go to the recently watched and locate it there in one click.

Another use case: somebody from let's say your family watched a movie without you and instead of asking them what was the movie you just go to the recently watched and see for yourself.

There's a "last played" and "In Progress" rule in smart playlists the later "In Progress" is only in the latest builds

You can do this with a smartplaylist I think? We have the lastplayed information available.

It's not quite as neat as being in the main library node, but you could add a link to that smart playlist to favourites (or mod the skin to have a button link to it).

Well, "last played" would only show the last movie watched, not the list of say last 5 movies watched, right?

Is last-time watched time stamp stored in the DB for each movie? If it is it should be possible to retrieve a list of N movies sorted by last watched time stamp descended and it could probably be even done in Python script. Am I right or wrong?

konan Wrote:Well, "last played" would only show the last movie watched, not the list of say last 5 movies watched, right?

Is last-time watched time stamp stored in the DB for each movie? If it is it should be possible to retrieve a list of N movies sorted by last watched time stamp descended and it could probably be even done in Python script. Am I right or wrong?

You can specify the number of movies the smart playlist returns. You can then sort that view by whatever.

konan Wrote:Well, "last played" would only show the last movie watched, not the list of say last 5 movies watched, right?

Wrong, why do you think they are called playlists because they create lists

Why not just go to smart playlists and give it a try because its not just the rule "lastplayed" its combined with one of the following, After, Not in the last, In the last, Before

In a kind of related request, what about "In progress"?
I setup a mySQL database to be able to walk from room to room watching xbmc... It works just great to resume,

but sometimes when i've had a little too much to drink, I can't remember what I was watching. lol

I suppose I would concur with this request...
I came (and registered) to make a request of my own, and found this thread, so I guess I will throw in my two cents here. :-)
I was originally going to suggest one of two things:

1) add a choice of how many movies/files the "recently added" menu shows. I collect ALOT of movies, and say if I add 10 movies one day, then another 10+ or more in a few day later, well, in a few weeks they all get lost in the mix, and searching through 600+ movies for things I forgot I have recently acquired is a chore. (i know, poor me, huh? :rolleyes so being able to change to number to something like 50(?+) would be of great use to me, and a few others I suspect.

2) perhaps a sort choice in the file lists as "in order added to the library"? or perhaps I am not seeing this function? being able to search by year/director/genre is very nice, and when I am lazy, the genre feature is a real treat. but for the same reason as #1, the feature to sort by date added would be a boon.

thanks for your patience.

1) Possible through advancedsettings.xml.

<recentlyaddeditems>35</recentlyaddeditems>

2) Adding sort by creation/modification date in video library is being discussed in another thread.