mcborzu Wrote:I want to create a little section of 5 or so links on Home of Movie/Episodes that are "in progress" but not finished. Actually last 5 played, finished or not, would be good also...Is it possible?
A playlist would work but I'd think having a list of Movie/Episodes titles would be more convenient, thx...
I've been asking for this function in XBMC for years. I have a smartplaylist setup to try and emulate such a function, but it doesn't work very well. Any movie/TV that has a segment unplayed shows up in the results. You can try and shorten this by using the advanced "ignoreatstart" setting, but if you don't let the video play out completely at the end (like NOT watching all the credits, you always have a small part that is unplayed. It would be nice to have a "ignoreatend" advanced setting to ovecome this.
I also haven't had a lot of success with mixing smartplaylists to get to a working solution (I asked a long time ago about a field in the db that could be created to make this a working possibility, but so far nada).
One thing I'd like to see to help with this is the ability to reset the "stop-point" field in the db to zero from the gui. This would help when you are cycling through movies/episodes, but don't want them to be included in the "In Progress" results.
This is one of my biggest issues with xbmc - the inability to quickly return to something you have been watching from a cold boot - something my Sky box has had for more than 6 years (just press the play button in any screen and you'll be taken to a screen that asks where you want to continue from with the last thing you were watching. Another press and your watching it).
PS - I don't want this to sound too critical of xbmc - which is a fantastic piece of software.
EDIT: If you get this sussed using a smartplaylist, can't you post it here?