[mythtv-users] sequentally play video files

[Artem Astafyev]

2011/7/11 Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>

> On 07/11/2011 06:06 AM, Artem Astafyev wrote:
> > 2011/7/11 Nick Rout
> >> Frankly I have no need for this feature, I can understand it if you
> >> have, eg, a load of music videos and want to keep playing music videos
> >> continuously.
> >>
> >> But i use mythvideo for movies and tv programmes, and don't want some
> >> random video popping up after the latest movie I watched.
> >>
> >> A system that automatically started the next video in some arbitrary
> >> order would p*** me off. In fact my LG tv accessing mythvideo via DLNA
> >> does that, which makes me hate it.
> > I just want to know if it's possible before writing a patch :) By the way
> it
> > may be configurable whether to play next video automatically.
> > But writing custom script is a good idea. I'll have to use external
> player
> > but it's better then nothing.
>
> There are some upcoming major changes to the database schema, that will
> allow using of MythVideo video data the same as MythTV recordings.  At
> this point, it's quite possible that we'll consolidate much of the
> handling code--including the Watch Recordings playlist feature.
>
> Once this is done, I plan to do some changes that a) add tag support to
> recordings (/video) that allow the user to assign any number of tags to
> each media file MythTV handles and filter lists by any number of tags
> (using and or or grouping), b) modify the playlist support to allow
> creating playlists based on similar tag filtering as well as create
> "dynamic" playlists using various "commonly useful" criteria (which I
> haven't yet defined).  I can't tell you when these changes will be
> finished, but I can tell you it won't be soon.  As mentioned, the
> database schema change is major, so will not happen before 0.25.
>

Great news Mike! I'm looking forward.
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