Bookmark view

[ultrabrutal]

often i find myself using the bookmark feature which is great. however it is along way to come back and have to first locate the file you were playing last and then bring up the bookmark list and press your bookmark.
it would be nice to have easy access to a list of all your bookmarks which could then bring you right to the file and place you were.

also i noticed that bookmarks does not remember your audio/subtitle settings. it's annoying having to set it over again.

tnx

[senergy]

this would be nice.
if you had a shortcut in the video section that would list all your bookmarks. have them displayed as "title-time" or something similar.

[senergy]

i have added a button in the myvideo.xml file for bookmarks with this
"<execute>xbmc.activatewindow(videobookmarks)</execute>"

but it doesnt achieve what i want, i would like it to show all the bookmarks for all my videos. eg if i make a bookmark for video1, video2 and video3 then when i use this button i would like it to show the bookmarks for all 3 videos.
is this possible yet and i just dont know how to configure it properly?

[kraqh3d]

you cant. there isnt a way to jump directly to the bookmarks listing, but it's a good idea and i'll add in few days. the command will be xbmc.activatewindow(window,bookmarks) following our convention of providing a path after the window.

examples:

xbmc.activatewindow(myvideos,bookmarks)
xbmc.activatewindow(mymusicfiles,bookmarks)

[Livin]

...good request!

[jmarshall]

i think that perhaps there is 2 different ideas being suggested here.

i think kraqh3d is referring to the "root" listing of the <bookmark>'s as per xboxmediacenter.xml (which imo is a great idea), whereas you others are looking into showing the video bookmarks (time stamps in a video file) for each file.

exactly how do you want the bookmarks shown? what is the reason for this feature? why do you need such quick access to bookmarks?

if we can understand the motivation for the request, then we can perhaps come up with the best way to do it.

cheers,
jonathan

[senergy]

what i am thinking about is video timestamps.
why i want it,
because it would be easier then scrolling through my video files to find the movie i was watching then opening up bookmarks.

[kraqh3d]

oh i'm sorry. i misunderstood. i was thinking about the root bookmark listing, while you where thinking about video bookmarks. i'm still going to put in the update to activatewindow, but to avoid confusion, maybe we'll use the word "root" instead of "bookmarks". what do you think?

[jmarshall]

senergy:

if i understand you correctly, you are after a "last watched item(s)" view?

kraqh3d: maybe "shares" might be a good name (imo we should call them that in xboxmediacenter.xml as well, but that's another story).

cheers,
jonathan

[kraqh3d]

shares it is. we use the name share and bookmark somewhat interchangebly so its a little confusing :)

actually, i just thought of something... activatewindow will accept a share/bookmark name. maybe i should use * so that it wont conflict with anything. (well it still could conflict but its rather unlikely):

how does this look?
xbmc.activatewindow(mymusicfiles,*)

[senergy]

personally i think things like
<bookmark>
<name>games</name>
<path>f:\games\,e:\games\</path>
<depth>1</depth>
</bookmark>

should be called "shares", eg
<shares>
<name>games</name>
<path>f:\games\,e:\games\</path>
<depth>1</depth>
</shares>


and then "bookmarks" could become actually what they are more widely accepted as, eg, a timestamp or page part way through a book or movie.
but to change that will envolve too much work i feel,

jmarshall: what im after is a listing of "bookmarks" created while watching movies so that i can continue any of the listed movies from where i left off without having to start the movie then go to "bookmarks".

[jmarshall]

kraqh3d: "shares" is more intuitive to me, and although more likely to be a real share name, is still probably not that likely.

senergy: do you create bookmarks in order to save where you were last at in a video, or to save often used entry points into a video? in the case of the former, just stop the video and start using the "resume movie" option (press play on the remote, or it's on the context menu for the controller) - no need to make a bookmark for that. this is the information i was thinking could be mined for a "recently played" or "resume movie" view. if it's the latter, then this does not apply, and having a link to the bookmark menu of a particular movie straight from the videos screen might be more appropriate.

cheers,
jonathan

[Loto_Bak]

i agree a 'go to root of bookmarks' style button would be preferable.

another request would be the posibility of having a tree like this

-3 movie directories share
-2 tv directories share
-other (possibly web based ala shoutcast) entries
-browse\
---c drive
---d drive
---e drive
---f drive
---smb share
---relax share

i find new users getting confused by having files / compiled views combined. this confusion is compounded by the fact that you can only orginize bookmarks alphabetically. this also presents a more familiar 'browse' button.
also a context menu button "add share with current path" would make new shares much more simple via ui

sorry for the hijack

[senergy]

jonathan: i just tried the "resume" that you are talking about and although it is very handy it is not completly what i want. as this only works if you select the movie then press "play", i would rather not have to find the movie to hit play as a listing of "entry points" for many different movies would be a better option for me.

i feel i am the only one wanting this feature so feel free to say no.

[kraqh3d]

lol... looking at the code, we can already activatewindow to the root share list using both "shares" and "*" and anything else that's not a valid share name or path! upon receipt of an invalid share name or path, we default to the root share list.