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How To: Build A Custom Watched Field for Media Center

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arcspin:
Hi,
Just wanted to write and say thanx to glynor for creating this tutorial.

It was easy to follow for a "script kiddie" like my self and I feel a great satisfaction to be able to customize my JRiver media center 25 the way I like it.
This is one of the big reasons I year after year pay for the latest and greatest version of JRiver, this and that the player is rock solid and have never failed me.

Keep up the good work everyone !!


Cheers,
//Peter

glynor:

--- Quote from: nataru on July 16, 2018, 09:16:58 pm ---I have the same problem. I know it's an old thread though and wonder if its still even supported.

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FWIW, I still use this exact system on MC25. Don't know if I had to make any modifications over the years, but I think all I've done is tweak my percentages.

RoderickGI:
I'm finally going to implement this shortly. I've been reading the history behind it. A couple of observations.

The function watched(3) isn't included in the Wiki documentation but still works and gives the same output as watched(0) or watched().

Watched(0) now seems to display the percentage watched from exactly 11% and above, rather than the 50% discussed in various threads. The logic is probably an integer comparison of >10. I suspect that Matt did that shortly after his comment above, because;

21.0.74 (4/19/2016)
3. Changed: The TVInfo(WatchedDisplay) expression will show a watched percentage based on the bookmark in more cases.

I don't think this changes what I am going to do with this idea, because I also want to be able to tweak the percentages used in the [Watched Percent] field. Specifically, I will probably use different percentages for recorded TV shows, as I tend to add quite a large padding at the beginning and the end of the recording, as both the Australian EPG I am using is rubbish, and the broadcasters rarely stick to their advertised times. So I need to use a large start percentage and a smaller completion percentage. Although the change below may mean I wouldn't need to allow for this if I used the standard functions;

24.0.3 (3/5/2018)
8. Changed: When calculating "Watched" status in Standard television "Recordings" view, the pre-padding ("Start recording early") value is removed from calculation so that recordings with large pre-padding relative to duration will not erroneously be marked as "x%" watched.

This may be only referring to the TVInfo(WatchDisplay) function, but that is based on watched() function, so it could apply to both. I will probably test that later.

Because of the above changes, and [Last Played] will now show "never played" if appropriate, I may use a different version of the custom [Play] field, or not create one at all. I shall see.


Any thoughts on the above?

PS: Oh, and I am going to have an issue with full folder DVD and Blu-ray rips using this method.  ?  But the watched() function doesn't fully work with them either, at least from a Client. Only the [Number Plays] field indicates if a movie has been played watched in those cases.

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