Support smart playlist as a video bumper source

[Groschi 2]

I'd love to see cinema vision support smart playlists as a source for video bumpers. This would open up some great new possibilities because smart playlists are such a powerful and versatile tool.

Here's one example i could think of:
Let's assume that, instead of a short film, i'd like to watch an episode of a TV show before the main feature. If cinema vision supported smart playlists, i simply could build a smart playlist for TV series with the following rules: File path = [location of show on hard drive], play count = 0, sort order: episode.
Voilà, now i have a playlist containing all unwatched episodes, sorted chronologically.
Then i would add a video bumper module to my cinema vision sequence and specify the aforementioned playlist as a source. Cinema vision would then play back the specified number of entries from the beginning of the playlist. Because the watched episodes are excluded from the playlist automatically (remember the rule: play count = 0), i' wouldn't have to modify the sequence until i run out of episodes.

That's the beauty of smart playlists and that's why i think cinema vision should make use of them.

[DexDeadly 20]

This sounds like an interesting idea.  Watching a TV show before a movie for me would be confusing  but I could see if smart playlist can be used for something else such as trailers and the like. 

[Ragnarok 198]

22 hours ago, Groschi said:

I'd love to see cinema vision support smart playlists as a source for video bumpers. This would open up some great new possibilities because smart playlists are such a powerful and versatile tool.

Here's one example i could think of:
Let's assume that, instead of a short film, i'd like to watch an episode of a TV show before the main feature. If cinema vision supported smart playlists, i simply could build a smart playlist for TV series with the following rules: File path = [location of show on hard drive], play count = 0, sort order: episode.
Voilà, now i have a playlist containing all unwatched episodes, sorted chronologically.
Then i would add a video bumper module to my cinema vision sequence and specify the aforementioned playlist as a source. Cinema vision would then play back the specified number of entries from the beginning of the playlist. Because the watched episodes are excluded from the playlist automatically (remember the rule: play count = 0), i' wouldn't have to modify the sequence until i run out of episodes.

That's the beauty of smart playlists and that's why i think cinema vision should make use of them.

This is actually something that's currently on our development roadmap.

[Groschi 2]

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This is actually something that's currently on our development roadmap.

Awesome!

[Khanstvo 0]

On 4/20/2017 at 12:11 AM, Ragnarok said:

This is actually something that's currently on our development roadmap.

Hello, is there any progress on this?

How I would use it:  I have been setting up my own sequence manually just in Kodi without CinemaVision. I add three music videos (ideally added at random via smart playlist) and one pre-show cartoon from a couple of TV shows.

Being able to use smart playlists to randomly select X items would be great!

Thanks,

Khanstvo