playback position - API??

[psycik]

Hi sub.

Apart from getting into the database directly. Is there any way of determining the playback position of a video via API- although all I'm really after is have I watched the video.

Cheers.

[sub]

No, there is no API for getting this information.

[psycik]

back on this.

The playback position table. Are those records only those programs that have started but not finished?? i.e. when you have finished a recording (watched it completely) it is removed from that table?

And a new recording will not make it's way to the playback_position table until you start watching it??

So if i wanted to determine that a program had not been watched at all, I could conclude that it not being in the playback_position table means it has never been watched?

I'd just like to save me having to write a whole tracking system for a new recording viewing plugin.

[sub]

when you have finished a recording (watched it completely) it is removed from that table?

I cant remember. I think so.

And a new recording will not make it's way to the playback_position table until you start watching it??

It wont make it into the table until you stop it during playback.

So if i wanted to determine that a program had not been watched at all, I could conclude that it not being in the playback_position table means it has never been watched?

No, as I said above, I think completely watched programs are removed. If the user chooses to 'restart' the record is also deleted from the table.

[psycik]

Bugger, oh well, guess I should stop being lazy.

Thanks

[ww4397]

I see a bunch of positon records in my PLAYBACK_POSITION table that are for files I deleted (manually, using Windows file explorer) long ago. Is there anyway to remove them from within GBPVR?

[psycik]

I think I found that as well, also depends of which video plugin you use for playback, recordings playback.

I think you could go to sub's recording module (the default one) and delete each item there, when you select them to play, they don't show up.

These questions I orignally asked were for a quick plugin I was writing to re-view the recordings, and in that I made it check if files existed, and if not, highlight them in red. I also put an option to go an delete all of the old records where there were no files.