2020-12-10, 02:12 PM
The reason is more apparent when browse for viewing the season and episode numbers. When the problem arose I made this demonstration video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgQsRVOnl_4 showing the two modes in action on various skins including list and the player differences. The significance is replacing the program title with the S/E number. In some ways if you look at The Big Bang Theory, the repeated title does look a bit "busy" On the otherhand the player doesn't show what the the program is.
It is not particularly easy to document or even give a name too which is why I ask users to try them both.
Kodi PVR devs are typically from the DVB countries where this may be less important so they don't want to consider season/episode sort or displays which is unfortunate. Also perhaps there are a program collectors where date sequence doesn't match episode order so the random list would be unacceptable
Note you probably are using 8.0.1 with Matrix. 8.0.2 is ready and has the ratings (coming in the next release of NextPVR) and watched/partially watched/unwatched markers that are handy.
Martin
It is not particularly easy to document or even give a name too which is why I ask users to try them both.
Kodi PVR devs are typically from the DVB countries where this may be less important so they don't want to consider season/episode sort or displays which is unfortunate. Also perhaps there are a program collectors where date sequence doesn't match episode order so the random list would be unacceptable
Note you probably are using 8.0.1 with Matrix. 8.0.2 is ready and has the ratings (coming in the next release of NextPVR) and watched/partially watched/unwatched markers that are handy.
Martin