$$$ NEED TO BE ABLE TO LOOP/REPEAT VIDEO AND/OR PLAYLISTS

[colinjones]

hari - don't suppose you can point me to the code that handles the playlist stuff? (both video and audio if possible) Is it the Mediaplugin, or Orbiter, something else?

[tschak909]

all playlist code is handled in the Media Plugin.

-Thom

[Tommy]

Thanks for having a look Colinjones, and thanks for responding Thom. 

Tommy

[colinjones]

Don't hold your breath Tommy! I'm far from competant Will have a go tho..

[Tommy]

Just the response was good enough for me, I tried to have a look at the media plugin source myself, if I knew what I was looking for I could help too.

[Dale_K]

Any news on this?  I too would be willing to pay for this ability.  (Video playlists auto looping)

[tschak909]

No work on this yet, anyone wanna take it?

-Thom

[Dale_K]

GOT IT!!!

As usual a big thanks to all the help from the devs, TSChak, TKMedia, Zaerc, Hari, to name a few.  Thanks a ton guys.

Here is what I did.  And I'll be making a wiki page for it as well.

So, I got my dev environment and I start sifting through the Media_Plugin files for anything related to StoredVideo, Playlist, Repeat, Loop, etc.  With no luck at all.

So I start thinking, maybe it's in the player itself, I do the above for Xine as well, no love.  Then I find Xine_Plugin.

In Xine_Plugin there is a file called XineMediaStream.cpp and at the bottom of that file I see this:

      // do not remove the playlist when we are playing stored audio. (it will just confuse the user)
      if ( m_iPK_MediaType == MEDIATYPE_pluto_StoredAudio_CONST && m_iRepeat != -1)
         return true;

      return MediaStream::CanPlayMore();

So I think to myself "Maybe if I do the same for StoreVideo, my shit will replay.  And I cut/paste the first if statement changing StoredAudio to StoredVideo and DVD so it ends up like this.

      // do not remove the playlist when we are playing stored audio. (it will just confuse the user)
      if ( m_iPK_MediaType == MEDIATYPE_pluto_StoredAudio_CONST && m_iRepeat != -1)
         return true;

      if ( m_iPK_MediaType == MEDIATYPE_pluto_StoredVideo_CONST && m_iRepeat != -1)
         return true;

      if ( m_iPK_MediaType == MEDIATYPE_pluto_DVD_CONST && m_iRepeat != -1)
         return true;


      return MediaStream::CanPlayMore();

Save file
Run 'make so'
Copy said Xine_Plugin.so to /usr/pluto/bin
Reload Router
And Video Playlists now loop!!

As I said I'll post detailed instructions on the wiki.  Thanks again to the folks that helped me with the mechanics of working with a development environment, couldn't have done it without you.

Edit:

Here is the wiki page: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Video_Playlist_-_Enable_Looping