SetWatchTimers and Properties file question

[davidb]

Question 1:
I am trying to do just what you asked to start watching on Sage, and continue on IOS(Ipad or Iphone), and restart on Sage and keep the watched time.

I have this working on TV shows that have been recorded, but it is not working on DVDs. I can get the watched spot in milliseconds into the movie, but all attempts to SetWatchedTimes like I use, that works properly on a TV Show, does not set the time on the DVDs, it jumps off the end and sets it as watched. It may be moving the watched spot, but I have not been able to come up with parameters for DVDs that will actually set the watched spot at a certain point in a DVD.
Has anyone used this, or possibly have any code snippets that work to set the watched time on a DVD to a certain spot??

Note: Yes I know many DVDs contain a menu and can contain multiple movie titles, and so the length is ambiguous,
but for both of these question, we have a DVD containing only a single main movie, not alternates titles, or menus and no trailers. Sage works properly with this now, and is able to keep the watch spot and the movie length information for the DVD.
I am able to stop watching a DVD and resume later and continue watching at the same spot. This is the functionality, that I am trying to achieve.

// Use these two object instances
Object mediafile = MediaFileAPI.GetMediaFileForID(IDOfShowOrDVDHere);
Object airing = MediaFileAPI.GetMediaFileAiring(mediafile);

Here is how I currently get the information for a TV showWorking)

long whereToRestartAtHowManyMS = whereToRestart - AiringAPI.GetAiringStartTime(Airing); //works on tv

long whereToRestartAtHowManySeconds = whereToRestartAtHowManyMS / 1000;
long RealStartTime = AiringAPI.GetRealWatchedStartTime(Airing); //works on TV

Here is how I currently set the information for a TV showWorking)

// to set an Absolute Time in seconds into the TV show
AiringAPI.SetWatchedTimes(Airing, AiringAPI.GetAiringStartTime(Airing)+(AbsoluteTimeinSeconds*1000), RealStartTime);

//Here is how I currently set the information for a TV Show To bump up by //xx seconds into the TV show from the watched spot

AiringAPI.SetWatchedTimes(Airing, AiringAPI.GetAiringStartTime(Airing)+(whereToRestartAtHowManySeconds * 1000)+BumpUpTimeinSeconds*1000, RealStartTime); //tv shows works

NOTE: The following IS different than the TV Show, as the watched information comes back very differently from the same API calls:

Here is how I currently get the information for a DVD: (Working)
long whereToRestartD = AiringAPI.GetWatchedEndTime(Airing);
long whereToRestartDAtHowManyMS = AiringAPI.GetWatchedEndTime(Airing);
long whereToRestartDAtHowManySeconds = whereToRestartD / 1000;
Here is how I tried to set the information for a DVD: (NOT working)
for Absolute set to position:
AiringAPI.SetWatchedTimes(Airing, AiringAPI.GetAiringStartTime(Airing)+(AbsoluteTimeinSeconds*1000), RealStartTime);

for Bump up by xx seconds:
AiringAPI.SetWatchedTimes(Airing, AiringAPI.GetAiringStartTime(Airing)+AiringAPI.GetWatchedDuration(Airing)+BumpUpTimeinSeconds*1000, AiringAPI.GetAiringStartTime(Airing));

The following works to determine If it is a TVShow
if (MediaFileAPI.IsTVFile(Airing) == true)

The following works to determine IF it is a DVD
if (MediaFileAPI.IsDVD(Airing) == true)
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Question 2:
I couldn't find anything in the API to get the length of a DVD. But I did find it stored in the properties file, in RunningTime.
Do all Sage7 installs use the .properties file for DVD media, or is this only available on some? Can I assume there will be a .properties file for each recording and DVD?

Thanks for any help.

[Fuzzy]

If you only care about a single video in a DVD, just put it into a single video file. Everything is handled better that way.

[davidb]

That is what I said I did. The dvd is one file.
In Sage it starts at the beginning, and if you stop, it will restart at the last watched to spot.

This is what I am trying to accomplish with the SetWatchTimes function.

Getting the watched time works very differently on a DVD setting, than on a TV Show recording. The values are different. I suspect, I just need to give different values to the SetWatchTimes function also, but trial and error, I have already tried all the combinations that I can think of.

Please, has anyone done this?

Thanks

[Fuzzy]

My point was to not use a DVD format. Remux the file into an .mpg or .mkv container. Sage handles DVD's differently, and if they are showing as 'true' for the IsDVD function, than they are DVD's, and not Videos.

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by davidb

That is what I said I did. The dvd is one file.
In Sage it starts at the beginning, and if you stop, it will restart at the last watched to spot.

This is what I am trying to accomplish with the SetWatchTimes function.

Getting the watched time works very differently on a DVD setting, than on a TV Show recording. The values are different. I suspect, I just need to give different values to the SetWatchTimes function also, but trial and error, I have already tried all the combinations that I can think of.

Please, has anyone done this?

Thanks

I thought I replied somewhere else, but I'm pretty sure this doesn't work with DVDs. DVDs don't have a fixed length or position, they're containers that hold many video streams (titles) which can be configured for looping or varied playlists, so there's no way to know what "3600 seconds" means.