Next Episode of Next Season

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What enhancement or feature would you like?
To be able to play the next episode in the next season without having to 
navigate to it.

How would you expect it to work? Can you illustrate it with examples such
as images or scenarios?
Okay, let's say you are watching Season 1 of Cheers and there is 24 episodes 
listed. In the place where episode 25 would be if there was one, would be 
Season 2 Episode 1. You could select it and watch your video. In the background 
TVS would navigate to Season 2 so when the episode was over you would be where 
you want to be for the rest of the season.

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by datahaza...@gmail.com on 13 Sep 2011 at 8:35

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Open MP-TVSeries config.

Switch to 'General' tab and locate the "On play action on series or season 
view:" drop down box.

Change it to "Play first unwatched episode" (Pretty sure that is default 
setting).

Now you simply remain at series overview on 'Cheers' and instead of 'OK/Enter' 
button to view seasons, you hit the 'Play' button and the first unwatched 
episode will play. Which will automatically become 2x01 after 1x24 has finished.

You might also want to look into playlists, for which additional shortcuts have 
been made (if memory serves me right 'Y' immediatly adds item to current 
playlist, be it episode, season or entire series). Via right side menu -> 
current playlist you can then start first item and playback will keep going 
until you stop it.

An additional enhancement ticket is in the works to automatically clear that 
current playlist, so it is easier to make a new one if you keep your HTPC 
running 24/7. The watched flag is set by the playlist method, so you can resume 
exactly from the point you stopped when you re-add the same series to a new 
playlist.

Regarding your original request. When a user plays an episode manually inside a 
season and reaches the end, they might not appreciate being sent to the next 
season and prefer to go over the other episodes in the same season first. This 
is why if you plan to watch the entire series back to back, you can use the new 
Play method at series level or use playlist system. It is a faster way as well, 
because you do not have to navigate to the season and last unwatched episode 
first.

The only kink would be specials, but it is easy to go into a series and mark 
the specials as watched so they are skipped on both the play button and 
playlist method.

Enjoy.

Original comment by RoChess....@gmail.com on 18 Sep 2011 at 2:44

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Lot's of good info there RC.... but not what I am looking for.. I think you 
misunderstood.

A) I dont use playlists.... ever. Too tedious when I just want to play an 
episode.
B) I dont want a my episodes to start one after the other.
C) I dont want to be in season or series view as I like to look at the 
summaries and snapshots of each episode.
D) I do not want TVS to PLAY the first episode in the first season 
automatically.

I will go into a bit better detail of what I am talking about:

At the end of the season in episode view (picture List view in your mind). You 
have episode 24 at the bottom of the list as it is the last episode in that 
season, BUT just after that in the list (below episode 24) is the first episode 
in the next season. You can then select it to play the episode. WHILE watching 
that episode, in the back ground MP-TVS will navigate to the next season so 
that when the episode is over, you are already in the next season with the 
first episode listed as watched. You can then continue down the list until you 
get to then of that season and the setup works the same way again.

Original comment by datahaza...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2011 at 7:15

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I also would like this functionality.

When in episode view you see all episodes of one season. When you just saw the 
last episode of the season and want to see the next, you now have to go back to 
the season view and select the next season.

But maybe there can be a way to go to the next season directly from the episode 
view (with a button/menuitem), instead of going back to the season overview to 
go to the next season/episode.

Original comment by bas.them...@gmail.com on 22 Sep 2011 at 2:42

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That could indeed be another option.

The FFW/FRW buttons can be used to adjust covers in series/season view, but 
when in episode view with episode-thumbnails they could then be assigned to 
jump to next season, or go to previous one.

But I also like the idea of showing 2x01 after for example 1x24. It might just 
be easier from a programming side to implement the button method to skip to 
next/previous season.

Original comment by RoChess....@gmail.com on 22 Sep 2011 at 9:39

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As one user mentioned in forum, you can switch to unwatched view and it will do 
the behaviour as suggested in this issue. All other views though would require 
code change.

Original comment by damien.haynes@gmail.com on 23 Nov 2011 at 7:38

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Here is a simple suggestion: 
For the most part people is suggesting this because of how they go about 
watching one episode after another. 

Simply, when they open episode view, the system auto select last unwatched 
episode, they press play and start wathing, once episode is done, system auto 
select next episode, so the press play again, this work u till last episode, 
then they have to perform numerous clicks to get to next season. 

Why don't you add option to make the system jump to the next season when last 
episode is finish. Some people won't like this so need to be an config option.

This method of play is used for keyboard control, since they don't have a play 
button, and it is very fast to use cursor keys and enter. Though shortcut key 
exist, it's unknown or in the dark it's hard to find alpha keys on keyboards or 
using small AirKeyboard from Cideco.

Original comment by bernar...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2013 at 4:40