improve multiple parts videos by adding dialogs and making seamless transitions

[GoogleCodeExporter]

What do you want to see improved?

Display a notify dialog at the start of each of the parts for a multi-part 
video. Something like:
    Playing item 1 of 6
This way the user will know how many total parts are there. This is extremely  
important in cases where a part in the middle fails to buffer properly. In that 
case, the user has to start completely from scratch without any idea of which 
part to pick up from.

Another enhancement could be to not go back to menu screen when buffering 
in-between multiple parts. Would it be possible to remain in full screen when 
one part finishes and start buffering the next part? This would make the 
transition more seamless.

What version of MediaPortal are you using? On what operating system?
- MePo 1.2.3 on Win7

What skin?
- Default Wide

What sites are affected by your suggestion?
- Sites with multip-part videos

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 3 Sep 2012 at 2:55

[GoogleCodeExporter]

The problem with staying in Fullscreen, is that MediaPortal does playback on 
the UI thread, so when buffering takes a long time or fails, the user will only 
get a frozen UI :( It is safer to fully close and destruct the playback graph, 
going to MP UI and then starting a new playback graph than staying in Playback.
This can be done in other application like MP2, where playback will not freeze 
the entire application.

The notify dialog is possible.

PS: When pausing or opening the OSD (y), it should display the name of the 
video and the part it is playing (e.g. The Simpsons, S01E1 (1/4))

Original comment by [email protected] on 8 Jan 2013 at 12:44

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Issue 82 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by [email protected] on 8 Jan 2013 at 12:45