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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RoChess" data-source="post: 881432" data-attributes="member: 18896">Just keep in mind when you are testing a fresh install that you need to go over all the settings to make sure they do not conflict. By default if memory serves me MP-TVSeries will only show unwatched episodes. So if you import 1 episode, and you watch it... the result is that there is a conflict, because there is nothing to show. There are no unwatched episodes, so you get nothing in return, or in programming terms NULL. This could then cause MP-TVSeries sort of freaking out and indeed showing no text, infact nothing at all (but still functional in bringing up hidden menu to adjust options/filters/etc). If however you import 2 episodes and only mess with the watched status on 1 episode (watch them both and you are back to the empty screen problem), then you are testing it more accuratly with default settings. Another solution would be to simply enable the option to show all episodes. This used to all be easy, but there are a gazillion options now, some causing different behavious depending on another setting that it can end up a rather complex matter. For as many options as MP-TVSeries has, I must admit that it is still very easy to understand each of them if you take the time to look at all the MP-TVSeries configuration tooltips when you hover over each option. And I'm not trying to underplay your troubles, but making 'watched' status work on an external player is just impossible, because no feedback is made easy. It is not like MP-TVSeries goes 'Play' and gets back an answer from that external player that it only played 24% or 100%. When you tell MP-TVSeries to play an episode it then asks MediaPortal to play the file, who then opens up the external player to play the file. There is no reply back on how many % it played. The only semi-accurate way would be to keep track of the time the external player was launched and when it was stopped and compare that to the MediaInfo runtime of the episode. As it stands there is just no reliable way to stop/resume playback on an external player, because all it knows is launch/close. You must have reasons for sticking with an external player, but unless you have specific reasons that you can eleborate on; it can also be that you never gave the internal player a proper chance, which brings me to:  Have you tried it with just LAV yet? If MediaPotal is unable to play something it *IS* because you do not have a DirectShow compatible codec installed (DirectX is what is used for all the GfX stuff) *OR* have a conflicting setup (codec pack hell, etc). LAV has made this easy and comes as an MPE1 package now so one-click install and easy to update from within MediaPortal as well. Infact it is so easy for most people that it is now the default codec support way in MediaPortal v1.3.x. The only slight problem however is that it still requires a user to read the manual and do those silly extra configuration step to match their hardware and preferences. So all the hardware accelleration will *NOT* work, until you activate it. I've actually submitted an enhancement request to the LAV developers that got accepted to enable hardware decoding out-of-the box, and it was 'accepted', so one of the next versions will make it even easier. Also verify that LAV got properly activated inside MediaPortal codec settings as well. It is supposed to go smooth, but it might be respecting an existing change you made. Of course you can always do a fresh install of MediaPortal v1.3.0 Alpha, do a fresh install of MP-TVSeries and import 3 episodes, then test the watched status on 2 of them. PS: The new option to only show unwatched episodes is done via a filter, you can bring this up via the context menu (F9) and then selecting "Filters". If you see "UnWatched Episodes" then you are in the right filter view, as it means you are seeing *ALL* episodes. If you see "All Episodes" then you better select that, or you would only be able to see the UnWatched ones, causing you to experience the exact problem you are reporting when you import *only* one episode and then watch it.</blockquote>

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