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I know channel bumpers and commercials aren't available yet but is there a way to backbone these into the schedule itself? I think it could really improve the experience
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I can't seem to add anything other than local media. When I try to add anything from a plugin I get an "In-Valid Path" error, but for some Youtube channels and playlists I get a "Mapping for path [URL] not found" error.
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Had you had any luck trying to add local file folder to playlists? I do it by tv shows though. It goes by random so it could play commercials randomly in the playlist just not one after another and commercials could be split up to be short.
I have to mess around a bit more but I tried to put one playlist into another and it played the other playlist show right after every show on the main so I could try changing that to commercials maybe. I did it with that show cause it was a type that I wanted to schedule the episodes in order since randomly isn't as good.
That is another feature I'd love added eventually. Specific shows to play in order and when played to play 2 episodes at a time on the playlist.
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Local folders work fine, it's plugins I'm having trouble with. Youtube, Twitch etc.
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After a clean install, I've determined that PTVL only indexes playlists on Youtube channels and not the channels themselves unless I select Upload. Unclear if this is program error or user error.
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2023-10-22, 19:50
(This post was last modified: 2023-10-22, 19:55 by Lunatixz. Edited 3 times in total.)
V.0.9.x was my older PseudoTV Live project which was a fork of the original PseudoTV.
The current PseudoTV live is completely new project that only resembles the older in that it creates linear channels via your configuration. Methods are completely different and uses Kodis PVR.
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2023-10-24, 20:40
(This post was last modified: 2023-10-24, 22:56 by Xoxez. Edited 3 times in total.)
Do you know if there's a limit to how small videos can be? I added bumpers path in the channel manager so they can play randomly and they're about 4-7 seconds long but I don't see them in the guide or xmltv. Idk if it hides them or if I didn't play enough content to see them yet.
Also for some reason the guide list never gets more than maybe 6-12 hours long then when it reaches past that it stays greyed out. One of the channel's I made in the manager where I added a playlist path and a video file path for commercials and bumpers, it then started randomly playing any content in my library at times.
It also says there's 3 channels made when only 2 are made in the channel manager then only displays 2 channels. It appears the shows from the library not in the playlist I directed it to plays in order like Auto Tune channels do. I can send debug logs
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2023-10-25, 03:23
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Well actually It's now saying no content found, no duration found then doesn't build the channels.
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2023-10-26, 00:40
(This post was last modified: 2023-10-26, 00:40 by OzDrDj. Edited 1 time in total.)
Hi Xoxez,
I can give you some info, for the fillers bumpers and commercials, I think they are still a work in progress and do not work at this stage, but you would have to hear from lunatixz to know for sure. I too am looking forward to playing about with this.
For the Guide list only going to 6-12 hours, Try increasing the Pagination Size (Configuration-Globals-Parsing) I have mine set to 125 which loads the EPG alot further, however this also increases the load time of the epg.
If the Channel Manager can't find any content and the Channel is empty, It will leave that channel out. thus only 2 of 3. Sometimes it can be a simple mistake in your playlist that can muck everything up and you end up with nothing. I had a playlist once that was set to load all tv shows with a genre match of Australia. The playlist looked fine, but it just would not load anything no matter what I did, I eventually, deleted the playlist and then made it again and it worked fine, don't know what I did, but sometimes things glitch.
I would hope in the future there may be a switch or option or something in the playlist creator to add commercials bumpers and trailers somehow. I believe from what I have read that the old method was to create a playlist, of just trailers/commercials/bumpers, tell PTVL to ignore this channel when creating the EPG and then interleave that channel with another somehow. I guess this has to do with making playlists and this is a Kodi thing, not PTVL so i don't know how this will work. I guess time will tell.
Hope something there helps.
OzDrDj
