2012-02-21, 19:12
Jason102 Wrote:The min and max parameters when interleaving do exactly what you're looking for...
I don't think it does. Currently the min/max tell it how often to insert a video, not how many to insert. So if I set it to 1/1 it will insert a video every other video. If I insert 1/2 it will insert a video every 1-2 videos in the main channel.
In order to do my Movie channels I have 3 channels set up: Coming soon intros, Trailers, and Feature Presentation Intros. In order to get this to work, I had to interweave each channel into the main one so it was like this:
Coming soon - 1/1 (it inserts a coming soon every other movie)
Trailers - 2/2 (it inserts a trailer every 2 videos after the coming soon giving me movie -> Coming soon -> Trailer)
Feature Into - 3/3 (I inserts a featured presentation intro every 3rd video giving me movie -> coming soon -> trailer -> feature presentation intro -> movie -> etc.)
I don't think interweaving will do what I want since I want there to be between 1-3 trailers between movies and the interleaving doesn't allow me that much control. (because I can't predict how many videos before I put the featured presentation intro) I may have to fork the project and add some settings for movie channels (I only say to fork it because I'm not sure you'd want this change in PsTV).
For movie channels I will add settings similar to how Cinema Experience works:
Set folder for Coming soon videos and Min/max number to play (most likely will always be 1)
Set folder trailers and min/max to play
Set Folder for feature movie intro videos and min/max number to play (most likely always 1)
This will allow me to set my Movie channels to do what I state above. Like I said though, I don't think you'll want these changes in PsTV, which is understandable. They aren't very likely to be popular additions.
I have some other features in mind like Commercials and Bumpers (like TvTime had). I think interleaving works fine for those, but having it automated like it was in TvTime was nice. I like the interweaving for creating complex channels, but for what i"m looking for it just isn't flexible enough and I don't think it should be. I have specific needs that interleaving doesn't need to support.