2012-02-22, 20:46
Jason102 Wrote:You essentially want to create a channel that has all videos, and filter them out using rules, right? Your example, though, is to create an 80s channel...I don't have any rule to do that. Outside of a smart playlist, I don't know the best method to do this. Presuming you come up with some situation where having the type of channel be "all videos" is necessary, then I may put it in...but I don't know what that situation would be.
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. Let me try again. I am trying to create an 80's channel with all the TV shows I have that were prominent in the 80's. PTV does not have a rule to do that, so what I'm doing is creating a separate channel for each 80's show and setting a DO NOT PLAY rule for each one. I am then interleaving them all into the 80's channel. Like I said earlier, I need the interleaving to get a balanced schedule. This works great except for the fact that I have to set a channel type for that 80's channel. The shows on that channel were on different networks and are different genres. If I set the channel type to either one, it obviously excludes some shows. I tried leaving the channel type at NONE, but that kept the channel from even being created. The interleaved channels are dictating the content, I don't want another filter on top of that.
I'm not sure what you mean by "all videos". Aren't videos all PTV will play? I am ultimately wanting to do a 90's and 00's channel also where I will face the same dilemma
Quote:The radio button should work most of the time...it just has the system sort the shows by airdate. XBMC is very efficient at this, so it doesn't slow anything down. The rule instead sorts by season and episode, which may be necessary in some cases. The down-side is that it will slow down the population of the channel. They do seem a bit redundant, but I hate to get rid of one or the other.
Good to know. Thanks.