2012-03-01, 03:34
I'm still playing with the method for interleaving hidden channels with a visible channel and each channel being based on a single show. I've got it working, but there's something I've noticed - In order for all the episodes of each channel to play, it seems that the base channel (the visible one) needs to be built on the show with the most episodes. For example, if you have show A with 50 episodes and build the base channel on that show and then interleave a channel based on show B that contains 100 episodes and you have the min and max interleave set to 1, it will only interleave enough of show B (50 of the 100 episodes in this case) as needed to mesh with the base channel's number of episodes.
It would be better IMO if PTV would repeat the base channel episodes as needed until the interleaving has included every episode from every channel at least once. Setting the largest show as the base channel isn't the best solution as the show with the most episodes could change over time.
I've managed to get a balanced programming schedule with interleaving channels and increasing the min/max interleave by 1 for each interleave rule. My problem is that I now get too perfect of a schedule. Shows A, B, C and D always play in the order ABCDABCDABCD. I'd like to have just a little more randomness. I tried playing with the min/max interleave setting and it works, but with then some shows have episodes that never air. I presume this is because of the limitation I mention above.
Maybe I'm just doing something wrong. Have any of you managed to get a bit of random interleaving while still getting all the episodes of each show to air?
It would be better IMO if PTV would repeat the base channel episodes as needed until the interleaving has included every episode from every channel at least once. Setting the largest show as the base channel isn't the best solution as the show with the most episodes could change over time.
I've managed to get a balanced programming schedule with interleaving channels and increasing the min/max interleave by 1 for each interleave rule. My problem is that I now get too perfect of a schedule. Shows A, B, C and D always play in the order ABCDABCDABCD. I'd like to have just a little more randomness. I tried playing with the min/max interleave setting and it works, but with then some shows have episodes that never air. I presume this is because of the limitation I mention above.
Maybe I'm just doing something wrong. Have any of you managed to get a bit of random interleaving while still getting all the episodes of each show to air?