2013-06-25, 17:48
(2013-06-25, 16:13)geebs61 Wrote:(2013-06-25, 14:51)Lunatixz Wrote:(2013-06-25, 12:24)geebs61 Wrote: Now onto something more useful. I was wondering if anyone would mind brainstorming with me on a certain programming setup I am trying to pull off. I'm trying to set up sequential programming blocks, similar to stuff like Toonami, Adult Swim, or Saturday Morning Cartoons. For example, I would like to set up a Toonami block to air on my Cartoon Network channel from 4:00 - 7:00 pm. Currently I pull this off simply enough by creating a Toonami channel then "best-efforting" that in at around 4:00 for about 18 episodes (9 episodes @ 22min each + one bumper between each episode = ~3.3hours). Which works well enough, but I would like to schedule some more specific programming.
The setup I would like would be more similar to the actual television programming. Air shows by episode sequentially, with the same shows each day, and (hopefully) bumpers specific to the content of the shows currently being aired.So, it would look something like this:
Code:Block intro
ShowA-Intro
ShowA-01x01
ShowA-Season1Bumper
ShowA-01x02
ShowB-Intro
ShowB-01x01
ShowB-Season1Bumper
ShowB-01x02
ShowC-Intro
ShowC-01x01
ShowC-Season1Bumper
ShowC-01x02
ShowD-Intro
ShowD-01x01
ShowD-Season1Bumper
ShowD-01x02
Block outro
And then the next day it begins at episode 3 of each series, and so on. I am just not sure exactly how to do this. Short of manually creating a playlist by hand. Is this something that can be achieved by smart playlists, interleaving, or a combination of the two? So far I have had little luck in a format like this using them I thought it might be something I could do mostly with smart playlists, but as far as I can tell the ordering options are lacking.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1034530
Thanks. I thought that might be the basics of what I was going to have to do, but my goal is still more complicated than that. I'm not just trying to order a few shows, and then add bumpers. It will be shows, bumpers specific for each show and season, general bumpers, intros and outros. So I can't just interleave a channel of bumpers into a channel of shows, because I want X folder of bumpers interleaved into X season of X show, and do the same setup for Y bumpers and Y season of Y show etc, then interleave each of those into another channel that I can then"best-effort" into the timeframe I want it to. My problem is that this setup only really works for shows if I work with them one season at a time. And I want to do entire series at a time. I just don't think there is a way to specify Y bumpers to go with Y season, and X bumpers to go with X Season. Which would mean that (unless I make a m3u manually) I have to make a channel for each season of each show, which doesn't work because there is no way to trigger a different channel to fill ones place in an interleave once it has run through the playlist.
If you remove my desire to specify what bumpers go when, the only problem I really have is still ordering the main channel once the hidden subchannels are built. I still want to choose which bumps go where. The best way I can think to do this, would be if I had the ability to choose how many videos are interleaved each time. Similar to how best effort scheduling works. If I could say, on channel 2, every 3 episodes interleave 3 episodes of channel 1. I could almost build exactly what I am trying to do fairly easily.
How difficult would adding that sort of functionality to the pseudoTV rules be? Add Episode Count in there with Min, max, and Episode Start.
PTV already does a lot but requires manual settings, what your asking is can it be made less involved on the user end... I'm sure one day when PTV starts to get old and gray it will be polished to the point of toggling a few settings...
for now, I don't see why you can't get what you want with some work on your end...
Tips to remember,
It's easier to manipulate media when it's scraped into XBMC's library...
so you might want to create nfo's for your bumpers, ads, etc and name them in a sequential order that would be reminiscent to tv shows ie. s00e00
from there a mix of custom playlists, interleaved channels would give you what you want...