2013-07-06, 06:48
Hello everyone. I have a particular channel setup i'd like to create, and i've scratched my brain trying to see if it's possible with the tools I have, including geebs' excellent modified rules.py, but I'm not sure I can do it.
Basically I have show-specific bumps, which i want to sometimes air in front of their series counterparts. So for shows A B C D E, and corresponding bumps BA BB BC BD BE, it might look like
B
C
E
BD
D
C
C
BA
A
D
BD
D
BE
E
It can't play bumps every time, because I don't have that many, they'd run too often. That seems to be the rub, as i currently interleave a bump per episode on a single series hidden channel, then interleave 2 episodes of that (a bump and an actual episode) into the real channel, for each series. Having the bumps interleave less frequently in the hidden channels means sometimes bumps appear after episodes and sometimes they appear by themselves. Thanks for any help or insight anyone can provide into this problem.
As an aside, I got some of my bumps from www.bumpworthy.com, mentioned by another user earlier in the thread as unrecognizable by PseudoTV. This is true - pseudotv's mp4 parser returns a duration of 0 for these files. I had other mp4s that played fine, so i compared them and found that the bumps had headers at the end of the file vs. the beginning. This is my best guess as to the problem, I can't debug any further as I don't speak python. Instead of transcoding them to avi like the other user I remuxed them to mkv as a workaround, in case others also have this problem.
Basically I have show-specific bumps, which i want to sometimes air in front of their series counterparts. So for shows A B C D E, and corresponding bumps BA BB BC BD BE, it might look like
B
C
E
BD
D
C
C
BA
A
D
BD
D
BE
E
It can't play bumps every time, because I don't have that many, they'd run too often. That seems to be the rub, as i currently interleave a bump per episode on a single series hidden channel, then interleave 2 episodes of that (a bump and an actual episode) into the real channel, for each series. Having the bumps interleave less frequently in the hidden channels means sometimes bumps appear after episodes and sometimes they appear by themselves. Thanks for any help or insight anyone can provide into this problem.
As an aside, I got some of my bumps from www.bumpworthy.com, mentioned by another user earlier in the thread as unrecognizable by PseudoTV. This is true - pseudotv's mp4 parser returns a duration of 0 for these files. I had other mp4s that played fine, so i compared them and found that the bumps had headers at the end of the file vs. the beginning. This is my best guess as to the problem, I can't debug any further as I don't speak python. Instead of transcoding them to avi like the other user I remuxed them to mkv as a workaround, in case others also have this problem.