2012-02-03, 18:57
dugan26 Wrote:this sounds perfect - can you explain how to make a playlist with "online content" ?
Clear something up too - (silly question i know)
local content = offline content
content on the internet = online content?
Im wondering how to get the playlist for content which is streaming over the internet ...
you're exactly right with the "offline" and "online" content - "offline" is stuff on my server, "online" is stuff that's streaming.
I kindof "faked" it - basically i have all of my tv shows in one network location, (\\media\television\) and my mylibrary dropbox in another location (\\misc\streaming\drop\tv shows). So i made two separate playlists that triggered based on path:
"Television - Streaming" is a smart playlist that contains everything that has a path that contains "streaming"
"Television - Local" is a smart playlist that contains everything that has a path that contains "media"
That way i can use those playlists to differentiate in other plugins and on the front page (i have links on the main menu for "offline tv" and "streaming tv" linked to those playlists. You could also add criteria for individual channels, by doing something like "path contains media AND studio contains 'ABC'" or something like that, if you want to drill down even further.
By the by, my way is a bit of a kludgy way to do it - if anyone else on the thread knows of a more elegant way to do it, i'm all ears!