[angrycamel]

I just finished a modification that allows for a filter to be created based on the duration or runtime of an episode. This can be very helpful when finding a common pattern for full episodes across different networks and shows is difficult.

Here is the text config I am using. I am running it now to build out all shows from the history channel then it will populate PseudoTV. Still waiting for it to finish running, so I can't say yet on how well it works for that end to end scenario, but I figured it will be better than manually setting up filters for each show.

Code:

    <SearchFilters>
        
        <FreeCable path="plugin://plugin.video.free.cable" recursive="true" prefix="(F) " movie_set=" FreeCable" >
    
            <!-- All History Channel Shows with Episodes over 20 minutes long -->
            <subfolder name="History Channel" type="episodes" >
                <filter>
                    <runtime>GT|1200</runtime>                
                </filter>
            </subfolder>                        
                        
            <exclude>                
                <contains>previous page</contains>                    
                <contains>next page</contains>            
                <contains>/Recommended</contains>                    
                <contains>/Clips</contains>                        
            </exclude>    
                
        </FreeCable>

    </SearchFilters>

It would be nice to have a default config with this tool that would build out a library from scratch (even if there is no content from a local source) with a filter based on the root of FreeCable, runtime of >20 minutes or so, then a few other filters to get rid of the making of and stuff like that. Then the built out PseudoTV channels from the resulting library would be pretty good, with lots of diverse content, for only investing in running two automated scripts.

I added to the default XML to document it's intended usage:

Code:

<runtime> - Matches if the runtime of the file fits the criteria specified in seconds along with the relational operator value. The format is "<relational_operator>|<runtime_seconds>". Posible relational operators are: EQ:Equal to, GT:Greater than, LT:Less than, NE:Not equal to, GE:Greater than or equal to, LE:Less than or equal to. Matches only on files and not directories.

Here is an example filter that with recursive set to true will pick out every show and episode for it that has a duration longer than 20 minutes. It will ignore anything else.


The patch is below:
http://pastebin.com/M8UBVV1v