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A few more ideas for xml options for scheduling and random movie selection
xclude - basically the same options as xtra but instead of including those options, it excludes them, so xtra="genre:comedy" xclude="genre:christmas" would play a random comedy movie, but never a Chirstmas movie
greater than/less than support for numerical entries in xtra (or xclude) - Some example uses would be selecting a movie to fit within a certain length, say 2 or 3 hours) with duration, selecting a movie above or below a specified viewCount, or selecting a movie above or below a specified rating or audienceRating.
A few scheduling options that would be good to have as well: nolaterthan=true/false - instead of strict-time this indicates that the scheduled item can start earlier, on interval, but not later than the scheduled time. this would primarily kick in after a variable length media type, such as a movie, allowing the next item to start soon after the movie ends, but not later than scheduled
noearlierthan=true/false - also instead of strict-time this would indicate that the scheduled item can start later on interval, but not earlier than scheduled. this would primarily kick in during cases of double-length tv show episodes pushing back the start time, but preventing it from starting any earlier than scheduled, no matter what time the previous item ends overlap-max - okay, i know this one is in the xml but not hooked up, and probably on your radar, but i wanted to include it here as well. basically with this feature, if a show, set with either strict-time=false or the above noearlierthan=true would not be scheduled if it's start time, following the previous media and interval, exceeds the specified value. So if I have a movie that runs 25 minutes past the start of the next scheduled item, and the overlap-max value is set to 25 or lower, the script would instead not schedule that item.
Currently, if a movie runs long, and pushes back the next show, it may overlap with the next strict-time=true item, causing some issues (in one case, due to a long movie the non-strict scheduled item was scheduled 15 minutes after the next item, cutting it off and leaving a content gap at the end (because the item that moved around was shorter than what it cut off).
That's everything I've thought about recently in terms of scheduling.
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A few more ideas for xml options for scheduling and random movie selection
xclude
- basically the same options asxtra
but instead of including those options, it excludes them, soxtra="genre:comedy" xclude="genre:christmas"
would play a random comedy movie, but never a Chirstmas moviegreater than/less than support for numerical entries in xtra (or xclude) - Some example uses would be selecting a movie to fit within a certain length, say 2 or 3 hours) with
duration
, selecting a movie above or below a specifiedviewCount
, or selecting a movie above or below a specifiedrating
oraudienceRating
.A few scheduling options that would be good to have as well:
nolaterthan=true/false
- instead ofstrict-time
this indicates that the scheduled item can start earlier, on interval, but not later than the scheduled time. this would primarily kick in after a variable length media type, such as a movie, allowing the next item to start soon after the movie ends, but not later than schedulednoearlierthan=true/false
- also instead ofstrict-time
this would indicate that the scheduled item can start later on interval, but not earlier than scheduled. this would primarily kick in during cases of double-length tv show episodes pushing back the start time, but preventing it from starting any earlier than scheduled, no matter what time the previous item endsoverlap-max
- okay, i know this one is in the xml but not hooked up, and probably on your radar, but i wanted to include it here as well. basically with this feature, if a show, set with eitherstrict-time=false
or the abovenoearlierthan=true
would not be scheduled if it's start time, following the previous media and interval, exceeds the specified value. So if I have a movie that runs 25 minutes past the start of the next scheduled item, and theoverlap-max
value is set to 25 or lower, the script would instead not schedule that item.Currently, if a movie runs long, and pushes back the next show, it may overlap with the next
strict-time=true
item, causing some issues (in one case, due to a long movie the non-strict scheduled item was scheduled 15 minutes after the next item, cutting it off and leaving a content gap at the end (because the item that moved around was shorter than what it cut off).That's everything I've thought about recently in terms of scheduling.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: