Issues of shows stopping at midnight, going into the next day

[mutto233]

I have mentioned this issue on the Discord, but I wanted to raise it as an issue here as well for the future.

There was a problem around midnight where certain shows would not correctly run once midnight was reached. For instance, if a show started at 11:50PM and should run until 1:30AM, after midnight the show would seemingly stop.

The cause for this ended up being the definition of closest media and "now". Here is basically how the script works:

• Checks for the absolute closest media compared to "now" (whatever time it currently is)
• If that media is behind "now", we must have found the current thing playing; play that.
• If it is in front of "now", the previous element must be the current thing playing; play that.
• Determine media offset by doing ("now") - (start time of previous object)

This usually works well, but in certain cases has issues. If the previous element is determined to start at 11:50PM, and "now" is 1:00AM, the difference of "now" and the start time of the previous object is instead basically a whole day since that is the absolute distance between those two times.

To fix this, I have a modified script for PseudoChannel.py that has been holding up quite well. This version senses if a day has passed, and correctly identifies the time that has elapsed for the element that crosses over the day skip. Can others let me know how this is working?

I have also put this script into my fork of the project. File is here: PseudoChannel.zip