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justinemter
Additional xml options for scheduling
Just wanted to get these requests added so they're not forgotten. These are pretty low priority, I imagine.
The first option I had in mind is a variation on strict-time. I'd like to be able to specify that an item not play any earlier than scheduled but can still start later. So if a show is scheduled for 3pm, with a time-shift of 15 and the movie before ends at 3:10, the show is scheduled for 3:15, but if the movie ends at 2:30, the show would still start at 3. This is basically the opposite of how I imagine overlap-max will work once implemented, which I believe will allow it to start earlier than scheduled but not later than x.
Another xml option I'd like is one that prevents a show from being advanced in the database after being scheduled in that time slot. I would use this in instances where I'd like the same episode of a show to repeat twice in a day, or to show the previous week's episode before the "new" episode back to back (week 1, episode 1 and 2; week 2, episode 2 and 3; week 3, episode 3 and 4 and so on).
I really like these ideas... The first one using a time-shift limit makes whole lot of sense to me. The latter update - having an option to dismiss the queue advancing for a particular time-slot also makes a lot of sense - in fact I think real channels operate like this too.
Hey there so, I just added a feature to have xtra args specifically for random movies. I posted this thoroughly here: https://github.com/justinemter/pseudo-channel/issues/41
You need to delete / recreate your local db. Since you are using your db for tv (as am I) be sure to just back it up so if the "-e" / "-i" do not do what you wanted then you can manually copy over the old "shows" table which contains the queue.
Sorry I've been out of the loop but have been a little busy. I'd like to get this darn alpha up relatively bug free soon (maybe this weekend?) I'll hit you up.
Cool, I'll check out the new functionality once the database finishes updating.