Lunatixz Wrote:It doesn't erase your channels, it just creates a new settings2.xml in the directory you setup channel sharing to; take a look in appdata folder you will find your old settings2.xml... if you want to enable channel sharing with your old channels, just copy the settings2.xml to the shared folder.

Lunatixz Wrote:Is your media on a network share? sounds like you should address problems with your setup... Eden beta2 works fine with PTV, except for random crashes when changing channels.

also you are using a BETA, Clean installs of XBMC are always recommended!

RockDawg Wrote:I have some channels setup based on PTV's channel config and some based on smart playlists. All are set to random. One thing I see a lot is the same TV show (but different episodes) played many times in a row. For example, I have one channel that is crime TV shows that includes 8 different shows and is set on random. Many times when I go into the EPG, I'll see 7-8 episodes of Law & Order in a row before another TV show is scheduled. Does anyone have a solution to get more variety? It would be great if you could tell it to never play more than say 2 episodes of the same show in a row.

farr3ll Wrote:Im struggling to work out how to properly construct smart playlists to include commercials and bumpers (interleaving).. is there a guide to this anywhere or can someone post up a link to their playlists constructed this way. Thanks...

Quote:Create a folder named "Bumpers". Inside that, create a another folder, and name it CBS or whatever.
Add you CBS bumpers in here. Do the same for all your other bumpers.

so you will end up with:

Bumpers
|-BBC
|-CBS
|-FOX
|-FX


On Channel 101, create a channel that uses "Bumpers\CBS".
On Channel 102 = "Bumpers\BBC"
etc, etc

Hide all these channels using the advanced rules.


On your REAL CBS channel, give it a rule to "interleave" with channel 101.

Set the min & max frequency of your bumpers and voila.

(With a min value of 2, and a max of 5, it will put one bumper ever 3,4 or 5 shows)

I usually do this:
First, I interleave an advert, after every video (min = 1, max = 1, start = 1)
Then, I may interleave a second advert, after every 2 videos (min = 2, max = 2, start = 2)
Then, I interleave my Bumpers, after every 3 videos (min = 3, max = 3, start = 3)

The Interleaving rules work from top to bottom, adding and interleaving

FDorsey Wrote:You should interleave the shows together... Just make a few channels of "crime" and set them up to interleave together so it plays one from Channel 200 then one from Channel 199, so on and so forth.. That seems to be the easiest way of doing what you want.

TheFonz Wrote:Yes my media is networked
Not sure why that should matter with PseduoTV since every media title runs fine. Maybe I need to run a clean database.
I can try a clean install Beta II cleanly and see how we go. Thanks for the reply!

Lunatixz Wrote:Matters because if your media times out (buffers) for a long time...
ptv will crash!

TheFonz Wrote:Is there a way to increase the buffer time? Why does this happen then? Surely most people have some of their content on a shared network drive?