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ADVANCED CHANNEL RULES
Best-Effort Channel Scheduling
Want to watch The Daily Show every night at 7:00? Schedule your channel to play it.
Channel Logo
Does most of the videos on your CBS channel have the logo encoded into the video?
Disable the drawing of the logo on that channel. (It will still show on the EPG)
Don't include a show
Exclude a show from your channel.
Don't play this channel
Since some rules use other channels as modifiers (scheduling and interleaving), you may
not want that channel to actually be visible.
Force Random / Real-Time / Resume
While most people use Real-Time mode (as recommended), you can now have a channel
be different from the rest.
IceLibrary Streams
Enable or Disable IceLibrary streams on a per channel basis.
Interleave another channel
Are you one of those people that likes bumpers? Create a channel that only has the
bumpers and use this rule on your main channel to interleave those bumpers in between
your shows. This rule is also useful for Adverts. (More on Interleaving in the next chapter)
Only play unwatched Items
If the channel contents change a lot, there's no reason to watch the same shows over and
over. Hide things you've watched from this channel with ease.
Only play watched Items
Don't want to spoil a movie by accidentally seeing part of the middle? Hide shows that
haven't been watched yet.
Pause when Not watching
Don't want to miss an episode of The Big Bang Theory? Make sure that if you're not
watching it, it stays paused. This rule goes great with the "Play shows in order" and "Force
resume" rules.
Play shows in Order
Now you can make sure that when you're watching Top Chef, the next episode that comes
on will actually be the next episode in the series.
Set Channel Name
Useful for setting the name to a channel that was created from a Directory.
Reset every x Days
Causes the channel to automatically be rebuilt every x amount days