Channels 4.0 Beta

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#259

A flattened list isn't possible since it contains shows and movies, plus this feature is more for large libraries anyways.

These do list all of the content. When visiting More, nothing is truncated. When Channels presents your content this way, it's never truncated, it's just sorted specifically.

I'll give an overview of the rows for Kids and how they're sorted, which are designed specifically for how kids watch stuff.

  • Favorites - Movies marked as favorite
  • Recently Watched - Kid movies that have been recently played (doesn't have to be completely watched)
  • Recently Added - Kid movies that have been recently added, so they can find their new stuff fast.
  • Kids Shows - Kid shows ordered by the last time they watched an episode. This forces the stuff they've been watching up to the top to get to them faster.
#260

There's a new visibility filter in the Recordings tab of the latest pre-release of Channels DVR Server. This lets you filter your shows and movies based on where they are visible. This should help you curate your library when setting visibility settings for things to get your Kids Section set up real nice.

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#261

2 thoughts....

For the kids section, should the trash button be visible? If my kid is navigating within this section, I don’t want him to think he can delete a show.

Are we to a point where we can toggle off Up Next all together? I’ve used it a few times but I think my wife and I just prefer going to a Pass to look at historical episodes. I saw something in the settings about turning off Up Next but I’m guessing that wasn’t a toggle for the use case I was hoping for.

All of the above is on TVOS

#262

Just doing some normal playing around all of my kid section went away. After I played with the kid section after installing the beta it prompted me to load the section....which it did. After seeing how it was organized o went on my way to watch a couple recordings then some news. Went back to the kids section and it is now saying “There is currently no kid content in your library”. Tried closing the app and restating. Same thing.

#263

Weird, can you install the newest pre-release server and see if the scoping tools that I mentioned earlier work?

Or just go to a show that was marked as kids only, and see if it's still set as that. You can do this in client or server.

#264

Crap I forgot to install the latest prerelease. I’ll do that today and retest

#265

By default the Kids section looks like it moves everything to the kids section. I would like an option to let them stay in the default library so I don't have to go thru everything moved and add it back.

#266

There is an option under the settings to have it display in both sections.

It doesn't actually move the physical file though.

#267

4 posts were split to a new topic: New customer questions

#268

Do you guys plan to add a feature to add our own TV shows too?

#269

I agree that the Android guide layout is much better, with it stretching across the whole screen. But we do need the time on the screen and/or the indicator mark!

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#270

I agree with the time display also, it would be super helpful to have it show on the guide and maybe the info timeline when watching a show. My current work around is to hold the TV button like you would if you were shutting the Apple TV off. It will display the time in the upper right corner - you can just back out of it and resume Channels.

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#271

New build out:

  • NEW: Added a commmercial break editor for iOS. Verify the commercials for your shows and movies from your mobile device.
  • FIXED: Items in schedule would sometimes incorrectly show as recording
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#272

The iOS commercial editor is very intriguing!! I let you know my feedback shortly. Thanks for your efforts.

#273

Getting two of every channel listed in the guide view (favourites) on both iOS and tvOS with this latest release

#274

That’s very odd. Nothing in this new build touched anything that would cause something like that.

#275

Weird. It happens in all guide views and there are varying numbers of copies of each channel from one to at least four by the looks of it. Disabling one of my two tuners in settings makes no difference. Was fine with last night’s build.

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#276

Thank you all! Noticed a bug/suggestion with the "up Next" autoplay feature.

Say you have a 30 minute episode recording, and the last three minutes of the episode are all commercials (commercials that are detected by the recording). When the up next and commercial skip settings are both enabled, Channels will still play through the last minutes of commercials until the very last seconds of the recording, and then the "up next" box will appear. Can that be tweaked so that the player recognizes that the last 3 minutes of a recording are all commercials, and that the episode can end at the 27 minute mark instead?

#277

This is by design as the commercial indexing isn’t 100% perfect. We don’t want to end the show prematurely.

The good news is, if the commercials are verified, it WILL do what you expect, since the system has confirmation that they’re correct.

And even better news, we just shipped a way to do this on iOS in the latest build :tada:

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#278

I noticed on my 2018 iPad Pro that when I am in the commercial editor, if I scroll all the way to the bottom, the clips are showing black boxes. It looks like the DVR server is slowly, and I do mean slowly, populating the clips in order from beginning to end of the show.

I love the simplistic view and function of the commercial editor