"mitchstein" wrote:
Also the direct player has some limitations, 15 categories and 40 videos per category. I ran into that undocumented roadblock immediately and have to create several different channels to get all my content on roku..
That's not exactly accurate.
Direct Publisher has a limit of 25 rows, with 40 content items per row. This comes out to 1,000 unique content items per channel.It is important to make the distinction between videos and content items, as a series or a season would both only count as one content item. This means that any one channel can include the complete catalogue of episodes for up to 1,000 different unique series, all within the same channel. For all intents and purposes, the number of videos could be nearly infinite, as there are no limits to the number of episodes that can be nested within one series.Direct Publisher channels change their channel behavior based on the contentType. For a short-form video, the video will simply play upon being selected. However, when selecting a series, the user will be brought to a springboard display that provides links to each season of the series, or allows them to continue watching from the most recent episode that they left off at.