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casbboy
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8 years ago

Sub Category on bottom of home?

I have a number of playlists that show like: Top, Coming Soon, Out Now. And under each is a list of image thumbnails with titles to play a video. They are linked to each category like so:

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So the "topfilms" tag gets it placed in Top. The home is now using a lot of bandwidth loading all the hi res thumbnails, so was seeing if possible to create a sub category under neath the three main, that opens another set of categorized tags as it were.

These are shortformvideos.

Possible to do with Direct Publisher?

Cheers!
Ryan

9 Replies

  • Can you accomplish what you want by defining a 'series' object with a bunch of 'episodes'?
  • Are you allowed to have two different, such as shortFormVideos and Series in the same feed? I like the way it lists everything out on my primary content, just want to include a sub content as well.
  • Also, you have link to a demo of series RSS? It has a few more requirements than short form, like episode and series Id, and not sure how to add it all.

    My assumption is that once I run through "shortFormVideos": [],

    I do
    , "series":[]

    And can I just do the episode object at this point or need to do parent series info?

    A working demo would probably alleviate the confusion.
  • Your feed file can contain any combination of supported feed objects (eg. Short form video, movies, series, etc.). The manner in which you compose them is up to you.
  • I'm getting two errors:

    ","quality":"UHD","videoType":"HLS"}]}},

    Series seasons and episodes missing. Only one must be included.

    Required series genres is missing or invalid.

    So not sure what I'm leaving off. Just did series straight to "episodes"
  • At this point, I think it would benefit you to read the JSON spec to get a better understanding. The spec does contain some samples of feed objects. You should also consider not coding your feed manually.
  • I got it working. Just had to add a few variables beforehand (which aren't required in shortformvideos)

    But, not seeing any changes to my channel through Roku. I've done system update and refreshed the feed.