openbroadcaster / pex

OpenBroadcaster Program Manager Module

PEX

OpenBroadcaster Program Manager Module

PEX manages, schedules and distributes media as a collection (e.g. weekly program, serial episodes, festival)

PEX features include:

• Programs Sidebar - collections of media with common elements (e.g. album,series,discography,gallery)
• Extended metadata for media, including production info, credits, tracklist, Canadian Content (i.e. MAPL), Content Advisory, Access Services, and licensing information (e.g. Creative Commons).

Additional features planned or in development:

• schedule Programs (random/most recent/next in series)
• assemble Playlist as Program episode (mp3 format)
• watchlist for monitoring Program updates (favourites)

pex's Issues

Core mods

For the podcast assembler function, changes are required in Server to obtain the media_id for the newly created media object so that the extended media record can be created.
At line 184 of controllers/media.php:

      foreach($media as $item) 
    {
    $id = $this->MediaModel('save',$item);
        return array(true, 'Media Saved!', $id);
    }

No message indicating successful Porgram edit

There is no message following success of program edit.

Adding Program as Series

When dragging a Program from the Sidebar to the Schedule window, there is an option to schedule either the most recent episode, or episodes as a series. When scheduling series, all episodes are listed, and one or more episodes may be set up as a recurring schedule.
Not fully functional,
Requires further modification to schedule and programs objects .

Tags

Only first tag is saved

Media Validation Errors

Static category_id and genre_id values won't validate.

No visible progress while assembler builds file

Need a progress bar or spinner while the python script assembles the file.

MP3 file format

The assembled file is a ogg format. Would mp3 would be smaller filesize?

No longer works with the newest version of OBServer

I just tried installing this through git clone. When refreshing the OBServer admin page, at first it was simply a page of what looked like garbled text. I had to rename the directory to programs/ from pex/ and then changed the first line in modules.php to <?php. I was then able to install the module, but it simply seems to be too dated to work with the modern version of OBServer.

I wanted to have various series of shows that automatically played through weekly or daily and in order. Unless I've missed something, this seems to have been the only way to do it through OpenBroadcaster. I saw some earlier discussion about changing the way OBServer loads modules. I hope this leads into updating the existing modules so that they work with the latest OBServer.

Podcast assembles repeats same selection

The assembler looks fine , with n tracks listed, but when it actually builds the podcast, it repeats one selection n times.

Show order

episodes can be moved up or down in order, but changes are not persistent.