Pad times Ensures programs have a nice-looking start time, it will add Flex time to fill the gaps.

What to pad? When using the pad times option, you might prefer to only ensure the start times of the slot and not the individual episodes.

What to do with flex? Usually slots need to add flex time to ensure that the next slot starts at the correct time. When there are multiple videos in the slot, you might prefer to distribute the flex time between the videos or to place most of the flex time at the end of the slot.

Random Distribution Uniform means that all slots have an equal chancel to be picked. Weighted makes the configuration of the slots more complicated but allows to tweak the weight for each slot so you can make some slots more likely to be picked than others.

Maximum days to precalculate Maximum number of days to precalculate the schedule. Note that the length of the schedule is also bounded by the maximum number of programs allowed in a channel.