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HackerNews seems like the place to ask this: There is something magical about switching to a channel mid-stream. The old joke about how you'll watch a movie fr
by rkuykendall-com 3y ago
HackerNews seems like the place to ask this:
There is something magical about switching to a channel mid-stream. The old joke about how you'll watch a movie from the half-way mark with commercials on TV even though the DVD is on the shelf. I think this is why pluto.tv is so popular.
I have a ton of video files but can't find any way to recreate this for myself. Why isn't there a project like Plex but for channels?
- xp84 3y agoI’ve definitely read several write ups of delightful nerds who have set up in-house 24/7 channels sourcing from their libraries of content. A “Friends” channel, 90s toons channel, etc. I wish I could find you some links.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoI've got one of these projects. It's written in Python and buggy as hell (so I have kept the repo private until I have something others will enjoy). The "schedule" is JSON, so it was easy enough to write a web page that parses today's schedule and presents it TV-Guide style: https://engineersneedart.com/UHF/ https://engineersneedart.com/UHF/ (Gaps in airtime are filled with shorts of various kinds.)
- pwpw 3y agoCheck out ErsatzTV and dizqueTV. I’m working on a Saturday morning cartoon channel that uses Adult Swim fillers.
- monocularvision 3y agoChannels has this feature (“Virtual Channels”): https://getchannels.com/library/ https://getchannels.com/library/
- rubymancer 3y agoI highly recommend ExpTV for this: https://exptv.org https://exptv.org It spans the vhs era, curated by hand to flip through different oddities and ephemera. No tracking, no algorithms, just a stream of fun wierdness. It even has a TV guide type thing so you can pick when to tune in.