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Jellyfin - The free media system (jellyfin.org)

submitted 10 months ago by possiblylinux127 to c/freesoftware

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Is it possible to make something like a tv channel that randomly selects a video from one of a few folders?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you use Kodi as your Jellyfish front end, yes you can do this with the PseudoLiveTV add-on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion ill check it out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

kodi's pseudotv does this well and you can use jellyfin as a backend

but I'm also curious if there's a more direct way to do this with jellyfin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yea I was hoping Jellyfin could handle it but maybe these are separate concerns. Thanks for the reply

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've found the best solution for that is spinning up an ErsatzTV docker instance and add the Live TV channel to Jellyfin. You can customize what gets played to the Live TV channel and I had used it to run a "kids TV" channel at home. The only drawback is I had to shut it down because the transcoding for it was brutal (on a server with no video card). It will convert everything to a standard stream format, and none of my video files would just get served as is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the reply dude, I'll google your suggestions and take a look. Cheers