ev-anarch

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Dorky trans lady. Occasional vtuber. Quite gay.

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margot
@margot

i was talking with a friend about missing and trying to recreate the classic tv experience on plex and kodi, and while googling around i found this absolutely incredible project:

this person built their own tv, including building the channels themselves and programming it with accurately timed bumpers, commercials, and seasonal content. this is an insane amount of work but it looks so so worth it to me. this is SO cool. i want it so bad

QuestForTori
@QuestForTori

You can make this yourself! There's a project called DizqueTV that can make custom channels, and it's pretty easy and fun to set up

It's not quite as bespoke as this person's solution, but it's a lot easier to do, and lets you access your channels from any device that you already use Plex on.

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Jama
@Jama

OK, REAL quick followup: I made a rudimentary thing in a few hours using ErsatzTV, a thing linked in that video's description. 3 Channels made so far from my plex library that I can load from a tablet, or in VLC on my computer.

No bumpers/filler stuff, just straight "Play episodes one after the other" because I don't have handy filler stuff on hand, but I might be able to use like, Music as the fillers.

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margot
@margot

oh nice!! yeah i definitely want to try out the recommended plugins-- i've basically been doing this manually for years lol, with no bumpers just shows.

its cool if it sets that stuff up manually for you! i will probably become even more of a monster media hoarder with it as a resource

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Jama
@Jama

Basically, you choose what goes in a Collection, create a channel, make a schedule where you either pick a collection of shows/movies/songs/however you build it or individual shows/movies/albums, and then tie them together and it'll automatically generate a schedule for you.

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