I commissioned my friend @argentdraws to make some art of my fursona to use as an error/filler screen for my server-operated pirate TV station, and he finished it up last night! He made the art of me, and I made the rest of the screen - I love how it turned out, and it'll be fun to add a personal touch to my channels~ ^_^
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in reply to @QuestForTori's post:
i would like to know more about your server operated pirate tv station, as someone who also has one of those
Absolutely! I use DizqueTV hooked up to my Plex library for the base channel creation, management, and serving. Then as a middleman device, I use a Raspberry Pi that can connect to the m3u IPTV stream and output the signal over composite video to my agile modulator, which outputs an amplified analog video signal over an antenna, allowing analog TVs to watch the TV channels!
i've never used DizqueTV, is it good? Can it keep track of what you've watched and generate its own schedule?
Right now I have ErsatzTV, which is alpha quality and frankly dogshit with the worst UI on earth. i only run three days a week, and it's scheduling is extremely fragile, so I end up building them manually on the day
at the moment I use an old linux based (enigma 2/openpli) satellite reciever to play the stream to composite video, then it goes into an ASM90 modulator (the only actually good consumer one i've ever found), through an RF amp and then to a folded dipole I made recently. i experemented with more elaborate arrays but they're not worth the effort
my long term project is the construction of a modulator in the 4W range. its going very slowly because of tight finances
at the moment my server is also my only machine with a slot for a modern graphics card, so it goes down every time i want to go on vr chat. when i have another computer, i'll launch a website where it can be watched 24/7
That's a good recommendation for the receiver & modulator - I'll have to look into that!
And DizqueTV's development has been pretty slow and I've had stream stability issues with it before, but once you get it working, it's pretty solid and gives you a lot of flexibility about how you want your schedule to look. It lets you make discrete programming blocks, tune the frequency of how often filler/ad videos from particular playlists appear, and lets you log watch history back to Plex!
The one thing about using a linux sat reciever is that a lot of the ones that are old enough to have composite out are slow and unreliable. this one is only stable because the stream is from my network. I put toonami aftermath on it and it didn't have enough ram to keep it buffered. it sucked lol
you could also use an old mac mini or a laptop by feeding an HDMI to Composite converter box. make it monitor 2 at a TV resolution (like 720x576 50hz is me), throw the stream in fullscreen vlc, job done
I had a Pi4 doing it but I hated that thing and I realized they're actually worth money so I sold it
to be honest you're probably ahead of me by using an agile modulator. mine is good for a consumer one because they actually bothered to shield it properly, but it isn't vestigial sideband. so you always have to make sure the channel below and above are empty or you'll jam them
this model is also a 3 in 1 modulator, so I have two other channels on it dedicated to a music channel from my real actual sat dish, and the last one is NPO1
what i really want is a proper IF modulator and an upconverter, the honest to god actual broadcast grade gear. but its extremely hard to find that stuff
