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Tunarr: Create and configure live TV channels from media on your servers

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200 points Larrikin | 3 comments | 12 Apr 25 15:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.651s | source
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obviyus ◴[12 Apr 25 15:47 UTC] No.43665405[source]▶
I tried this for a while with ErsatzTV and really loved it. I don’t have cable anymore but I remember fond memories of cycling through channels as a child.

I set up a food channel that would cycle through Masterchef and a few travel cooking shows, one for anime and one for Bollywood movies.

It was incredibly enjoyable. I could just put on a channel after work without having to consciously make a decision on what to watch. Just watch whatever’s on the channel and switch over to something else if it didn’t click!

Definitely going to try this out on my NAS.

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thakoppno ◴[12 Apr 25 16:50 UTC] No.43666034[source]▶
> fond memories of cycling through channels as a child

One thing that’s missing is the low-latency old analog systems had changing channels. Has anyone figured out a way to achieve this in the digital era?

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joezydeco ◴[12 Apr 25 17:07 UTC] No.43666189[source]▶
I worked on a DVB-H receiver back in the day and we tried to speed it up by having a complete second tuner in hardware and starting the acquisition on the next stream while decoding the first one.
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1. thakoppno ◴[12 Apr 25 17:32 UTC] No.43666377[source]▶
That’s fun. I suppose flipping up channels is far more common than down, but presumably one direction would be faster with this solution.
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2. justinsaccount ◴[12 Apr 25 18:48 UTC] No.43666968[source]▶
Not really. the definition of what the 'next' stream is could easily change depending on what the last button you pressed, with the assumption that you would continue pressing that button:

  * up - next stream is one more channel up
  * down - next stream is one more channel down
  * last/prev - next stream is the previous channel.
3. joezydeco ◴[13 Apr 25 14:18 UTC] No.43672991[source]▶
We reversed the direction if the user started going backwards. We talked about a third tuner to hold the previous channel if they decided to reverse direction but the cost wasn't worth it.

The whole technology was kind of a dead man walking by that point in history. iPhone killed it all.