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

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200 points Larrikin | 6 comments | 12 Apr 25 15:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.23s | source | bottom
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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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1. krick ◴[12 Apr 25 17:48 UTC] No.43666505[source]▶
That sounds fun, is it computationally expensive? Is it, like, actually processing the stuff even if nobody's watching? I'm not gonna try it on my current NAS, because it's all HDDs and I can hear it in the room, so I mostly use it as "cold" storage, but your post really made me want to try it. Also, now that I'm thinking of it, must be pretty hard for HDDs too, if you don't use some dedicated all-SSD NAS specifically for that...
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2. ertian ◴[12 Apr 25 17:52 UTC] No.43666532[source]▶
No, unless somebody starts a stream there's no computation. If nobody is watching, it's idle.

If somebody tunes in, the server figures out where to start the stream and begins streaming.

3. unixhero ◴[12 Apr 25 20:59 UTC] No.43667907[source]▶
/r/homelab and /r/homedatacenter called. We love computationally expensive.
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4. sublinear ◴[13 Apr 25 04:12 UTC] No.43670026[source]▶
> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
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5. gnarlynarwhal42 ◴[13 Apr 25 05:23 UTC] No.43670296{3}[source]▶
I didn't read his comment as saying that HN is turning into Reddit, just a bit of a joke about some people not minding or flexing the intensity of the "idle" state of their lab
6. unixhero ◴[13 Apr 25 15:12 UTC] No.43673366{3}[source]▶
(1) Are you missing some words in your sentence? I would understand your point if you said "don't post comments ** like that ** it makes HN feel like it is turning into Reddit **.

However I cannot understand how you extrapolated that I actually stated that Hacker News is turning into Reddit. That is factually and materially evident by my non-editable comment above.

I assume that you meant (1) and I can understand where you are coming from.

However we are just extremely into hosting our own servers and services. Some go to extremes, and there really are no places on the internet like /r/homelab and /r/homedatacenter , maybe only /r/selfhosted .