I have imported over 100 Movies and had to only manually match 2 so far.... and I was able to correctly match those 2.
This “pre-alpha” import option does work really well. While it tries to match a “movie” title and (date), any meg video Channels has recorded, i.e., TV shows, can be renamed and given a date (2020) to import. Without a match to the movie database, the import is listed in the MOVIES section of Channels DVR without a picture thumbnail. It works for TV, but provides limited usefulness for a seamless experience.
Tried it out and it works like a charm. Thank you all for your help.
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That would be great so I could get rid of Plex and have everything in one spot. I can watch tv in Plex but miss the commercial skip feature there.
It works great for movies, not tv shows. And you can add any video you want but it gets a bit messy without proper thumbnails. Not sure if you add your own thumbnails.
We can't, at least not yet. In the "Imports?" thread I asked about poster and subtitle files and was told neither is supported.
If Channels had this feature, I could not get rid of Plex until Channels supported user profiles.
I just wanted to add that I would love a feature where I could use Channels to watch videos other than what Channels has recorded.
And if I were greedy, I'd say it would be nice if I could shuffle play all the videos in a folder or loop them (or both).
You can add local content in the DVR server settings. Have you tried that?
My understanding, as per earlier posts in this thread, is that I need to use the production version of the Channels server/DVR for that and, as pointed out by a developer, that feature isn't even alpha. I like using the beta as a viewer, on my mobile devices and on Apple TV, but I don't want to go into the testing versions for the server.
Importing videos is possible on both stable and pre-release builds. There's not really "support" for it, and it is still alpha-level, but it's in the current stable release.
I don't know but I had changed my server and forgot.to back it up before and my new server was missing some content. Through the web browser I logged in to the server and added the locations of the files and manually added it to my library. After that I was able to view it as normal.
Where is the function in the production version? I checked under DVR and Recordings and couldn't find it.
Because it's not a supported feature, you have to manually add your first directory:
In settings/Local Content
That's odd, I didn't have to do any of that. Just select a location to scan and then add movie sources.
Ah, they must have exposed it. Originally, the Local Content options only displayed if you had manually added at least one directory first.
(Because Channels does do well with large libraries presently, I've only imported the DVRed movies from Tvheadend before switching to Channels.)
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They’re displayed on the pre-release, but they’re only displayed on the stable release if you’ve added a directory.
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Thanks for the clarification.
@jpblanch75: I don't see anything for Local Content in Settings, at least not on the Production version.