Yes: https://store.google.com/us/product/chromecast_google_tv?hl=en-US
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Thanks! Does Channels have a wiki? Would love to see some community documentation and would be willing to help document my process!
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I thought the Hulu app was limited to 30fps on all google TV devices because of the backend provider they used?
They have a published list of devices that support 60fps live tv:
https://community.hulu.com/s/article/video-quality
If you open "App and Device Info" under "settings" in the Hulu app it will show what is available for that specific device.
This image is from the Chromecast with Google TV. It only shows 30fps for h264 on the Onn device. I'm sure the Onn device can decode 60fps h264, it just hasn't been approved by Hulu (yet?).
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This seems to work consistently on my gimped Amazon Fire TV:
adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d https://www.hulu.com/watch/$content_id
content_id is the UUID of the channel/show. To get the live network content id click live and the click on the channel on very left. this will show a url similar to:
https://www.hulu.com/network/a&e-67d198b0-9d65-485e-a381-7a24848cfe38
In this case the content_id is 67d198b0-9d65-485e-a381-7a24848cfe38 resulting in the command:
adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d https://www.hulu.com/watch/67d198b0-9d65-485e-a381-7a24848cfe38
HTH in the future if you are using a similar setup!
I'm not at home currently and see there's an HDMI stream continuing, I forgot to stop it before leaving. There's no easy, remote way to tune out from that channel, is there? Does't appear so.
(I mean, native to CDVR, and not requiring me to VPN into my network and send a terminal command...)
It's not a big deal for me personally, I'll address that when I get home and come up with some Home Assistant automation to stop streams in the future when that living room TV is turned off.
But I'm mentioning it here just to bring up the topic, in case anyone else shares the concern, especially if your live TV subscription has a limited number of streams allowed to share within your family.
You guys are a bad influence. This encoder arrived today, along with one of the onn 4K streaming sticks:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CBMZ24P/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have no idea if I remotely have the ability to tie it into Channels, but so far I have the thing tied into VLC on my Mac, and all is good.
Very interesting topic. What about HDR, Dolby Vision, or Dolby Atmos?
Looking back at my stockpile of older PC stuff I see a couple of Black Magic Intensity Pro cards. Going to convert a old PC into a encoder server and repurpose the cards to Channels. If anyone is interested i can share the experience. These cards can be picked up for around 40$ on ebay and do 1080P. 4K cards also exist.
Do any linear streaming TV channels even offer any of those?
No. But, I wasn't thinking of linear TV channels. It would seem to me that this process at least in part could be used to capture streaming services from these same devices.
I am not 100% where to start with this. I have a HDMI encoder setup, and working well, but no ability to use channels to change channels. I have my logitech harmony hub and remote currently sending commands to channels, and my cable box to sync up channel changes.
How do i go about implementing the above scripts? I am familiar and comfortable with docker, but thats about it. Happy to use an nvidia shield and muck around with adb, before i try and use my harmony hub and cable box.
Thanks
Does anyone know of an open source project that can grab video/audio from a encoder card and make available a mpeg2 stream? I know of NGINX/RTMP but hoping to bypass needing FFMPEG to capture and stream the encoder card back to NGINX. Surely these hardware capture cards are running open source software of some type? TIA!
So these cards do H.264 encoding to an IP stream that could be used by channels?
Is there any way to use the cheap HDMI to USB video capture devices to send video into a PC and then have some software like VLC encode it as H.264? That would be a super cheap way to do this.
Also I know this is a really dumb question but how do you install the Android HDMI module into Channels on Windows, and have it start on boot like channels? I went to the GitHub for it but there's no install info and I'm new to add-ons that aren't docker containers.
So these cards do H.264 encoding to an IP stream that could be used by channels?
These cards are HDMI capture cards. It's basically a PCI-E card that captures video via HDMI. Generally you would use FFMPEG to capture the video and send it to a webserver for channels to ingest.
Sorry I am not sure about your android question re: windows.
So you are recommending using .bat files instead of .sh files on a Windows Implementation?
- change in main.go the pre,start,stop definitions from.sh to .bat files and re-compile
- write the .bat files for the above to call adb as required
This is easier than trying to run .sh files under Windows 11 (although that method is also posssible)
(I am writing the above for the benefit of others to see - BTW still waiting delivery of my IPTV encoder)
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I am using a FireStick with ADB to record HBO and ShowTime using ADB and HDMI Capture device from XFINITY STREAM... using NEXTPVR as backend.
GoogleTV devices do not have XFINITY Stream
Yeah, exactly. I'm guessing something like OBS might work to create an IP stream? I'm not familiar with OBS but I'm guessing it outputs IP since it streams to YouTube.
That HDMI capture device looks good, most USB Devices use the CPU to transcode this one has a built-in hardware encoder.
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