It says http://http// instead of http://
yeah, i saw that. i guess i had copy/pasted it only into a portion of the text field and accidentally didn't take the whole thing out. after cutting the whole thing it works now.
thanks!
I know. I won’t do that, I have 40 tb of stuff. The end goal is to make themed linear channels when something out there simply passes it along without transcoding.
Too bad dizquetv doesn’t rely on plex just for the metadata and not the live tv infrastructure as well.
This is supercool. I would think implementation into Channels wouldn't be impossible without any third party software but for now, this is really amazing.
there are solutions out there that don't rely on plex for the actual tv infrastructure, but it's a huge PITA to get working. i was using them previously but like i said i could never get the guide to work...probably because i don't think they were even using plex for that. everything was pulled from tvdb. too many variables.
i'm going to see if i can't figure out a way to tweak the code to take plex out of the equation for the actual streaming.
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i'm still tinkering, but in the meanwhile setting the preferred resolution to 720p and the video encoder to mpeg4 seems to be working pretty well for me with reasonable system resource usage.
I was having issues getting this up and running on my Synology DS1019+; mainly because I only have a rudimentary understanding of Linux. So if there is anyone else in the same boat, I found these two links to be helpful:
Creating custom "TV channel" streams on Plex using dizqueTV
How to login to DSM with root permission via SSH/Telnet
So, I was able to get it installed and working...mostly.
In Plex, the 24/7 custom channels I created are there, the guide data is there, and it plays as intended. But, in Channels DVR, I loaded the m3u file (which it does direct to the xml file with the EPG data) and it shows and plays the 24/7 custom channels, but there is no guide data for the episodes. Any suggestions where to look to get the guide data into Channels DVR for the custom channels?
EDIT: I found my problem. The location to specify the url for the xml file was a bit hidden:
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Dude! This is awesome!! Thank you for putting this guide together. I downloaded the unraid docker and it is working perfectly.
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Neat! Gonna have to try this. Great work!
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This is really cool... I have to try this out soon. Thanks for sharing!
As soon as someone figures out how to make this work without Plex, I'm all over it. I've been dying for a solution like this for many years. Can't believe how close it is to reality.
Trying to add a South Park Channel. The channel shows up in the guide, but the guide doesn't populate with the episode listing.
I get this.
Failed to download xmltv: xmltv unexpected ctype: text/plain; charset=utf-8
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update to the latest pre release
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Of Channels or Dizque?
Channels.
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Running this on my Synology DS1019+, the video quality is garbage. I imagine there's some setting I'm not using correctly that would improve it.
Wish there was a solution that didn’t require plex. Hopefully one will turn up eventually!
The issue is plex is very very good at organizing data
Spinning up a plex container you don’t even use is remarkably easy
This is pretty cool. I had it up and running in docker on synology ds220+ with 4 custom channels already. I’m not a programmer, just a basic everyday computer user and was able to get this to work. But I have a few questions if anyone can help.
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Is there anything I can do improve the video quality? I can stream the same movies from the same file location in plex or channels crystal clear but when streaming from hers the quality is diminished.
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What is causing the CPU of the nas to work harder from dizquetv?
Any help would be appreciated.
Every get a solution on this? I just set it up and love it but the picture quality is poor.