Trying to create my own time shifted channels

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#1

I am after some assistance on a little project i have been working on.
I want to record a hand full of channels, at a certain time of day, and then use ffmpeg to stream the recordings, again at a certain time of day to pipe back into channels with offset EPG data.

I have managed to use ffmpeg to convert the mpg recording into a m3u8 file, but am unsure of the best route to take to then have ffmpeg play that file, pipe it into a hls server and then pipe that stream back into channels.

Google, chatgpt etc are throwing up many options, and i am unsure of the best way to proceed.

Any help would be appreciated.

#2

@tmm1 @maddox any suggestions?

#3

Sorry, this isn't the sort of thing our team has the resources to assist with. Virtual Channels are what we provide to do similar sorts of things with the DVR.

#4

I appreciate that, im just after a pointer in running a command with ffmpeg to serve a stream to a hls server

#5

The other thing that i have previously suggested, would be the ability to play a particular recording at a set time of day, within virtual channels

#6

So if anybody is interested, i did manage to get this to work.
Using the ADB server, i select a channel with offset EPG data, which runs a python script, searches my recordings and finds the most recent title. It runs a curl command with the updated ID to play the content, seeks back a mile to make sure its at the start, and then seeks forward the time in seconds since X oclock.

Sounds clunky, but works well and channel tuning is within a second

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