plz add subtitles, if they exist
Brilliant - and if the channels are actually broad in content and varied... Yeah!
Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
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#152Great stuff, I really like it! As others mentioned, channel names, a channel list or a guide would help.
Also, if you're looking for new channel ideas: (british) game shows or talk shows!
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#153This is mesmerizing. I zapped twice, landed on an interesting channel and... Moved the window to another monitor and full-screened it. Well done.
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#154I have an extra suggestion: Maybe some keyboard key mapping, like up/down for switching the channel. I'm imagining having this perma-running in a small PC connected to a TV and the small wireless remotes have mappings for the arrow keys and up/down for channel would be perfect for that. (maybe other mappings as well)
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#155Please make this an Amazon Fire TV Stick App! Would love to simply switch on and keep doing my work.
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#156I really like how there are only 12 channels, and you don't get to choose what's on. The only way to make it even more like tv from a few decades ago would be if half of the channels were static.
For real accuracy of tv of a few decades ago they could add a 13th channel that takes content from Pornhub, but then adds a bunch of filters so you can barely see anything.
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I've also been using ErsatzTV with my jellyfin setup. It can take a while to setup channels how you want them, but I love my sci-fi channel which is going through all the Star Treks, Stargates, and Twilight Zones. It is so much easier to flip it on to my Sci-fi Channel, animation channel, movie channel, or James Bond marathon channel then to decide what to watch. And since I've seen all this content, it is often kind…
Do you know if that can operate with no transcoding? I’ve designed my media set-up around Jellyfin on a weak server that can’t handle transcoding, and very-capable clients that don’t need it. This lets me avoid like half the bugs on the Jellyfin bug tracker and all the instability an Nvidia or AMD video card would introduce to the server itself. I’m very interested in this, but can’t use it if it must transcode.
No, it must transcode to work correctly, which can be a problem for me too (although I just have an intel card and use vaapi).
I believe there is a container you can use where it doesn't transcode, but it trips up every player I have tried, as they do not like having different resolutions/codecs suddenly swap.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you know if that can operate with no transcoding? I’ve designed my media set-up around Jellyfin on a weak server that can’t handle transcoding, and very-capable clients that don’t need it. This lets me avoid like half the bugs on the Jellyfin bug tracker and all the instability an Nvidia or AMD video card would introduce to the server itself. I’m very interested in this, but can’t use it if it must transcode.
No, it must transcode to work correctly, which can be a problem for me too (although I just have an intel card and use vaapi). I believe there is a container you can use where it doesn't transcode, but it trips up every player I have tried, as they do not like having different resolutions/codecs suddenly swap.
Damn, kinda what I figured. Thanks. Maybe some day I’ll upgrade/downgrade to a less perfectly-stable server that is transcoding capable.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've also been using ErsatzTV with my jellyfin setup. It can take a while to setup channels how you want them, but I love my sci-fi channel which is going through all the Star Treks, Stargates, and Twilight Zones. It is so much easier to flip it on to my Sci-fi Channel, animation channel, movie channel, or James Bond marathon channel then to decide what to watch. And since I've seen all this content, it is often kind…
> I also found a ton of old Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Adult Swim bumps Where were you able to find these? Recreating one of these channels has been a side project I’ve wanted to do for ages.
I think it was mostly youtube and retrojunk.com
Try searching for "$channel bump"
Personally, I think Adult Swim had the best bumps, usually just some nice house music with a nice animation and some funny quotes.
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Given how full of crap content and intrusive ads YouTube is these days, I actually kinda miss tv from back then. About the only benefits at this point are time shifting and pause/rewind.
have you forgotten how bad commercials were back then, and still are? I haven't watched TV in years and years and years, because of the ads. I have a YouTube premium subscription and I am not ever going to watch broadcast or cable tv again. ever.
> have you forgotten how bad commercials were back then
Most weren't 'bad', just noise.
Sure there were some cringy ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts0XG6qDIco
But some were GREAT!
-- Remember 'CH-ch-ch Chia Pet!' ?? ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzY7qQFij_M
-- How's about local commercials, like in Philadelphia: "Krass Brothers - Store of the Stars!!" ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5R4rNxSWFw