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WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator

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Re: WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator

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Post by alexjplant »

ivraatiems wrote: post #43

I love this. Why is the music so good? How do I get more music like this?

There's an archival effort here [1]. It seems to have primarily been instrumental jazz fusion and adjacent artists like The Flecktones, The Rippingtons, Pat Metheny, Spyro Gyra, Phish, etc.

I'm personally a bit more into the guitar shred-oriented type of fusion as practiced by Frank Gambale, Alan Holdsworth (RIP), Shawn Lane (RIP #2), Guthrie Govan, and Scott Henderson. The insane guitar acrobatics more than make up for any dated ROMpler synthesizers or cheesy drum samples :-).

[1] https://twcclassics.com/audio/

Re: WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator

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Post by disposition2 »

Is there anyone who could point me to a way to get this running and served up via a stream that is consumable via VLC?

I have an hdhomreun and watch my antenna via IPTV apps and would love to have a personal “weather channel” on my TV.

I’ve looked in to this in the past, using a node program to take screenshots of the page and try to splice things together with ffmpeg but it was quite awful and didn't work well.

I also wasn’t sure how to have this all ‘spin up’ when the stream is accessed, vs running all the time…but I suppose that is less important.

I'll take any advice! Thank you!

Re: WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator

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Post by burnt-resistor »

Yep. That's pretty much what it used to look like on cable and satellite TV in the late 90's/early 00's. Just missing the scan lines. Pretty awesome that you can skip sections. It needs terrible elevator music (mellow jazz) and occasional announcers to voice over and unenthusiastically explain what's already obvious in front of a green screen.

Re: WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator

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Post by duskwuff »

burnt-resistor wrote: post #83

Yep. That's pretty much what it used to look like on cable and satellite TV in the late 90's/early 00's. Just missing the scan lines. Pretty awesome that you can skip sections. It needs terrible elevator music (mellow jazz) and occasional announcers to voice over and unenthusiastically explain what's already obvious in front of a green screen.

> It needs terrible elevator music (mellow jazz)

Did you click the unmute button? :)

Re: WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator

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Post by jpdb »

disposition2 wrote: post #82

Is there anyone who could point me to a way to get this running and served up via a stream that is consumable via VLC? I have an hdhomreun and watch my antenna via IPTV apps and would love to have a personal “weather channel” on my TV. I’ve looked in to this in the past, using a node program to take screenshots of the page and try to splice things together with ffmpeg but it was quite awful and didn't work well. I al…

You should be able to get this done with OBS.

Set OBS up so your streaming a window of this application.

Go into OBS settings and go to "Stream" and set it to custom.

For server use "srt://127.0.0.1:7777?mode=listener&timeout=50000&transtype=live"

Then in VLC, open a network stream for srt://127.0.0.1:7777.

Re: WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator

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Post by bdbenton5255 »

Love it, made me smile. The "warmth" of all this old tech is nostalgic, all the little human touches lost to history. The little bits of heart and soul that shaped the details of our lives, some nameless engineer on some forgotten afternoon implementing the little blue waves in the rain clouds. Something strangely bittersweet about it.

Re: WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator

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Post by numpad0 »

disposition2 wrote: post #82

Is there anyone who could point me to a way to get this running and served up via a stream that is consumable via VLC? I have an hdhomreun and watch my antenna via IPTV apps and would love to have a personal “weather channel” on my TV. I’ve looked in to this in the past, using a node program to take screenshots of the page and try to splice things together with ffmpeg but it was quite awful and didn't work well. I al…

  Xvfb :1 -screen 0 640x480x16 &
  export DISPLAY=:1.0
  firefox -kiosk [URL] &
  gst-launch-1.0 ! (ask llm tbf) ! udpsrc
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