I’ve found the best solution for that is spinning up an ErsatzTV docker instance and add the Live TV channel to Jellyfin. You can customize what gets played to the Live TV channel and I had used it to run a “kids TV” channel at home. The only drawback is I had to shut it down because the transcoding for it was brutal (on a server with no video card). It will convert everything to a standard stream format, and none of my video files would just get served as is.
Is it possible to make something like a tv channel that randomly selects a video from one of a few folders?
If you use Kodi as your Jellyfish front end, yes you can do this with the PseudoLiveTV add-on.
Thanks for the suggestion ill check it out
kodi’s pseudotv does this well and you can use jellyfin as a backend
but I’m also curious if there’s a more direct way to do this with jellyfin
Yea I was hoping Jellyfin could handle it but maybe these are separate concerns. Thanks for the reply
I’ve found the best solution for that is spinning up an ErsatzTV docker instance and add the Live TV channel to Jellyfin. You can customize what gets played to the Live TV channel and I had used it to run a “kids TV” channel at home. The only drawback is I had to shut it down because the transcoding for it was brutal (on a server with no video card). It will convert everything to a standard stream format, and none of my video files would just get served as is.
Thanks for the reply dude, I’ll google your suggestions and take a look. Cheers