Autoplay feature?

[SAUCYSOUP76]

Could an autoplay feature be added? Would like it to play all the videos in my directory.
Or even an EPG styled kind of editor to play a video/clip at a certain time.
Thanks

[fsphil]

I've been considering adding a playlist function. It wouldn't be hard to generate a playlist for all the files in a directory.

For the EPG, do you mean having a UI on the video output?

[SAUCYSOUP76]

For the EPG i meant a GUI themed application that you could choose when a video plays at a certain time of the day.

[SAUCYSOUP76]

@fsphil got to say though this is a great piece of software been having fun with it!
Will you be adding a playlist function? If so when do you predict it'' be pushed out by?
I ask as it's a pain dragging and dropping each video file when the stream ends as well as the CRT making a loud pop at the end.

[neo7530]

you can do a "playlist" with ffmpeg...

[neo7530]

sorry, forgot the link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11647868/using-ffmpeg-to-stream-continuously-videos-files-to-a-rtmp-server

[SAUCYSOUP76]

@neo7530 I will be honest i have no idea how to implement that into hacktv.

[neo7530]

You have to write a batch / Shell Script and pipe the output into hacktv via stdin. Give me some time, i will test it tomorrow and will write a manual.

[SAUCYSOUP76]

Also another possible feature, having compatibility with open broadcast studio.

[neo7530]

for the playlist-feature: generate two txt-files:

files1.txt:
ffconcat version 1.0
file trailers.mkv
file a_movie.mkv
file trailer.mkv
file 'files2.txt'

files2.txt:
ffconcat version 1.0
file anothermovie.mkv
file commercials.mkv
file athirdmovie.mkv
file files1.txt

then generate a shell-command file:

eg: play.sh

ffmpeg
-f concat -i files1.txt
-c copy
-f mpegts - | hacktv -f 799250000 -m i -g 47 -

execute the shell... while playing the content of 'files1.txt' you can edit 'files2.txt'...

[neo7530]

type the ffmpeg as one-liner...

[SAUCYSOUP76]

@neo7530 getting command not found.

[SAUCYSOUP76]

@neo7530 ran the command ffmpeg -f concat -i files1.txt -c copy -f mpegts - | hacktv -f 471250000 -m i -g 47 -
as a command and says unsafe filename and files.txt: Operation not permitted

[SAUCYSOUP76]

@neo7530 added -safe 0 before the -i and i now get this av_interleaved_write_frame(): Broken pipe
Error writing trailer of pipe:: Broken pipe

[neo7530]

Have you wrote the full path in files.txt? /path/to/Video.mkv? Try to write files in Single quotes. '/path/to/Video.mkv'

[SAUCYSOUP76]

@neo7530 yeah still getting broken pipe

[SAUCYSOUP76]

@neo7530 file 'files2.txt' is it suppose to be in ' '? as i notice file files1.txt is different

[neo7530]

Hmm, try it... I have to work.

[wsygog]

I think it is better to leave playlist to ffmpeg pipe. Although for the user it might be a little complicated, example can be given easily, and ffmpeg has already done the hard work.

[fsphil]

It's probably easier to use xargs: $ cat playlist.txt | xargs -d "\n" ./hacktv -f 855250000 -g 47
I'd still like a proper playlist function within hacktv, but this does the job for now.

[captainjack64]

Alternatively, you can supply wildcards or limited regexp in filenames.

./hacktv -f 855250000 -g 47 somedir/[L-P]*.mkv

[SAUCYSOUP76]

It's probably easier to use xargs: $ cat playlist.txt | xargs -d "\n" ./hacktv -f 855250000 -g 47
I'd still like a proper playlist function within hacktv, but this does the job for now.

Thanks that worked! Though would like it built into hacktv, but this will work for the time being.