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Transcode & Stream local movies with TVH
Added by Ahmed Nabil about 9 years ago
Hi Gents,
I want to stream my local movies which are located on my server that is running TVH 4.1, i want all my movies to be available in Kodi as recordings or Videos or anything that is applicable.
i want to utilize the transcoding; which is working fine with live TV to save up bandwidth.
I can't find anywhere to do this.
Help needed.
Thanks
Replies (6)
RE: Transcode & Stream local movies with TVH - Added by Mark Clarkstone about 9 years ago
Not 100% sure this is possible without doing some file hacking to trick Tvheadend into thinking it recorded them & even then it may only work with certain containers with specific codecs.
I'm not even sure you can transcode recordings as I've not had the need.
RE: Transcode & Stream local movies with TVH - Added by Ahmed Nabil about 9 years ago
maybe i can setup another software, and provide the source as IPTV source to tvheadend??
so that streamed movies will appear as channels?
i'm so confused, as i constantly hear the term VOD Video On Demand, and i think couple of years ago TVH used to have a feature for that? or i understands this term in the wrong way i don't know.
RE: Transcode & Stream local movies with TVH - Added by Mark Clarkstone about 9 years ago
Ahmed Nabil wrote:
maybe i can setup another software, and provide the source as IPTV source to tvheadend??
so that streamed movies will appear as channels?
i'm so confused, as i constantly hear the term VOD Video On Demand, and i think couple of years ago TVH used to have a feature for that? or i understands this term in the wrong way i don't know.
Yes you can pipe whatever you want into Tvheadend see Custom_MPEG-TS_Input for basic info.
RE: Transcode & Stream local movies with TVH - Added by Ahmed Nabil about 9 years ago
Thank you very much
can you guide me from where should i type this command?
pipe:///usr/bin/ffmpeg -loglevel fatal -i INPUTLINK -vcodec copy -acodec copy -metadata service_provider=STRING -metadata service_name=STRING -f mpegts -tune zerolatency pipe:1
cause usr/bin/ffmpeg isn't found?
the only folder that is named ffmpeg is /usr/src/tvheadend/libav_static/build/ffmpeg
i'm on ubuntu 14.04 with transcoding enabled in TVH
Thank you
RE: Transcode & Stream local movies with TVH - Added by Ahmed Nabil about 9 years ago
i'm installing ffmpeg from source, as it was removed and replaced by something i can't remember in ubuntu 14.04 it was back as of ubuntu 15.04
i'll let you know how it went.