Tvheadend

I tried doing this but could not get it to work. I tried two methods;

1. Creating my own m3u file, hosted on a web server accessible to TVHeadend with content available via http from the same server
2. Using an IPTV m3u from a slightly dubious source that had some films in the list (they call them VOD but they are just links to MKV files)

Neither worked, it looks like TVHeadend is not happy about using MKV channel sources.

Pipe would not work unless you went through the trouble of individually mapping each episode as a pipe input source and that just seems like an excessive amount of work for little benefit (Plex and Kodi are much better for this kind of stuff).

Yes my researches have these result to,

i've seen an tutorial for apache2 with hls, that can do such, and ffmpeg makes the .m3u8.
http://www.bogotobogo.com/VideoStreaming/ffmpeg_http_live_streaming_hls.php

but, the problem here is that you can stream one file from begin to end, or fast-forward it to the time you were.

So if anybody know a solution for having an filestream from harddrive like an tv-station, he's welcome. Or should i take as a ticket?

Sounds like an enhancement but I don't think it would be accepted due to it deviating from what TVHeadend is all about. That said, I'm not part of the TVH team so don't let my opinions sway your decision to raise a bug/enhancement request

I would find this useful as I could write a bash script to loop through my movies folder and output one large m3u/m3u8 file with the links to my movies which automatically updates periodically giving me all my movies as 'Video on Demand' streams to my TVH clients.

So now it is a ticket https://tvheadend.org/issues/3923

A possibility is also to use vlc streaming to do that, but vlc is in that case not so stable...