PlutoTV-like YouTube Aggregator for Live TV reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BigBeefyAngus · 2023-11-18 02:56 I have an ErsatzTV instance fed by a Plex library that is creating live “TV” channels that are viewed through Plex. My goal is to make a bunch of different types of channels, but I’m lacking the space for storing all of this. My thought was that I could stream much of this from YouTube or the Internet Archive, and while I understand that simply creating YouTube playlists is entirely possible, I like the idea of having a guide and schedules, like how PlutoTV and the Live TV channels in Plex work (minus the crappy buffer rolls and repeated ads). Ideally, if I could load these streams into ErsatzTV that would be ideal, but haven’t found a way to do this. I’m also aware of the excessive resources used to basically “stream a stream”, so I’m also open to any other less resourceful ideas. I stumbled across http://my80stv.com/ made by joeycato which is nearly identical to what I’m after of this helps explain what I’m looking for. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- No_Marionberry312 · 2023-11-18 07:02 Did you manage to find a way? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BigBeefyAngus · 2023-11-18 14:49 Not yet, I edited my post to clarify that I’m looking for software to do this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MonkeyBoy4 · 2023-11-18 16:15 I’ve never used it but have you looked at Jellyfin live tv? https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/live-tv/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BigBeefyAngus · 2023-11-18 22:49 That’s the same as Plex’s Live TV integration - basically I’m looking for a software to create the channels I can stream TO Plex/Jellyfin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BigBeefyAngus · 2023-11-18 22:50 That’s the same as Plex’s Live TV integration - basically I’m looking for a software to create the channels I can stream TO Plex/Jellyfin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- No_Marionberry312 · 2023-11-19 02:28 What is the problem you want to solve exactly? My understanding is that your problem statements are as follows: (please correct me if I am wrong) 1. I don't have time to look for certain videos on Youtube, and I am looking for a way to automate this using a search tool that would specifically find what I am looking for, then automatically create editable play lists for me 2. I do have a tool that can mass download youtube videos both individually an as entire lists, but I do not have storage to locally store thousands of videos, so I am looking for a tool that is self- hosted either as a web app or a local app that can both play Youtube- hosted playlists and at the same time allow me to broadcast the playlists like a virtual TV with a program schedule and everything Is the above understanding correct? Also, have you been able to get in touch with the creator of the site my80stv joeycato and inquired whether he can open source the web app on Github and share it with the community so others can create their own lists, maybe in different languages and for different regions. I doubt he would say no.