Automate 24/7 Stream for a scheduled Playlist

Smart Net

Smart Net

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Hello,

The best way for 24/7 list proramming is to use Adwanced Scene Switcher - with TIME part.
+ create Scene, +create VLC/File or Browser (youtube list) and you good to start.

If you need to made changes... easy change timing at ASS (sorry for abriviation) or use Source to change content

Personally using that way for the year. Briliant result.
 
bcoyle

bcoyle

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Smart Net said:
Hello,

The best way for 24/7 list proramming is to use Adwanced Scene Switcher - with TIME part.
+ create Scene, +create VLC/File or Browser (youtube list) and you good to start.

If you need to made changes... easy change timing at ASS (sorry for abriviation) or use Source to change content

Personally using that way for the year. Briliant result.
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Thank you for the info. I've seen adv scene switcher and admire it's flexibility. I've been working on my own program , that is a complete playout,24/7 scheduler. It can generate automatically content, months in advance. It uses all of obs composite /overlay abilities. I'm in the alpha test stages now. Doing general cleanup and test.
 
Smart Net

Smart Net

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bcoyle said:
Thank you for the info. I've seen adv scene switcher and admire it's flexibility. I've been working on my own program , that is a complete playout,24/7 scheduler. It can generate automatically content, months in advance. It uses all of obs composite /overlay abilities. I'm in the alpha test stages now. Doing general cleanup and test.
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Thanks for reply, would be great to test it with our tv channels and good luck with the development!
 
Guidos

Guidos

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bcoyle said:
I'll be looking for beta testers in a while. Tell me about what you are doing.
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I'd be pleased to beta depending on what you need bcoyle. I'm looking for a way to stream pre-recorded videos (my own productions) to YouTube (initially) from (at least) a playlist playing in order listed, or (desirable) scheduled by time of day (not necessarily different each day of the week or even month as yet). I'm also hoping to host this somewhere/how.
The nearest so far that I've found is to use VLC integration to create the playlist of media to play in OBS but am also going through the posts here looking at other people's ideas.

Many thanks for creating this thread.
 
bcoyle

bcoyle

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Guidos said:
I'd be pleased to beta depending on what you need bcoyle. I'm looking for a way to stream pre-recorded videos (my own productions) to YouTube (initially) from (at least) a playlist playing in order listed, or (desirable) scheduled by time of day (not necessarily different each day of the week or even month as yet). I'm also hoping to host this somewhere/how.
The nearest so far that I've found is to use VLC integration to create the playlist of media to play in OBS but am also going through the posts here looking at other people's ideas.

Many thanks for creating this thread.
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Hi. please tell me about yourself and your what kind of things you are trying to do. You can PM me if you like. fyi: this is a windows program,NOT MAC .

I am running stability testing now on my youtube channel. : https://www.youtube.com/@dccatvnv. Take a look. at the live channel there. I'v programmed 3 days worth of a old program called the silent service. I limited it to 5 minutes each with commerial inserts and a 1 minute coming up guide. The program works off of templates (created and edited with a GUI - no coding or scripting necessary) which allows inserts, PSAs etc.

Making sure it can run for days on end without crashing or eating memory. The app can do playlists,scheduled playlists,full 24/7 scheduled tv broadcast style programming Anyway , take a look at the live channel going on.
 
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Sanjeewa

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Hi, I just need some script to get the currently playing video, display it, and save it to the file. I can modify the lua script, but I need some help to getting the index or video name of the currently playing video from the playlist that I use as a source. ex- VLC Video source..etc Please...
 
bcoyle

bcoyle

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Sanjeewa said:
Hi, I just need some script to get the currently playing video, display it, and save it to the file. I can modify the lua script, but I need some help to getting the index or video name of the currently playing video from the playlist that I use as a source. ex- VLC Video source..etc Please...
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sorry, Id like to help you, but I don't have any experience with scripts. if a video is playing, you could just push the record button and then change the record file name late. I assume it is not as simple as that.
 
Danny Teunissen

Danny Teunissen

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Hello bcoyle.

We are a small tv Broadcaster in the Netherlands. We have the need of a good scheduler for broadcasting . We looked around and find out that the software costs are annoying High in terms we want.
This is what we want to do..

**Schedule of news located on a ftp server (always the same file name ) so we have always the latest news on screen.

**Schedule a rtmp stream

**Schedule a pre recorded video

** Schedule advertising.

**Our main screen is a rss file showing the latest news in Text. (With the sound of our radio channel)

We are a broadcast TV channel that Lives on financial donations .

I hope we can work together and maybe if you want I can test your Beta schedule together with you.

Best regards Danny
 
bcoyle

bcoyle

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Danny Teunissen said:
Hello bcoyle.

We are a small tv Broadcaster in the Netherlands. We have the need of a good scheduler for broadcasting . We looked around and find out that the software costs are annoying High in terms we want.
This is what we want to do..

**Schedule of news located on a ftp server (always the same file name ) so we have always the latest news on screen.

**Schedule a rtmp stream

**Schedule a pre recorded video

** Schedule advertising.

**Our main screen is a rss file showing the latest news in Text. (With the sound of our radio channel)

We are a broadcast TV channel that Lives on financial donations .

I hope we can work together and maybe if you want I can test your Beta schedule together with you.

Best regards Danny
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Hi Danny.. You sound like a dot com. If not , please explain. Could you please send me a URL so I can see it? Thanks. You can see my running test channel on youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y-_5D5CfVk
Also the main youtube channel is youtube.com/@dccatvnv
 
Danny Teunissen

Danny Teunissen

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bcoyle said:
Hi Danny.. You sound like a dot com. If not , please explain. Could you please send me a URL so I can see it? Thanks. You can see my running test channel on youtube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y-_5D5CfVk
Also the main youtube channel is youtube.com/@dccatvnv
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Hey bcoyle
What do you mean about a dot .com ?
I saw you channel looking good
Here is the link of the broadcast
rtvideaal.nl

Kijk IdeaalTV

Bezoek het bericht voor meer.
rtvideaal.nl rtvideaal.nl

It's a Lokal tv channel but not nice.
We gonna build it up from the ground.

Best regards Danny
 
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Tomasz Góral

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bcoyle

bcoyle

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Tomasz Góral said:
dot com - big IT firm

Check my sheduler (working with version websocket 4.9.1): https://weblive.pro/scheduler_for_obs.exe
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Sorry, You talked about a main page and I did know if you meant to have my scheduler do all or weather obs outputs a rtmp stream to your web widget. I just needed your .com link to see what you are doing. I'm going on vacation for a few days start today , so will be off line.

A few things, I have to investigate, like how to handle the ftp text. I f you would ber so kind, could you give me the ftp url and also infomation on your rtmp url for me to play with.
 
bcoyle

bcoyle

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Before you send me any sensitive information, we should take this off-line. So if you wish, please PM me.
 
Danny Teunissen

Danny Teunissen

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First off all let me explain in detail how the setup of the channel must look like.

We have a main Static page (scene) With now working text news.( Not online yet) . Under the main page you can hear the music from our Broadcasting Radio station.

Here is why we need a good scheduler:

Our news source upload a news bulletin video when available in our ftp server. A program running on the pc looks if there is a new available video and replace that video with the same name. Like news.mp4 .
I can give you that link in privet.

A scheduler must plan that video "video.mp4" at the whole hour. (Important with the correct length) because every uploaded video have different lengths.
And start the news video in Obs

Now we have also advertising . That must be scheduled. And some videos.

The most difficult part is not planning exiting videos but the one that comes from the frp server.

Hope you understand how the channel works. Btw nice YouTube channel works nice .

Best regards Danny
 
RockNRollGeek

RockNRollGeek

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Wild to me that 3 years later people are still trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, trying to make a video switcher into a playout system when plenty of free/open source/commercial playout solutions exist, while obs's focus is being a solid video switcher & compositor. To each their own I suppose, but it's the equivalent of trying to force excel to perform as a large database, or use a motorcycle to tow a trailer. Could you use these things for this purpose? Sure, to an extent. Should you? absolutely not. Right tool, right job is the way to go, but best of luck to those still trying to hack this together still years later (and best of luck having it perform as stable and able to error correct/adjust it self to the degree proper playout systems for broadcast and similar do.)
 
bcoyle

bcoyle

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RockNRollGeek said:
Wild to me that 3 years later people are still trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, trying to make a video switcher into a playout system when plenty of free/open source/commercial playout solutions exist, while obs's focus is being a solid video switcher & compositor. To each their own I suppose, but it's the equivalent of trying to force excel to perform as a large database, or use a motorcycle to tow a trailer. Could you use these things for this purpose? Sure, to an extent. Should you? absolutely not. Right tool, right job is the way to go, but best of luck to those still trying to hack this together still years later (and best of luck having it perform as stable and able to error correct/adjust it self to the degree proper playout systems for broadcast and similar do.)
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So little faith
 
bcoyle

bcoyle

Member
RockNRollGeek said:
Wild to me that 3 years later people are still trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, trying to make a video switcher into a playout system when plenty of free/open source/commercial playout solutions exist, while obs's focus is being a solid video switcher & compositor. To each their own I suppose, but it's the equivalent of trying to force excel to perform as a large database, or use a motorcycle to tow a trailer. Could you use these things for this purpose? Sure, to an extent. Should you? absolutely not. Right tool, right job is the way to go, but best of luck to those still trying to hack this together still years later (and best of luck having it perform as stable and able to error correct/adjust it self to the degree proper playout systems for broadcast and similar do.)
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You should encourage people to use obs in new ways. A full blown 24/7 does take a lot of work to create. I'm running beta testing on my app and it's pretty stable. It's been running and "COMPOSITING" 24/7 program schedule and streaming for 20 straight days now. Once set up, it can schedule programs months or years in advance and do it in a way that uses Fresh videos years out if desired. You may not be interested in 24/7 but there are people that are, especially if the app reduces station management to one man instead of a crew. I've studied some of the free stuff available and found it tedious to use and the better it is, the more it costs. I suggest that since you have used some of these software products, that it would be of great value that you tell us your experiences and recommendations. That would add value to the obs community.
 
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