bcoyle
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ok, great. Go ahead and DM me and I'll give you an invite to the casttor discord channel. It's easlier to transmit information there and also you can talk to the other beta users also
Automate 24/7 Stream for a scheduled Playlist
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bcoyle
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For any other people thinking of becoming a beta tester, I will tell you that this is very late stage beta. I've been running the test channel for months now and have fixed any of the problems that have come up. My main goal has been long term stability in both my program and also obs. My program takes full advantage of obs's compositing features, is able to schedule a months worth of programs in mere minutes. It can do playout as well as network style programing. It's serious enough that it has language locale
ilCenacoloWebTv
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ok. tell me what to do or send me a link where to enter
cabledog
New Member
hello, been lurking here for a while and would absolutely love to test it out, sounds wonderful - feel free to email me at arby@cabletwo.tv
bcoyle
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still there ?
bcoyle
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Hi LOL, Is RUMDEL you cats name???? I looked at your other posts with advanced scene switcher. They are really a nice crew and really helpful. Please tell what you are trying to do. i understand that you want to play clips, add a .png overlay saying over 18, starting some amount of seconds after the start and disappearing after a while, and also schedule the clips over a days period, or longer. But what are your trying to do with your station. I always ask this, becomes sometimes there are simpler ways to do something and I don't want to steer you the wrong way. This is link to my current running live test channel.
DCCATV - DOUGLAS COUNTY PUBLIC ACCESS TV
Test stream from Douglas Country NevadaPST - PACIFIC STANDARD TIME --------------- Tuesday, October 31, 202310:00 - SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE -END OF TOMORROW ...
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bcoyle
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Hi/ you can dm me if you like. I really need a lot more personal information and also more about your movie channel. I treat my beta users like family. There's more to being a beta tester than "testing the software". If invited to the casttor discord channel, you are joining a community and are required to help others, even your competitors. If you think about it, I'm sharing my software with potential competitors of my own youtube channel. In my youtube channel, I can already do a movie channel. One of my new beta testers already is planning on multiple channels including a movie channel and I'm working on the documentation for it. So you really need to think about this. Beta users get a lot of private attention but it's not for free (your time, not money)
Your idea of a movie channel is very simple, run a movie mp4 and put a png overlay on top of it (for 18 + only) What casttor can do is given a folder with movies it, given a folder with trailers in it, some bumper graphic maybe, it will create an automatic schedule of xx/60/75 minutes movies with intros, main movie,trailers to fill out the desired time slot. and run them at the desired time with it's own player. Casttor can record any and all individual movies with all the composites, ready to upload to youtube if desired, ie. can be used to create new videos.
for scheduling, casttor will generate a months worth of scheduled 24/7 movies in a few minutes. So DM me if interested
Hello Mr.bcoyle, Thank you for your great efforts in serving the community, I have read many pages of this topic, and I have an interest in this type of program. What I am looking for is a software that play a new episode of the series every day at the same time automatically. (For example, I have a folder containing video files called Video 01, Video 02, Video 03) I would like the program to play Video 01 today at 01:00pm and tomorrow at the same time play Video 02 and the day after tomorrow at same time Video 03 automatically. I have tried the Advanced Scene Switcher plugin but it did not help me in this as the plugin requires creating macro for each video files manually, I have hundreds of video files that I want to play daily for months, so I hope that your project will be useful for this purpose, and I would like to try your project, if you please.
bcoyle
Member
please dm me and tell me about yourself and your project. Sorry, i didn't answer earlier, been sick
Has no one solved this yet? Bcoyle I sent you a DM to inquire about your offering. I just need a weekly playout scheduler where I can drag and drop files onto specific time slots for each day throughout the week, not just a random playlist. Copy and paste function for day to day or at least time blocks a big plus. I found PlyCast, formerly Redcast, but with a quick install and playing around, it doesn't allow for specific time slot designation.
Thanks for any leads. Little more info, this software doesn't "have" to work with OBS, but I need to be able to designate it to a specific physical output of the graphics card like I can in OBS.
Cheers
Thanks for any leads. Little more info, this software doesn't "have" to work with OBS, but I need to be able to designate it to a specific physical output of the graphics card like I can in OBS.
Cheers
bcoyle
Member
hi . Relied to your dm. Casttor is so so much what you want
pozeromon
New Member
Any link to casttor? I couldn't find it
Greetings from Chile: I'm helping a friend to run a scheduler for his small TV Channel. Actually he is working with VMIX and playlists. I think it's possible to create a better opensource solution with OBS with a small home server. I have read some forums and videos, for example openbroadcaster (i like this project), or Castr (not free, maybe as a backup when electricity is off could be affordable) but the installation and guides are not fully available. I hope I can receive some orientations from your experience. Very interesting your channel (DCCATV).
Thanks in advance and sorry for my english!
bcoyle
Member
You won't find it. Currently casttor is in beta test. It is a windows program and is not currently open source. I usually have a beta volunteer DM me. We then talk about want they are trying to do. I try to see if casttor fits Sometimes, simple needs can be done elsewhere. . I then invite them to the casttor discord server. On that server is tutorial sections that explain the operation and theory of casttor. Casttor is a full featured program that uses obs as the encoder and compositor. There is a learning curve like anything else. Since you are a new member on this forum, you will need to know obs. There would be work on your part before you get links to an install.
bcoyle
Member
what would you like to know?
Hello:
Put it simply: How to automatize a playlist with some ads for continuous streaming, in other words to use OBS with a software like Instaplayot or Marsis Playout
For considering: I think that the whole question behind this thread is to obtain affordable solutions for small creative channels. The solutions does exist, but only big networks can pay that. I have learned IMHO that the content is the most valuable think for the future of small TV channels, but spending thousands of dollars for a software is out of the budget.
If you are working on a affordable solution for linux, believe me, many people out there will support that idea and pay a reasonable price.
Thank you for your interest in asking
bcoyle
Member
First off, Sorry, windows only program. Main design is public access station with pre-recorded content. The design target is to schedule shows similar to a network tv time slot. It automatically creates these timeslots. Does autofill,ads, psa, clips, playout, inserts, etc. It is not meant for a live studio. If you would like more details, pleas DM me. Support is via a discord server channel with support from members/volunteers. It also has language locale support. We currently have a news channel running in the netherlands and a new beta tester setting on a 6 town community access network with live ( town meetings) recorded feeds and older recordings. Plus they want to do an educational channel.
bcoyle
Member
Please tell me more about what you are trying to do?