• entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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            1 year ago

            AFAIK there isn’t a plugin for parsing that website, sending searches to it, and retrieving the appropriate stream.

            You could write some code that could do that or you could use that site to expose the underlying m3u8 playlist for an individual file, drop that link in a text file, then name it as a .strm file and position the file such that JF picks it up as a video, but otherwise this website’s formatting is rather bespoke and I’m not aware of any JF plugins that allow for searching and dynamically adding content from any other on-demand streaming sites.

            Which existing plugins were you thinking of? I’m a coder so maybe I can point out some of the differences/technical issues for you.

              • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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                1 year ago

                Right, OK.

                Those plugins parse live streams from specific sources. This website searches other websites for on-demand videos and returns links to them wrapped in an HTML5 video player for your convenience.

                Jellyfin can handle a live stream (as in, a set of TV channels that it can tune in to) via one of these plugins, but that’s an altogether different process than hooking it up to this website.

                I’m not saying it can’t be done, to be clear. It can. It’s just this would need a new plugin for Jellyfin and it’d be substantially more work than those plugins for the reasons I’ve outlined.

  • Nine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Neat idea, would be interesting if it used your own content from DLNA, Jellyfin, etc. The code looks simple enough that it should be possible to add a plug-in/provider for that stuff.

    I think that it’s not going to have a long lifespan though. Being a simple and easy front end for various streaming sites might paint a target on it. Rightly or Wrongly.

    I can see it having a longer life if it were to integrate some other technologies aside from the above like IPFS, BitTorrent, etc. The libraries to do that are already readily accessible eg LibP2P. Though that again might paint a bigger target.

    Either way it’s definitely really neat and I’m sure a fun project to fork and explore if someone is feeling up to that kind of work.