If you're up for using Jellyfin and have satellite devices, you can check out something I'm working on to achieve this: https://github.com/MattMckenzy/Homehook
The main branch was compatible with chromecast devices, but I've stopped maintaining it in favor of the v2 branch, where HomeHook communicates directly with satellite devices through HomeCast.
Let me know if you have any questions about it, always glad to help!
You can check out something I made to help me grab and organize things like this, can help with artwork too if you find a good thumbnail:
You could try out something I whipped up for this and see if it works for you: https://github.com/MattMckenzy/ToothPick
It's meant to periodically scan the locations for new content, so yes, newly added ones will be downloaded as well. By default it scans every 10 minutes!
As for channels, it supports any web page that yt-dlp can parse as a playlist, so more than likely whatever kind of page you're thinking of will work as well!
yt-dlp is impressively compatible.
I've just added images and more descriptions about each page of the web application in the GitHub readme. It should provide a nice overview now!
I've just added images and more descriptions on each page in the GitHub readme, should provide a nice overview now!
ToothPick is a web application that lets you easily subscribe to media playlist web pages, it'll use yt-dlp to fetch the media and download them in a directory and file format that is perfect for Jellyfin.
If you create a Jellyfin library that points to the ToothPick library and make sure you turn on file watching, you immediately get the content in Jellyfin without any intervention!
It doesn't directly integrate with Jellyfin, but it does store the media in a directory and file format that works well with it. I use it to subscribe to media playlist pages that yt-dlp supports and I get them added to Jellyfin automatically.
I was considering adding pictures when I have the chance, I'll see if I can do it later!
That's a great suggestion!
ToothPick was more built for a set it and forget it style of yt-dlp usage, but I've definitely had to add ad-hoc pages like this before so this would be a great feature to have.
I hadn't even realized VSCodium has it's own extension marketplace, I hadn't used it myself. Thanks for prompting me on this, I went ahead and published it there too! https://open-vsx.org/extension/ctfam/btrfs-file-history
Hopefully my namespace gets verified soon and the warning will go away.
I haven't really distributed any binaries yet, everything I work on is just FOSS at https://github.com/MattMckenzy.
However, I did look into packaging my HomeCast project in my own debian apt repository. It's still unsigned at the moment, but when I get to it I imagine I'll just use dpkg and gnupg2 however I need to.
If you're up for using Jellyfin, you can check out something I'm working on to achieve this: https://github.com/MattMckenzy/Homehook
The main branch used to be compatible with chromecast devices, but I've stopped maintaining it in favor of the v2 branch, where HomeHook communicates directly with satellite devices through HomeCast. Working with Chromecasts were a huge pain.
Let me know if you have any questions about it, always glad to help!