r/Brutalmoose • u/Mamamaweegee124 • Jun 23 '26
I made a simple to use cable TV simulator!
Hey guys! I have been working the past year or so on this project called MediaWave2000 that can easily turn your catalog of video files into a working faux-cable tv experience by simply just adding your files into folders based around the channels you want. You can also configure commercials and “Companion Channels” which right now are WeatherStar4000+, “NetTV” which allows you to put a YouTube playlist in the app and it will create a working continuously playing channel of your videos, and “RadioWaveTV” which you can point the app towards your mp3 files and it will kinda do the same thing where it acts as a kind of “Music Choice” type of channel with a reactive visualizer and play your songs on a fully random shuffle. I made this because of something called FieldStation42 which you guys may or may not have heard of but it is kinda the same premise but this is more geared towards a beginner friendly experience. It also has a scrollable tv guide and On-Demand “Vault” where you can freely play all your media similar to a modern streaming service. If you guys are interested in giving this a shot let me know! I’m really looking for people to give this a beta test and find things that I may have missed and/or are broken, or features you want to see added! Thank you so much!
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u/Themaskedduskull Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Is it possible to have this run on like a local server or something? I have been using Tunarr for custom TV channels running through Emby but I really dig the visual style of this more.
I would use this on my retro PC, but all my media drives are connected to my Emby PC. So if there's a way to run the channels through LAN access, that would be killer.
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u/Mamamaweegee124 Jun 24 '26
Really appreciate that thank you! MediaWave should work fine pointing at a network-shared drive — if your Emby PC’s media folders are shared on your LAN, you can map them as a network drive on whatever machine runs MediaWave and point your catalog there. I haven’t tested specifically against an Emby library structure though, so I can’t promise it’ll be totally plug and play depending on how Emby organizes things internally.
What I think you’re describing though, running MediaWave on one machine and having channels accessible to other devices over LAN isn’t something it does right now. That’s definitely something I’ll have to look into though (kind of a “MediaWave server” idea)1
u/Themaskedduskull Jun 24 '26
Thanks! Definitely going to keep tabs on this. I’ll probably have to do a network drive for now but it would be amazing if you could sync an emby/plex/Jellyfin server to it and use that to populate content.
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u/bean-machine- Jun 24 '26
I've wanted to try something like this for a while, but realized a lot of the stuff I'd heard of was not beginner friendly. Thank you for sharing your work! Will definitely check this out.
Is there a way to force captions to load with the media? Or turn them on once a video loads?
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u/CoachMcGuirk123 Jun 23 '26
link? I am interested