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Is there anyone who could point me to a way to get this running and served up via a stream that is consumable via VLC?

I have an hdhomreun and watch my antenna via IPTV apps and would love to have a personal “weather channel” on my TV.

I’ve looked in to this in the past, using a node program to take screenshots of the page and try to splice things together with ffmpeg but it was quite awful and didn't work well.

I also wasn’t sure how to have this all ‘spin up’ when the stream is accessed, vs running all the time…but I suppose that is less important.

I'll take any advice! Thank you!



You should be able to get this done with OBS.

Set OBS up so your streaming a window of this application.

Go into OBS settings and go to "Stream" and set it to custom.

For server use "srt://127.0.0.1:7777?mode=listener&timeout=50000&transtype=live"

Then in VLC, open a network stream for srt://127.0.0.1:7777.


  Xvfb :1 -screen 0 640x480x16 &
  export DISPLAY=:1.0
  firefox -kiosk [URL] &
  gst-launch-1.0 ! (ask llm tbf) ! udpsrc




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