The play-out carousel used by cherryEPG can be also used for playing custom chunks. Before this the chunk files need to be converted from .ts to cherry transport stream file format. At the moment this conversion is available only from command-line.
The input to the command is the path of the chunk file and some metadata in JSON format.
Required fields in the JSON formatted string are:
{
"dst": "239.10.10.10:5500",
"interval": 2000,
"title": "my testfile"
}
The fields are described here cherry transport stream file format.
An example of a final command-line string
cherryTool -U tesfile.ts '{"dst": "239.10.10.10:5500", "interval": 2000, "title": "my testfile"}'
The chunk will be imported and prepared for playing.
The initial state of the imported chunk is stopped and needs to be manually started from CLI or web-interface.
After succesfull upload we can list the content of the carousel with
cherryTool -C
which will show something like
cherryTool - v2.4.18 Copyright 2022 Bojan Ramšak
(flags: *-active playing, s-source .ets available, t-tmp file) Bitrate Size
Flags Chunk Title PID Destination [bps] [byte]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
s 20230818131822a my testfile 18 239.10.10.10:5500 752 188
* eit_033 Dynamic EIT 18 239.10.10.1:5500 690085 2587820
* eit_034 Dynamic EIT 18 239.10.10.2:5500 690085 2587820
* eit_035 Dynamic EIT 18 239.10.10.3:5500 238534 894504
=============================================================================================
3 active chunks
we can start playing the chunk from web interface or by simply running
cherryTool -p 20230818131822a
The imported chunk can be downloaded from the web interface and viewed/edited in the online table editor - psiGen just by drag-and-drop.