Someday someone will invent a way to let you watch video files on your TV and it'll just work and it won't do weird things like "you can't watch stand up comedy" (plex) or "only 30% of your files will play" (dlna) or "if you have a video split into two halves, it can only see the first half" (jellyfin)
That'll be a cool day.
Patrick
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •I've been using a crappy giant smart television hooked up to a computer via HDMI. One input away from all the files you could ever watch, also it makes computer gaming a treat.
Wireless mouse and keyboard are pretty cheap these days too.
An idea at least.
Foone🏳️⚧️
in reply to Patrick • • •Patrick
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •./glitch_fu.sh 🇵🇸
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Nice little SBC and accessories along a factory reset of the TV.
silverwizard
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • •@Foone🏳️⚧️ @Patrick xine has a remote mode so you can control it from another SSH session, so you can just leave it fullscreened on the TV and then issue commands to any connected SSH session
Something... I... have never had... as my primary... mediaserver
Heathen 🐈
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Why is this still a complete shit show?
Wait, I have answers to that myself. We have a projector that does video files and I had to teach my spouse about codecs and containers because you can't update the firmware in the projector. Good thing for him I've been doing dvd to file rips for almost 2 decades now.
Foone🏳️⚧️
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •it's a little box that runs VLC (WITH UPDATES) and nothing else. it just talks to ethernet or wifi and shoves videos out an HDMI port
Fi, infosec-aspected 🏳️⚧️ reshared this.
Brett Elliff
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Eddie
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Thomas Depierre
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •The Turtle
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Andrew Hastings
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Kawaoneechan
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Foone🏳️⚧️
in reply to Kawaoneechan • • •Marie et Julien
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Dave Pimlott
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Andrew
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •and there should be some settings to let you take in HDMI from a port and multicast it to other receivers.
I have two sets of commercial versions of this kit. Both use vlc, both are proprietary, can't buy more receivers, and both are really shitty.
Ze_ro
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Bri | 🚴📦💨✨ | 🏳️🌈
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Matt Cengia
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •The Doctor
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Foone🏳️⚧️
in reply to The Doctor • • •Plan A to Y
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •I've used all three and I don't know what the stand up comedy thing with Plex is?
Edit: I mean I've never heard of that before
Hamish M
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Steve Zakulec
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Taffer 🇨🇦
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Haley
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •Phillip K Name
in reply to Foone🏳️⚧️ • • •telling nginx to make an autoindex page from my media library is still the most straightforward hosting experience I've ever had.
Didn't even choke the pi3 I was running it on, like DLNA/samba did.