Post AlSXjlBVChTCpt64My by keen456@infosec.exchange
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(DIR) Post #AlRPlNgkXTFvkh0yI4 by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-28T23:36:07Z
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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.
(DIR) Post #AlRQ4Y604LLJX1xuaG by PatrickoftheG@mastodon.social
2024-08-28T23:39:50Z
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@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.
(DIR) Post #AlRQCFVh3OJuCqefM8 by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-28T23:40:41Z
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@PatrickoftheG yeah I keep meaning to do that. just some linux with a remote and VLC
(DIR) Post #AlRQN8LQ2IAtAS2UYS by PatrickoftheG@mastodon.social
2024-08-28T23:43:06Z
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@foone Only way to do it reasonably. A proper huge computer screen is just prohibitevely priced. I secretly hate that it's a smart TV but best I can do
(DIR) Post #AlRQW3pgBFxlmRRxzs by BustaMarx@corteximplant.com
2024-08-28T23:43:28Z
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@foone @PatrickoftheG This is my plan if (when) Roku finally enshittifies and starts serving ads directly through the HDMI input.Nice little SBC and accessories along a factory reset of the TV.
(DIR) Post #AlRREUJh4gLmf2fp8C by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-28T23:51:42Z
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clearly some should crowdfund the VLCBoxit'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
(DIR) Post #AlRRVG4lH6M7PtgaFE by gatewayy@mastodon.gatewayy.net
2024-08-28T23:54:45Z
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@foone I’m surprised that’s not already a thing?
(DIR) Post #AlRRd7bCfufnRXbrvM by alexhammy@hachyderm.io
2024-08-28T23:57:07Z
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@foone chromecast tho?
(DIR) Post #AlRRsaxLo9D4pwLb5U by eddieddieddie@mastodon.nz
2024-08-28T23:59:29Z
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@foone surely a Raspberry Pi image must exist for this purpose? Just image: write disk image to SD card, plug card to 'Pi, power on.
(DIR) Post #AlRSJSrG1cFBXUJFtA by zero@retroverse.social
2024-08-29T00:04:45Z
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@foone I've had good luck using LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi... just point it at the videos directory on my NAS and it largely worked as expected. My only complaint was that Kodi has *so* many options that everything feels like it takes more steps than it should... that, and my SD card kept getting corrupted, but I don't know if that was LibreELEC or the RPi that did it (no videos on the card, but all the scraped metadata and config).
(DIR) Post #AlRTplQqbQIsMlvDzU by Di4na@hachyderm.io
2024-08-29T00:22:05Z
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@foone the fun part ofc is that it is what vlc was built for originally...
(DIR) Post #AlRU0UrQYRhE9mTLFI by the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-08-29T00:23:19Z
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@foone an SD card slot and/or USB A port would be cool so we can read off hard media.
(DIR) Post #AlRUAJkkhvDKbR26tM by artandtechnic@digipres.club
2024-08-29T00:25:42Z
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@foone All we need is a 2024 version of the WD TV. Still shocked that this turned out to be one of the best purchases that I ever made. You just point it to your share (or attached drive), and it plays it (MP4/MKV).Dead simple, stupid reliable.
(DIR) Post #AlRUGXFvPvuSDbZwQq by cargot_robbie@urbanists.social
2024-08-29T00:26:09Z
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@foone Jellyfin has been good to me. I have had trouble with some x265 files, though, although I think that's a Roku problem.
(DIR) Post #AlRUftvmFVRTmdFYum by mattcen@aus.social
2024-08-29T00:31:34Z
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@foone wait what's this with plex and stand-up comedy?
(DIR) Post #AlRWV0pCTeBPt56poO by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-29T00:51:47Z
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@drwho ahh, I forgot kodi! I don't think I'm currently awake enough to remember why I hate kodi.
(DIR) Post #AlRYJx6KBKLZ3qyNcm by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2024-08-29T01:12:16Z
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@foone I've used all three and I don't know what the stand up comedy thing with Plex is?
(DIR) Post #AlRZSBLnBbn3WfhDDk by hmoffatt@mastodon.au
2024-08-29T01:24:47Z
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@foone I run MythTV here and occasionally my video playback is literally just green on black. Like watching on an 80s PC monitor.
(DIR) Post #AlRhguEtt24AQx0KBM by AndySHastings@aus.social
2024-08-29T02:53:37Z
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@foone this is what I do on my TV, just use the VLC app to play via smb share from the NAS
(DIR) Post #AlRwkbMxUA8uNczfFY by kawa@mas.to
2024-08-29T05:45:51Z
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@foone surely you mean a VLC cone.
(DIR) Post #AlRyojQreJS8SBuxF2 by foone@digipres.club
2024-08-29T06:09:11Z
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@kawa good point
(DIR) Post #AlS4SIbXJUhsbQb0LI by mariejulien@mastodon.social
2024-08-29T07:11:41Z
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@foone basically Kodi.
(DIR) Post #AlSXjlBVChTCpt64My by keen456@infosec.exchange
2024-08-29T12:39:35Z
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@foone As silly as it sounds, maybe an Android streaming box? You get Kodi, Jellyfin, native hardware acceleration, and depending on the box, full HD/UHD codec & HDR support. Otherwise, one of those mini PCs plus LibreElec should give you enough power to run & store everything. I've got a silly one by Verizon.
(DIR) Post #AlSdXK6KfmRf5X8Dr6 by quikkie@infosec.exchange
2024-08-29T13:43:39Z
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@foone while I'm not generally an apple fanboy, the Apple TV with the Infuse app will literally play anything (just like VLC).
(DIR) Post #AlSm4g7sbYkiaSGspE by Taffer@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-08-29T15:19:20Z
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@foone I stopped trying to use the TV garbage software and installed VLC, working great so far
(DIR) Post #AlTdT8xeLMvwXP2N5E by puck@mastodon.nz
2024-08-30T00:55:21Z
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@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.
(DIR) Post #AlTorpITgr6eHnkfSK by haleyem@disabled.social
2024-08-30T03:18:51Z
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@foone all these different attempts at making a fancy movie picker and nobody has done something that works more reliably that just sticking video files in a few folders and picking the one I want out of it. I never saw the point of Plex and jellyfish when I can just stick my movies in an SMB folder.
(DIR) Post #AlfBhN3UGyXtU6HaCm by griibor@mas.to
2024-09-04T15:03:12Z
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@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.