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Re: A website for debloated open source alternatives

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Post by piaste »

hnlmorg wrote: post #2

In the TV and Media section ( https://debloat.dev/c/tv-media ) there are 11 recommendations and 4 of them are XBMC. There used to be so many options for media centres. What happened?

I think it's just a pretty consolidated space? Kind of like ebook management, which was dominated by Calibre for so many years (this changed recently).

But unlike ebooks, media centre management is a fair bit more complex since it involves supporting many different media formats and many forms of acceleration or transcoding.

So the big projects - Kodi for local media and Jellyfin for streaming - have a lot of inertia because they tend to support whatever you throw at them.

Re: A website for debloated open source alternatives

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

piaste wrote: post #3
hnlmorg wrote: post #2

In the TV and Media section ( https://debloat.dev/c/tv-media ) there are 11 recommendations and 4 of them are XBMC. There used to be so many options for media centres. What happened?

I think it's just a pretty consolidated space? Kind of like ebook management, which was dominated by Calibre for so many years (this changed recently). But unlike ebooks, media centre management is a fair bit more complex since it involves supporting many different media formats and many forms of acceleration or transcoding. So the big projects - Kodi for local media and Jellyfin for streaming - have a lot of inertia…

It's logical, but the low variety is disappointing nonetheless and makes it more likely than none of the available options are well-suited to one's needs/desires.

In the case of media management, ffmpeg is easily usable with just about every programming language in existence and its usage is extremely well-trodden at this point, which makes the vacuum of newer alternatives to the XBMC lineage all the more puzzling.

Re: A website for debloated open source alternatives

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Post by moron4hire »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #6

suckless.org?

"Use /* */ for comments, not //."

I find stuff like this hilarious. No software project has ever failed, or even slow down one iota, because of the comment style. This is just someone's personal "ick" masquerading as "coding standards."

EDIT: I think it has actually been becoming a dad of two boys that has absolutely killed my patience for this kind of thing. A lot of it is so similar to how my children argue with each other over absolutely trivial things. Add in the way they say "I don't like that" as "that's not fair" (my children) or "that's not consistent" (the bike shedding nerds) and it just makes me want to scream, "stop whining!"

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