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Jellyfin 10.10.0

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Re: Jellyfin 10.10.0

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Post by harrigan »

For me, Jellyfin makes my smart TV (running webOS) tolerable. It turns the TV into the appliance it should have been from the start, without ads, AI assistants, or silly apps.

Re: Jellyfin 10.10.0

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Post by RadiozRadioz »

harrigan wrote: post #2

For me, Jellyfin makes my smart TV (running webOS) tolerable. It turns the TV into the appliance it should have been from the start, without ads, AI assistants, or silly apps.

Yes, it is becoming increasingly difficult to buy a non-smart TV. I don't like living in a world where my TV can crash or be down for a software update (which have both happened to me). They're also ticking time-bombs - who knows when support will be dropped and the apps will slowly break as they gradually fall out of compatibility with the external APIs they depend on. What horrors lurk in the depths of those lovelessly constructed TV OSs that call out to servers and will cause mayhem when those servers are decommissioned?

Re: Jellyfin 10.10.0

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Post by al_borland »

RadiozRadioz wrote: post #3
harrigan wrote: post #2

For me, Jellyfin makes my smart TV (running webOS) tolerable. It turns the TV into the appliance it should have been from the start, without ads, AI assistants, or silly apps.

Yes, it is becoming increasingly difficult to buy a non-smart TV. I don't like living in a world where my TV can crash or be down for a software update (which have both happened to me). They're also ticking time-bombs - who knows when support will be dropped and the apps will slowly break as they gradually fall out of compatibility with the external APIs they depend on. What horrors lurk in the depths of those lovele…

My dad had a Blu-ray player that had similar features to a smart TV (Netflix, etc). There was a licensing sever and the API was down, so everything stopped working. A single point of failure for the whole device.

Re: Jellyfin 10.10.0

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Post by deadbunny »

RadiozRadioz wrote: post #3
harrigan wrote: post #2

For me, Jellyfin makes my smart TV (running webOS) tolerable. It turns the TV into the appliance it should have been from the start, without ads, AI assistants, or silly apps.

Yes, it is becoming increasingly difficult to buy a non-smart TV. I don't like living in a world where my TV can crash or be down for a software update (which have both happened to me). They're also ticking time-bombs - who knows when support will be dropped and the apps will slowly break as they gradually fall out of compatibility with the external APIs they depend on. What horrors lurk in the depths of those lovele…

> What horrors lurk in the depths of those lovelessly constructed TV OSs that call out to servers and will cause mayhem when those servers are decommissioned?

My Sony TVs all work without an internet connection, so I'd guess nothing?

Re: Jellyfin 10.10.0

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Post by s17tnet »

RadiozRadioz wrote: post #3
harrigan wrote: post #2

For me, Jellyfin makes my smart TV (running webOS) tolerable. It turns the TV into the appliance it should have been from the start, without ads, AI assistants, or silly apps.

Yes, it is becoming increasingly difficult to buy a non-smart TV. I don't like living in a world where my TV can crash or be down for a software update (which have both happened to me). They're also ticking time-bombs - who knows when support will be dropped and the apps will slowly break as they gradually fall out of compatibility with the external APIs they depend on. What horrors lurk in the depths of those lovele…

Keep them airgapped or use a smart HDMI stick, their support typically outperform anything from the TV vendor and you can install apps (e.g. Jellyfin) on them. If you dislike Google or Amazon there are some Linux based options.

There is also HDMI over-radio but I don't know its limits (range, bandwidth, latency).

Re: Jellyfin 10.10.0

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Post by pridkett »

al_borland wrote: post #4
RadiozRadioz wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it is becoming increasingly difficult to buy a non-smart TV. I don't like living in a world where my TV can crash or be down for a software update (which have both happened to me). They're also ticking time-bombs - who knows when support will be dropped and the apps will slowly break as they gradually fall out of compatibility with the external APIs they depend on. What horrors lurk in the depths of those lovele…

My dad had a Blu-ray player that had similar features to a smart TV (Netflix, etc). There was a licensing sever and the API was down, so everything stopped working. A single point of failure for the whole device.

That might’ve also been the September 6, 2022 Google Widevine license issue. This broke DRM protected content across most android based devices.

It wasn’t a single point of failure for a device. It was a single point of failure for the whole media ecosystem.

[0]: https://status.drmtoday.com/incidents/w2wbtnn9r67y

Re: Jellyfin 10.10.0

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Post by compsciphd »

sebazzz wrote: post #8

I wonder why anyone would use Jellyfin4Kodi, because Kodi does a good job by itself?

because you want to access your library from multiple locations and have everything kept in sync.

ex: started watching a show on tv at home, left to take public transportation to work, continue watching on way to work on phone, continue watchin on phone on way home, continue watching on tv when get home.

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