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Re: TV: Now What?

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Post by foobiekr »

eatbitseveryday wrote: post #112
foobiekr wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Jellyfin user experience would be a ton better if the client app for the iphone/ipad actually took advantage of local playback instead of relying on transcoding. Random seeks, rewinds, and especially subtitles timing are all better if the client is just accessing a file stream. This is especially true as the codecs change and the on-NAS GPUs fall behind due to the lifecycle differences.

Run the Infuse client and point it to your Jellyfin instance.

SwiftFin seems to do the job, but this is also a good suggestion.

Re: TV: Now What?

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Post by firesteelrain »

scarface_74 wrote: post #149
firesteelrain wrote: post #148

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You are incredibly cocky and arrogant.

I would say that you are incredibly insulting to most people if you think they can’t use apps in 2023 after a decade and a half of smart phone usage

You are very inexperienced I can tell and it is obvious from your immaturity, cockiness and arrogance

Re: TV: Now What?

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Post by hakfoo »

jmbwell wrote: post #15

The fragmentation is both a flaw and a feature. It means we have diversity in media vendors, at the cost of a pretty high cognitive load to just watch something… which app is it on? What’s the account login? Search the device main search, then go to each app and do its own individual search. All while dodging ads and autoplay and “what’s new” and “for you.” It sucks for users. But it also sucks for developers, who ha…

The answer is mandatory licensing. Maybe permit some limited ability to offer a very narrow window of exclusivity (weeks, not years) in exchange for getting a lower rate later (because we should treat attempts to wall off parts of shared culture as a an antisocial act, rather than a nifty business model.)

Every platform can have everything, at a predictable standardized rate card, so they can compete on their own merits:

* We have the best CDN/apps/software support * We have a better recommendation/discovery experience (which could include "positive curation" like "we could license everything, but our niche is Namibian Sitcoms From 1983, so we won't") * We'll cut corners (lesser encoding quality to save disc/bandwidth, or no bespoke speculative content creation) to deliver the cheapest possible experience.

The "content people" and "tech people" come from different universes with different skills and expectations, and having to wrangle the two into individual platform teams helps nobody.

Re: TV: Now What?

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Post by scarface_74 »

firesteelrain wrote: post #162
scarface_74 wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would say that you are incredibly insulting to most people if you think they can’t use apps in 2023 after a decade and a half of smart phone usage

You are very inexperienced I can tell and it is obvious from your immaturity, cockiness and arrogance

Hint: it’s not hard to figure out my approximate age from my user name…

Re: TV: Now What?

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Post by fragmede »

scarface_74 wrote: post #164
firesteelrain wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are very inexperienced I can tell and it is obvious from your immaturity, cockiness and arrogance

Hint: it’s not hard to figure out my approximate age from my user name…

"Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it."

-George Bernard Shaw

Re: TV: Now What?

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Post by _8j50 »

petepete wrote: post #24
_8j50 wrote: post #4

The thing is, apps for TVs work relativley well. If I could run something in an RPI that accepts infrared remote control as an input device and have run all the drm-y media services, and have it work reliably with low maintenance, I would much prefer that! If Amazon makes their custom Linux OS open source and allow users to modify and update the fire tv sticks, that would be even better!

If your TV supports CEC you'll be able to control your Raspberry Pi with your TV remote. It works perfectly with OpenELEC, I suspect other platforms are fine too.

Damn! This why I love HN! Thanks, I never heard of CEC before and will look into it.

Re: TV: Now What?

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Post by petepete »

_8j50 wrote: post #166
petepete wrote: post #24

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If your TV supports CEC you'll be able to control your Raspberry Pi with your TV remote. It works perfectly with OpenELEC, I suspect other platforms are fine too.

Damn! This why I love HN! Thanks, I never heard of CEC before and will look into it.

No problem. Unfortunately every TV company has its own name for it (Anynet, Simplink, Bravia Sync) which doesn't make it obvious it's a proper standard.

Re: TV: Now What?

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Post by melagonster »

scarface_74 wrote: post #145
melagonster wrote: post #135

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yes, switching between Netflix and Disney plus actually is difficult. usually, people just give up to use it.

People have become accustomed to using apps since 2008. I assure that most people - including my 80 year old dad - knows how to switch applications.

unfortunately, my father know this, but I just give up to watch TV.
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