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Creating My Own Linux-Based Smart TV
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Re: Creating My Own Linux-Based Smart TV
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use it primarily with my own Jellyfin instance, but there are Netflix, Disney+ and pretty much anything you can think of plugins. The YouTube irritatingly complicated to get working, but then there are "play on kodi" plugins for various browser so you can flip what you're watching to the big screen. It's really an amazing project.
Out of interest, why do you use Kodi as a frontend rather than a native Jellyfin client?
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/
No more transcoding and/or demuxing subtitles on the server
Also the more mature/retro UI, although you can skin it like Jellyfin’s web UI or like yet another streaming service if you prefer
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#33After over 25 years of building various HTPCs (with various assortments of timeshiftimg PVRs like Windows Media, XBMC, Kodi, SageTV, SnapStream, MythTV, TVheadend etc, and futzing with MPEG video-in cards on Windows, RSS feeds, etc), various other TV boxes like Popcorn Hour, and nasty Android TV boxes, I finally settled on the AppleTV 4K paired with Plex server running on Debian on an old HP EliteBook laptop.
Life is too short for messing around with these sort of sub-optimal workarounds in 2024, when there are now finally great affordable fuss-free tech out there.
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#34Is there any benefit of using a laptop rather than a pi?
A Pi would probably not be allowed full HD quality on most web streaming sites, it would not have hardware accelerated decoding of the DRM'ed video stream and the CPU is probably too weak to do software decoding.
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#35After over 25 years of building various HTPCs (with various assortments of timeshiftimg PVRs like Windows Media, XBMC, Kodi, SageTV, SnapStream, MythTV, TVheadend etc, and futzing with MPEG video-in cards on Windows, RSS feeds, etc), various other TV boxes like Popcorn Hour, and nasty Android TV boxes, I finally settled on the AppleTV 4K paired with Plex server running on Debian on an old HP EliteBook laptop. Life is…
im in the same boat as you. i have a roku currently talking to my jellyfin server running on my pi and a few months ago roku decided there needed to be more adds and it really has killed what little speed the roku had to begin with
definitely eyeing an apple 4k tv and getting a lifetime subscription to the infuse player
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#36I bought a couple of those gyro-mouse/keyboards, exact same model! Using them is pretty awful! The gyro doesn't feel right (don't know how to explain it, it's nowhere near as natural as a WiiMote). And laying it down without, you know, moving the mouse which usually brings up controls in a video player is impossible. Not to mention how often you'll lay it down and the mouse will go to an edge of the screen, causing t…
I also gave up on the "air mouse" things as too jiggly and random, and got a mini thumb keyboard with a touchpad on it. I ended up with an older & cheaper version of this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01GCPVZDW