Man what can’t you do with a Wii? Didn’t someone post an article the other detailing how they booted Mac OS X on it?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691730
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WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
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Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
What more does Plex need? I would consider myself a power user of Plex and it does everything I need it to do. I would think the only thing I can think of is fully self-hosted login instead of their cloud option, but I'm glad we have that option because I don't want to handle the authentication of my friends and family
The last time I was involved in a thread like this, I was banned from r/plex. I pointed out that Plex should do ebooks. It is a natural fit. They keep track of how far in a series or a show you are, they could keep track of where you are in a book. Many of the Plex idioms transfer well. It has a clear visual style that helps you to pick out the shows you might try, or shows like those you've already watched. BUT IT'S…
I just want to throw out that you might like Kavita for a comic/book server. It's built to feel like Plex. https://www.kavitareader.com/
I do agree that Plex doesn't seem like a good fit for books and comics. The first major hurdle is the lack of a singular metadata source that Plex can hook into for metadata - although this year has shifted with Hardcover and MangaBaka. Plex also uses a filename parsing mechanism (like Kavita does) which has drawbacks since books and comics have an extremely wide variety of naming conventions and lack of good tooling.
Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#93Noticed that Jellyfin had inched out Plex when sorting by popularity on the TrueNAS app catalogue the other day (45,178 installs vs Plex's 42,225). The existance of this project seems to confirm that the dev ecosystem around it is getting stronger!
When I had to decide between Plex and Jellyfin, I noticed that with Plex it was mandatory to have an account even when self-hosting (!) so I'm not sure whether it's better or worse than Jellyfin, I just didn't bother trying it out because of that.
Plex is aimed for a simple ease-of-use experience, so if you aren't technical enough to setup a reverse proxy, Plex offers all the authentication and proxying for you.
It's not a true self-hosted software. It just depends on what matters most to you.
Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
What more does Plex need? I would consider myself a power user of Plex and it does everything I need it to do. I would think the only thing I can think of is fully self-hosted login instead of their cloud option, but I'm glad we have that option because I don't want to handle the authentication of my friends and family
The last time I was involved in a thread like this, I was banned from r/plex. I pointed out that Plex should do ebooks. It is a natural fit. They keep track of how far in a series or a show you are, they could keep track of where you are in a book. Many of the Plex idioms transfer well. It has a clear visual style that helps you to pick out the shows you might try, or shows like those you've already watched. BUT IT'S…
Have you checked out Audiobookshelf? Relatively easy to self-host, can do podcasts, audiobooks, ebooks, comics. A few different clients you can use (https://abstoolbox.vito0912.de/clients has some of the more popular ones - Plappa is pretty nice).
Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
What more does Plex need? I would consider myself a power user of Plex and it does everything I need it to do. I would think the only thing I can think of is fully self-hosted login instead of their cloud option, but I'm glad we have that option because I don't want to handle the authentication of my friends and family
* IPTV support (xtream codes etc.) yes proxies exist like Dispatcharr but first class support would be better * Better iOS/tvOS/OSX video playback (just buy Infuse because it can play so many titles the Plex player cannot) * Add full context menus everywhere. Playlists are virtually useless for anything other than playback in order or randomly. Why can't I multi-select items on a playlist and move them to another pla…
> Subtitle settings turn off between episodes
There is actually a way to fix this! Log in and navigate to: https://app.plex.tv/desktop/#!/settings/account
On this page, scroll down past the Security section to Audio & Subtitle Settings under Settings, and edit the account-wide language settings there.
One caveat; any movies or shows you’ve already watched with subtitles not enabled will still have subtitles not enabled.
Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
What more does Plex need? I would consider myself a power user of Plex and it does everything I need it to do. I would think the only thing I can think of is fully self-hosted login instead of their cloud option, but I'm glad we have that option because I don't want to handle the authentication of my friends and family
The last time I was involved in a thread like this, I was banned from r/plex. I pointed out that Plex should do ebooks. It is a natural fit. They keep track of how far in a series or a show you are, they could keep track of where you are in a book. Many of the Plex idioms transfer well. It has a clear visual style that helps you to pick out the shows you might try, or shows like those you've already watched. BUT IT'S…
I disagree personally and feel there are better solutions already out there
I was furious when they removed podcasts as they are a fit for the platform and it seems like they just didn't want to maintain them anymore.
Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#97We really got a client for the Nintendo Wii before a usable one for tvOS.
Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Get your elderly mother an Apple TV and infuse, then connect with Tailscale. It’s pretty friggin’ smooth in daily operation. Apple TV’s UI is no easier to get lost in than Roku, and actually has fewer pitfalls if you toggle one setting (the one that makes one home tap open the Apple TV app, and a second press while in that app actually go home, by default; switch that to always go home on any press of that button no…
Perhaps. Y'all (collectively) have some good ideas. But she likes the Roku. She's even got silicone skins for the remotes (plural; spares!), and two of them are tethered near the chairs that her and dad tend to sit in. Also: The Roku stuff already exists, and is paid for, and it works with Plex (without a VPN, because my local Plex container didn't come with the caveat to avoid exposing it to the world). Buying them…
A couple of other options:
If their router supports it, configure the VPN there so it's available for the entire network.
Set up a Raspberry Pi (or similar) on their network that is configured with the VPN and runs a reverse proxy to expose the Jellyfin instance.
But yeah, either of those is going to increase your support burden.
Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
What more does Plex need? I would consider myself a power user of Plex and it does everything I need it to do. I would think the only thing I can think of is fully self-hosted login instead of their cloud option, but I'm glad we have that option because I don't want to handle the authentication of my friends and family
* IPTV support (xtream codes etc.) yes proxies exist like Dispatcharr but first class support would be better * Better iOS/tvOS/OSX video playback (just buy Infuse because it can play so many titles the Plex player cannot) * Add full context menus everywhere. Playlists are virtually useless for anything other than playback in order or randomly. Why can't I multi-select items on a playlist and move them to another pla…
Adding to the list: postgres (or any real db) support. I’ve had to repair their SQLite db so many times. It’s so common they have a help guide on it too and folks have made automated scripts to do it for you.
Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#100Noticed that Jellyfin had inched out Plex when sorting by popularity on the TrueNAS app catalogue the other day (45,178 installs vs Plex's 42,225). The existance of this project seems to confirm that the dev ecosystem around it is getting stronger!
Can anyone comment on the security of Jellyfin? When I had last looked into it, it seemed like Jellyfin had a somewhat weak security model that made me question switching family members to it from Plex.
It’s still a mess and any suggestions to fix it are met with hostility which is a shame because I’d love to use it. Last I checked there were still endpoints not behind auth that exposed stuff you’d probably not want exposed.