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About the only thing I miss is some of the "new" material on streaming services.

But, like, am I really missing anything?

Like 14 June at 3:32 | Open on linuxmom.net

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Andres Jalinton

@vkc there are tools for getting the latest *cof cof* Sonarr

14 June at 3:34 | Open on mastodon.hardcoredevs.com

Switch

@vkc You're just being reasonable and waiting to see if you're still interested in a few months. :)

14 June at 3:34 | Open on tenforward.social

Robert "Anaerin" Johnston

@vkc There are some methods (*cough* arrs) to get those, which often become available within an hour of their air time.

14 June at 3:36 | Open on kind.social

Evil Roda

@vkc You're not gonna believe this, but I have a solution, if you're willing to earn your sea legs...

14 June at 3:36 | Open on wandering.shop

Elias Mårtenson

@vkc I also enjoy Jellyfin, and I have to say that I agree with everything you said.

The one issue I have with it is that the Chromecast integration is not very reliable. I'm partly replying to your message to see if anyone has a suggestion for a replacement (which will also remove one more dependency on Google)

14 June at 3:38 | Open on functional.cafe

clover

@loke @vkc I know it's not quite what you're going for but I keep a spare computer plugged into my TV. Not exactly ideal as far as user interface goes but I can also run some light games on it and watch youtube with sponsorblock and such

14 June at 3:48 | Open on tech.lgbt

Elias Mårtenson

@stringlapse @vkc that's probably what I'll go for. What software are you using on the computer? XBMC seems fine?

14 June at 4:39 | Open on functional.cafe

frigginGlorious ✅

@loke @vkc so what's jellyfin doing?

I've got a synology NAS serving up a folder of videos. And I can pull up that folder from webOS on my LG smart TV. Not sure how... I didn't have to futz with much.

I had no idea this tech would work this cool when I bought it... but damn it's working great.

I don't get cool art and stuff. But I also don't require 3rd party app support. So I think my setup is better?

14 June at 3:49 | Open on freeradical.zone

フェリックスたん

@loke@functional.cafe @vkc@linuxmom.net @frigginglorious@freeradical.zone go with Kodi?

14 June at 4:59 | Open on misskey.io

firebreathingduck

@frigginglorious @loke @vkc
With my Jellyfin server plus the Nebula open source private cloud (bit of a hassle to set up, but free) and my fast internet connection, we can watch our Jellyfin collection on Roku, iOS, Android, and PCs at home and anywhere else there's fast internet. I can't setup Nebula on ChromeOS so my kids can only watch from Chromebooks at home.

So, pretty cool.

The downside is that in order to have media that plays with high quality and low stuttering on low end devices, you either need a beefy server running Jellyfin to transcode on the fly *or* you have to make sure your content is all in a universal format. I set up a shell script that used ffmpeg to transcode 3 TB of films on a low end desktop over almost a year. Now everything is... MP4 with H264, eac3, and burned in subtitles.

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14 June at 15:47 | Open on social.vivaldi.net

frigginGlorious ✅

@firebreathingduck @loke @vkc oh no, burned in close captioning is my personal nightmare. Though I don't agree with what you do, I'll defend to the death your right to do it!

So from what im seeing, jellyfin is a lot like Plex.

On the fly transcoding is such cool tech.

I forgot about nebula. I'll have to check it out one of these days.

14 June at 16:32 | Open on freeradical.zone

A January Sponge

@loke @vkc I know it's jumping from one evil company to another but the best decision I ever made was dumping my Chromecast and switching to a Fire TV stick.

14 June at 4:07 | Open on kind.social

Adam

@retrosponge @loke @vkc I think it works great on Roku.

14 June at 5:16 | Open on tenforward.social

Sam Dalfuss :verified_gay:

@loke @vkc I traded my Chromecast for a RasPi 5 running LibreELEC and KODI. It's not as polished and has a lot of issues too, but at least .ass subtitles load reliably 😅

14 June at 11:53 | Open on corteximplant.com

Chris P. :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣

@vkc You ARE missing things. Great things. Things worth the price of admission, truly. There's a lot of good television on streaming services right now.

But, frankly, I'm still considering cancelling all the streaming services and falling back to my home theater server.

14 June at 3:42 | Open on hachyderm.io