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People into Jellyfin use smart TVs? I haven't connected mine to the internet.
Not every Jellyfin user is also the server administrator. If someone sets up a server and shares that server with 5 people, most of those users aren't concerned with the privacy implications of how they connect to the server; they just want to consume content as easily as they do with Netflix, Disney, etc.
Not every Jellyfin user is also the server administrator.
That's true but every Jellyfin host has to be.
I do? I don't love Android TV but I only have so much time to fight to the good fight with shit.
I would like a less smart tv but I don't want to by a 7 year old Nvidia Shield and suffered paralysis by analysis trying to decide on on an Android TV box.
So here we are, I use jellyfin on a smart TV
And how much better would a TV box even be compared to a smart TV?
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This feels like some really niche gatekeeping.
Having a smart tv doesn't mean you must use internet to utilize it. Mine is blocked from internet connectivity but connects to my media server on the local network. If anything, I prefer this so I don't need an extra computer sitting in the living room and can instead use the same single media server my phones and computers do.
Family connect to my server with tv. If tv is in the same house everything is blocked and select things are whitelisted.
We have both.
Kodi use Jellyfin for its media library and Kodi is excellent for a lot of the TV we watch. catch Up TV has replaced the decoder for watching terrestrial TV.
One thing that sucks in Kodi though is Arte (a franco-german channel that is a leans towards "intellectual"). For that, the LG WebOS app is much better than the Kodi add-on. Other than that 1 app, we could happily plug Kodi into digital signage panel if they weren't stupidly expensive.
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Game changer
Just run a small linux pc and a wireless keyboard+mouse
I use libux btw
My gosh I just searched for libux, thinking maybe there was a great new Linux user experience out there for my media library. I even got confused for a split second when it autocorrected my search to Linux before realising the typo
I use libuv btw.
I use pibtv btw.
I'd rather use an Android TV box, so I can have Dolby Vision, etc.
I had to practically hack my Samsung TV I order to get jellyfin on it. A little annoyed it took this long but at least its there now.
There's a funny one-click tool here: https://github.com/Jellyfin2Samsung/Samsung-Jellyfin-Installer but I guess it's not necessary anymore
Damn that looks like it would have saved me some time.
Wow this is great news!
Literally just went through getting the app built /deployed for my parents and my partner's parents using the old method a few weeks ago. I'm super glad the app is on the app store, but it's just bad timing for me lol
Ok, now fix the shitty client on appletv...
yes, unpaid open source devs, do my bidding.
fix it yourself, ExcessShiv
Dude no one is forcing them to work on the project, they can just ditch it if they don't want to do it anymore. Just because it's free people are still allowed to voice opinions on the project, sure my comment is tongue in cheek, no one cares...welcome to the internet, is this your first day?
As my parents said:
The tone in your voice makes the music.
There is a significant difference between
"I just hope the devs can now focus on improving the AppleTV/iOS viewing experience"
and
Hopefully the devs will now fix the shitty Apple app.
Just because it's free people are still allowed to voice opinions on the project
Just because Lemmy is free, people are allowed to voice opinions on your comment, and judge you by it. It's my opinion that you're an asshole, and that your opinion is equally worthless.
I wish I could go to your parents and say something like, "OK, now fix the shitty attitude on @ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com.", but you probably got it from them in the first place.
Are you this shitty to people who submit pull requests to your dog-shit bug-ridden open-source software repos? Do you even have anything that's open-source that tries to solve a problem?
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people are still allowed to voice opinions
...
now fix the shitty client on appletv
is not an opinion, it's just being a jerk
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That's the beauty of open source! I'm sure they'd love another helping hand! https://github.com/jellyfin/swiftfin
Wait, I don't have to update it through dev mode?
I'm still not connecting NY TV to any network, local or otherwise.
Apparently they will try to connect to open networks and try to tunnel through to get internet, so I set bogus manual DNS, gateway, and ip info so it can't connect to anything correctly.
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Kodi running on an (old) Nvidia Shield Pro, reading from a NAS via dlnr. This works nicely and I don't get any quality degradation... Except for HDR+ which the shield doesn't support and I was stupid and bought a Samsung TV, which is bad for numerous reasons, but also this one.
And of course, we are now closing in on the decade since it was released, and still no viable replacement.
Um…. Okay?
Replacement for what? kodi? you'll pry kodi out of my charred and flayed hands! (American)
EDIT nvm can't be kodi. forgive me.
but yes i love kodi
edit edit,
any old Chromebook can run LibreELEC!
I tried Kodi years ago when I heard about some guy getting busted at a local flea market for selling Kodi rigged appliances. I didn't download anything, but that UI was atrocious. After about 5 minutes of tinkering around, I just uninstalled it. Probably one of the worst UI's I've encountered.
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That's awesome! I had to side load it and it was such a pain in the ass i just bought a Chromecast.
Yeah, I've had to help two friends connect to my server from Samsung TVs. It was annoying to say the least.
i reckon ill unblock it from WAN long enough to get a new app
Omfg. I love you. 😭. I tried this very last week to make it work through their workaround and it never wanted to work out. Thank you so much bringing this up.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.
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I use it through tailscale. I can still use it locally (yay). Still would like to see tailscale on tizen
I only own one Samsung TV. Its a really smart TV. Its magnificent. It never switches input which is a good thing since I never need to. This is because it has no built in services of the so called 'smart tv's"
That looks like a web view. I have that webview installed for years.
This is false news. Maybe, now it is in the store but the app is not new on tizenos.
Yes, it's not available on the Store. Not many people are able to turn on developer mode and install the app through other means.
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