Not exactly self-hosted but I know many jellyfinners here would cherish this as well.
Finally, an OS worthy of my “alternatively sourced” content library!
can you
sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-rooton it?HALLELUJAH!!! I was wondering what was going on with this project. I have so many old laptops waiting around just to be converted for Plasma Bigscreen so I can get rid of my android TV boxes that run like garbage
For real. My nvidia shield (the tube version), has been struggling with 4k HDR playback lately. It needs frequent reboots. I later come to learn that the device is 32 bit, yet it’s one of the most competitive devices in the space? Silly.
Fun horror story I learned recently, so are many, many, many of the things that share their internals, commonly, tablets. good luck figuring out whether this specific 4gb ram tablet has 64 bit, aka the majority of em. Competitive tablets are 32bit as well.
I kinda want to ask how well does firefox work? I kinda want to try using amazon prime one firefox with ublock origen (yes I know jelly fin and plex plus other tools exist) just curious
Try Stremio and you can skip all that
When I’ve used Prime Video before it worked flawlessly in Firefox with ublock, but that was on a laptop
This definitely looks like a project to follow
Does it support Dolby Vision?
Because if not, I’m not sure how it’s going to compete with Android TV devices.
mpv supports Dolby vision (along with the Jellyfin clients that depend on it), but if you mean with streaming services, that’s unlikely to happen due to DRM.
Lol idek what Dolby vision is. Don’t they do sound?
It’s basically HDR (the 10 bit display kind, not the Half Life 2 kind), but with more metadata.
What I find is that if you have a Dolby Vision capable TV, it will be already calibrated to something that looks good, rather than you having to fuck around telling it how bright “paper” is or some shit.
HDR displays are surprisingly tricky, even without Dolby Vision or HDR10+. Especially if you’re mixing SDR and HDR content on a display. I tried it a few years ago on Windows and it was flat out awful. I think they’ve fixed a lot of it up now with Win 11, but even they took their damn time over it.
Thanks!
I haven’t purchased a new tv in years. My current monitor has HDR but idt i have it turned on because it just made everything look washed out and i don’t care enough to fiddle with all the settings when SDR looks fine to me.
Unlikely, Dolby tech support requires that the license for Vision or Atmos etc has been bought for that particular machine. Never seen a media player where the end user can buy the license separately.
MS do sell Atmos (and DTS:X) support as an individually licensed thing, threough Dolby Access and DTS Sound Unbound on their store.
I do wonder how it could work in Linux, as well as getting things like commercial streaming services in 4K.
Presumably some sort of black box hardware would be needed (for the super top secret Widevine L1 shit), the manufacturer of that can pay the Dolby fees, and then just some basic open source code to call the hardware features.
Dolby Vision is not th catch. The catch is it will never work with major streaming platforms.
Yeah, it’s just what would work for me once I cancel Netflix Premium Plus with Reduced Adverts.
Are you sure that Dolby Vision is a main selling point of Android TVs?
You’re absolutely right, that’s just me not wanting it for Jellyfin on those grounds.
For mainstream users, I would assume that Linux being unable to run streaming services at full quality would discount it as a serious contender as well.
Most people I know haven’t even bothered to buy a new TV since Dolby Vision was created. A fair number still have 1080 sets.
While some like you may certainly demand it and it would be a good idea, I think it’s a fair description to help people understand the goal is an android TV like experience, and a lot of people are oblivious to a lot of the details of picture quality.
Just a bit over the top for such an overly dismissive statement, versus saying something like “does it support Dolby vision? I won’t be interested until it does”
Does it have Stremio and an equivalent to YouTube ReVanced/SmartTubeNext? If so, I’m sold. I’m tired of the slow clunky interface on my Android-based TV. Paid nearly $2K for this fucker and they couldn’t even be bothered to give it a CPU with more than 2 cores, nor more than 8GB of storage space. Like a cheap Chinese Android phone from 2014.
Glad to see it being picked back up. I tried it previously and I really didn’t like it. It felt half baked. The new version looks like a substantial improvement. Now if only every streaming app didn’t lock their services behind DRM and mobile apps.
Couldn’t you get around this by making the “apps” in bigscreen be browser shortcuts to their respective streaming website?
As others have mentioned, the websites tend to be limited both by resolution and functionality.
My TV supports CEC(most do these days) which will pass the remote input onto the devices connected to it, like a computer. Which means with Plasma Big Picture I can navigate with my remote, and any app that supports navigation with simple arrow key input would work great.
Unfortunately, the streaming websites, last time I tried, absolutely suck at that and assume you are navigating with a mouse.
Many streaming service websites limit browser streaming to 720p.
Really? I’m on a Linux desktop and I had not noticed. Though I steam from Netflix on it very very rarely.
With Netflix in a browser, you can bring up your streaming stats in the browser window as you’re watching something by pressing Ctrl + Shift+ Alt + D. It’ll give you several bits of information as an overlay, including what resolution the video is playing at. Next time you stream from them, give it a shot and see if you get anything above 720p. I know I never have and if you search online, you’ll find others with the same experience. In fact, I think Netflix might actually have this on a FAQ page somewhere…
Found it! https://help.netflix.com/en/node/30081
Scroll down to the OS selection and you can see what resolutions are supported by which browsers on Linux. Turns out Opera will give you 1080p for some reason, but the rest are capped at 720p.
I wonder if making another browser spoof being Opera would work too.
Whats stopping spoof to Android? Possible workaround?
Or just outright don’t allow it at all on Linux as if that does anything whatsoever.
That only would launch them and probably won’t support remotes properly.
Nice
Wow this looks to be really promising!! I would LOVE to get rid of my current Nvidia sheild Android TV setup, as that contain the mast part of Google I’m forced to use.
Nice! The revival is further along than I thought. Can’t wait to put it on my Steam Deck. And maybe my desktop PC will move into the living room in the near future. Would be the perfect timing.
Looks nice! I’m getting it set up on an old Pi right now for a new media center in my basement.
I tried it like a year ago, and there were really a lot of things I dislike. Let’s see how it goes. Would be nice, because I still don’t have a good solution for this.
I ended up with a kde desktop set up that was good.
I used a mini handheld keyboard by Rii, it had a touch pad. There are many different styles of it. But with the customization kde has, I got a pretty fluent set up. It was a full desktop but almost more like android in terms of usage.
Never seen this before, might have to try it on my TV PC. Do like the interface!
Let’s goooo!
(And let’s support!!)
