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What is everyone using as a HTPC? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I have a couple of TVs that I use HTPC appliances with. One's a shield TV and the other's a roku. I'm not super happy with either of them. The shield lags like crazy and apps crash constantly. The Roku is stable, but can't decode h265 or av1. Both at riddled with ads. Does anyone have a solution they're happy with? I mostly watch content from major streaming services and stream media from my NAS. I have a raspberry pi 4 that's not in use right now, I tried to get it working as a set top box, but couldn't get DRM content to work so I went back to the shield.

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[-] klangcola@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago

None at all? If so how? My friends with Apple TV get an obnoxious amount of ads in their YouTube app for example.

[-] treyf711@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

I think they mean no ads in the UI. There are still ads in the YouTube app since Google needs that revenue. Ads don’t take up approximately 50% of the home screen though like they do on a Roku TV.

[-] klangcola@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago

Ah, I didn't even consider ads in the UI would be a thing. How disgusting

[-] treyf711@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Roku TV has been unbearable lately. There’s a whole row of ads before I even get to the physical inputs on the TV. Plus there is a full height ad on the right and a half height ad on the left.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Confirm. Never seen something chatter on the network so much as well (remote control setting on maybe?). I don't know the model but i threw it on a physically separate wlan with no Internet and a pihole and holy jebus it's almost as bad as the Google nest hubs.

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

Bingo. And if you don't use apps with ads, like only using jellyfin, you get none at all.

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