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[-] julianh@lemm.ee 98 points 1 year ago

You can't run vlc? What kind of devices do you have?

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago

Could be a barebones TV with a usb port? Some do have media players

[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago
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[-] Skooshjones@vlemmy.net 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 46 points 1 year ago

What devices can't run VLC? thought it was one of those things that even run on a toaster

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Some operating systems are restrictive about what APIs they give to applications.

VLC on xbox is so horrible, it doesn't deserve the VLC name, for an example.

[-] x2XS2L0U@feddit.de 25 points 1 year ago
[-] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

mpv can render video everywhere, even inside a fucking text terminal! Use --vo=tct argument to render the video into text art. Heck, if you're using Xorg it can even render into another app window!

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/vo.rst

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

MPV deserves its own community. It's the only player on windows that can handle DV content. Though the default offering is very minimal and difficult to use. There are some awesome gui projects though

[-] nodiet@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

At least on android TV, the latest release candidate for Kodi also finally properly supports DV. So I would expect the same thing to be the case for the windows version

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Windows and DV have a very tumultuous relationship. Actually Windows has terrible relationships with lots of proprietary codecs like dv, atmos, dts:x. So I would not be surprised at all if it still wasn't supported on kodi on windows. I dislike Kodi enough that I won't try, since MPV serves my purposes perfectly fine if I'm watching from my windows machine. For everything else I have appletx/roku that support DV

[-] nodiet@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I'm curious, what do you dislike about Kodi? Is it just that you want a light player to use with mouse and keyboard while sitting at your desk?

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah the UX leaves a lot to be desired, especially when there are alternatives - I really like Plex better, and am patiently waiting for Jellyfin to become more useable haha. But if I'm not at my computer, I'm using Plex which supports DV through my streaming devices, and if I am at my computer, I'll just use MPV. But then again, that's only for items that don't have the hdr10 fallback. So it is honestly pretty rare.

[-] nodiet@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting. I on the other hand find the plex interface quite ugly - beside the fact that it's not foss. Kodi has the advantage of skin support, I am using it with the embuary skin and it looks nice and does everything I want it to. I have also been using Jellyfin for the last 2 years or so, why do you say it needs to be more useable?

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Well the app for apple tv doesn't even let you turn subtitles on or off. It's honestly totally useless so I don't use it. I like that it's FOSS but you can't change any playback options. Kodi also isn't available on apple tv unless you do some hacky shit which I'm not that interested in doing since plex is working fine. I would love nothing more than to ditch plex for jellyfin. But I'll wait until it's a little more fully baked

[-] nodiet@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

True, the native app for Android TV also has some issues with certain audio codecs although I believe it does have subtitle selection. I had the luxury of being able to choose a TV specifically for gaming as well as Jellyfin so getting one with android TV was a nobrainer and I am happily using Kodi now. Let's hope the native apps mature enough to make them feasible alternatives :)

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, I think it will make it there, but it's awful slow going. I've had Jellyfin set up for months and I still can't use it. Plex for my use case is free anyway so I don't mind sticking around with plex until jellyfin works out the rough edges.

Case in point, the jellyfin for appletv, aka Swiftfin, hasn't had a release in over a year

[-] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

I love this player, wish it was more popular. They should make the installation a bit simpler on Windows, it's a bit weird compared to most programs people download

[-] FIST_FILLET@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

(which is far superior to vlc in graphical fidelity out-of-the-box)

[-] Ashiette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 year ago

Is it because it's a work device ? Because except if you're not the admin of your machine, VLC will run on any potato.

[-] radix@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

And even if you can't install it on a locked-down device, there's a portable version, too. Install on any removable media (from another machine, to be fair) and it will run from USB without installation.

[-] ki77erb@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

So should I run it directly on the potato or run the portable version from a thumb drive inserted into the potato?

[-] fluf201playz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

the fact bros pirates on work device says alot

[-] demonicbullet@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Are you running on a work device? The USB method is only really for work devices, otherwise get vlc

[-] shroomato@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Selfhosting an *arr stack with Plex/Jellyfin is the way.
There's also Tdarr for automatic transcoding of videos right after they get downloaded, haven't tried it yet so can't comment.

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Took me years to finally get around to it and it's phenomenal.

[-] neoney@lemmy.neoney.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I just did it today! Not done with it, but seems nice so far

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

With radarr, it's been exciting turning on my TV and seeing a movie I added months ago has released.

Same with TV episodes, I get to experience my Plex library in a similar way to the rest of my users.

[-] Neybulot@pawb.social 14 points 1 year ago

Codec inconsistency? Try resolution inconsistency. I keep finding some that have a weird mixture of 720p and 1080p resolutions. Drives me insane.

[-] MrComradeTaco@lemmy.fmhy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I hope this is sarcasm.

[-] Scrabbone@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Did you try to install ffmpeg and run: „ffmpeg -i someFile.fileextension -c:a libmp3lame -c:v libx264 -f mp4 outFile.mp4“ to repair the file. Then you should be able to play it on every device. On windows you can install ffmpeg with winget and on linux for example with apt or on macos with brew.

[-] Arotrios@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I trying to think which devices can't run VLC and all I've come up with are a pager and a Blackberry. Does anyone have any idea what he's talking about?

[-] tallwookie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

presumably a toaster from the potato age

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[-] iptvsports28@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago

I'd look into buying a cheap Firesticks you can jailbreak if nothing else.

[-] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Codec inconsistency is annoying yeah. You need a better tracker

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