What do people hook up to their tv? I use pic related with a plex server in the basement and it works great except for the fact that it cant play vc-1 videos. Maybe if I used something other than plex it would work. Any recomendations?
media players/software
TV?
Like, a box on the livingroom shelf?
Bro it's 2024. I haven't owned a "TV" in over ten years. Do you still watch commercials? Lmao. Lol.
Sorry, I'm not american. What do you call then? Uhm... Like a flat screen?
Yeah but bro you’ve also never seen natural light in the past ten years either probably and you’ll probably never see a girls breasts in person.
I'm 39, I lived in Hawaii and spent time on the beaches, I've had 8 steady girlfriends. You are the zoomer who needs to go outside and touch grass.
You forgot to mention your Navy seal career, and how you got parachuted by the CIA in Nam to look for pows.
>8
virgin
i hook up my laptop with a 25 foot hdmi cable
This would solve all my problems except I kind of like having a remote. It's more aesthetic and looks less cheap even though I torrent everything
If you're 25 feet away from your TV why not just use your laptop?
jellyfin -> apple tv running infuse, plays everything without issue as long as your tv has support for the format. looks nice with no configuration needed. jellyfin pulls all the metadata without issue provided you practice sane folder naming. most importantly, it doesn’t require me to pay money for a fork of software i used on my original xbox.
shoutouts to all the plex users, if only you were all rendered infertile.
This sounds like a nice option except I would have to throw away my google tv. Is there an equivalent for android and also why would my "tv" or whatever need to support the format. Does apple tv not just hook up with an HDMI or is it different?
Think they meant the format of the content like HDR Dolby Vision and maybe audio pass through like DTS and True HD content
It is pretty amazing that a thing I bought in 2023 can't play a format from 2006
I guess I'll just keep using recodes for vc-1 blurays
Your first mistake is calling it a media 'player'. If you treat media like a toy to be played with what are the chances you're going to take any of the steps you need to get a quality experience?
I like your thought process
I've got a 4k Chromecast for my bedroom TV. For my living room Samsung TV I just use Plex they have built in to the smart TV interface. It plays mostly everything but 4KHDR stuff has to be in HEVC format or it will freeze. Thinking of getting a Roku for the living room instead
This whenever I visit my parents. They still have one of those first gen smart tv's that doesn't use apps, so it is either basic cable or bring along some fresh movies by usb stick.
Does that support anything about those 700 MB XviD avi files?
>700 MB XviD avi files?
kinO!
plex on either my Xbox or the tv. I keep the server at my dad's house and just remote in when I want to torrent something. no issues so I see no reason to switch to anything else
Is there some USB accepting product that I can hook up to my tv that will play any file type I have downloaded? I have an Xbox one that refuses to hook up to the Internet nowadays so I can't download VLC on it, and since I don't play games anymore, I would prefer something cheaper. The shitbox media player doesn't accept certain MKV files, and it doesn't let me choose certain sub/dub files. If the solution is updating my tv, I might swing that way, but I'd prefer a less expensive option
Get a Bluray player with USB.
Is there a preferable one where I won't have a problem playing file types and selecting sub/dub settings? Or at least do you have an idea to point me in the right direction?
Similar question for you, any clue if there's a smart TV that would fit my preferences?
I'll resign myself to the hdmI cable, but I'm willing to spend some money for convenience
Most smart TVs allow h264, the bad thing is that it doesn't read subs in the mkv container, but it does allow .srt files if it has the same filename as the video. Not sure if it allows audio switches, I don't think it does.
You may have heard of one called a PC.
It's incredible that no one has been able to design a media device with the capabilities of windows, but with a regular smart tv interface
Now that you mention it, seems weird that Microsoft hasn't done that. Maybe their phones failing is a factor
There's NUCs and USB OS's if that's what you mean
Or do you mean a streamlined tv interface? Microsoft can't do shit with that
They can barely get touch screen working for their own OS in current year, let alone something like that kek
apple tv 4k with infuse pro and a jellyfin server
New tv soon
Will see how native app goes with plex, shall get a fire stick 4k max if it doesn't go well
would go apple tv but that doesn't do DV + Atmos + TrueHD
The native apps are always shit. Mine couldn't do image based subs or 4k HDR even though the display is
Wish Nvidia would update the Shield but I don't think that would happen, Apple TV with kinda support the formats if you use infuse along with it, but I have no experience using it I just have a Shield.
>Old laptop with pop_os
>Hooked up to big-ass TV with 8ft(?) HDMI
>Nice Sound Bar too
>Mouse controls everything
>No password, just turns on with mouse
>Loads of torrents, played with MPV (customized mouse controls to be smooth)
>Netflix, Prime, HBO, and a bunch of streaming sites for live sports are bookmarked for family to use
This is an extremely comfy setup. Only problem is it can't play blu-ray so we admittedly still use the Playstation for that.
I recommend https://airflow.app/ if you just want to cast without having a library.
I have my parents use a fire stick. They're junk, and magically break every 6 months or so.
not exactly on topic, but fairly relevant:
can anyone who owns an LG oled tell me, can i just plug in an external usb HDD into the TV and play media from it?
I don't own an LG oled specifically, but most tv's are very limited in what formats they support so probably no drive over 32gb, no blueray image based subs, no weird formats
I have an LG OLED and can confirm this works. But like
said some formats won't work. Also it's far easier to use an app, either installed on your TV, on your media device or cast with an app.
I just use the vlc app on my TV and play the files off a hard drive plugged into my router
Nvidia shield tv pro to my LG C2
>Nvidia shield tv pro
That guy knows.
>Any recomendations?
a regular PC.
ideally you want:
-ability to hardware decode the latest codecs, notably av1 which is what youtube 4k videos use
-enough gpu grunt to use high end upscalers via mpv/madVR. which means a dedicated gpu, albeit not necessarily a beefy/new one. eg my rx580 in the old desktop i use is quite adequate for the task
-able to use mpv with sponsorblock script for youtube playback without all the fricking sponsor segments that are so ubiquitous nowadays
-able to playback and passthrough HDR (this forces you to use windows, maybe mac would work too, but definitely not linux)
>Any recomendations?
raspberry 4 or 5 for a flawless media center pc
also the raspi5 can do 4k
Its more than the google tv, but without a remote, OS or storage? Can it do vp9 because that's what I was struggling with
you can run a regular linux distro and do far more than a google tv dongle
you can add your own remote, storage, but raspberry pi is more for people who are familiar with computers, not for grandpas
raspberry 4 can do vp9 at 1080p through software
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=258064
raspi4 has h.264 hardware decoding, which is common for a lot of videos, so those would be fast
raspberry pi 5 has h.265 hardware decoding, and can comfortably handle every other codec in software at 4k as long as it's not 60fps
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=258064
do more research though
>do more research though
Do not listen to misinformation coming from that conspiracy theorist. An android tv with a Netflix subscription is safe and effective. Don't do your own research, trust professional salesmen, get your Netflix subscription now.