Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 13 hours ago
So, key me get this straight - you’re saying using command line to play video instead of a gui?
Tell me, how does one do this on a TV? On an iPad? Phone?
Dude, get ahold of yourself. I probably wrote more command line stuff before you were born than you’ve ever thought of - I’m not going backwards.
RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
Kodi is a good player on TV. Phones and tablets have VLC and MPV.
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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 12 hours ago
You’re missing the point - he’s elevating cli above all else, which you don’t have on TV or mobile.
Yes, I know there are media clients, I’ve used them all.
Besides, he’s not doing anything different than running a “server stack” (which isn’t accurate, he’s still running a server, the device hosting the media services, even if they’re native to the OS).
RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 10 hours ago
I agree with you on the CLI part. I tried Jellyfin once and it’s basically the same as browsing directories with movies in a file manager, for which you don’t need the whole heavyweight software stack.
I know Jellyfin also has transcoding and probably some even more exotic stuff, but even my phone can play full HD from SMB without transcoding, so I have no use case for these extra features.