Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On

• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨11⁩ ⁨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).

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  • RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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