Love my Jellyfin server, but I have 2 gripes over just using VLC.
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Can’t use the scroll wheel for volume. It’s a pain aiming for the volume from across the room on the couch.
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JF won’t boost volume past 100% like VLC.
Know of any fixes?
slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I run a massive streaming service too, which is always way bigger than all the streamers combined. It’s just only distributed over my private home network. Jellyfin for the win!
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Are you playing directly on your server?
For the first one at least you could solve it by running JF with a Chromecast or similar device.
Feels cleaner than a wireless mouse in the living room too, IMOgeogle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
JF won’t boost volume past 100% like VLC.
For when you need to take it to 11
Brickhead92@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Couldn’t you just make 10 louder?
Tja@programming.dev 4 months ago
And then add 11
slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t watch on my computer, that’s just where it’s hosted. I watch mostly on my AppleTV using Infuse (also great for other Apple products as well)
ripcord@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s weird to me that anyone would use a PC hooked up to a TV from a couch in 2024, but I’m sure it (otherwise) works for you.
InternetUser2012@midwest.social 4 months ago
Why is weird?
ripcord@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Instead of using a streaming or other settop device? That’d be far, far more normal for the use cade.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Already back in the 00s you could get a media player box, with a remote, that hooked to you TV and played video files from any share in your network.
Nowadays you can get an Android TV media player box with Kodi on it (or you can install it), again with a remote and hooked to your TV to do the same as that 00s media player box but looks a lot more fancy.
Or instead of an Android TV you can get a Mini PC or older laptop, ideally with Linux, wit and HDMI output which you connect to your TV, install Kodi on it and get a wireless air-mouse remote (if you get one with normal remote buttons rather than the stupid “for Google” ones, it seamlessly integrates with Kodi so you don’t really have to use the air-mouse stuff).
Alternativelly if you want to avoid Android but don’t want to spend 150 bucks on a mini PC, you can get one of those System On A Board devices like one of the Orange Pi ones, put LibreElec on it (small Linux distro built around Kodi) and do the wireless mouse thing with it.
The back end of any of this is either files on a NAS, on a share on a PC, a harddisk connected directly to the device or even something like Jellyfin running somewhere else (which can be outside your home network) or even any of the many IPTV services out there.
It has never been this easy to put together a hardware and software solution, entirely under your control to watch media in your living room with the same convenience as a purpose built devices for that, and it has never been this convenient of looked this good.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
it’s not weird at all, for one, you get to use a keyboard, for second, you get to use actual real hardware that isn’t spying on you and selling your data. You also get to use a real QWERTY based, or whatever other layout you want that isn’t ABCDE what a fucking abomination that layout is.
plus you get a whole desktop OS if you please, or if not you can cold roll something specifically for a TV. You just have so many more options, than you do when using a smart tv or generic streaming box.
gdog05@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You can run your Jellyfin connection inside of Kodi which has a ton of configuration options like the volume control.
Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Use kodi for last mile?
VLC is great as a file playing app, terrible as a home server…
criitz@reddthat.com 4 months ago
You light want to consider streaming it on your TV. Modern TVs should have a Plex app at the least. Or use a Chromecast or other setup. I watch on my couch with the TV remote. Its the same experience as watching Netflix.
slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Plex isn’t Jellyfin though. Lots of TV’s/TV OS’s have Jellyfin app but it’s pretty basic. I’d recommend an AppleTV with Infuse, it’s super built out with all sorts of great features. It’s a better app than all of the streaming services
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I am streaming to my TV. 50" TV on my desktop for a daily driver, 55" (wired) on the wall for media.
criitz@reddthat.com 4 months ago
I guess what I meant was to run it on a TV-native platform that you control with your remote, instead of streaming your PC display to the TV and still using the mouse and keyboard. Xbox has a Jellyfin app for example.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Can’t use the scroll wheel for volume. It’s a pain aiming for the volume from across the room on the couch.
apparently this is supposed to be coming in the 9.0 feature release. So soon™ I’d have to look to be sure, but apparently it’s coming.
Volume is weird, i feel like i’d almost like either a “volume target” option, to match volume levels between content, or some sort of fixed audio boost level. Idk.
vividspecter@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Volume is weird, i feel like i’d almost like either a “volume target” option, to match volume levels between content, or some sort of fixed audio boost level. Idk.
Adding replaygain tags to your content could help here, but it’s a manual process, particularly since it’s not normally included in released videos. And I’m not sure if jellyfin supports replaygain tags from video (presumably it does for audio only files).
mpv definitely does support it at least, with “–replaygain=track”.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
yeah considering i have literal terabytes of youtube content on my jellyfin, i think i’ll probably abstain, unless i do some really dirty automation on it, in which case i might not, because that would be funny.
TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 4 months ago
What platform are you on that you need to use VLC?
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Windows PC. I’m wired from my 50" TV monitor to a 55" on the wall.
n0clue@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You use MPV as the player instead of VLC.
tabular@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Can’t right click to pause the video in VLC ;c
MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
How many PBs you got and how many clients (humans)?
How much traffic across your network in terms of a daily average?
Do you have a local recommendation system running? For example I found a last.fm clone, self-hosted hut I haven’t found much for video
slurpinderpin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Uh it’s just me and whoever is on my local network. I don’t port anything or have any users outside my home. When I go on trips I just download movies and shows from my network to my devices
snapoff@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
You’re under arrest!
Gsus4@programming.dev 4 months ago
Maximum security with this national menace!
Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
Not without paying licencing fees for Hannibal Lecter first!
Gsus4@programming.dev 4 months ago
What a terrible shame it would be to have a friend over to watch the telly without a loicense…🧠
TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 4 months ago
You ever heard of a man Hannibal Lecter he was a “nice guy”.
Tja@programming.dev 4 months ago
Great late Hannibal Lecter*