Not exactly self-hosted but I know many jellyfinners here would cherish this as well.
That’s looks much better.
I tried the older version for my htpc and didn’t like it.
I would love to see this keep improving.
Is this basically a DE? Could you run steam and full on gaming PC off this?
Or is it a “mode” of KDE? Like can you use a distro of KDE and then put it into Bigscreen mode?
It’s using plasma-nano session, which is a minimal Plasma session, and adding a launcher and settings app from what I can see.
You can run it in a regular window if you install the dependencies and use kde-builder to compile it and run. See the Dev docs at https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-bigscreen/
If you do decide to install all the kde-builder stuff, I’d suggest you use a distrobox container to make it easy to remove the many, many packages that it will install in order to set up the build environment
It’s not that. Or at least you have to reboot into it.
…or can you just load a desktop environment without rebooting… Keeping your apps open…?
What does DE mean in this context?
It’s a Linux concept. Basically, imagine you could have a Windows 11 PC with the Windows XP GUI or with the macOS GUI. In Linux, these kinds of different GUIs are just desktop environments, which you can install as you see fit.
Conversely, you can also have an OS without a desktop environment, which is basically what’s used on Linux server PCs.Desktop environment
This definitely looks like a project to follow
Does it have Stremio and an equivalent to YouTube ReVanced/SmartTubeNext? If so, I’m sold. I’m tired of the slow clunky interface on my Android-based TV. Paid nearly $2K for this fucker and they couldn’t even be bothered to give it a CPU with more than 2 cores, nor more than 8GB of storage space. Like a cheap Chinese Android phone from 2014.
Wow this looks to be really promising!! I would LOVE to get rid of my current Nvidia sheild Android TV setup, as that contain the mast part of Google I’m forced to use.
I tried it like a year ago, and there were really a lot of things I dislike. Let’s see how it goes. Would be nice, because I still don’t have a good solution for this.
I ended up with a kde desktop set up that was good.
I used a mini handheld keyboard by Rii, it had a touch pad. There are many different styles of it. But with the customization kde has, I got a pretty fluent set up. It was a full desktop but almost more like android in terms of usage.
Finally, an OS worthy of my “alternatively sourced” content library!
Never seen this before, might have to try it on my TV PC. Do like the interface!
Does it support Dolby Vision?
Because if not, I’m not sure how it’s going to compete with Android TV devices.
Are you sure that Dolby Vision is a main selling point of Android TVs?
You’re absolutely right, that’s just me not wanting it for Jellyfin on those grounds.
For mainstream users, I would assume that Linux being unable to run streaming services at full quality would discount it as a serious contender as well.
Most people I know haven’t even bothered to buy a new TV since Dolby Vision was created. A fair number still have 1080 sets.
While some like you may certainly demand it and it would be a good idea, I think it’s a fair description to help people understand the goal is an android TV like experience, and a lot of people are oblivious to a lot of the details of picture quality.
Just a bit over the top for such an overly dismissive statement, versus saying something like “does it support Dolby vision? I won’t be interested until it does”
Dolby Vision is not th catch. The catch is it will never work with major streaming platforms.
Yeah, it’s just what would work for me once I cancel Netflix Premium Plus with Reduced Adverts.
Unlikely, Dolby tech support requires that the license for Vision or Atmos etc has been bought for that particular machine. Never seen a media player where the end user can buy the license separately.
edit: Also those Android boxes only support DV Profile 5, which is DV used for streaming, If you want to play a UHD BluRay rip in mkv format in the highest quality DV profile, Profile 7 with Full Enhancement Layers, you need to find a Oppo 203 or 205 or one of the clones. Those are basically the only players that can play UHD BD mkv with DV Profile 7 FEL.
MS do sell Atmos (and DTS:X) support as an individually licensed thing, threough Dolby Access and DTS Sound Unbound on their store.
I do wonder how it could work in Linux, as well as getting things like commercial streaming services in 4K.
Presumably some sort of black box hardware would be needed (for the super top secret Widevine L1 shit), the manufacturer of that can pay the Dolby fees, and then just some basic open source code to call the hardware features.
Lol idek what Dolby vision is. Don’t they do sound?
It’s basically HDR (the 10 bit display kind, not the Half Life 2 kind), but with more metadata.
What I find is that if you have a Dolby Vision capable TV, it will be already calibrated to something that looks good, rather than you having to fuck around telling it how bright “paper” is or some shit.
HDR displays are surprisingly tricky, even without Dolby Vision or HDR10+. Especially if you’re mixing SDR and HDR content on a display. I tried it a few years ago on Windows and it was flat out awful. I think they’ve fixed a lot of it up now with Win 11, but even they took their damn time over it.
Thanks!
I haven’t purchased a new tv in years. My current monitor has HDR but idt i have it turned on because it just made everything look washed out and i don’t care enough to fiddle with all the settings when SDR looks fine to me.
A lot of monitors have particularly bad HDR, the max brightness being so low you might as well not bother. And as you’ve found out some games are really washed out for some reason. Like to the point where the game is almost entirely grey.
Worse, some games actually detect the capability in the monitor and turn it back on, and for that reason I wasn’t able to play Nex Machina on PC.
