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#htpc

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Luis Guzman

Para todos aquellos usando #Kodi desde los repos oficiales de #Trisquel 11.0 o #Ubuntu 22.04 y lleguen a actualizar a T12.0 o U24.04. (Kodi v20.5)

Recuerden que hay una transición entre pulseaudio y pipewire, por lo que para esta específica version de kodi (20.5) necesitan instalar:

pipewire-alsa

y usar:

KODI_AE_SINK=alsa kodi &

para seleccionar el dispositivo de sonido en su #HTPC

Suerte y mucho éxito en seguir disfrutando su contenido sin necesidad de Internet 🤟

#SoftwareLibre#GNU
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Fell

Linux fucking rocks.

I was using my old gaming system from 2007(!) as a living room PC. It didn't even have UEFI yet.

It was time to upgrade, so I swapped the boot drive into a much newer AMD based mini PC from 2019.

It booted right up to the desktop, as if nothing ever happened. They are 12 years apart!

It said "No NVIDIA GPU found" during boot, but it still worked fine. All I had to do was uninstall the NVIDIA driver. Done.

#Linux#PC#Gaming
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Cegorach

Can anyone recomend a good #HTPC or case/board combo that can use some optical drive?

Most important is low power consumption (i.e. chinesium-quality device with N200 would be okay), but things like that don't come with space for optical drives anymore?

Don't really want to have a bunch of separate boxes (i.e. compute stick and external drive) around.

Alternatively something like a i3 #NUC? (but those never came with large drives?)

Had some asus thin-mini-itx case once… that was nice?

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AndrewR

Home Theatre PCs (#HTPC) are definitely the way to go IMO. No ads and better for #privacy.

My setup: an old laptop with mpv, Kodi, JellyCon plugin and KDE Connect; mobile phone with Kore and KDE Connect; an always-on PC with Jellyfin (the backend for streaming). I can use my mobile to start episodes, pause etc. either through KDE Connect or Kore (Kore connects to Kodi).

I've improved it over time, originally it was just VLC on my laptop, and later, VLC + KDE Connect.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0

Ars Technica · Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.By Scharon Harding
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La Chaine STvE

youtu.be/qTBCxtncoMU?si=KGMiw4

Transformez votre vieil ordinateur en un lecteur #multimédia haut de gamme avec cette configuration #KAZ !
Vous avez un vieil ordinateur qui traîne dans un coin et qui ne sert plus ? Ne le jetez pas !
Avec cette configuration Kazcorporation, vous pouvez le transformer en un lecteur multimédia haut de gamme pour profiter de vos DVD, Blu-Ray et autres supports préférés.

YouTubeUn HTPC Au Petits Oignons Grâce à la Config KAZBy STEvE
#HTPC#HomeCinema#Kodi
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RxBrad

I remember when I bought my first (overpriced) #HTPC with a fancy CableCard tuner in 2006.

It had this neat BIOS bug in its motherboard where it would instantly reboot after exactly 60 minutes of on-time.

And also it had a defective SATA cable that would randomly disconnect the hard drive.

Computers have always been fun!

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Kyle Gospodnetich

As part of this update we've also reduced overall technical debt and cleaned up our various spec files.

Most of the work this cycle was spent making upgrades easier and not doing the upgrade. This also means Fedora 41 will be that much easier for us to move to when the time comes!

We found and fixed some long standing bugs in this process as well, such as:
1: Rotation issues on #KDE
2: Audio issues on some #HTPC s
3: Image channel switching in #Steam gaming mode

#bazzite#fedora#linux
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Mika

I think I'm gonna give up on this lol - I fuckin hate #Android esp in TV form cos of how locked down and complex it is, honestly just to do about anything. I'd take a #Linux version of this anyday but I don't think one exists besides any of the #Kodi like distros... and I also am not a big fan of Kodi cos it's always felt dated and complicated.

The most ideal interface would honestly be something like #SteamOS where I could add in all of the cloud streaming services as a link to open them up on #Chrome in kiosk mode for a TV-like experience, and to Plex as a desktop app (tho SteamOS never fails to fail at closing the app or any other desktop apps properly... sigh). But that's not possible on a #RaspberryPi just yet.

I'd take any recommendations at this point for a good #HTPC exp with the RPI - all it needs is just be able to open up #YouTube, #Netflix, #PrimeVideo, #DisneyPlus, and most importantly #Plex, and preferably have a good, intuitive user interface for tech-illiterate folks. I doubt there's any though.

RE: https://sakurajima.social/notes/9s94ct51zh

Sakurajima Social (桜島SNS）Mika (@irfan)Was helping my dad out with his #AndroidTV box earlier today, it’s one of the plenty Chinese ones that makes no effort to hide the shady shit they do and are pretty much banned everywhere else but are somehow readily available here on #Shopee. _Fortunately_, it’s pretty much broken so I easily was able to tell my dad to dump it. Then I thought to try making use of one of my #RaspberryPi4 that was collecting dust in my wardrobe since forever, by installing “Android TV” on it through #LineageOS. Honestly didn’t expect much since I’ve always had poor media consumption experience with the Pi 4 but somehow… it works pretty darn well. The UI honestly runs pretty smoothly - not perfect, but certainly much smoother than even the Android TV built into my #TCL TV. The installation was surprisingly easy, including setting up getting #Google apps like the #PlayStore on it and whatnot - because of this, I was able to get pretty much all apps I need like #Plex, #YouTube/#YouTubeKids, #PrimeVideo, #DisneyPlus, and all but #Netflix which was somehow not available - but meh, didn’t really need it. Playing stuffs from my Plex server, YouTube, etc. was somehow perfectly smooth even at 1080p. Besides missing Netflix, the only other “caveats” I’ve found are quite minor like: it can get quite sluggish upon boot, no IR remote ootb ofc (but can be done, I just use the #Xbox controller wirelessly instead which was perfect), and ofc no turning it on remotely (can be done easily using a smart plug if that’s important). All in all, pretty impressive. Don’t mind the messiness of my room - had to dig out quite a bunch of stuffs today testing all these. (📎2)
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Linux ✅

🎬 Kodi 21.0 "Omega" is out 🍿

Kodi - a free home theater/media center software & entertainment hub.

◉FFmpeg 6.0 support
◉NFSv4 support
◉Support for read/write M3U8 playlists
◉AVIF image support
◉AudioEngine improvements
◉Support for passthrough formats (DTS-HD / TrueHD)

►kodi.tv/download/linux

#Linux #Kodi #HTPC #MediaCenter #entertainment #FreeSoftware @Kodi

kodi.tvLinux | DownloadsKodi is a free media player that is designed to look great on your big screen TV but is just as at home on a small screen.
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