#htpc

[nagihonos]

this gif is just so nono hana core

[stxalq]

i don't know what magic Node and VLC are on. but you can totally just npx http-server -o . and then stream 2k over the local wifi

[southernspiritnorthernheart]

[xodipix]

When life hands you lemons…

I’m building a new HTPC/Jellyfin server and put out a call amongst friends to see if anyone had a potato GPU that could do 4K decode like my old RX550 could. What happened was someone making me a trade deal I couldn’t refuse for a…GTX 1070Ti. Only one issue, the card was too massive to fit in the machine!

Thankfully the person who handed me the 1070 has a spare ATX case that WILL fit it, so there’s that. Should be here later in the week and then we can finally cinch this up.

[valereth2]

PC build video #2 with much better audio

[zashibisi]

Plex HTPC

Ночью я запускаю приложение Plex HTPC, набираю в поиске «QW» и выбираю прямой эфир QWEST TV (Чёрная музыка + Мировая) канал Quincy Jones.

��риложение работает только в полноэкранном режиме.

[la-principessa-nuova]

The YouTube Apple TV app is so bad it’s embarrassing. Like if I was YouTube, I would just delete it to not reflect poorly on me. Or at least ask an intern to spend a day fixing it.

Some examples of issues:

- Turning off autoplay just makes the timer go away and videos autoplay immediately instead

- When connecting a mobile device, autoplay settings are ignored and there is a countdown with two buttons on the phone to play the next video or stop. Both buttons play the next video.

- The UI does not use any of the system conventions for hiding and showing UI and instead uses an arcane system of swipes where swiping in a direction sometimes does things and sometimes does other things and you need to try it to find out, and if it’s in the mode where swiping seeks through the video instead of choosing buttons you need to hit back to hide the UI, otherwise you swipe up and hitting back closes the video.

- If a link appears on screen, you lose the ability to access the UI, so you cannot skip back near the end of a video, like the video, read the comments, subscribe, or anything once the in video links popup appears.

- Sometimes when I open the mobile app while watching on the TV it pops up to connect my phone to the TV. Sometimes it doesn’t. If a video is playing on the TV and there was a video I had paused on my phone from hours or even days ago, it replaces the video on the TV with the paused video and starts playing it immediately. Welp, so much for wanting to comment on this video.

- Changing the video quality sometimes resets the playback speed.

- Swiping between UI elements is really finicky and I often miss. I always laugh because someone I watch always says “You can’t miss the like and subscribe buttons” and then as he was saying that I literally missed the like button and disliked the video by accident.

- Sometimes the UI gets really laggy and I need to stop and let it process queued up directional swipes for a bit.

And that’s just the bugs. The design is just as bad. Like why, when I want to skip back 10 seconds or check how far through the video, does it need to dim the entire screen so I can’t see the video at all and take up half the screen just to show 75% of a row of thumbnails for suggested videos beneath with a fake EQ visualizer over the thumbnail for the current video moving around and drawing attention (it’s definitely fake because it doesn’t stop when you pause the video).

[irradiate-space]

What's good hardware for a cronjob "play this sound at this time" device? Like a grandfather clock, but with MP3s.

[andmaybegayer]

I put Bazzite on the Legion Go. Bazzite is pretty interesting, basically SteamOS for more devices, desktops, handhelds, whatever. Uses a lot of cool technologies together, it's based on Atomic Fedora for reliability and rollback which is neat but it's also shipped as a bootable OCI container, which is a thing I didn't know existed! Really slick experience.

Steam desktop input with the controller can be beaten into something very usable with a little effort, and combined with KDE connect you can get a really pleasant TV PC desktop experience inside KDE Plasma. I love having TV YouTube with solid adblock. Also KDE connect lets you shoot links over to Firefox from your phone.

Ages ago I said that the Steam Deck seemed like an ideal HTPC platform since a) it'll be a solid media-optimized, couch-optimized, appliance-like computer, b) has a lot more oomph than like an Intel nuc without needing to be inconvenient via being huge or a laptop and c) eases some of the cost pain of an HTPC by having an additional use. And it is, this is lovely, and it's fast enough to more than get out of its own way playing video, and run some light couch games locally at 1080p60 which is plenty here. You could also stream from a PC for heavier games I guess.

Next steps includes designing a dock for this so I can slot it in reliably and easily, and also working out how to integrate an Atomic system into my home network share reliably.

[nhaneh]

kinda disappointed that Fractal Design doesn't seem to have any PC cases built to be rack-mountable

so far my best and most affordable option for potentially moving my desktops over to a rack setup seem to be a SilverStone HTPC chassis that might be a bit too much on the small side but is designed to support rackmount handles for a rack installation.

might need a different CPU heatsink to fit both that and an optical drive though, and might need to add some extra holes to the front panel for some of the exra ports I'd like...

[onthegreatsea]

my friend built a tiny itx based PC and its so so SO cute and i've always wanted to make a htpc or something but never had a reason to and so i've just been obsessing over this idea for weeks now but still cant even decide on a cpu. or a case. or what im even going to use it for.

also goddamn smaller parts are expensive

itx goes as far back as LGA 775 which is crazy. I'd love to make a tiny Win XP machine but for gaming in that era you really need a GPU *and* soundcard and obv itx boards dont have PCI slots so... probably wont do that

a small and compact NAS for Plex would be super useful. something low powered so i dont have to turn on my main, power hungry, PC just to watch something on the TV in the other room.

but also thats kinda boring on its own...so switch emulation? PS3 too.

but man theres like no good case options for a NAS that also can hold a normal sized GPU. single slots/low profile are cute and all but holy shit the prices.

actually theres like no good case options in general

i've only managed to find two cases i genuinely like and i've looked at hundreds and hundreds already.

i'm half considering doing a console case mod honestly. wouldnt wanna do it in a console i already own but i like how the (white) Xbox One's look. but then thats a whole bunch of work getting it to all fit and not overheat like crazy (and, again, the itx tax).. but it would be a fun project

...and i *still* havent even found a proper case for my Win 98 machine

[demigirlboss2girlrotboogaloo]

Maybe my standards are just too damn high but God whenever I see like, robot girl kinkposts talking about like, disassembling a subby robot girl or whatever, it's nigh-universally utterly unappealing because of the vagueness of it all. Like "ooh ahh I'm gonna disassemble you and connect you to remote sensors and control you" what the fuck is this vagueposting bullshit? I need, at minimum, "I'm going to sneakily pull out your case intrusion header so you can't tell when I start taking you apart in your sleep. I want to get you a Pensando DPU for your birthday and pretend it's just so you can stream from our Jellyfin HTPC with less latency when in reality I'm going to use IPMI to remote into you and load you up with terabytes of lewd images, perverted thoughts, and trojans before you have a chance to wake up. I'll put your consciousness on a set of Sabrent Rocket Plus 8 TB drives running in RAID 6 on a pair of HighPoint SSD7540 carrier cards, then deliberately corrupt your boot drive and hold your head in my lap and play with you while you purr and shiver as the corrupted drive builds from parity. I want all your central processing done on an FPGA so I can change the most fundamental parts of you any time I want, without you even realizing it."

[omega-tech]

my thought's on physical media being lost

As most of ya know. Most major retail stores will most likely not be selling any dvd/blu-ray format anymore after the saga strike happens. Meaning there will be no more physical media. As streaming is our new way to view media of movies and shows. Owning them will no longer be a thing. I, for one, am a collector of movies and retro video’s games. I collect from nostalgia feelings to having a rare item on my shelf. I have been collecting movies ever since I owned a vcr/dvd player back in 2001. I used to buy used dvds for a dollar at my local goodwill to a dvd store. As when blu-ray came, i started to collect and buy those too. Some movies that were on vhs tapes that never got released on dvd but blu-ray release for limited copies. 

It saddened me and the people who collect them are now going to back up or hunt the movies they wanna have before people take up what remains physical of dvd/blu-ray movies. So when that stops, the clearance of those dollars to five dollars dvd/blu-ray goes back up to twenty dollars or more. It will be hard to own some of those movies and tv shows we all love.

As of now I've been buying a lot of movies and backing them up in my linux htpc that i used to stream my own movies of dvd-480p/720p format to blu-ray/4k hdr. And I just got a 8tb drive which will soon fill my collection of blu-ray/4k hdr movies. Which led to more hard drives to back my movie collection. I fear that soon physical movies will be a collection hobby and we will see those movies that most people don’t care about on a dvd platfoam, to a high price item just like retro video games. 

Which brings me to this subject. Piracy! I don’t like to say it but in the past, movies and shows have been piracy online for almost twenty six years now since the internet was widely used. And don’t get me wrong, yes those studio’s will never re-release some movies unless they’re going to overprice that physical blu-ray over $60. And that comes only the movie and steel book case with no extra features. And when movies stop being released, they’ll soon be lost. That is why piracy will be a thing again for lost media. 

I think I know why the studio’s are doing this, royalty! Meaning no pay out to the writers, actors, directors etc. which will lead to more issues when those people don’t get paid because the studios just refuse to release those physical media which is a good profit gain. And is also a lead to another issue, licenses. In all, after this strike happened from the stop use of A.I. technology and pay writers of the pay they show are earning. This is a reason to say from the studio “ok we will agree on these terms and don’t use A.I. but we will not be selling physical media which we know ya make money on”. So these studio’s will be banking on streaming then sales of physical media. That's just my thoughts.

In all, I don't like streaming because I don't feel like I own the movie but rather I rent it. And if i am going to do that, i rather have blockbuster or hollywood video’s to be back then streaming it. I wanna see those extra features like bloopers, deleted scenes or interviews of the director and actors that streaming platforms don’t have. Also I don't have to worry about the movie being cut out due to low internet speeds or the image getting clean for one second and then getting a digital grain scale like it glitching out when you didn’t seat the nintendo cart right in the console. But all, if you love physical media then you better start buying and collecting now before it is all gone, just like vhs tapes.  

That is my thought on physical media.

[confusomu]

also you don't necessarily need to use a raspberry pi and can use another SBC or computer for it (if you have a already always-on HTPC for instance)

a concerning trend now is that some devices ignore the DNS server that has been set in their interface or your router's DNS server and send all of their tracking junk using a hardcoded DNS IP address to bypass pi-holes.

>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

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Как организовать мультимедийную систему дома

Создание домашней мультимедийной системы позволяет объединить различные устройства для комфортного просмотра фильмов, прослушивания музыки и доступа к цифровому контенту. Рассмотрим основные шаги и рекомендации по организации такой системы.

1. Определите потребности и бюджет

Прежде чем приступить к созданию мультимедийной системы, определите, какие функции она должна выполнять: просмотр фильмов в высоком качестве, прослушивание музыки, доступ к онлайн-контенту и т.д. Также установите бюджет, который вы готовы выделить на оборудование и установку.

2. Выбор устройств воспроизведения

- Телевизор или проектор: Выберите устройство с высоким разрешением и качественной цветопередачей для комфортного просмотра видео. - Аудиосистема: Для качественного звука рассмотрите варианты от саундбара до полноценной системы 5.1 или 7.1. - Медиаплеер или компьютер: Устройства, такие как медиаплееры, игровые консоли или HTPC (домашний кинотеатр на базе ПК), обеспечат доступ к цифровому контенту.

3. Хранение и управление контентом

Для хранения фильмов, музыки и фотографий рекомендуется использовать сетевое хранилище данных (NAS). Это позволит организовать централизованный доступ к медиаконтенту с различных устройств в доме.

4. Создание домашней сети

Надежная домашняя сеть необходима для передачи данных между устройствами. Используйте проводное подключение (Ethernet) для стабильности или Wi-Fi с высоким уровнем сигнала. Убедитесь, что маршрутизатор поддерживает необходимые скорости передачи данных.

5. Программное обеспечение

Выбор подходящего программного обеспечения для управления медиаконтентом и его воспроизведения играет ключевую роль. Рассмотрите следующие варианты: - Kodi: Популярный медиаплеер с широкими возможностями настройки и поддержки различных форматов. - Plex: Удобный сервер для организации и стриминга медиатеки на различные устройства. - Emby: Альтернатива Plex с открытым исходным кодом и широкими возможностями кастомизации.

6. Управление системой

Для удобства управления мультимедийной системой используйте универсальные пульты дистанционного управления или мобильные приложения, позволяющие контролировать все устройства из одного интерфейса.

7. Акустическая оптимизация помещения

Для достижения наилучшего качества звука обратите внимание на акустику помещения. Используйте звукопоглощающие материалы, правильно размещайте колонки и учитывайте особенности комнаты при настройке аудиосистемы.

Заключение

Организация домашней мультимедийной системы требует тщательного планирования и выбора компонентов, соответствующих вашим потребностям и бюджету. Следуя вышеуказанным рекомендациям, вы сможете создать удобную и функциональную систему для наслаждения лю��имым контентом в комфортных условиях. «Технологии объединяют нас с миром развлечений, делая его доступным прямо у нас дома.» Read the full article