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VLC player paired with a network share does pretty much everything I need to watch local media. I have a Jellyfin instance, and I do like it, but I often find m
by beart 3y ago
VLC player paired with a network share does pretty much everything I need to watch local media. I have a Jellyfin instance, and I do like it, but I often find myself falling back to VLC for one reason or another.
- haunter 3y agoAnd it works on locked down hardware too, Apple TV for example. Use that for a long time and it's perfect
- lostmsu 3y agoVersions of VLC for "weaker" devices like Fire TV do not open network shares sadly.
- beart 3y agoThat's true. Years back, you could cast to Fire TV from the android VLC app. But I recall it not working very well, and I think support for Chrome Cast was entirely removed at some point? I don't know, I completely gave up on the Fire TV sticks. Calling them "weaker" is even being charitable, with all the issues I constantly ran into.