Discussed recently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40869173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40869173 63 points, 19 days ago, 34 comments I'd really

Discussed recently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40869173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40869173 63 points, 19 days ago, 34 comments I'd really like to have a more headless system like Chromecast. I'm contrast to here, to this media PC needing its own dedicated input device. Anyone in the family should be able to open their phone & manipulate the current session collaboratively. I've been kind of ok with Jellyfin-mpv-shim on devices as display server. Jellyfin has the everloving worst most anti-filesystem ridiculous media management, and the Android client can be pretty finicky, desyncing and needing restarts, or having its themeing get messed up & becoming unreadable. But I've kind of learned to live with it. Eventually everything plays. I also broke out BubbleUPNP again recently & it's been pretty good. Particularly after setting up a BubbleUPNP transcode service on my media server, it's become quite reliable, and has always been quite the Swiss army knife of taking whatever media you have and sending it to whatever device you want. It's not open source & not ideal for keeping track & progressing through a bunch of shows over time, but it mind of shows that the UPNP dream, conceptually, was pretty awesome. Hoping eventually Open Screen Protocol starts materializing for real. Matter Cast is out but it's a travesty, the most un-interoperable load of crap where your tv seemingly has to already know how to go download a custom native app to work, 100% anti open anything. Open Screen Protocol looks conceptually great, like a way to have a thick client but a dumb one that only runs whatever your phone tells it to. Please please please.