Just set up my living room Linux pc with Kodi and got all my shows and movies in one nice spot all organized with a beautiful ui. Kodi has many themes, extensions and cool stuff like controller support and the connectivity to other software like jellyfin to stream locally.
Highly recommend it 🏴☠️
I wish Kodi had a better interface for playing YouTube videos. Searching and finding a video to watch with that UI is terrible.
In case you didn’t know, you can send a YouTube URL to Kodi by sharing it from your phone to the Kore app.
So you can do your browsing on your phone/tablet and when you want to watch something on the big screen, you just share it with the Kore app and it will start playing.
Didn’t know that Kodi could play YouTube videos. I just downloaded all of Dragon Ball Z Abridged and set it up like a show 😆
If you want a great experience with YouTube I can highly recommend the freetube app. It’s worked flawlessly so far on my Linux setup. Just needs updates occasionally like everything else.
If you want a really beautiful experience with Kodi I can highly recommend the “Copacetic” skin.
Mute button … playing everything on mute until I’m ready to watch whatever it is I want to watch
Never had a high-seas site autoplaying. Just saying.
If pirating tv/movies was as easy on Apple TV or a gaming console as Netflix is, I would drop it in a second. I’m paying them exclusively for convenience and to fund my laziness.
I’d just put any old laptop in place of each lol
I’ve honestly given that some serious thought. A mini pc or laptop as a dedicated media server or streaming device wouldn’t be a bad idea at all.
I’ll be honest, there’s some fiddling, but you can run a jellyfin server from a laptop/desktop pretty easily for home streaming.
If you can find your way to the jellyfin-server installer for your OS, and point it at a library folder, just putting media in that folder is all you have left to do–it pretty much takes care of the rest, and all streams over your local home network.
Currently using stremio with the torrentio plugin on a Chromecast. Works so smoothly you might forget its pirating
You also can take the lazy and cheap way out, transfer some files to a flash drive or external hdd and plug it in to the console/tv, most have USB ports now.
well… ads, maybe
uBlock Origin takes care of that.
You can disable auto play in the account settings. I needed to login on the website to do that but it works on my TV now.
That’s fair, but for awhile that setting only worked on desktop, and various apps still may or may not respect the setting. I’ve never encountered someone who enjoys this being on be default.
People still pay for this shit?
