Years ago when my brother lived with me he started ripping DVDs and Blu-rays and running a Plex server that pulled them from a NAS. It worked great on the Xbox in the house. When I got married and he moved out it didn’t work as well, but that probably had more to do with his network connection than anything else. Haven’t even tried in years though.
I dont think you can selfhost media server on xbox, but both jellyfin and plex are amazing. If you want to run media server you should have x86 or arm based PC. Old laptop or desktop PC or SBC like raspberry pi is great starting hardware if you have one laying around. If you want to buy hardware lot of people recommend used SFFPC like intel nuc or lenovo thin client. You can run both plex and jellyfin server at the same time, they are quite lightweight and easy to install. If you want to share media with a friend plex is better option afaik, but I dont need that and like jellyfin more.
For a player, if there is no jellyfin for xbox, just use plex. Android tv supports both
I don't know how well the Jellyfin app for xbox works, but you can also install Kodi with the jellyfin addon I think. Or share your library via smb and connect to that directly with Kodi.
I recently switched to Jellyfin and I've been pretty impressed with it. Previously I was using some DLNA server software (not Plex) with my TV's built-in DLNA client. That worked well for several years but I started having problems with new media items not appearing on the TV, so I decided to try some alternatives. Jellyfin was the first one I tried, and it's working so well that I haven't felt compelled to search any further.
the internet seems to feel it doesn’t work smoothly with xbox (buggy app/integration).
Why not try it and see how it works for you? Jellyfin is free and open source, so all it would cost you is a little time.
I have a TCL tv with (with google smart TV software)
Can you install apps from Google Play on this TV? If so, there's a Jellyfin app for Google TVs. I can't say how well the Google TV Jellyfin app works as I have an LG TV myself, so currently I'm using the Jellyfin LG TV app.
If you can't install apps on that TV, does it have a DLNA client built in? Many TVs do, and that's how I streamed media to my TV for years. On my LG TV the DLNA server shows up as another source when I press the button to bring up the list of inputs. The custom app is definitely a lot more feature-rich, but a DLNA client can be quite functional and Jellyfin can be configured to work as a DLNA server.
@HeartyBeast Jokes on you, I already figured out what story's on its surface (except for spoiler-territory stuff), as well as having indirectly encountered this banger of a rhythm game myself, through two rip vids on both SiIvaGunner and TimmyTurnersGrandDad several weeks ago, of all things.
I have a few comment to your post and the other panic about security.
Using nextcloud only for bookmarks if total over kill, but if you want to start and understand and later use it more, it's actually a good idea.
Yes, exposing ports in your firewall is potentially dangerous, BUT if you only expose a port and not the complete PC the firewall deals with attacks (but your services still have to be up to date to ensure safety).
Yes, using a VPN instead of exposing the service is saver that's for sure. You can do it they way for the start. But don't let you be frightened by some of the other commands. I have several services public on my network.
3.1. BUT I still evaluate if this service even have to be public and the risk of late patches. I have public services and local service (name.domain.com and name.local.domain.com). Any service that I don't need to access from a random PC/share with family/friends can only be accessed in local network /via vpn.
Its good you are careful, try to search online for more information since this post didn't get a lot of comments.
Edit:
5. Don't know why people recommend tailscale where you need an account, instead of recommendatinh wireguard (tailscale is build on wirequard) or OpenVPN.
Edit 2:
6. Don't use UPnP! It enables your machines to automatically open ports, that's so bad.
While Google isn't generally good for privacy GBoard actually does this. IIRC they actually completely removed the sync service and your typing history is only kept on-device and Android backup.
However it is a bit of a privacy nightmare otherwise as many of the other features phone home. But last I checked (~4 years ago, worth checking again) the core typing functionality is actually fully offline and private.
Yes. Very possible. An LLM could possibly be run locally or just sandboxed for only you. In my experience, I guess because there is less training data and fewer iterations, it tends to take longer and result in poorer outputs.
Microsoft could also let you control this but of course they do not want to.
.......
I switched to Openboard. After a few months, Its not as good yet as SwiftKey was, but it's also not sending all my text input to Microsoft.
The primary feature I miss from Swiftkey is the ability to insert a gif easily.
I've been using a version of openboard with sayboard implemented. It doesn't work perfectly, there's a good amount of frustration that comes with it, but it works good enough for what I need it to do and I'll gladly take the trade-off for being less dependent on google.
Hopefully, it continues to get better or a more exact/perfected alternative comes along.
It can and it will. That is one of the uses of "NPUs" I'm most excited about.
Basically you can run an (potentially open-source) small LLM on the phone using whatever context the keyboard has access to (at a minumim, what you've typed so far) and have the keyboard generate the next token(s).
Since this is comptationally intensive the model has to be small and you need dedicated hardware to optimize it, otherwise you would need a 500W GPU like the big players. You can do it for 0.5W locally. Of course, adjust your expectations accordingly.
I don't know any project doing it right now, but I imagine that Microsoft will integrate in SwiftKey soon, with open source projects to follow.
I think you hugely estimate what it takes to complete and correct a few words. Maybe you would want some sort of accelerator for fine tuning but 1. You probably don't even need fine tuning and 2. You can probably just run it on the CPU while your device is charging. But for inference modern CPUs are by far powerful enough.
Yeah, modern arm CPUs can run at 3GHz and play PS4 level games, but I don't want my phone to become a handwarmer every time I want to typefvvn a quick email...
And of course, I'm not talking about correcting "fuck" to "duck", I'm talking about ChatGPT level prediction. Or llama2, or gemini nano, or whatever....
This functionality can be local. I use the Google keyboard with internet access blocked and it works. The only thing missing is the ability to search for emojis typing a word (they are still in the list) and some features that I never used and never understood why they are in a keyboard since it's not related to typing text, like the gifs.
The only reason I see for a keyboard to need internet connection is to update the dictionary when it's modified, but it shouldn't prevent to work with an outdated dictionary.
When I searched for alternatives a few months ago, I couldn't find anything satisfying.
kbin.social
Newest