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open source alternativ to firetv, chromecast, steam big picture, Plasma Bigscreen (feddit.de)

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Hello guys I'm searching for a piece of software in with I can watch/launch things links a Netflix webapp freetube Plex/jellyfin or something like that in a format where I can just sit back with a remote or mouse and navigate around the gui's

The Problem with plasma bigscreen is that I don't have a arm system just laying around and whant to install it on a x86 architecture CPU

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe it's obvious, but how about Kodi?
It has support for CEC (for utilizing your TV's remote through HDMI), of course there are other input options as well.
There's plenty of plugins to support online video services. Needs some work to configure them, and sometimes it requires maintenance when a plugin stops working, but I was in general happy with the way it worked while I used it for a few years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's worth mentioning that HDMI CEC is spotty on Kodi. I've had no problem with it on a Pi or CCwGTV, but if you try to convert a desktop or laptop into a media center PC, chances are the HDMI output won't do CEC, and you'll need an adapter (further reading: https://kodi.wiki/view/CEC#CEC-capable_HTPCs)

[–] Zpiritual 1 points 1 year ago

That's vecause amd and nvidia doesn't incorporate hdmi-cec into their gpus and isn't kodis fault. Iirc intel nucs may do some limited cec.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I think Plex is not open source but is there any reason against Jellyfin? As far as I know, they also have apps for most smart TVs in case that's what you mean by navigating with a remote.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Nothing in Plasma Bigscreen is specific to ARM. You just got to find a distribution that ships it for x86 or compile it yourself.

But tbf I wouldn't recommend Plasma Bigscreen, it currently has no developers and is missing a lot of polishing and general apps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This seems to suggest plasma bigscreen runs just fine on x86

[–] coolmojo 3 points 1 year ago

As far I know, for Plasma Bigscreen you can use KDE Neon as well, which you can install on x86.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Arch and alpine linux have packages for plasma bigscreen...

[–] DichotoDeezNutz 0 points 1 year ago

Take a look at Jellyfin

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