Wait… Could you put bigscreen on the desktop mode, configure it with all the fixings, plug in a dock to TV and get a USB/bluetooth remote?
… Shit that’s better than a mini ATX HTPC at $600 dollar for dollar since you can run away with it
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parpol@programming.dev 3 days ago
Welcome to Linux. It works great as a media center instead of your ad-ridden smart TV as well.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 days ago
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes you can, I do that with mine a lot. The one caveat though that is a real bummer is I haven’t been able to get surround sound working on it. Something limits it to stereo output. There should be some way around it, but I haven’t found it.
evulhotdog@lemmy.world 2 days ago
From what I’ve read, yes.
Ajzak@lemm.ee 1 day ago
There’s also a script for Android TV on the deck that’s pretty good, I didn’t test it yet but I’ll sure as hell be using that for my tv stuff
chtk@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Unless you have an abundance of Dolby Vision content on your media server. That’s the only reason I need the Jellyfin app or the Kodi port for AndroidTV
Templa@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Will you have access to all codecs as well though? This is the main reason we still keep our Nvidia Shield around from years ago
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
My Linux PC is a media server/htpc with access to all codecs. I regularly transcode H.265 via nvenc for jellyfin.
You must ensure you’re using a client that can use the codec in question, regarding proprietary codecies like H.265 you will need either a desktop client that can handle it, or verify you have your browser properly configured.
Is there a specific codec you’re concerned about losing access to?
Templa@beehaw.org 2 days ago
First of all, thank you for the reply. I always wondered if we could use our Steam Deck for pretty much everything since we have a dock plugged on our TV, but since we have been using the Nvidia Shield Pro as our media player for more than 5 years, I didn’t get out of my way to inform myself.
The Shield Pro was amazing at the start, until the stock launcher started showing ads (we currently avoid them by using an app for Android TVs called Productivity Launcher).
You must ensure you’re using a client that can use the codec in question
Yeah, this is the reason we had to stop using Jellyfin client and switched to Kodi. I think the jellyfin didn’t have support for pass through for the codec our movie was using and Kodi worked fine.
Is there a specific codec you’re concerned about losing access to?
Mainly Douby Atmos/Vision and such. We currently have our 4k TV connected with eARC to our Soundbar and the soundbar connected to the Shield. The only other thing we connected to the soundbar was our Nintendo Switch dock since I couldn’t make surround work otherwise. PS5 surround works fine connected to the TV and I think SD does too (I will need to test it later because I am unsure and I can’t remember).
Thinking about it now I think I do need to at least setup a way to play our stuff from Jellyfin on our SDs using Tailscale, this way we can access our stuff while traveling. At this moment we only access it away from home from our phones to listen to music.
the16bitgamer@programming.dev 3 days ago
We both switch years ago on our laptops when Windows 11 became the default windows. Linux Mint ftw