• Mango@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    DLNA protocol.

    Seriously, how has it been passed up by all the worst little steaming gimmicks?

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      10 months ago

      Okay, I’m probably super ignorant and in need of a lesson… Every piece of DLNA software I’ve ever messed with sucked and was a massive security and privacy issue? I haven’t looked at it much, but it didn’t seem worth it? Is it good? What’s good about it?

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      10 months ago

      The protocol is fine. Just fine. It lacked authentication and transcoding, builtin thumbnails, content metadata.

      Without authentication or transcoding it didn’t have the public umph it needed to get people to spend some decent time/money on graphical interface.

      I’ve honestly never seen a GUI client that was even half reasonable to try to find a piece of media. Most of them are just generic file folder layouts. It’s really no great surprise that Plex, Jellyfin and Emby push them out of the environment completely.

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          10 months ago

          heh yeah my tv is like

          movies

          • Nightmar...
            
          • Nightmar...
            
          • Nightmar...
            

          and all my icons are generic film icons :)

          One TV will give you the fill name if you move the cursor over the media, but it takes a hot second

          much pain, slow tv…