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This Windows tool makes it super easy to debloat and cut down ads on your Android TV
(www.androidauthority.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2024
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Just build a htpc powerful enough to display media and play games with good performance
Put a tv tuner card in the htpc
Here, I drew the word "Just" in this post
[Caption for the visually impaired: "Atlas holding up the celestial globe" by Guercino]
Been there done that. I prefer the Nvidia Shield, easier interface to navigate with a remote, I don’t have to login first, it rarely needs an update, no noisy fans, I don’t need to keep a physical keyboard connected to it, it’s way cheaper, I don’t need to mess around with codecs, and there aren’t a lot of unnecessary services and background applications hogging memory and cpu resources.
I get that most of this can be fixed or worked around on a htpc, but that’s effort I don’t have to spend on a Shield.
It also smoothly supports all dolby/dts stuff with no fuss. To my knowledge, there's no way to get dolby vision working on an HTPC.
This about avoiding android tv and ads though
I run a Pihole, no ads.
That's BS. It's impossible for something like pihole to block ads like the ones we get on YouTube/Android tv because they are served from the same domain as the regular content and a pihole doesn't know the difference.
The only way to block them is to run unofficial apps that replace YouTube and the likes.
I am using the default launcher and while I get ads for TV shows in the home screen, I do not get ads for third-party products like chicken wraps. I can also watch Youtube without getting third-party ads during or in-between videos. I assume given this is not BS, the ads are not being served from the same domain as the video.
I really don't believe it. At some point it was even a suggested workaround to intercept requests to port 53 because the Shield or its apps were not honoring your network's DNS configuration. Which would be similar to the pihole not being in the picture at all.
If it's really working for you, I suggest telling the community how you've done it because this question pops up every other day and the answer is always the same.
I have never heard of anyone talk about nvidia shield since 2013 until I joined lemmy. This is the weirdest marketing psyop I have ever seen.
Then you weren't in the r/self-hosting or r/piracy communities. It comes from the fact that it supports most codecs. So when you want to watch almost any movie on Plex, the server won't have to transcode.
I was and I guess the psyop was dealt with there.
Idk why you insist on it being a psyop, but you do you. I tried to find an android device that had hardware support for H.264, H.265, and others and it's not much there. I believe Firetv 4K does but then you are getting a more locked down android with a bunch more ads.
You are a psyop
I also use a Nvidia shield, very happy with it... Mostly. Clean, few ads, although they did add some banner ads for major streaming providers. But I don't mind seeing a banner for a few new shows
Not psyops
This is a psyop because it makes my brain tingle.
A $40 htpc with 4k HDR output, wifi, a remote, and uses like 10W maxed and <1W idle? Please share parts list.
What software does it run which is able to access non-local media like Hulu, Netflix, peacock, etc?
Kodi forever, with retropie
You mean jellyfin! The kodi library management design is silly. Tightly coupled with the player itself.
I have kodi on a rpi3, with the jellyfin plug in so all the decoding happens on hardware (old cheap nvidia) on the server where jellyfin runs.
For video content, iirc, it's possible to browse the files just like you're asking for by creating a "Mixed film and programmes" library. The description of the type, when creating it, mentions: "Content will be displayed as plain folders." However, I don't know if that would also work for audiodramas? Possibly if you disable auto-fetching of metadata and provide it all yourself — either by creating .nfo-files and supplying correctly named images within the folder structure, or through the jellyfin app/webui.