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Linux Home Theater Client please


ebike

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ebike

Hi All,

 

Would love to see a Linux client for x86 and ARM devices. The server side runs (&transcodes) nicely on my Odroid-XU3, I would like to use the same platform for my TV Client, but running the

HTML5 client is backwards  (compared with Plex Media Player which I currently run ..), although the client itself is better than Plex Client.

 

If there was a Linux client that would run on both ARM & x86, I would switch from Plex to Emby in a uSecond.

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I would love to port Emby Theater to linux. It's just a matter of time and resources.

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ebike

Thanks for the prompt reply ....

 

Is the current windoze version written in .net? If so, Can it simply be run in mono then?

I take it there is a lot more to it than that, or it would have been done already :)

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even better, it's HTML with electron, so porting the UI is easy. I could have that done tonight. The problem is we need a video player. The one we did for windows is custom and not cross platform, so for linux, we need something else, like perhaps MPV.

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ebike

Great!, MPV would be awesome, it is the best player out there IMHO .... :D

EDIT: Even better, I see that there is an electron build for ARMv7 with hard float and NEON support .... excellent .....

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ebike

Hey guys ... even better, how about a FreeBSD  version of Emby Theater ..... that would run awesome if my FreeNAS/Emby plugin experience is anything to go on ..

 

(FreeNAS/Emby plugin combo transcodes a particular video to a set bitrate client at 10%CPU ... the same conditions on Linux was 35%CPU, and using many more threads, BSD just one)

 

I was very surprised at how efficient BSD could be ..

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denz

It would be awesome if it could be installed on pi 2 and pi 3 as they are more than capable of playing full hd. Kodi runs very well on them.

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ebike

It would be awesome if it could be installed on pi 2 and pi 3 as they are more than capable of playing full hd. Kodi runs very well on them.

Or on the Odroid-XU3/4 which is even more capable .. I have run Kodi and Plex on those ..

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e123enitan

I am hoping soon that ET will be ported on Linux, similar to Kodi/OpenElec or Kodi/LibreElec on low energy Android box, there are potential users  (currently on Android) that are discontent with Kodi or others clients system who are looking for alternatives stable client which I think ET could fill the void, example is where I have personally observed inflow of users from others servers oriented media system whohave succeessfully migrated to Emby. 

 

Let me this happen

  :)

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I am hoping soon that ET will be ported on Linux, similar to Kodi/OpenElec or Kodi/LibreElec on low energy Android box, there are potential users  (currently on Android) that are discontent with Kodi or others clients system who are looking for alternatives stable client which I think ET could fill the void, example is where I have personally observed inflow of users from others servers oriented media system whohave succeessfully migrated to Emby. 

 

Let me this happen

  :)

yep, here is one of them right now  :-)

 

 

don't misunderstand me, I do not hate Kodi, just don't like it much as of lately.

the skins are boring (well the once that actually work).

many plugins are broken every time it is updated, in-fact  I can not use the YuoTube plugin for the last  6 month(!!!)

it says it is supported, it installs and configures, but error out all the time. 

and their forum policies are horrible.

every little things can mark you as pirate and your post deleted, or at very best, moved to spam/not supported category.

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