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Jellyfin/YT/Twitch TV box (Raspberry pi 4) (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I had a Rapsberri Pi 4 (4GB) laying around and installed kodi/libreelec to use it with my TV.

I need it to do 3, maybe 4 things, but the experience was rather underwhelming.

Jellyfin client I run a jellyfin server on my NAS. The jellyfin add-on needs several seconds or even a minute plus to load the content of big folders.

Jellycon has a different approach, but doesn't let me browse folders, which is a must for me (I use pinchflat to download some videos from YouTube channels. They are organized in folders)

YouTube Ideally I would love a freetube client for watching one off videos or finding a video on a certain topic. The YouTube add-on requires API access, sadly.
Twitch The add-on works great.
Remote I have a IR Mini Keyboard that works great with Kodi/libreelec

I was considering installing a lightweight Linux distro and installing freetube and a browser for twitch and jellyfin.

Does anyone use similar hardware? Is there a better solution for my use case?

(If there is a better affordable hardware solution, I'm interested as well)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I just installed a port of AndroidTV on mine and then changed over to an android tv box because they have a remote that just works etc. Connected to our surround sound system>projector it is just easy to do. I don't even bother with plex anymore as the NAS box just serves files over ethernet/wifi and the box can, if needed, just download the file. You can then, of course install apps on android and do it that way if needed

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I can recomend https://github.com/firsttris/plugin.video.sendtokodi for youtube .. you can share the videos from your phone but you have to deactivate the youtube-addon .. the advantage is you can share videos from a lot of other sites to .. there is a list of site that work with this addon on github

as backup you can try youtube for trailers from the slyguy-repo .. this addon works without api

https://www.matthuisman.nz/2023/11/youtube-for-trailers-kodi-add-on.html?m=1

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cool, so this puts yt-dlp on Kodi and downloads videos before watching them. Hopefully this works better for older hardware than the YouTube plugin, which I think has to use more computationally expensive methods to stream from YouTube directly with the cat and mouse game between yt and them.

Do you know, does it keep the video files it downloads, or does it delete them automatically?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I don't know .. i do not realize a download .. I only watch the video I wan't i think it is only in th cache ..