I hope this is a smooth release, I do not want to bork my EndeavourOS. It took so much time to customize it to my personal taste !!

Ohhh? I tried to make it work even adding the certificate into de /data folder of MPV (rooted android) but it didn’t worked… (source)

I remember I even checked the logs via ADB and while I can’t remember the exact error logs, it wasn’t accepting my certificate.

Also android MPV is the only application on Android that doesn’t accept my self-signed certificate. Navidrome, HTTP shortcuts, bitwarden, Tempo… They all accept without any problems.

If you have some juicy info to share I’m all ears 👍 !!

Edit: It’s probably related to android 14 (god I hate it here…) But can’t revert to 13… The Stock firmware builds are Bitwise different.

Being able to stream my shows on an unstable or lower bandwidth internet connection like on a train

Oh yeah good point wasn’t thinking of that kind of use case. Internet is available everywhere now and I’m so used to gigabit Ethernet and high-speed WiFi/5g that I forgot the low speed of public WiFi or locations where the connection can get unstable.

You could argue I should adapt my habits to my means but I frankly really think it should be the other way around, and transcoding solves that for me.

In the past I probably would ^^" but today it’s nearly impossible if you want a balanced life in a daily working/study routine. There’s so much to do, to much to think of, to much information… Automating stuff is where you can gain hours in the long run, so I totally get it !

Thanks for your answer !

What kind of stylized subtitles? I do not have a big library so I have never encountered this kind of trouble. But I’m curious to know to circumvent in advance.

Most anime have .ASS subtitles and are kinda complex sometimes with singsong related subtitles, but never had any issues on android with them.

And most movies have simple plain text subtitles.

Just a personal use case, maybe it isn’t an advantage. But the official android app is just a web wrapper and the use of MPV as external player don’t allow self-signed local certificates (and they never will…).

Findroid does the job for you while using MPV under the hood and you can connect to your local DNS with self-signed certs without any issues :).

May I ask why? Maybe I haven’t been in your actual case so I probably can’t relate.

However having everything in a format that every device can read and disable transcoding on jellyfin, saves resources and power usage.

Yeah maybe I got so used to SSD’s that I can’t remember the leap between SSD’s and HDD’s.

An as you said the difference between M.2 isn’t that much of a difference in game. There probably lies my bias.

Does it really make that of a difference? Sure I use SSD’s for a long time now but haven’t seen that much of a speed improvement over HDD’s in games. Even with a m.2, haven’t seen any improvement.

However data transfer speed is another story !

Yep ! No-ads, no-sponsor, no-shit.

You even don’t need to self-host, just disable piped proxy, enable local extraction, use HLS and a good VPN.

Sure it’s not as anonymous and sometime I need to disable my VPN, but that’s only temporarily, until they find a new loophole in youtoube’s api.

That’s not piped nor invidious backend’s fault, just YouTube doing his cat and mouse thing…

EDIT

Never mind, my reading skills… I never used the AIO image… Sorry :/.

Thank you :)) ! I have the same question as @umbrella if your have any other insights to share !

how is varlink better than dbus to justify that change?

Someone a short ELI ? I read the article and the comments… But I have no idea what this is about.

Maybe someone has an article that explains for someone not being educated as computer scientist ?

Nobody ever talking about lychee ?

Yes okay it’s not GPL or written in a fancy new language (PHP is still alive xD). But it’s simple, elegant, no UX bloat, no ML or IA stuff… Just a plain simple self-hosted photo manager.

One thing I really liked about it, you can import you external photo’s with .xmp files, just one checkbox away.

The tag feature is simple but working as expected. Nothing fancy but it does best what’s it’s supposed to do !!

Call me old boomer but I really like the simplicity of lychee. It’s a bit like how reading an article from miniflux or wallabag… Simple html files without bloating your eyes or your brain…

Just my 2c, nothing to see here !

For those interested, John Hammond did a video a few months ago about .lnk extension (and other 16 hidden extensions on Windows).

He doesn’t go to much or to deep into the subject, but you get a general view how this could be exploitable.

YouTube link

Piped Link

In case you missed the point 🤙

To expand on my previous comment I dug a bit deeper the rabbit hole with exiftool to showcase how powerful meta tags are over conventional tags. I was curious how It would work and find an “universal” embedded tag system that works nearly on any software.

First thing first,from my personal research there are 4 important types of metadata fields:

• IPTC:keywords
• XMP:subject
• EXIF:XPkeywords (mostly for Windows)
• MacOS:MDItemUserTags (macos tagging system)

It’s also possible to copy one over to the other. The most important ones are IPTC and XMP which are read by most image manager. XPkeywords and MDItemUserTags are OS specific to windows and macos respectively.

After some reading and fiddling around I used the following commands:

exiftool -IPTC:Keywords="Phil's Exif" Wallpapers/image_proxy3.jpg
exiftool -XMP:Subject+=one Wallpapers/image_proxy3.jpg
exiftool -XMP:Subject+=two Wallpapers/image_proxy3.jpg
exiftool -EXIF:XPKeywords="tagtest" Wallpapers/image_proxy3.jpg
exiftool -MacOS:MDItemUserTags+=tagging Wallpapers/image_proxy3.jpg

I spun up a lychee docker container to test if my tags are automatically recognized:

What does that mean ? Does are embedded meta tags that works with every software capable of reading the IPTC or XMP metadata. Those tags will follow your pictures rather than being bound to a specific software database. So your tags are portable and embedded into you files which is in my opinion a better long term solution.

There’s probably way more to it and something that could be further explored is to export your metadata as .xmp file, add those tags into the OS (XPKeywords, MDItemUserTags), bash script to manipulates even further…

Hope it helps to give you a sneak peak on what exiftool is capable. I’m a noob with this tool but it already shines and shows it’s power and capabilities with some basic commands.

Here are some resources if you want to give it a try and follow my trails:

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=15344.0

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=1752.0

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=15802.0

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=8591.0

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=13102.0

https://exiftool.org/metafiles.html#EX15

https://www.picturesandstories.com/news/2014/4/21/tags-and-captions-how-to-label-your-digital-photos-using-metadata

An other solution could be exiftool by Phil Harvey. Don’t judge by how the website looks… It’s probably the best and most complete tool to edit the metadata directly into your images (and way to much other formats xD).

Even though it’s very well documented, exiftool is very complex and there’s a lot to read and grasp before getting comfortable with it. There’s always the forum if you have any question, but before asking the forum go through the FAQ (yes I know it’s huge… But as starting point look at number 11) and search a similar question in the forum.

Here I found a topic that looks like what you’re a looking for:

https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=7894.0

wow ! Not OP, but thank you for such a dedicated answer ! 🫶👍

Yep, same here ! But with this stupid MacOS ! Expensive as hell and they can’t even get some basic networking tweaks right…

Emby which already had music support.

Didn’t knew that ! My bad. Thanks for the precision !