Wintereise
Joined 8 years ago
Joined 8 years ago
I have a sizeable networking background, but still absolutely hated having to keep up with this many moving parts. I very much didn't enjoy troubleshooting this setup.
Dumb is good.
From broken playback state tracking, "currently watching" that just won't go away (obvious local state management issues), subtitles that randomly won't show up (no matter what you do), un-configurable +30s/-10s skip options, outright crashes (that toss the local state of whatever you were doing), fun with HDR playback (good luck, 0 handholding. You just have to make all the stars align yourself) and many, many more problems are routine.
Despite all this though, it is (or at least was 9~ months ago, when I made the switch) so much better than Emby (and sorta, by extension, Jellyfin -- which was much worse) on the same platform that it's astounding.
I remember being super impressed that metadata matching was mostly working for a predominantly ASPAC focused library. Library management in general is much better, now that I think about it.
[0]: https://archive.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Sun...
What that means in practical terms is that you'll be presented with diagrams and need to pause and think what they really mean.
This context will likely not be translated well in the audio form.
It feels tailored to first party use.
But with native x forwarding coming soon to WSL2, you'll get the same experience soon enough (given that WSL2 is a separate VM running in Hyper-V already).
Seems to work ...reasonably enough.
Basically sign up for account -> install -> allow to join network in Dashboard. That was it.
`paul.s (at) objectdisoriented (dot) com` if you need to reach out.