I have Kodi installed now, I will probably test OSMC later today, are there any other programs similar to them that I could test?

What I am mostly interested in:

  • fullscreen mode (dark mode / theme preferably, even if I would have to make it manually somehow)
  • option to navigate my drive or external drive
  • xbox controller support
  • subtitles support

What I want to accomplish is quite simple, every now and then I want to play a movie from my pc on my tv (connected via hdmi) and I don’t want to use mouse or keyboard while watching it to pause or turn the volume up a notch.

Kodi is kinda okay for all that but it feels a little wonky and pretty often makes a mess with my files, creating duplicates or ghost files on lists…

Thanks for any help!

  • SomeBoyo@feddit.de
    6·
    4 months ago

    you could host jellyfin on your pc, if your tv supports the client. With this you won’t even have to connect your pc to the tv.

    • somnuz@lemm.eeOP
      3·
      4 months ago

      I am not that super interested in this because the hdmi connection stays anyway for playing some games…

      I was reading about jellyfin and it would be great for me like 8 years ago, when I was still in my data hoarding phase.

      What I am looking for now is more like Player + Library + Xbox controller as input on top of that. Oh… and subtitles support would be great.