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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!

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[-] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 6 points 8 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.ee 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.

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