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by TurkTurkleton
1493 days ago
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Dude. I get it. It's HTTP all the way down. I know that; I'm a professional software developer and have been Into Computers since I was old enough to read. That's also how I know that "just dump your video files into a directory and let Apache serve them and watch them on a computer"--or, yes, "just connect your computer with the directory full of video files directly to the TV"--is a shitty user experience, which is the point you seem bound and determined not to concede, since you are instead laser-focusing on the literal reading of statements like "I'm not going to re-encode every single video file I have on the off chance I want to watch them away from home" (obviously I meant I'm not going to do that AHEAD OF TIME versus letting my Plex server do it on-demand and stream it to me when I'm using a device not on my local network), or splitting hairs about binaural hearing and the utility of surround sound. In any case, I yield; you have Won the Conversation; congratulations. I'd give you a gold star, but I don't think HN allows emoji in comments. |
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Well said, and succinctly.
Whatever works for you. If you have some aversion to hotlinked directory listings and need to see a glitzed up array of tiny movie posters, go with God. I'm glad your stuff works, if it does, and I cry with you if it doesn't.