Probably a noob question, but I wonder if someone has experience with that. I am looking to buy a TV and I wonder is it makes sense to buy one with decent HDR capabilities, when my plan is to watch pirated movies from my Linux device via HDMI. Is that technically possible? Is it easy?
If it matters, I am on Fedora silverblue.
Yes the ARR stack works flawlessly in docker on Linux. Paired with qbittorrent and even public trackers you can watch to your hearts content. It’s easy to find guides in your favorite search engine.
It’s important to use a VPN if you don’t want to get disconnected from your ISP.
I don’t use HDMI though I run jellyfin on the server and as a client on Roku and Xbox over the home WAN. Here’s Jellyfin HDR guide
That site is full of obvious, overwrote AI garbage, always horribly out of date, and talks absolute bollocks all the time.
Transcoding a file, even a 4k HDR one, will not peg your server at 80%+ CPU if you at least have the iq of a turnip and set up GPU transcoding. A cheap ARC card will handle several 4k streams.
This site it trying to sell you a jellyfin administrator app, it has a perverse incentive to make everything sound more complicated than it is. I hate that it comes up in Google results because it’s always shit.
“Setting up” HDR on jellyfin is just setting up jellyfin. There really isn’t much to it.
In this day and age, the question should no longer be “will <x> run on Linux?”, rather “what’s the best method for doing <x> on Linux?”
Because - again, in this day and age - Linux is extremely capable and runs damn near the entire internet.
If it matters, I am on Fedora silverblue.
It does. HDR isn’t really well supported on xorg-based systems. Fedora has Wayland though, which handles HDR better.
HDMI
This also matters. HDMI 2.1 isn’t supported on amd systems just yet. It doesn’t matter unless you want 144hz at 4k, but it does matter. Linux does a better job of supporting displayport, but tvs don’t usually have displayport inputs.
ARR stack. 1000%. Do this. I can’t believe it’s works this easily.
If you plug claude in to Omarchy, it will even set it all up for you. It’s almost criminal how fucking trival it is to give yourself a better experience than anything you could pay for.
“If you plug Claude into Omarchy…”
Let me stop you right there.
I mean, you have to pay for Usenet but yes I know what you mean.
hell yeah, brother (or sister, or sibling). even if you’re just using public trackers via torrent, films or series utilizing hdr should be available. I would also second MPV like others have said
Donno if fedora has gotten hdr yet, I know arch with KDE has great hdr now. Just gotta use mpv or smth not vlc
I have my Linux PC connect to TV via HDMI and AVR. I just enable HDR in settings then play my movies with MPV. Works perfectly fine.
Only a minor issue with AMD GPUs, I have enabled HDMI 2.1 FRL for my kernel to get full RGB, not sure if that’s possible on Silverblue but it should be enabled by default by Linux kernel 7.4 or something.
works on my jellyfin with the two computers in my family with hdr monitors, and the newer tv with hdr. the older one struggles to play hd sdr video but possibly it could still be used as a monitor and have an sbc capable of hd hdr playback actually play the stream.
I don’t have a graphics card and my 6th gen intel processor doesn’t have HDR capabilities. So i just use my plex server to watch HDR movies on my smart tv’s and they work great. My TCL tv will tell me as soon as the movie starts if it’s Dolby Vision, HDR, HDR10, or HDR10+ which is really nice. My Hisense TV doesn’t do that.
