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Cake day: September 9th, 2023

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  • if you think about it

    I tried that, and I’m not totally sure about the correctness of my numbers, but your numbers intuitively seem off to me:

    a 50" 1080p TV is almost 10x the size [of a 7" screen]

    How did you arrive at this? I’d argue a 50" screen is much more than 10 times the size of a 7" screen.

    The inches are measured diagonally, and I see how 50" is somewhat “almost 10x” of 7", as 49" would be 7 times longer diagonally than a 7", and 7.something is " almost" 10.

    But if we assume both screens have a 16:9 ratio, the 50" screen has a width of ≈110.69 cm and height of ≈62.26 cm, while the 7" is only ≈15.50 by ≈8.72 cm.

    The area of the 7" is 135.08 cm² while for the 50" it’s ≈6891.92 cm². The ratio between these two numbers is ≈51.02, which I believe means the 50" screen is more than 51x the physical size.

    At least, that number seems more realistic to me. I’m looking at my 6.7" phone screen right now and comparing it to my 55" TV screen, and it seems very possible that the phone screen could fit more than 50 times inside the TV screen, not just “almost 10x”.

    If I totally misunderstood you, please explain what you mean.

    My numbers for width and height were calculated using this display calculator site that someone else mentioned somewhere under this post, and I rounded the decimals after doing the calculations with all decimals included.















  • I use Jellyfin through the Jellycon add-on for Kodi, running LibreELEC on a RPi 3B+ to get the best of both worlds.

    This makes the content available for direct playback since Kodi supports most formats and codecs, assuming your device is powerful enough. The RPi 3B+ I use is happy with H.264 but can’t handle H.265, VP9 and other more compressed video files, though various other SBCs or USFF PCs have the capabilities if you need them. Or, if your server is powerful enough, you could set it up to let Jellyfin transcode the video to a supported format on the fly as it’s streaming.

    For a better UX, I recommend using a skin like Arctic: Zephyr - Reloaded and taking some time to understand how to make relevant content available through custom widgets on the homescreen, such as New Episodes, Continue Watching, Next Up, etc. if you want a Jellyfin-like experience. I’ve done that, and it has been convenient at times to be able to use the TV remote through HDMI-CEC, though I must admit I mostly just initiate playback from the Jellyfin app on my phone by connecting it to the RPi, resulting in a more casting-like experience. However, I still use my TV remote for player control, but I can also use the Kore app for remote control of Kodi. I use that app for controlling the player of Kodi since it’s better at staying in sync with the Kodi playback status than the Jellyfin app, and because it can control the entirety of Kodi instead of just the current Jellyfin media playback.