Re: Movie streaming
  By: Tracker1 to Nightfox on Fri Aug 02 2019 06:18 pm

 >   Re: Movie streaming
 >   By: Nightfox to MRO on Fri Aug 02 2019 12:54 pm
 >
 >  >   Re: ISP Port Blocking
 >  >   By: Nightfox to MRO on Fri Aug 02 2019 09:20 am
 >  >
 >  > With things like Plex, there's a tradeoff between convenience and
 >  > quality. It's like ripping music from
 >  > CD to MP3 - When encoded well, it seems fairly difficult to tell the
 >  > difference in quality.  If I want to quickly bring up a movie or show to
 >  > watch, often I'm okay with it.  I do still like to buy movies on
 >  > blu-ray though, for the quality.
 >
 > I have a NAS box at home, and playback via Kodi on an NVidia Shield TV.
 > Unfortunately, it's about the only decent small device that does network
 > h.265 @ 4K decently.  I also have a couple fire sticks and chromecasts.
 > Really wish the shield tv was better supported by third party apps though.
 >
 > Aside: DM, really like the enhanced support for telnet/ssh from a regular
 > terminal, though the backspace/delete keys on mac (iterm) seem a bit off.

There's a new toggle option for that (treat DEL as Backspace) in the user
terminal settings.

 > Switching to Linux in a couple months when I do a new build anyway.

You'll have the same problem with xterm on Linux unless you muck with term caps
 I suppose. The default for most *nix console terminals is the
backspace/left-delete key sends 0x7F (DEL) rather than Ctrl-H.

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