The protocol is fine. Just fine. It lacked authentication and transcoding, builtin thumbnails, content metadata.
Without authentication or transcoding it didn’t have the public umph it needed to get people to spend some decent time/money on graphical interface.
I’ve honestly never seen a GUI client that was even half reasonable to try to find a piece of media. Most of them are just generic file folder layouts. It’s really no great surprise that Plex, Jellyfin and Emby push them out of the environment completely.
The protocol is fine. Just fine. It lacked authentication and transcoding, builtin thumbnails, content metadata.
Without authentication or transcoding it didn’t have the public umph it needed to get people to spend some decent time/money on graphical interface.
I’ve honestly never seen a GUI client that was even half reasonable to try to find a piece of media. Most of them are just generic file folder layouts. It’s really no great surprise that Plex, Jellyfin and Emby push them out of the environment completely.
Folders is best.
heh yeah my tv is like
movies
and all my icons are generic film icons :)
One TV will give you the fill name if you move the cursor over the media, but it takes a hot second
much pain, slow tv…