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Feature Parity with Windows for Home Theater

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mattkhan:
that's great, thanks for considering them

mwillems:
Yes, thanks much for the consideration!  If you need amplification/reproduction steps on any of the points or testing of possible solutions, please let us know.

Awesome Donkey:

--- Quote from: Hendrik on August 19, 2024, 02:41:49 am ---Just one thing to point out, the Netflix topic will likely not be supported for DRM reasons, as was guessed already above. We can only offer this on Windows due to Microsofts WebView2 OS-level component that integrates with DRM, without that with just plain Chromium or such it would not work even on Windows. As far as I am aware, no such capability exists on Linux.
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AFAIK they wanted to port it to macOS first then Linux, but they then announced they were dropping plans for it.

And to be honest I'm a little surprised DRM content still works in WebView2 Edge. I would imagine Microsoft at some point will stop that from functioning so if I were you guys I wouldn't be surprised if it completely stops working at some point in the future, like what happened with CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework).

Doc4:
+1 to BD folders as a valid format, would very much appreciate that as a feature (play index.bdmv directly for menus or by title playback for direct control) I don't want to be forced to rip to MKV exclusively when it's sometimes inappropriate, and trying to play a disk image (iso) over media network proved either unsupported or I've yet to figure it out. You can very clunkily mount an ISO through the disk tool in theater mode, but afaik that isn't helpful in the goal of storing all ISOs (or BD folders) on a headless machine and accessing them from a remote client.

I've known BD-J menus work on windows but have never yet tested it on linux locally, if that's not currently available I hope it will be. I was hoping to move my homelab to linux using MC for HTPC functionality, as trying to run containers on windows is misery. Virtualization is bad for video playback/transcoding, and hardware passthrough adds complexity and tedium. I'd hope to be able to keep things simple.

BryanC:
Vulkan HDR is Wayland-dependent, correct? Or can Vulkan bypass the compositor (I kind of doubt it, given the security implications). So MC (or JRVR, at a minimum) would need to support Wayland before we have a shot at HDR support on Linux?

I have no idea what JRiver's Linux roadmap looks like, but if it were me, Wayland support would be #1 issue since XWayland results in a lot of weird bugs, glitchiness, and slowness. If we're talking about feature parity I'm much more interested in getting the lower-level stuff cleaned up and modernized first than TV tuner support and the like.

I actually try to interact with MC as little as possible on my server because of how slow it is, I only do tagging and other Standard View stuff on Library Server clients.

There's something about how MC interacts with the file system that isn't right on Linux, that's as much as I can tell you.

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