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best privacy respecting tv/streaming box?? (lemdro.id)
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[–] 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

Why can't Linux stream 4k?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Media company DRM refuses to allow it. They fear the pirates (who bypass their DRM regardless using hacked android streaming devices) will use it to pirate their stuff more easily.

    Even on Windows which has a locked down DRM pipeline you have to use Google Chrome or Microslop Edge with widevine for this and a few services STILL refuse to let you watch above 1080p on anything but a streaming box/stick or mobile OS because of their incredible fear of pirates and incredible hatred of general computing devices and user freedom.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Linux can, but all streaming services refuse to serve higher quality on linux

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Does jellyfin have this restriction?

    I'm pretty sure stremio does not

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Linux works with 4k. Jellyfin, Plex, Kodi, etc can all stream 4k streams to Linux assuming you're using your own content and not content from commercial services that impose DRM.

    HDR and Dolby Vision are another matter because even on Windows those are recent and limited implementations.

    Linux hasn't implemented proper Dolby Vision and HDR can be finicky but does mostly work on wayland. This is down to it being a lot of work, closed source and DRM and licensing problems from Nvidia, HDMI forum, etc that make it hard and very slow going. To be fair Dolby Vision doesn't really work on Windows either for streaming your own videos purposes. I think LG has an application that can sort of make it work with certain models of theirs but I believe it's mainly for gaming.

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