Youtube is a great source for music and videos. Nobody will doubt that. However there are “flaws” like user-tracking and annoying advertisement. Therefore Invidious is a great tool. It provides a alternative frontend to youtube without any of the flaws. It can be installed on your own vps. You can find the source on github: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious Please feel free to use my invidous instance on https://video.arvidortwig.de
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Free Mediaserver “Jellyfin”
The podcast Radio Tux reported in August about the mediaserver software Jellyfin. The website can be found at https://jellyfin.org/ The usage is quite similar to Plex but everything is open source and freely available. The features are: Streaming over a webserver with multiple user accounts Streaming of movies, series and music DLNA provisioning for your home network Apps for iOS and Android (even from F-Droid) Plugin for KODI Integration of Metadata databases like musicbrains or moviedatabase to display pictures and additional information On the fly transcoding of music files (nice if you have mainly “huge” FLACs and want to stream...
Continue reading...DIY Musicplayer for Kids – PhonieBox
With a growing number of children the need for more than one music player is quickly arising. As you know I am fond of free software, so I decided to build something with, tadaaaah: free software 😉 Fortunately there is a great project on the internet: the PhonieBox It is a collection of scripts that creates, on top of a raspberry pi, a music player with an interface for an RFID-Reader, Arcade-Buttons to control volume and skip tracks, and a webserver to upload music files to the raspberrys internal SD-Card. You can also add youtube-links, webradio and even play spotify-playlists....
Continue reading...Chiptunes / Bit-music Archive
If you are into chiptunes (that old computergame music) I recommend checking out the Mod Archive: https://modarchive.org/ It’s a compilation a of different Mods and XMs (Files in which the 8-bit-tunes come) which can be downloaded and then be played with FastTracker (available on https://16-bits.org/ft2.php) or the XMP Xmod-Player under Android. On Fedora check out MilkyTracker
Continue reading...music for geeks – Radiohead Nude remix
wow… thats impressive. a periphals orchester. Take some time to listen to this.
Continue reading...Install gimmicks on Fedora easily with Fedy
Fedy lets you install multimedia codecs and additional software that Fedora doesn’t want to ship, like H264 support, Adobe Flash, Oracle Java etc., and much more with just a few clicks. Installation Installation instructions can be found on https://github.com/rpmfusion-infra/fedy.
Continue reading...Open Source video conferencing Jitsi now available
To make my video conferences private and secure I have implemented the open source video conference solution Jitsi on my website. You can now reach it through https://jitsi.arvidortwig.de It’s open source, based on webrtc, secured by ssl (https) and there is no registration neccessary. I also don’t save any logfiles or anything else. Feel free to use it for you corona-conferencing 😉 The android smartphone app is available on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jitsi.meet/
Continue reading...KODI and Nextcloud
Accessing your Nextcloud Files through Webdav (https) can be quite slow due to the protocol and/or your upstream connection of your nextcloud to the web. It seems to me that if you “mount” the official webdav-path nextcloud is offering into KODI your files are routed through the Internet even when KODI and NC are implemented within the same network. Exchanging the URL with your local NC IP Address and switching to webdav (http) in order to avoid certificate problems is possible but has a negative impact on the speed (i dont know why though). Accessing your files can be done...
Continue reading...KODI Addon “Youtube” not working anymore ?
Here is the solution: https://github.com/jdf76/plugin.video.youtube/wiki/Personal-API-Keys
Continue reading...Kodi Media Centre with Odroid C2
The Raspberry Pi 3s Ethernet Port is only capable of 100 MBit/s and is furthermore connected to the USB2.0 Chip. For comfortably browsing through Photos of 5 to 7 MB from my mediaserver this is not enough speed. The Odroid C2 comes with a Gigabit Ethernet connection and “more power under the hood” (as we say in Germany ;). It also provideds a much faster Emmc Slot compared to the mini-sd-card of the Pi. Coreelec is a great KODI distribution for the Odroid C2 which is still being maintained unlike LibreElec for the Odroid C2. Download the tar package and...
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