We have a cheapo 55" 4K Roku TV that I think we bought for $398 at Wally World last year. It works well. I'm happy with it. It gets the job done. It is cheap enough, though, that the remote does not have a headphone jack, like other Roku TVs or streaming boxes have, nor does it seem to have Bluetooth support. But I found out that even without that, you can use an iPhone to stream sound from the TV to headphones connected to the iPhone. In my case, fancy new Apple AirPods that I just bought.
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Slingplayer on Linux: Blah
So, I've gotten Slingplayer to run on Debian Linux, thanks to various how-to guides.
Previously, I got it to run on my Asus Eee laptop using the same guides. The audio and video quality were crap, though. At the time, I figured, oh well, the Eee just doesn't have enough horsepower to run Slingplayer under Wine.
But, my Debian desktop is much faster, and it still sucks:
As far as my tries at it, no matter what I run it on and how I configure it, it just blows.
Sling Media, I'm bummed. Where's the Linux client that Slingplayer should've had from day one?
Previously, I got it to run on my Asus Eee laptop using the same guides. The audio and video quality were crap, though. At the time, I figured, oh well, the Eee just doesn't have enough horsepower to run Slingplayer under Wine.
But, my Debian desktop is much faster, and it still sucks:
- Video: The video quality is awful, though potentially tolerable considering this is all a hack.
- Audio: Fail, fail, fail. The audio skips constantly, gets stuck if you resize a window, and randomly will spew static for many seconds at a time.
As far as my tries at it, no matter what I run it on and how I configure it, it just blows.
Sling Media, I'm bummed. Where's the Linux client that Slingplayer should've had from day one?
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