Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- htpc:start [2025/02/07 20:31] – Yuki
+++ htpc:start [2025/02/11 03:41] (current) – [IPv6] Yuki
@@ Line 29: / Line 29: @@
 ==== Plasma Bigscreen ====
-Another nice launcher is Plasma Bigscreen from [[KDE]], unfortunately the devs prioritizes ARM devices and so may fail to work correctly other than on their setup based on Manjaro ARM, and isn't yet updated for KDE 6 so most distros removed it from their repos. Probably good on a Raspberry Pi.
+Another nice launcher is Plasma Bigscreen from [[KDE]], unfortunately the devs prioritizes ARM devices and so may fail to work correctly other than on their setup based on Manjaro ARM, and it wasn't updated for KDE 6 yet so most distros removed it from their repos for the time being. It's a fairly good interface, based on XDG desktop menus (which is pretty much all I want, really), I'd main it if it was more stable.
 ==== Android TV ====
@@ Line 49: / Line 49: @@
   * [[Kodi]]
   * [[YouTube]]
+===== List of incompatibilities =====
+This is a list of gotchas to consider when configuring your HTPC.
+==== Illico+ ====
+It's the one streaming service that doesn't work on any of my devices, save from a TV with Android TV, and on my phone, and even then I had to turn off DNS over TLS completely to log in (but once logged in I can turn it on again). The Android app's login form is probably hosted on some domain internal to Vidéotron's DNS, for some weird reason. Might or might not work on Kodi.
+==== Widevine and HDCP ====
+If you're going to watch TV, make sure the OS/browser you're installing supports Widevine.
+HDCP looks a pain to get it working, but isn't much of a problem as most streaming services still let you watch a lower quality version of their content, except Illico+ who outright blocks you. It's usually 720p, but might definitely be worth trying to turn this on if you need better definition. For all I know, it should work on Firefox, but Chromium does not support it yet on Linux and is considered low priority, and kernel drivers are mostly available only for Intel and AMD cards.(([[https://superuser.com/a/1770330]]))
+==== IPv6 ====
+I use tunnelbroker.net for IPv6 support and use a server in my country, however a lot of streaming sites will detect you're probably using a VPN, and most browsers do that they want and makes it about impossible to prioritize IPv4 traffic even though the Linux kernel can easily be configured for it (see ''/etc/gai.conf''), so I usually leave it off. There's not really any IPv6-only sites, anyway, and if there's any out there it's not out of necessity and it's mostly to test your IPv6 connectivity.

neige d'aoust

User Tools

Site Tools

Differences

Page Tools