Is there a nice way to setup a rPi to run as a client, that just turns on and looks like a media centre? Ie, it loads up and is ready to go at power on?

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You could almost just script the launch of the flatpak at boot. It'll be rough around the edges but probably fine depending on your peripherals

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would just script the web version. You just need to set Firefox to run at startup full screen.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

No HEVC support IME, needs flatpak

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What?

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

HEVC hardware decoding doesn't seem to be supported in normal browsers. It works in the flatpak though

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Isn't the flatpak just the browser version put into an app? Maybe its just a matter of configuring Firefox.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago

https://caniuse.com/hevc

Pretty widely unsupported, doesn't work in chrome either. Flatpak must be doing something sneaky