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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 7 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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

No HEVC support IME, needs flatpak

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What?

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 1 points 7 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 7 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 7 months ago

https://caniuse.com/hevc

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