I just want the Manjaro Arm to not fizzle the gui’s and run Firefox at speeds faster than 1980s era internet…

Or any desktop distro, even gnome or ubuntu

  • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    When you ‘stream a video’ from firefox it just downloads the video in small chunks at a time instead of the whole thing at once. These chunks of downloaded video are saved to temporary memory called a ‘cache’ and deleted after you are done the video.

    Yes yt-dlp is most often used to download the entire video as a digital file onto permanent memory; however it doesn’t have to be used that way. Other applications like smplayer and mpv can work with yt-dlp; using it as a way to do the heavy lifting of talking to youtubes servers and streaming video in the same exact way firefox does.

    Doing a quick search, there are some projects to implement mpv with sponsorblock. Im not the most technical person and prefer not to get my hands dirty with complex hacked together scripts that require compilation or whatever. Thats not to discourage you if you want to follow up on those things know people are working on it but if you aren’t a power user it may be a hard time to get that kind of thing working.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      4 months ago

      That’s extremely useful to know about yt-dlp.

      I’ve only ever used it to download videos permanently fire offline viewing when traveling. I never knew it could work as a temp cache as well.

      I’ll probably make a comment linking comments here with good solutions soon.

      Ask that’s left is to figure out a decent IPTV program. Really liked Hypnotix but it seems it’s just too much for the Pi

        • Lumisal@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          4 months ago

          I didn’t know VLC worked with IPTV. I’m guessing through plug in?

          VLC was giving me issues too when playing video as well though, but only on some distros

          • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            4 months ago

            How to play IPTV using iptv-org playlist and VLC

            More directions at iptv-orgs github

            1. open up VLC (and most other media players)
            2. select the media tab in top left, navigate to ‘open network stream’
            3. paste this URL: https://iptv-org.github.io/iptv/index.m3u to import the global playlist of all iptv-org streams
            4. Open vlc’s playlist viewer with ctrl+L or right click > view > playlist

            You should see a bunch of IPTV streams to choose from. Go to search bar located top right to search playlist for the stream you want. You can look for a more specific iptv-org playlist for your language and stuff. when commercial breaks happen it just shows a still frame. If nothing is playing right away try waiting a few minutes.

            I hope all this has helped you out, Lumisal. I updated the formatting on my comments to closer resemble a guide in case you decide to link them in the future. Enjoy your open and energy efficient computing!