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That article is for lay-persons and really an awareness article I surmise. If you’re technical you are likely already aware of the security concerns with jacascript.
That article is for lay-persons and really an awareness article I surmise. If you’re technical you are likely already aware of the security concerns with jacascript.
Malicious javascript seeks to bypass security controls. It’s one of the reasons NoScript is a thing. It could be a malware loaded from an ad. Biggest reason for adblockers imo.
Check out this link for learning about this stuff.
https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/javascript-malware-explained/
I solved this problem by having all of my media in a supported format of all of my devices so no transcoding is needed. My Pi 4 can transcode two 480p streams simultaneously or a single 1080p stream but can’t do any more than that. However it can stream at least 4 streams simultaneously a mix of 4k, 1080p and 480p. It suits my needs unless I’m transcoding 4k due to subtitles 😵. Hopefully transcoding won’t be required for subtitles forever… right? Right?
Word of caution, if you have been browsing successfully until now, it could be a malicious javascript app or malware loaded from that website that is attempting to scan your network or do other things. In other words if this is a new firewall request above and beyond the standard one librewolf needs to function, proceed with cation.
What’s the format of the videos? I’ve tried everything I could think of to rip and transcode a 3D bluray.
Mine is only accessible from VPN so I’m not worried.
I have plenty of times, which is why I went hunting for a way to disable it.
Yes that is the setting to turn on the “search bar” but it doesn’t revert omnibar to only URLs.
Firefox has omnibox and it’s not as easy to turn off as you think. The immediately available settings do some things like add the “search” box back but the “URL” box still functions as the omnibox. Have to play around with about:config and even then I haven’t figured out how to change it turn back time to the before times.
Thanks for the write up. I am currently using a Roku TV with the Jellyfin client running on it. I’ll need to look into Kodi and sounds like I might need an AVR or set top box. It would be nice if these things (TVs, soundbars) were more open. Maybe we need an open source soundbar firmware, then I could permanently disable Alexa and maybe make use of it’s networking capabilities.
That’s what I had heard as well. Maybe this is a new feature request for the project developers.
Interesting. Can you tell me more about your setup? A Jellyfin server (does it need a plugin?) then TV is running Kodi client which connects to Jellyfin and your transcoding settings are configured on the Kodi client? Is that right or am I missing something?
So back to my origin question. Jellyfin supports transcoding so can it support device specific profiles where I can force it to transcode all audio to ac3 for specific decices?
Under my TV’s audio digital output format selection it says “select pass through to hear unmodified dolby or dts audio using ARC. If dolby or dts passthrough is not possible, you’ll hear stereo.” It lets me choose custom but can’t get it to use the AAC surround unless I use optical.
My TV must be doing the conversion because optical audio is surround sound but HDMI ARC is stereo and it sounds terrible because it must be passing through only a couple channels. Maybe the spec supports it but the soundbar only supports DTS/AC3 and maybe it’s just the TV combo that is not allowing it to work correctly. I was reading up on the HDMI ARC spec and it sounded like AAC was not supported until ARC 2?
I rip with makemkv then use handbrake for slimming down to hevc/aac. I have too many discs and not enough storage to keep the raw rips. Newer handbrake supports nvidia transcoding for hevc, getting some great quality, but I wish it would support audio tracks and subtitles better… for multilingual subtitles I have a custom ffmpeg script that does a decent enough job.
Also cropping can be a pain in the ass with both ffmpeg and handbrake, much less so on the latter.
Apparently this is a new driver which uses the open source headers and Linux kernel modules from nVidia’s proprietary drivers, and it doesn’t borrow very much from nouveau driver because that one has different names for things in their headers due to the clean room reverse engineering aspect of nouveau. Although I am not an expert on this so I could be wrong.
My understanding is some parts have to be done sequentially even though the parts themselves are multithreaded, now the different parts can all be done in parallel.