With the ever-increasing affordability and capacity of modern hard drives, it makes sense to establish a personal media server containing a digital archive of your media library collection. SRT captions into a device-readable format for foreign films, due to the device's unique particularities with subtitles.įlash forward to 2017, where we are inundated by smart TVs, Wi-Fi enabled set-top boxes and a slew of media center apps all aimed at synchronizing our media collections and ensuring that we can watch whatever we want, from any devices we have handy. At one point I upgraded to a VCR/DVD Burner combo that supported USB flash drives and played a slightly larger range of media formats I recall writing a custom script to translate. When DVD players rolled out, some sported the ability to play DivX-encoded media along with other primitive codec variants (VCDs and SVCDs were a big thing). My earliest foray involved running an S-Video cable from my PC's video card to a compatible TV, then using the television as a secondary monitor strictly for media watching and video editing. In the 1990s, transferring media from a computer to a television usually required a balanced mix of hardware and luck. Personal media servers have come a long way this millennium. Which, YouView having signally failed to fulfil its initial promise, Sony have had three or four years to do.Tl dr: Create a developer account at the Vewd Publisher Site, pair your device and then use URL Loader to call
So the Sonys may have the most gorgeous screens to be seen in John Lewis, but I remind myself that their beauty is only screen deep, and go back to havering between LG OLED and Samsung QLED when the 2015 Samsung we booted the 2015 Sony Android set out in favour of comes up for replacement.īut I continue to find it weird that YouView on these sets, for all its faults, gets blamed for bringing the itv Hub and All4 to these TVs, as if it were somehow YouView’s fault that Sony didn’t license them independently.
I had high hopes for Sony TVs with the Android OS and YouView, but we are now 4 years on, they still can’t get Android right, YouView has stalled as but a pale shadow of itself as seen on YouView boxes, the satellite isn’t Freesat, and people on here more knowledgeable than me aver that a lot of the hardware and software on these TVs isn’t up to snuff. Personally, I just can’t get on with casting, but I know a lot of people can, so that alternative to the Hoshsadiq repository is welcome. Hi wasn’t accusing you there, more the poster who came before you. Additionally, the horrendous, childlike, un-Sony like, YouView interface is gone and I no longer have the constant struggle to set up my postcode location on the TV ITVHub App which I had to do by clearing weird caches from deep within the TV system. No issues of incompatibility between iOS and Android. I have an Apple iPhone and have struggled to cast anything to the Android biased TV software but when I deleted YouView, returning the TV to it's natural Freeview baseline, the ITVHub iOS App cast seamlessly from my mobile to the TV, automatically connecting as soon as the casting icon was selected. However I personally solved this recently on my Sony Bravia 55” KD-55AF8 which has a built in Chromecast facility. Later posts suggest getting GitHub, often via a click link in the post, often presented as a 'gift'.
The accepted resolution post seemed to recommend disabling YouView but this doesn't fully answer the question on how to watch ITVHub. I was interested in this older posting as I recently asked the same question.