My Life and Code

One of my hobbies is building my own streaming video library. I've been meaning to blog about it for awhile. Unfortunately, my intro to doing so is this . Last week, Roku OS 15.0.4 found its way onto my Roku TV and Roku Ultra 4800R. And while the TV took it fine, the Ultra did not . Playback of HEVC video is now hampered by pixelation and freezing. I wasn't sure if the Roku OS update was the culprit, or if it was the Jellyfin client for Roku that I use to stream videos from my Jellyfin server. But putting one of the (now) problematic videos onto a USB drive and playing it via Roku's own Media Player resulted in the same problem. I found my way to the Roku community forums where the most recently updated post was about this happening when using the Plex  app. As of today, that post is 17 days old. The response from Roku support has been...lacking. Very lacking. "It's under investigation." I left a comment mentioning this was unrelated to Plex and relayed my USB...

  I guess I should begin this by saying I'm not on Facebook. I used to be, but stopped using it at a time which was, in hindsight, probably a good time to leave. But I'd been a Facebook user for years prior, and the last person I had contact with there before deactivating my account was Drew Rusin. I'd met Drew years ago, at a pool hall in Langhorne called The Rack Room . Years later, it's where I met him for the last time. The Rack Room was, by that time, closed, and we met up there to grab a bite and catch up at the Denny's which was out front. Back in the day, I'd met Drew through Dave Tyson, who also used to hang out at the pool hall with Drew and another friend, Jay Winslow. Dave, Drew, and Jay were almost always together. They were a few years younger than me. The Rack Room  was kind of like Cheers : maybe not everyone knew your name, but enough people to make you feel at home I guess. It sounds corny. Regardless, I spent a lot of time there with those th...