From the overview:

Coax turns your home media server into a linear cable channel guide. It scans your library, then automatically generates a schedule full of channels that you can flip through at your leisure.

Point the app at your Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby server and it generates a channel guide based on genres, playlists, collections, and more. It will even display over-the-air channels if you’ve configured a compatible TV tuner — with Plex DVR, for example.

It’s an excellent app and has earned its spot next to Plex in my Apple TV’s top row.

➝ Source: coaxtheapp.com

The Pocket Casts design and development team has been working on an Apple TV version for months. They’ve done an excellent job with this release. The app is slick and I’m so happy that the team is finally ready to share it.

I wrote the public facing documentation for this release. If you notice anything is amiss, have questions, comments, or what have you, please reach out to support.

In short, it’s Pocket Casts on the Apple TV. It connects with your account to keep your podcasts, playlists, playback position, and more in sync with Pocket Casts on all of your other devices. It’s great for throwing on an episode while you clean the house, play a board game with the kids, or just about any other scenario.

And while it’s a great audio podcast player, it really shines with video episodes. Here are some podcasts that publish video episodes that I’ve been watching lately:

• Retro Game Corps on Odysee
• IGN.com – Daily Fix
• Daily Tech News Show
• The Culinary Institute of America
• TechHut on Odysee

I’m sure there are many more that I’m missing. If you have any recommendations of video podcasts that publish using an open RSS feed, I’d love to hear about them.

There are some features that are missing in this initial launch compared to Pocket Casts on other platforms. The one I’m hoping to see added in the future is Files support. I frequently add video files to Pocket Casts using this feature and while I can AirPlay from the mobile app, it would be clutch if I could play them right from within the app on tvOS.

Chapters is another feature that has become an important part of my podcast app experience and is missing in this first release. But I’m hopeful that additional features like this will come in time now that the core feature set is out the door.

I think there’s a bright future ahead for podcasting and I love that I get to be a part of it through documentation and support for Pocket Casts. The team has been shipping some excellent features recently — highlighted transcripts, the tasteful Liquid Glass design refresh, and Dynamic Type support to name a few. Pocket Casts is better than it’s ever been and improving with every release.

Speaking more broadly about the podcasting ecosystem, though, helping to build and maintain that is what keeps me excited about work. Podcasting is a free, open distribution mechanism for media that anyone can utilize.

You don’t have to rely on a single vendor to host and distribute your show. You can pick from a myriad of dedicated podcast hosting companies or host it yourself. As long as you can serve an RSS feed and a media file, you can publish a podcast.

And your listeners aren’t forced to obtain your show from a specific vendor either. They can use Pocket Casts, Castro, Overcast, or choose from hundreds of other clients.

Podcasters get a more direct relationship with their audience and so many people get to build their livelihoods creating software, building hosting companies, and more. It’s a beautiful thing.

From the project’s readme:

240-MP is a retro VCR style frontend to play content on Raspberry Pi (preferably hooked up to a CRT TV).

Playback experiences are handled via modules to enable new integrations without requiring major changes to the overall frontend. There are 4 currently included playback modules; Local Files, Plex, Jellyfin and a module similar to art/wallpaper modes on modern tvs called Ambient:Mode.

I think I’ll give this a try as a potential replacement for Batocera on my Raspberry Pi 3B+. It’s just a media player — it doesn’t offer emulation features at the moment — but I I think it’s a better fit for the hardware. And I’ll probably end up using it more than the Batocera install it has now, even if just for the novelty of the interface alone.

➝ Source: github.com

I haven’t finished listening to the whole episode — it’s over six hours — but what I have listened to has been entertaining and informative. DHH’s enthusiasm about Linux, Ruby, and programming is infectious.

If you prefer the audio version, you can find it on Lex’s website.

➝ Source: m.youtube.com

From Brave’s Twitter account:

Click the music note icon in the top right of the browser to open the media controls. Find the picture-in-picture icon on the right and click it.

I didn’t know this feature was available and was even using a browser extension to add the functionality.

I’ve since removed the extension and am just using Brave’s built-in implementation. It’s been great so far.

➝ Source: x.com

Speaking of .m3u playlists, UHF is the best app I’ve found for making use of them on iOS and Apple TV. There are some quirks to the interface, but it’s much nicer than the competition and it offers a one-time purchase option for all of its features.

➝ Source: uhfapp.com

Just in case a link to an .m3u playlist and electronic programming guide file associated with all of the channels on Pluto TV is useful to you. Theoretically this could be used with Channels’ server app, but I’m sure some clever readers could think of other uses.

➝ Source: nocords.xyz

From the announcement:

Starting today, we’re removing all ads.

We don’t need ads to make money as a platform and we are confident in the development of our own new monetisation programs that will help creators earn a living and at the same time keep Odysee alive.

Ultimately, sacrificing the overall user experience to make a few bucks isn’t worth it to us and nor is it even sustainable for a platform that wishes to make something truly open and creatively free.

It’s not clear to me how they plan to earn enough revenue to keep the service going, but I hope they manage to do so because this sounds dope.

➝ Source: odysee.com