I have Kodi installed now, I will probably test OSMC later today, are there any other programs similar to them that I could test?

What I am mostly interested in:

  • fullscreen mode (dark mode / theme preferably, even if I would have to make it manually somehow)
  • option to navigate my drive or external drive
  • xbox controller support
  • subtitles support

What I want to accomplish is quite simple, every now and then I want to play a movie from my pc on my tv (connected via hdmi) and I don’t want to use mouse or keyboard while watching it to pause or turn the volume up a notch.

Kodi is kinda okay for all that but it feels a little wonky and pretty often makes a mess with my files, creating duplicates or ghost files on lists…

Thanks for any help!

    • comicallycluttered@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      Ah, good ol’ Microsoft. Always finding ways to “surprise” us.

      I know you can use AutoHotKey to map controller input as well, but I totally understand why you might not want to after that other mess happened (and I imagine you may have actually tried this already anyway).

      Anyway, no prob. I’ll look around as well and if I come across anything, I’ll let you know.

      In the meantime, I hope your search goes well!

        • comicallycluttered@beehaw.org
          2·
          2 years ago

          Or maybe I just don’t remember?

          Lol, actually that’s on me. I was an idiot and confused AHK with Joy2Key for some reason.

          However, I did find this on the AHK wiki, although it seems like Microsoft, as usual, makes things harder than they need to be:

          For Xbox controller 2013 and newer (anything newer than the Xbox 360 controller), Joy1 to Joy32 hotkeys will only work if a window owned by the script is active, such as a message box, GUI, or the script’s main window. This limitation also applies to GetKeyState for Joy1 to Joy32 and JoyX, JoyY, JoyZ, JoyR, JoyU, JoyPOV (and possibly JoyV), but not for JoyName, JoyButtons, JoyAxes and JoyInfo. To detect those controller inputs for other active windows, use the XInput.ahk library.

          Still, it’s worth a shot regardless. Seems like it does support gamepads but there might also be some tinkering required.