Hi, I have rephrased the text. The original one is down there.

My laptop is connected to my TV via HDMI. I now want to select a movie on my smartphone, play it on the laptop and output it on my TV.
It seems more comfortable that way than crawling to the laptop and selecting the movie there and then placing it in front of the TV.

I have already gotten some good ways to do that via Jellyfin or through some sort of remote app.

Thank all of you and I will gladly take more ideas. I will test some in the evening.

Original:

I’ve been searching for a while for a way to watch the videos in my laptop in my TV without having to access my laptop directly.

So I need some kind of webfrontend (preferably a docker container) where I can select my videos via a website and output them through HDMI.

Unfortunately I have not yet found anything like that, mostly because searching it only produces results telling you about streaming services like jellyfin and how to set them up.

Is there a way to do this yet?

  • testfactor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I think there's some confusion here over your proposed set up.

    What device do you imagine having plugged into the HDMI of your TV? Is it your laptop or something else?

    Are you intending on watching the videos through the web front end you're imagining, or just using the web front end as a "remote control" as it were?

    I don't think most of the responders have a clear vision of what you're going for.

      • testfactor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Fair.

        In addition to the other suggestions then, you could always just use VLC and the VLC Remote app that lets you control it from your phone.

        Seems the easiest solution. No extra services to set up or anything. Literally just a video player with an app to control it from your phone.