AerialViews VS nvidia_shield_tv_controller

And solving number 3, organizing all those videos in such a way that they don't just sit on an external harddrive, was a hard one. I found the Android TV program Aerial Views and use it to randomly cycle through my raw drone videos on a TV as a screensaver, using a Chromecast (a $30 Android TV gizmo). It works really well and has really helped me keep track of all the videos I've watched. Which also helps me see the mistakes I made while flying.

Then I use the awesome Android TV program Aerial Views to actually play the videos. I gather it's modelled after the screensaver on an Apple TV, so maybe an Apple TV would work well for this whole process too. In Aerial Views I go to "Video Sources" in Settings and disable all the stock footage (though the stock footage is nice too). That's the "videos by apple", the "videos by jetson creative" and "videos by Robin Fourcade". Then I enable either Local or Network videos and tell it where my videos are.

Also, although Aerial Views doesn't show up in the Play Store on your phone, it should still work if you want to side-load the APK.

Gotta use the Android fork: https://github.com/theothernt/AerialViews

Amazon Fire Stick with the Aerial Views[0] (Apple TV Screen Saver) app probably the best thing on TV since GoT.

[0] https://github.com/theothernt/AerialViews

Aerial Views: This is an open-sourced Android TV screensaver that streams screensavers from Apple TV's screensaver server. These are the cool, moving videos that you will see on all Apple TV box screensavers. Takes up a lot of data so beware of that, I personally do 4K SDR quality with this app. This is also on the Play Store. (Github)

I love the shield remote. Depending on your tv it's even possible to setup input switching via apps. Something like this: https://github.com/bentemple/nvidia_shield_tv_controller Though not necessarily easy to setup but if you're a coder should be a good starting point.