Downgrading your service to offer a worse user experience than piracy you say?
The only negative about piracy is that it's hard to find niche stuff because not enough people do it
"We're raising prices and inserting ads!"
"I've been pirating your shows for years!"I want to love Kodi but God damn is it user unfriendly a lot of the time.
I used Kodi for some years but immediately switched to Jellyfin as soon as I tried it. Basically Plex without the proprietary cloud service.
Which is actually kind of nice. It keeps it from mass adoption and flies under the radar easier that way.
Idk what's nice about having to manually configure sound settings like I'm on MS DOS, but okay.
What's this compared to? Are there commerical applications that play content locally like that?
Its comparing piracy to streaming.
There are also several commercial local media servers. Plex and Emby, to name a few.
What are the best hardware and OS combos for a media setup?
Nvidia Shield + Lineage OS? Chromesomething? Roku? AppleTV? X86 + Linux? (I’m not afraid of Linux, but remember some posts about video acceleration not working and services being web only.)
I use Jellyfin on an old laptop running Ubuntu. I like Jellyfin because it's FOSS.
It’s a little bit of brain damage to figure it out but once it’s all set up the *arr stuff and Jellyfin makes it pretty painless
Yeah I have it set up with jellyseerr so I can request a film or show on there and it'll search my torrent trackers and it'll get added to my Jellyfin. It's great because I can cast Jellyfin onto any TV in the house :)
Second this, android tv will run kodi (with seren) and stremio if you wanna go the real-debrid route. And if you decide to board media for some reason it'll run plex, emby, or jellyfin. Shield tv used to be king but its pretty expensive for older hardware
Yeah, I would probably have a Shield Pro if the price was lower. It does seem to have to best support though.
This is the front runner, but I’m not sure which device is the best though. Nvidia Shield seems to be the most logical answer.
It's built into my TV as the OS. For TVs I've had in the past without Android TV baked in I'd use a Chromecast with Google TV.
Depends what you want to do. You can do stremio + real debrid on just about anything but if you want to do your own server I would get a cheap used tower off of eBay that has an intel processor with integrated graphics and throw Ubuntu server on it and drop in a commercial NAS drive for storage like a WD Red. I did that for ~300 and am happy with the results (half of that budget was storage)
How is transcoding handled? Does the Intel iGPU have the drivers/support to do transcoding on the fly?
Anyway… In this instance, I’m mainly looking for a client reccs. I have a crappy Roku streaming stick that needs to get replaced, and I’m wondering which client device is the best. An Android device or AppleTV seem to be best choices, since I could get commercial services with hardware acceleration on them if I wanted to.
Yep, intel processors support hardware transcoding starting with sandy bridge
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video
To your second point I have run stremio on a chromecast and it’s been fine. But I also don’t stream anything higher than 1080p
