Best plex/jellyfin compatible streaming box (leaf.dance)

submitted 1 year ago by zerodawn@leaf.dance to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've seen a couple articles about an android tv alternative and it's got me thinking about a streaming box again. A while back i gave kodi a try and didn't care for the experience. Granted, it was on a pi so expectations were low but it missed the mark for me. This time around i've got a modest nuc with proxmox i was thinking of moving to the living room and standing up a fresh vm of kodi to stream to.

I could just access the files over the network but i'm already running both plex and jellyfin so why not use either for my watch history. All that being said is kodi still my best bet?

Why proxmox? At some point down the road i'd like to get a capture card in the mix to stream games and that feels like the most flexible way to do everything.

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[-] thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think I didn't get exactly what you want. Ant it keeps me wondering that perhaps there are a few concepts not so clear.

Do you want to receive streaming from a server? do you want to setup the server? Or something completely else?

If you want to receive the streaming from a server, the most compatible cost-effective solution is the Amazon fire. Works with remotes and you will be able to play every media you have because the server will transcode the file on the fly if the fire stick doesn't support the format.

If you want something more open to tinker or to get more functionality then a raspberry pi will be enough, because once again, the heavy lifting is done by the servers (via plex server or moonlight server).

More powerful boxes exists but then you need to start thinking carefully what is your use case for not eating money.

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