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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[-] kawa@reddeet.com 1 points 1 year ago

I used the Nvidia Shield (non-pro, the tube one) and it was a nightmare of crashes, stuttering video and interface. Then I made myself a little Kodi box with a recent intel CPU in it : absolute nightmare because the Jellyfin extensions keeps crashing. I have a Samsung TV so I have the Plex app but recently, I started having weird transcoding issues where my server starts transcoding (it's always the audio track that has to be transcoded from TrueHD to AAC, but my CPU can do that at 42FPS) and then it freezes after 10 seconds or so...

My recommandation ? A Kodi box with local files... Every Android box is slow AF, struggles with basic stuff and they still have less than 3GB of RAM for some reason.

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