What is everyone using as a HTPC?
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Is there any way to fling YouTube videos to SmartTube from a smartphone?
That's the one thing locking me into Kodi.
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Used workstations are great for home theater purposes. I've got a Dell SFF on one TV and a Lenovo 1L machine on another.
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Not that I've been able to find. I rarely notice but when I do it's quite frustrating.
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I use a Radxa Rock 5B running an Android TV ROM. Sits in a 3D printed case and has a silent little Noctua fan keeping it cool. Could be better - the ROM has a little jank to it - but it has taken everything I've thrown at it so far.
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I use a Radxa Rock 5B running an Android TV ROM. Sits in a 3D printed case and has a silent little Noctua fan keeping it cool. Could be better - the ROM has a little jank to it - but it has taken everything I've thrown at it so far.
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At that price I’ll buy an AppleTV and run plex / Emby / jellyfin.
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Actually some browsers also have issues with 4k and certain codecs.
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Two Shield TVs because there's not really anything else.
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My old desktop, a Ryzen 3600/GTX-1080 mini-ITX build. After using a Pi 4 with Kodi for awhile it's nice to have a media machine that can run Crysis.
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Ryzen 1200/GTX 960 small build running Linux Mint. There's a UHD blu-ray drive in it as well with the custom firmware to rip disks. Media is stored on my NAS that handles Plex and transcoding. The parts were mostly old extras I had lying around, just needed the case, blu-ray drive and boot SSD. Oh and the like $20 wireless Logitech keyboard/track pad combo for control.
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Shield, mine is very stable, never crashes, doesn't lag
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If you go this route I recommend installing Kodi + Jellyfin Plugin + Kore App. You can control everything from your phone or laptop.
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I use PopOS too. Switched to Bazzite though for htpc. HDR works out of the box, and added Plex htpc as a "game" that I launch from steam.
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None at all? If so how? My friends with Apple TV get an obnoxious amount of ads in their YouTube app for example.
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I ran into issues with this function on my shield pro, it would randomly reopen the smart tube app continuously until I disconnected my phone.
