Best plex/jellyfin compatible streaming box
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This but also flash Lineageos
Does this mess with DRM stuff? Or do they keep working because it's the same hardware?
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I'm looking forward to Tue next release of KDE big screen:
https://www.webpronews.com/kde-revives-plasma-bigscreen-as-android-tv-rival/
and now I am too
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The Nvidia Shield is still the best option for this. I've tried all kinds of homebrew solutions and always had headaches. In the two years I've had my Shield, I've never had a problem. Smart Tube Next lets me cast YouTube without ads, Kodi/Jellyfin gives me all my media library, plus I've got official apps for Nebula, Dropout and Spotify. Custom launcher removes what little amount of ads there were (and that was unobtrusive background banner stuff even at its worst). Plus the pro version can handle some pretty powerful emulators.
Onn 4k pro os great for the price. Have shield and onn seems smother.
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Does this mess with DRM stuff? Or do they keep working because it's the same hardware?
I'm afraid I can't answer this...
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The jellyfin app sucks major balls on appletv at the moment
And infuse is not freeSelf-hosted is not a way to make things free. Just lower cost than subscriptions overall. Using the full *Arr suite, with Usenet, your own hardware, and client boxes gives the users better control of the content they watch, but requires a nominal input of users time (plus some technical expertise), as well as an investment of some money both one time and annually.
Infuse's lifetime time cost, when viewed in light of the total reduction of subscription cost (and an improved control of content) is worth it. I would definitely not pay a monthly amount to infuse, although it's possible.
So far as Jellyfin's app... As its free, I have low expectations. They fact that the developers have paid Apple for the SDK and put it as a free app on Apple TV and iOS is incredibly kind of them. They have a fair amount of code to look after and open source developers rarely get enough love or money.
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like most things apple when it works it's the best user experience out there, but if you have the slightest little issue good fucking luck.
I can't speak to infuse (because I'm self hosting to get away from subscriptions) but Jellyfin is extremely picky about file formats on appletv, I found myself using VLC more and more often until my Pihole sd card died and I found myself with a Libreelec box that just runs anything I throw at it without complaining.
the search for a remote half as good as a siri remote has begun.
wrote last edited by [email protected]VLC is a great way to work with AppleTV, if you are willing to trade a few more clicks and less meta data for being free. It is by far the gold standard of being able to play anything.
The file format issue, plus the simple interface (especially for older less technically inclined) makes infuse worth the $100 lifetime cost (especially with family sharing).
What hardware are you using for your LibreELEC? Pi 3,4,5? With an external drive?
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VLC is a great way to work with AppleTV, if you are willing to trade a few more clicks and less meta data for being free. It is by far the gold standard of being able to play anything.
The file format issue, plus the simple interface (especially for older less technically inclined) makes infuse worth the $100 lifetime cost (especially with family sharing).
What hardware are you using for your LibreELEC? Pi 3,4,5? With an external drive?
Pi4 just streaming Jellyfin, nothing fancy.
didn't know infuse had a lifetime cost but look how that's working out for plex.
I would rather ssh into a linux box I own to bash my head against bluetooth compatibility issues than have everything just work while a company sells every last bit of data they can steal from me.
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As an old IT guy I empathize with the control of data. I have my array of self-hosted servers and love my CLI.
With that said, the older I get the less patience I have for hacking it together and supporting it. I still prefer privacy, and indeed Firecore Infuse is "Private by design" by their own statement. It's not open source and I am not clear if it's audited, but for as long as it lasts I'm happy friends and family less technically inclined have a simple easy familiar interface which I don't have to support.
I will say I'm impressed A Pi4 works so well for jellyfin streaming. I guess it's not transcoding, so it's just a database and file share.
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As an old IT guy I empathize with the control of data. I have my array of self-hosted servers and love my CLI.
With that said, the older I get the less patience I have for hacking it together and supporting it. I still prefer privacy, and indeed Firecore Infuse is "Private by design" by their own statement. It's not open source and I am not clear if it's audited, but for as long as it lasts I'm happy friends and family less technically inclined have a simple easy familiar interface which I don't have to support.
I will say I'm impressed A Pi4 works so well for jellyfin streaming. I guess it's not transcoding, so it's just a database and file share.
While I've used the pi as a media server before and it did admirably I think you have the wrong idea, it's just a set top client. A Pi Zero could probably do just as well or pretty much anything that can run Kodi ... which rules out AppleTV sadly.
and I'm right there with you not supporting other peoples tech. My parents Chromecast got a PiHole exemption because screw explaining why they're watching a static screen for 3 minutes where ads used to be ... every time; if their tv app even loads without phoning home in the first place.
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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.
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.
