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Which off-the-shelf and FOSS software should I use as a DYI "media center" ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For the past 25 years of sailing the high seas I've always used my PC for watching whatever. But as this is not always practical, I am looking to connect a raspberry Pi to my TV to have a setup with smaller fingerprint and larger screen.

I briefly tried one a couple of eons ago (2010ish?), but sadly I don't remember the name.

Requirements:

Must be able to run from a raspberry pi
Must be able to stream media over my network (protocols aren't that important as I can probably spin up whatever is needed. Preferably I would just have it index a couple of NFS mounts and local drives)

Bonus question: Which Pi model would you recommend running this? I have a bunch of Zero W, and while everything "works" on them, it simply wasn't powerful enough to decode video at a watchable rate.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

OK maybe not any old PC. But I think pretty much any 8th gen Intel processor or higher will do it without a GPU. I run it on an N100 right now and it works very well for hardware transcoding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

An N100 isn't "without a GPU;" it's got Intel UHD Graphics built in -- moreover, even though it's a pretty cheap chip it's also a pretty new one, and thus supports recent video codecs.

Meanwhile, my AMD Ryzen 5 3600 does not work for transcoding, even though it's way faster than an N100, because it's not an APU.

You've only proven my point that having a GPU with hardware transcoding support is what makes all the difference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

OK OK, I meant without a discrete GPU.