2023-11-28, 12:17 PM
Thanks for the recommendation. Money no object for me would be a Kaleidescape system with a MadVR Extreme, but that setup would run me about $30,000 Canadian, and that's a bit out of my budget ;-)
The Shield is getting a little "old" and doesn't support some of the newer features etc.. I wish Nvidea would come out with a new unit already, my guess is they are not going to move forwward with that device.
Yesterday I tried Jellyfin client from my Linux Ubuntu computer, which is Intel i5 13600K, 32GB DDR5 RAM, 1TB NVME Samsung and Nvidea RTX 3060 video card. My source material is on my Synology NAS which I installed Jellyfin server. I pointed Jellyfin web client to Jellyfin server on my NAS and it worked ok, but having to use a keyboard/mouse combo to control the PC is not very convenient. And was not "blown away" by picture quality. I did look at some of the settings and did my best to make it "as best as possible" without really knowing the details of what I'm doing.
Next I tried Jellyfin App installed on my FireStick 4K, pointed at NAS server. It also worked ok, and easier to control with fire stick remote vs keyboard.
There was zero difference between my PC setup and the Fire stick ? I would have expected better performance from the PC given the hardware "power" vs the fire stick. Part of my issue is that I do not understand where the "decoding" is happening, or the "transcoding"? I did however notice some video artifacts (banding?) in very fast moving scenes.
I've looked also at players like Zidoo, seems interesting with the "Realtek video chip" they seem to make a big deal of...there are a bunch of android boxes from others like Dune, as well as things like Roku etc..
I have no issues investing in a system that gives me the max performance (well, short of MadVR / Kaleidescape), already spent over $25K in my home theater in the past 2 months. But I don't know enough about the "where" and "what" to best spend that money in terms of video processing / workflow given that 95% of my source will be from my 60TB NAS.
Seems like many ways to achieve this goal, unsure as best path formward, willing to spend up to $4K, obviously less is desirable :-)
The Shield is getting a little "old" and doesn't support some of the newer features etc.. I wish Nvidea would come out with a new unit already, my guess is they are not going to move forwward with that device.
Yesterday I tried Jellyfin client from my Linux Ubuntu computer, which is Intel i5 13600K, 32GB DDR5 RAM, 1TB NVME Samsung and Nvidea RTX 3060 video card. My source material is on my Synology NAS which I installed Jellyfin server. I pointed Jellyfin web client to Jellyfin server on my NAS and it worked ok, but having to use a keyboard/mouse combo to control the PC is not very convenient. And was not "blown away" by picture quality. I did look at some of the settings and did my best to make it "as best as possible" without really knowing the details of what I'm doing.
Next I tried Jellyfin App installed on my FireStick 4K, pointed at NAS server. It also worked ok, and easier to control with fire stick remote vs keyboard.
There was zero difference between my PC setup and the Fire stick ? I would have expected better performance from the PC given the hardware "power" vs the fire stick. Part of my issue is that I do not understand where the "decoding" is happening, or the "transcoding"? I did however notice some video artifacts (banding?) in very fast moving scenes.
I've looked also at players like Zidoo, seems interesting with the "Realtek video chip" they seem to make a big deal of...there are a bunch of android boxes from others like Dune, as well as things like Roku etc..
I have no issues investing in a system that gives me the max performance (well, short of MadVR / Kaleidescape), already spent over $25K in my home theater in the past 2 months. But I don't know enough about the "where" and "what" to best spend that money in terms of video processing / workflow given that 95% of my source will be from my 60TB NAS.
Seems like many ways to achieve this goal, unsure as best path formward, willing to spend up to $4K, obviously less is desirable :-)