2023-11-28, 04:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 2023-11-28, 04:05 PM by tmsrxzar. Edited 1 time in total.)
shield despite being 2019 is still more feature packed than 90% of the chinese boxes being sold but i am also not a fan
firetv stick is intended to be a cheap streamer so a no go for me
i currently use the FireTV Cube Gen3 and when paired with Kodi v21+ with the jellyfin addon for Kodi (not jellycon) everything actually works perfectly in Direct Play without the need for transcoding (except VC1 but that is configurable in the addon to force transcode, you will be hard pressed to find VC1 support from anything)
as far as best overall it is my pick but i cannot say it is the end all be all
you actually might find that your PC listed above (the i5+rtx3060) would run perfectly as a media device if you use LibreELEC with the jellyfin for Kodi addon
unfortunately i do not feel that the jellyfin clients other than "for kodi" are as mature as kodi and therefor kodi does a better job of playback
firetv stick is intended to be a cheap streamer so a no go for me
i currently use the FireTV Cube Gen3 and when paired with Kodi v21+ with the jellyfin addon for Kodi (not jellycon) everything actually works perfectly in Direct Play without the need for transcoding (except VC1 but that is configurable in the addon to force transcode, you will be hard pressed to find VC1 support from anything)
as far as best overall it is my pick but i cannot say it is the end all be all
you actually might find that your PC listed above (the i5+rtx3060) would run perfectly as a media device if you use LibreELEC with the jellyfin for Kodi addon
unfortunately i do not feel that the jellyfin clients other than "for kodi" are as mature as kodi and therefor kodi does a better job of playback