2023-11-29, 12:12 PM
(2023-11-28, 04:03 PM)tmsrxzar Wrote: 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
Thank you guys, much appreciated, I really want to fully understand all the moving parts of this.
So, LibreELEC is a light OS, Kodi is the "player" or "engine" ? Jellyfin is the "skin" or "GUI" to navigate the media from my NAS? LibreELEC essentially replaces the Unbuntu OS I have now right ?
Just trying to understand all the moving parts of a system like this. Which part are doing what? I think I understand the hardware part IE: the CPU and GPU have to pull the content ie: streams, from the NAS via the Network port, then "decode" the video data and send it to my Anthem AVM 90 through the RTX HDMI port so that it can "decode" the Audio stream (dolby 5.1, 7.1, Atmos, DTX etc) and pass along the already decoded video stream to the television.. do I have this right ?
I thought Kodi was just like Jellyfin in terms of a pretty interface (GUI) to manage and interact with my content, or does it do more than that? is the Jellyfin add-on simply for the look and feel instead of the Kodi look and feel ?