• Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Raspberry pi with Kodi hooked up to a projector and a NAS serving files works well for me.

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      1 year ago

      This is the way, although the pi is to slow for me at this point and I replaced it with shields.

      Also why the are people connecting tvs to their networks…fuck that noise.

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        1 year ago

        I’m waiting for the Raspberry Pi 5 to set up as a media PC behind my tv. There are really good, reliable, and high quality sites that let you stream any movie or TV show. No need to vpn or torrent. Firefox with ublock origin streaming anything I want in 1080 for free.

        I should add I have a RP4 and it’s not beefy enough to stream 1080p full screen from a browser to my 4k tv.

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          1 year ago

          I use an RP4 and it’s fine with streaming 1080p h.265 stuff off my NAS drive, though it did struggle a bit with serving up the Planet Earth videos. It claims to be able to decode 4k, but probably not very well.

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      1 year ago

      I mean that’s nice but can you run Netflix/Hulu/AppleTV/HBO through that thing? Or can you only play media that you illegally downloaded?