• Hugin@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    What hardware are you using on the player side? My server works fine to my tablet and phone but my pi4 has terrible playback to the tv.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah it’s the transcoding that’s very bad direct play is still chopy above 720.

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          6 months ago

          What’s your network connection? And also, is your TV actually direct playing? Because if your file formats/codecs are incompatible, it might not anyways

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            6 months ago

            Direct play is scp the file to the pi and play from the class 10 sd card. LAN is gigabit.

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              6 months ago

              My guess would be the SD card being the problem. SD cards aren’t that fast, even in best case scenarios and a raspi isn’t exactly a best case scenario. And besides, you’re probably sharing it with the OS. Try a USB HDD or at the very least a fast USB 3.0 stick.

              (Also, Class 10 doesn’t say anything about read speed, only write speed that isn’t terribly fast either with 10MB/s. A UHS rating would give more indication about read speeds)

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        6 months ago

        Only if you care about DRM services. For just running Kodi, you can just buy or use any decent PC.

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          6 months ago

          I liked my shield because it’s plug and play, tiny, silent, hardware support for most codecs, with a simple interface. Used are also on eBay under £50, which is tough to beat as an option.

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              6 months ago

              Or even the Shield TV Tube. People shit on it but mine runs like a dream. 4k remuxes and everything. As long as I use it only as a client it works fantastic.

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      6 months ago

      I have kodi on my steamdeck, and that seems to work fine as well. You can plug it into a TV as well.

      I don’t own a 4K TV, so I cannot speak on the performace, but it should be more than a RPI4.