HellDiverUK Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 I run the Plex plugin for Kodi. Works great, no more nonsense with the 'real' PHT/PMP programs. Running it on an i5 NUC and my silent i3 HTPC. Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 I use the Emby plugin for Kodi, which is pretty much the same. Tried the Plex one a while back and wasn't that impressed, but can't remember why. Emby one is awesome though. Quote Link to comment
ijuarez Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 3 hours ago, CHBMB said: I use the Emby plugin for Kodi, which is pretty much the same. Tried the Plex one a while back and wasn't that impressed, but can't remember why. Emby one is awesome though. i run the plex plug in and emby docker, like the gui better on emby but the fam is accustomed to plex so i got to stick with it. I also have a lifetime membership with plex is this what you're referring to Khadas Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted September 29, 2017 Share Posted September 29, 2017 Yeah that's the one. Quote Link to comment
kizer Posted October 5, 2017 Share Posted October 5, 2017 XBMC v 9.11 on my Big Screen in my Living room. Its on an older AsRock ION 330 with XboxDongle. It works so I never updated it. Plex on everything else. When I say everything else I mean. Our iPads, iPhones, Xbox's, ChromeCast and Chrome Browsers. Quote Link to comment
wayner Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 The Shield is a great option but the Xiaomi MiBox3, which one person mentioned in this thread, is also a very good option. It is an Android TV box, just like the Shield, but it doesn't have quite as much horsepower. But it only costs $69. Quote Link to comment
charleslam Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 idk call me crazy but i use gaming on all my TV's. so gaming computers it is. just recycled parts from the latest and greatest of yesteryear. Quote Link to comment
jang430 Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Hi. I use Raspberry Pi 3. It's super cheap, and best of all, it has CEC built-in. It definitely feels like an appliance. You power it via an adapter almost made for cellphone charging. Has built-in wifi and bluetooth, has HDMI input. Boot from SD card. I have Kodi installed. CEC allows me to use my tv remote and d-pad to control kodi, up down left right. Furthermore, you can choose to pause the episode when you turn off the tv, and continue playback when you turn tv back on. So seamless! Quote Link to comment
dalben Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 I run a NUC Windows 10 in the main living room. Mainly because of the other software I can use out there. In the bedroom and kids room I have little AMLogic boxes running LibreElec. Like these: ACEMAX Pure Linux KODI LibreElec 8.0 With kodi-headless and a common MariaDB as the backend to all the units, everything runs very smoothly. Quote Link to comment
raidserver Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 (edited) LibreELEC 8 Remix Virtual machine with emulation station for lightweight 16bit retro gaming emulation. Passthrough skylake cpu with audio 12metre HDMI 1.4 Could upgrade cpu to kabylake with Intel 630 gpu for HEVC decoding and redo the HDMI cable but thats for the "future" Edited December 3, 2017 by raidserver Quote Link to comment
BilboT34Baggins Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 I may be a simpleton, but I run the Plex docker on my Unraid 6.3.5 box, and use a chromecast to serve it up to my main television. I love it, it works great, ITS EASY, and I have 0 complaints about audio/video quality. My unraid box does have a quad core AMD 3.3GHz processor, and 32GB of RAM though, so it's got some power. Quote Link to comment
Jcloud Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 On 9/24/2017 at 10:23 PM, helpermonkey said: what do you use as your "Front end" media player? VLC for other PC computer's. Otherwise RaspberyPI and OrangePI with KODI for my TVs - which I don't actually use that much. Quote Link to comment
mrow Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 (edited) I used an HTPC for years, from 2008 to 2015, running various different PCs. Usually demo units I got free from work and I’d throw in a video card for hardware accelerated video playback until Intel started supporting that in their integrated GPU. I used XBMC/Kodi for playback. Once the 4th gen Apple TV, which finally supported apps, came out I ditched the HTPC and have been using those with the Plex app. Perfect setup IMO. Man this got me thinking about what I’ve used for playback since I started downloading movies/TV. In 2000 I started with a 5 disc DVD changer that supported SVCD playback. SVCD movies 70 minutes or longer were split up into 2 discs since they were burnt to CDs and too large for one disc so the changer let me avoid having to get up midway through to change the disc. After that in 2003 or 2004 I got a Philips DVD player that supported Xvid playback so I could burn complete Xvid movies, in higher quality than SVCD, to a single disc. And finally in 2005 or so, what I though was nirvana at the time, Philips introduced a newer DVD player that also supported Xvid but had a USB port so I could throw a Xvid movie on a USB drive in less than a minute and then just plug it in and watch. It was awesome. Instead of wasting $50 on a spindle of blank CD/DVDs I could spend that money on external hard drives, keep all my movies on there, and just copy a movie to the USB drive when I wanted to watch it. This is actually what lead me to discover UNRAID. I wound up with 5 external hard drives of ever increasing size that I started to get worried about one dying and losing hundreds of movies. Edited January 24, 2018 by mrow Quote Link to comment
TUMS Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 nvidia shield & roku ultra in the living room vero 4k bedroom Quote Link to comment
Tybio Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 Good choice, I got one shield to play with, loaded Kodi on it and never looked back. Within days all my TVs were converted to shields and I've not had to think about them a single moment since. Just work. Quote Link to comment
wayner Posted January 24, 2018 Share Posted January 24, 2018 On 9/27/2017 at 9:50 PM, BobPhoenix said: I use my HD300 SageTV extenders for my playback. Won't do 4K but handles everything else well. Since I have no 4K media not a problem for me. Will not do netflix/amazon prime but I have PlayOn to record from either to MP4 which will play on HD300. Me too. SageTV continues to be the best software for recording TV as it has a very mature TV recording backend that has been around for well over a decade. There is a docker version that runs beautifully on an unRAID server and you can use the (old) SageTV extenders or AndroidTV devices like the Shield or MiBox as clients. So if you care about recording TV, and my main use is for recording sports, then this is something to be considered. Quote Link to comment
bdydrp Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 Unraid to store all content, with a dedicated HTPC running mediaportal. I also use MP for FTA Live TV. Has no issues playing any media i throw at it inc. 4k Works well for me and the mrs Quote Link to comment
allanp81 Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 5 hours ago, bdydrp said: Unraid to store all content, with a dedicated HTPC running mediaportal. I also use MP for FTA Live TV. Has no issues playing any media i throw at it inc. 4k Works well for me and the mrs Me too but thinking about switch to Kodi/TV Headend as MP is getting a bit long in the tooth now. Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 1 hour ago, allanp81 said: Me too but thinking about switch to Kodi/TV Headend as MP is getting a bit long in the tooth now. I left MP as soon as Kodi gained PVR capabilities and I don't miss it one bit, although I have fond memories of what was my first real foray into HTPC with it. Quote Link to comment
bdydrp Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 4 hours ago, CHBMB said: I left MP as soon as Kodi gained PVR capabilities and I don't miss it one bit, although I have fond memories of what was my first real foray into HTPC with it. What do you prefer about kodi over MP? Did you havd iisues with MP to makd the switch? Just curious as so far has been easy to use..even the mrs knows her way round the interface! Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted January 25, 2018 Share Posted January 25, 2018 1 minute ago, bdydrp said: What do you prefer about kodi over MP? Did you havd iisues with MP to makd the switch? Just curious as so far has been easy to use..even the mrs knows her way round the interface! Well I wanted a more appliance like feel, and at the time OpenELEC fitted the bill, now been superceded by LibreELEC. I also love the fact now that my backend is on a MySQL database/Emby backend and my PVR is Tvheadend. Setting up a new client is just a few minutes work. Mediaportal I found I needed to do a fresh reinstall every so often and it would take an absolute age to scan everything in. To be fair we're going back a few years now. I used to use Argus as my backend to Mediaportal. Quote Link to comment
lionelhutz Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 I've been running the Emby Theater Windows app on a VM on the server. It's a simple interface but it looks very good and gives easy access to the media. Plus it has a nice full screen page for each media file that gives media info, other TV episodes before/after, other similar movies, add to favorite, mark as watched and the cast. You can pick the cast and go to info on them as well as all of the movies and TV shows they are in. I just didn't get anywhere as close to what it offers when trying Kodi using the Emby plugin. I'm pretty much staying with the Emby server docker container. It does everything I'd want and more. It's a pretty impressive application and I think it's well worth $100 for the lifetime premium upgrade. I think it's now $115 or something like that but still worth it for how well it works. Quote Link to comment
allanp81 Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Can Emby theatre handle ac3/dts soundtracks and bitstreaming? Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 Dunno, I just use it as a backend but direct play everything via smb on my LibreELEC S905X Quote Link to comment
lionelhutz Posted January 26, 2018 Share Posted January 26, 2018 6 hours ago, allanp81 said: Can Emby theatre handle ac3/dts soundtracks and bitstreaming? I haven't had any issues with it passing through the audio of any files I have to my AV receiver. It can decode the audio locally too. Quote Link to comment
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