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Americans’ New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat.
(www.nytimes.com)
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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.
If it's not direct playing, it could be that transcoding is too much for the Pi4.
Yeah it's the transcoding that's very bad direct play is still chopy above 720.
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
Direct play is scp the file to the pi and play from the class 10 sd card. LAN is gigabit.
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)
Nvidia Shield Pro and AppleTV 4K are the best.
Only if you care about DRM services. For just running Kodi, you can just buy or use any decent PC.
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.
Yeah probably worth picking up a used shield. Thanks.
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.
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.