On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 12:11 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If I like these Raspberry things, may make a media box out of one. I'd > like to have a remote tho. ;-)
So, I've done that. Honestly, these days a Roku is probably the better option, or something like a Google Chromecast or the 47 other variations on this them. Keep in mind that low-powered devices like ARM SBCs (or Rokus) are very picky about codecs. If you're running something like Plex the software will offload the transcoding to a server when the codec isn't supported by the player, but if you're doing something more DIY then you need to ensure your library conforms to the specs or your player will just die. Even 1080p can be pushing it for software decoding on an ARM SBC, and forget 4k. Heck, realtime software transcoding 4k is pretty hard on most amd64 servers as well - they will do it but it will use a significant amount of CPU just for one stream. These days I'm using Pis just for moosefs storage, and all the compute-heavy stuff is on amd64. For players I just use TV clients or Rokus plus Plex server on amd64. I don't really get any benefit out of completely DIYing the client side and LIRC is a PITA. -- Rich
