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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.