For the past 25 years of sailing the high seas I’ve always used my PC for watching whatever. But as this is not always practical, I am looking to connect a raspberry Pi to my TV to have a setup with smaller fingerprint and larger screen.

I briefly tried one a couple of eons ago (2010ish?), but sadly I don’t remember the name.

Requirements:

  • Must be able to run from a raspberry pi
  • Must be able to stream media over my network (protocols aren’t that important as I can probably spin up whatever is needed. Preferably I would just have it index a couple of NFS mounts and local drives)

Bonus question: Which Pi model would you recommend running this? I have a bunch of Zero W, and while everything “works” on them, it simply wasn’t powerful enough to decode video at a watchable rate.

  • Toes♀@ani.social
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    6 days ago

    https://dietpi.com/ has hand tailored images for many small devices including the pis and a robust installer with a wizard for many things including a media center setup.

    if you configure a jellyfin server (not on the pi) to share your media to most pi devices using h264 it should work well. (basically, its questionable if the pi can handle transcoding on its own, so its best to do it ahead of playback or from another box)