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.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Jellyfin is a server and client apps, not a whole OS. For a client device like a Raspberry Pi, you need to be running a Jellyfin client app on top of something else like LibreELEC.