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Streaming media from one house to another

ghost recon88

ghost recon88

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Looking for options to stream on the fly media at House A to House B. These are all MKVs I've built myself. Is Plex the only option? For a single stream, what kind of hardware is sufficient for 1080p? Can any of the cheap Android boxes connect to my external drive, then transcode on the fly without stuttering?
 
If you don't like Plex there is always Emby.

I wouldn't trust anything ARM for transcoding though. Not yet at least, Intel dominates that segment.
 
Plex seems like the best. still trying to figure the best way for my anime collection. It organises like crap and if files don't appear, you are not told why.
 
Wait a minute, I just realized something OP, you only one HD worth of material?!

Screw streaming, buy a second hard drive and a Raspberry Pi 2. That is such a better solution that will cost less than a machine that can transcode decently.

I get blinded sometimes by my own biases.
 
Um, something tells me just buying a Pi 2 will not be a pop-in solution. The Op will need to learn and configure it, which is a whole other hobby unless you are helping him.
 
cyclohexane said:
Are the two houses on the same network?
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They are not. Several miles between them, and different cable providers.

poofyhairguy said:
If you don't like Plex there is always Emby.

I wouldn't trust anything ARM for transcoding though. Not yet at least, Intel dominates that segment.
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Intel does seem to be preferred for these kind of things, just wasn't sure if the mobile market had anything.

poofyhairguy said:
Wait a minute, I just realized something OP, you only one HD worth of material?!

Screw streaming, buy a second hard drive and a Raspberry Pi 2. That is such a better solution that will cost less than a machine that can transcode decently.

I get blinded sometimes by my own biases.
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I was looking at the raspberry plex pi thing, not sure I fully understand it though.
 
ghost recon88 said:
They are not. Several miles between them, and different cable providers.



Intel does seem to be preferred for these kind of things, just wasn't sure if the mobile market had anything.



I was looking at the raspberry plex pi thing, not sure I fully understand it though.
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You dont need plex if you are just playing local hdd stuff.
 
BarkingGhostar said:
Um, something tells me just buying a Pi 2 will not be a pop-in solution. The Op will need to learn and configure it, which is a whole other hobby unless you are helping him.
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Openelec is super easy to install on a Pi, as full detailed instructions are on their wiki page. Anyone on this forum could do it.
 
ghost recon88 said:
I was looking at the raspberry plex pi thing, not sure I fully understand it though.
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You install Openelec on it, which is basically a Kodi OS. Then you hook up the HD and it will play anything not 4k. No Plex needed, hell Plex is a fork of Kodi actually. Kodi (once called XBMC) is the mother of it all.
 
JeffMD said:
Plex seems like the best. still trying to figure the best way for my anime collection. It organises like crap and if files don't appear, you are not told why.
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I've setup Plex with my anime collection as a TV Show library and it did a good job of properly grabbing the metadata and organizing them by name and often by season and episode name. Though I don't have anything obscure on there. Most of the stuff I have is fairly popular.
 
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