Just curious is a raspberry pi powerful enough for streaming on multiple devices in 4k? Thinking of doing a setup and sharing with my family and friends. I anyway have a pi available
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Weslee@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I solved it by cancelling and getting a raspberry pi, installing Plex media server, and just pirating the movies and shows I wanna watch
spader312@lemmy.world 10 months ago
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 10 months ago
It’ll only work if you can direct play everything and depending on your ISP upload speed, you may need to transcode any remote streams in which case a Pi will probably burst into flames. A comparable option would be a micro form factor office PC like an Optiplex with a recent gen Intel processor. The iGPU in these works great for transcoding.
spader312@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah sounds like it might be a fun project to try it out with a pi but it’s not realistic
holycrapwtfatheism@kbin.social 10 months ago
I host anywhere from 1-6 streams at a time on a custom built server.. I'd doubt you're going to get what you're asking without a much bigger build. It doesn't take a crazy build for plex but if you ever need transcoding the pi can't do it. My most recent iteration was ~$1300 but the price was mostly storage.
threegnomes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
From my understanding pi doesn’t have the greatest hardware for streaming so I wouldn’t trust it for multiple devices at 4k.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes, but only via direct play, it’s not going to be doing any transcoding at all watchable level.
pfaca@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I did the same thing but went with LibreELEC+Kodi. It even works with the TV remote.
ericisshort@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Abby’s you choose that over the pi+plex?
pfaca@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’m using pi+libreelec+kodi.
Why kodi over plex? No special reasons, kodi does everything I need and with the addons support it gives me a lot of options(torrents+streaming).
Have been using kodi since it was called xbmc in the OG xbox modding scene. Never used Plex, so I just went with what I knew.
ericisshort@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ohhhh I had xbmc like a decade ago, before I gave up on the aye matey lifestyle, so I’ll probably choose that over plex as well. Thanks for the info. I’m looking up libreelec now, but I was just assuming it was some other hardware solution in my last comment.