[Dark_Slayer]

I think one easy way to do this is to have the render on a dongle as all devices should have USB

What on earth are you talking about rendering on a dongle?


Also, as far as having external transcoding, plex has some minor integration options already. There is also Emby which has massive Kodi integration features. You can already run Kodi externally and have your entire library transcoded via Emby, with a totally native library "feel" (cached artwork, actors, plots, discart, etc) on the client side whether it's connected over LAN or WAN.

AIUI the focus here was always bringing in house transcoding, because externally there were already couple of existing options