2015-09-07, 11:38
I'm thinking of the following setup.
A NAS with lots of storage and a little box with Kodi near my TV.
I'm wondering what the most future proof and cheap combination is.
Option #1
The NAS just stores files; so a low end CPU is fine because the Kodi-box does the transcoding if needed.
In my mind transcoding means more powerful hardware, high cost and potentially more noise.
Option #2
A more powerful NAS will do all transcoding and the Kodi-box just runs the Kodi program and passes the stream to my TV.
Option #3
I make sure everything on my NAS is in a format that doesn't need any transcoding.
That would require low-end NAS and low-end Kodi-box hardware.
Option #4
Suggestion by people more knowledgeble that me. That's most of mankind :-)
Right now I just run Windows MediaCenter XP on a rather big Compaq Evo PC. Works fine but it's severely outdated and can't handle .mp4 and .mkv without severe stuttering. So I convert everything to a format it can handle.
I want to replace that with a Kodi-box. Perhaps even 2 or 3.
I wonder how 2 or 3 streams change the ideal setup (see above options)
My current PC has a card to watch and record cable TV.
I'm wondering how I can watch TV on a Kodi-box because obviously a PCI card doesn't fit in those tiny boxes.
My Sony Bravia TVs all are DNLA capeble. But I simply hate the interface. If not I just needed a good NAS with a transcoder. But then I wouldn't be posting on this forum.
Still to me it looks ideal if Kodi could run on the NAS itself and stream over my gigabit LAN to my TV (or TVs).
That obviously requires something else than a IR remote I don't like using a tablet.
A NAS with lots of storage and a little box with Kodi near my TV.
I'm wondering what the most future proof and cheap combination is.
Option #1
The NAS just stores files; so a low end CPU is fine because the Kodi-box does the transcoding if needed.
In my mind transcoding means more powerful hardware, high cost and potentially more noise.
Option #2
A more powerful NAS will do all transcoding and the Kodi-box just runs the Kodi program and passes the stream to my TV.
Option #3
I make sure everything on my NAS is in a format that doesn't need any transcoding.
That would require low-end NAS and low-end Kodi-box hardware.
Option #4
Suggestion by people more knowledgeble that me. That's most of mankind :-)
Right now I just run Windows MediaCenter XP on a rather big Compaq Evo PC. Works fine but it's severely outdated and can't handle .mp4 and .mkv without severe stuttering. So I convert everything to a format it can handle.
I want to replace that with a Kodi-box. Perhaps even 2 or 3.
I wonder how 2 or 3 streams change the ideal setup (see above options)
My current PC has a card to watch and record cable TV.
I'm wondering how I can watch TV on a Kodi-box because obviously a PCI card doesn't fit in those tiny boxes.
My Sony Bravia TVs all are DNLA capeble. But I simply hate the interface. If not I just needed a good NAS with a transcoder. But then I wouldn't be posting on this forum.
Still to me it looks ideal if Kodi could run on the NAS itself and stream over my gigabit LAN to my TV (or TVs).
That obviously requires something else than a IR remote I don't like using a tablet.