2019-09-16, 13:42
Hey guys,
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this kind of question. If not my apologies.
I had a question regarding hardware requirements for a new media player based on my video playback needs; I'll be as detailed a possible with my setup, so some information might be redundant.
Recently my brother and I upgraded our TV's to the LG C9 OLED model. Very happy ofcourse we became aware our current media players are out dated and not suited for UHD playback.
Regarding HDR, I personally have very little knowledge but would like to have the ability to mess around and optimise for best HDR use.
We currently have a Synology NAS (DS1815+) as our storage solution on which we have a media library. Movies are located on a Expansion bay connected via eSATA to our base unit in a SHR setup.
I plan to continue to use LibreELEC as my OS for KODI. (however I'm open to change if some of you have great experiences/benefits with a different OS).
We connect our media players to our NAS with the NFS protocol on a Cat5e LAN network.
We plan on streaming UHD content to our media players from our NAS.
Now I'm researching various new/different models of the media player I currently have (ZOTAC) and came across this one: ZBOX BI329
I currently have a few Samsung 860 EVO SSD's laying around which are probably overkill and have nothing to do with streaming through NFS, but they are collecting dust.
The main questions revolves around CPU/GPU/RAM; regarding my needs for UHD/HDR playback I'm really not sure which requirements are needed/recommended.
I've read that CPU won't be much of a problem (Celeron N4100) and that 4GB 1300 MHz (recommended sticks of 2x 2GB and not 1x 4GB) should be fine aswell.
The integrated Intel UHD Graphics 600 however I'm not so sure of.
Hence my question if I'm at all going about it the right way or if you guys have some tips/suggestion on hardware which would suit my needs better.
Almost forgot about my Audio needs, I'm far from a audiophile and generally don't care that much. I'm still using my Logitech Z-5500 5.1 system, which I presume is veryyyy much outdated at this point. However if you guys have some great suggestions that would open up a new world for me, by all means lay it on me.
Would appreciate if some of you would chime in with some suggestions/tips.
Thanks guys,
Ray
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this kind of question. If not my apologies.
I had a question regarding hardware requirements for a new media player based on my video playback needs; I'll be as detailed a possible with my setup, so some information might be redundant.
Recently my brother and I upgraded our TV's to the LG C9 OLED model. Very happy ofcourse we became aware our current media players are out dated and not suited for UHD playback.
Regarding HDR, I personally have very little knowledge but would like to have the ability to mess around and optimise for best HDR use.
We currently have a Synology NAS (DS1815+) as our storage solution on which we have a media library. Movies are located on a Expansion bay connected via eSATA to our base unit in a SHR setup.
I plan to continue to use LibreELEC as my OS for KODI. (however I'm open to change if some of you have great experiences/benefits with a different OS).
We connect our media players to our NAS with the NFS protocol on a Cat5e LAN network.
We plan on streaming UHD content to our media players from our NAS.
Now I'm researching various new/different models of the media player I currently have (ZOTAC) and came across this one: ZBOX BI329
I currently have a few Samsung 860 EVO SSD's laying around which are probably overkill and have nothing to do with streaming through NFS, but they are collecting dust.
The main questions revolves around CPU/GPU/RAM; regarding my needs for UHD/HDR playback I'm really not sure which requirements are needed/recommended.
I've read that CPU won't be much of a problem (Celeron N4100) and that 4GB 1300 MHz (recommended sticks of 2x 2GB and not 1x 4GB) should be fine aswell.
The integrated Intel UHD Graphics 600 however I'm not so sure of.
Hence my question if I'm at all going about it the right way or if you guys have some tips/suggestion on hardware which would suit my needs better.
Almost forgot about my Audio needs, I'm far from a audiophile and generally don't care that much. I'm still using my Logitech Z-5500 5.1 system, which I presume is veryyyy much outdated at this point. However if you guys have some great suggestions that would open up a new world for me, by all means lay it on me.
Would appreciate if some of you would chime in with some suggestions/tips.
Thanks guys,
Ray