I am about to buy one. What do you recommend for a jellyfin setup with it?

So far I got:

Additional Q: if it can upscale 1080 to 4k, does that mean I don’t need my 4k collection anymore? It sounds too good to be true.

  • BlackmistEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Install Kodi as well as the Jellyfin client.

    Some older files just won’t play otherwise.

    Shield doesn’t use AV1 so don’t download any of those.

      • BlackmistEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Really? Didn’t on my 2019 Pro. Did about 1 frame a second for a few seconds and then crashed the whole box.

        Could have been a malformed video I suppose, but VLC played it fine on my PC.

        Maybe it’s just not hardware accelerated so only lower spec videos work?

        • s38b35M5@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          IIRC it was 720p content. VLC was how I was playing the files until I upgraded from 19.x to 20.x

          • BlackmistEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Yeah, mine was 4K HDR and it was not a happy bunny at all.

      • Faceman🇦🇺@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        lower res, low bitrate AV1 can be decoded in software pretty well (<1080p animation etc) but with high bitrate 4k AV1 it cant get anywhere near 24fps.