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Hellooo,
I thought a little about getting a Raspberry Pi as a home media center / renderer. Does anyone already have experience with this?
I have a NAS in my living room which holds some music, movies and tv series. I used to stream them via my phone (android) with BubbleUPnP to my Chromecast stick (which is attached to an HDMI input on my Marantz AV-Receiver) but this combination seems to struggle with some content, resulting in constant buffering and stuttering. So I thought it had something to do with the Wifi signal to the Chromecast.
I bought an RJ45 network adapter for the chromecast and an Ethernet Switch (TP-Link TL-SG105E) because only a single cord goes to the AV-Receiver and I have no LAN ports left on my router.
Sooo, the connections work like a charm and the chromecast is now in my LAN. BUT, the stuttering is still there. So it has nothing to do with the connection quality. (But I'm still happy that I bought the switch, because I could connect some more stuff to it). So maybe it has something to do with the transcoding (BubbleUPnP Server is running on the NAS) but no matter if I let my Android phone transcode the file or my NAS, it's always the same result. BubbleUPnP transcodes files automatically if they are not supported by Chromecast (or other renderers connected).
So I think I have to ditch Chromecast for that (will still use it for Netflix etc) and maybe get a Raspberry Pi for that.
At the moment I can use VLC on my computer and control it with the Android app "VLC Mobile Remote" with "VMR Connect" running on my PC. So I can remotely start VLC, browse my harddrives and the NAS, and shut down the computer, all from my phone. The computer is connected to my AV-Receiver via HDMI.
But I don't always want to have my PC running just to watch some stuff from my NAS so a Raspi would be cool.
Now I thought about getting it with Raspbian and install VLC on it so I could still use my android remote app for VLC, but there are also other options like libreELEC or OSMC.
But I love the functionality of the VLC Remote App and definetly want to use my phone as a remote. But maybe OSMC or libreELEC are better for this purpose and have better and wider range of functions. But with Raspbian I maybe could extend the range of tasks of the raspi if needed (but shouldn't be a problem with the other two distros as well I think). Maybe there is a way I can still use BubbleUPnP on my phone and the Raspi only as renderer, I love the Bubble app.
I just don't know if it's worth it to get a raspi for just this situation. And would it be possible to watch Netflix etc via the Raspi too?
I used Linux on my notebook many years ago.. I think last distro I used was Linux Mint 13 (Maya), so I'm a bit rusty in regards of Linux.
Any suggestions?
I thought a little about getting a Raspberry Pi as a home media center / renderer. Does anyone already have experience with this?
I have a NAS in my living room which holds some music, movies and tv series. I used to stream them via my phone (android) with BubbleUPnP to my Chromecast stick (which is attached to an HDMI input on my Marantz AV-Receiver) but this combination seems to struggle with some content, resulting in constant buffering and stuttering. So I thought it had something to do with the Wifi signal to the Chromecast.
I bought an RJ45 network adapter for the chromecast and an Ethernet Switch (TP-Link TL-SG105E) because only a single cord goes to the AV-Receiver and I have no LAN ports left on my router.
Sooo, the connections work like a charm and the chromecast is now in my LAN. BUT, the stuttering is still there. So it has nothing to do with the connection quality. (But I'm still happy that I bought the switch, because I could connect some more stuff to it). So maybe it has something to do with the transcoding (BubbleUPnP Server is running on the NAS) but no matter if I let my Android phone transcode the file or my NAS, it's always the same result. BubbleUPnP transcodes files automatically if they are not supported by Chromecast (or other renderers connected).
So I think I have to ditch Chromecast for that (will still use it for Netflix etc) and maybe get a Raspberry Pi for that.
At the moment I can use VLC on my computer and control it with the Android app "VLC Mobile Remote" with "VMR Connect" running on my PC. So I can remotely start VLC, browse my harddrives and the NAS, and shut down the computer, all from my phone. The computer is connected to my AV-Receiver via HDMI.
But I don't always want to have my PC running just to watch some stuff from my NAS so a Raspi would be cool.
Now I thought about getting it with Raspbian and install VLC on it so I could still use my android remote app for VLC, but there are also other options like libreELEC or OSMC.
But I love the functionality of the VLC Remote App and definetly want to use my phone as a remote. But maybe OSMC or libreELEC are better for this purpose and have better and wider range of functions. But with Raspbian I maybe could extend the range of tasks of the raspi if needed (but shouldn't be a problem with the other two distros as well I think). Maybe there is a way I can still use BubbleUPnP on my phone and the Raspi only as renderer, I love the Bubble app.
I just don't know if it's worth it to get a raspi for just this situation. And would it be possible to watch Netflix etc via the Raspi too?
I used Linux on my notebook many years ago.. I think last distro I used was Linux Mint 13 (Maya), so I'm a bit rusty in regards of Linux.
Any suggestions?