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Help me understand my bottleneck (self.raspberrypi)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by madcaesar to c/[email protected]
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I'm running a raspberry pi 8GB version, as my plex entertainment center. I also ruin a pihole. The pie has an Ethernet connection.

I have two TV'S, a 2017 Samsung and a 2021 Hisense. Both with Ethernet connections.

My Samsung tv can't stream certain shows at all, they stutter like crazy I'm guessing it has something to do with the encoders? Yesterday I got a message color range not supported whatever the hell that is.

The Hisense TV does better on some shows, but still 4k content is unwatchable, it's constantly buffering.

So, is the problem with the pi? Is it not powerful enough for 4k shows, or some encoding problem or something?

Or is it the TVS, should I buy a Roku box instead, would that solve the streaming problems?

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[–] macgregor 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rpi simply cannot handle live transcoding because it's a computationally expensive process. Audio and video codec support is a confusing landscape. Some of it is hardware support, some software support, sometimes there are weird licensing quirks... I replaced my Chromecast with an Nvidia Shield and it mostly eliminated transcodes, though i still sometimes encounter issues. For maximum compatibility look for files that are MP4, x264 (or h264) and AAC.

[–] madcaesar 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I grab mostly the most popular files so I'm hoping they are the good format. I wonder if I can tell sonarr radarr to only grab the good type of files?