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Alternative ways to run Plex? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Context; So... Just bought a brand new TV and life is good, but I should have done more research before buying it. I primarily want to use PLEX for watching media on the TV. However, due to "smart TV's" not being smart and being rather slow because most current TV operating systems are either bloated or just riddled with ads.

Question; So Plex is there, but it runs very poorly. What are the best options out there to get this running smoothly? Are the only options AppleTV and Amazon Firestick? Anyone been in this boat before that have any tips-n-tricks to share?

Ps. I hate ads, so the Firestick is of off the charts.

Much appreciated

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[–] yuunikki 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have nvidia shields in basically every room of my house

[–] obinice 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those things are incredibly expensive, I don't think I could even afford one of them.

What makes them worth the extra money compared to say, a raspberry pi? I'm assuming Nvidia shield runs some version of Linux and is just as compatible with all the various packages and services you might want to run on a media device (such as a Plex server for starters of course), but what can it do that the pi came, to justify it's more than double the cost?

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

Ai upscaling, more ram, android so you can sideload apps, game streaming

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pi 4s come in 4 and 8gb ram varients (both being more than the shield), can run android, and are more than cabable of game streaming. Ai Upscaling is gross, imo. Additionally for the price of an nvidia shield you could get the new Pi 5 with a better cpu and more i/o

[–] yuunikki 1 points 1 year ago

I love my shields 🤷, out of the box I don't have to do really anything like install an os etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also has ads

I run an Apple TV, but jeep tire shield got the home theater