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Jellyfin on a Windows VM with NDI scren capture (self.homelab)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by peregus to c/[email protected]

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Hi all, I have a Proxmox server hidden away where it annoys nobody, and a small PC I'm the TV cabinet that I need to turn On/OFF every time I use it and when a movie needs to be transcoded, the fan spins like crazy.

Have anybody tried to use a Windows VM and share the desktop with NDI? In this way I just need an NDI decoder behind the TV and all the job will be done by the server.

Any thoughts about this?

Edit: NDI: Network Device Interface: basically it's an audio/video (and intercom) transmission over IP with low latency. The sender could be an hardware encoder or a software.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not if it's what you want, but I had success with moonlight+sunshine. Latency is unnoticeable and picture quality is great as long as the connection between the client and server is good

[–] peregus 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've never heard of those, but it seems that are both software and I wonna get rid of the PC connected to them TV.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If you have a smart tv or chromecast ultra, you can install moonlight directly in your tv. If you're still using a computer for the tv, at the very least using moonlight won't make your client computer's fan spins like crazy. You can even replace it with a low power computer like a raspberry pi.

[–] peregus 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, I'll look into it. I've never heard of this moonlight/sunshine and I'm curious!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Sunshine: https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine

Moonlight: https://moonlight-stream.org/

It's mostly used for gaming, but it's more like a souped up vnc with hardware acceleration support and low latency. I mostly use it to access my desktop remotely instead of for gaming. You can tune it between low latency or high quality depending on your use case.