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What is everyone using as a HTPC? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have a couple of TVs that I use HTPC appliances with. One's a shield TV and the other's a roku. I'm not super happy with either of them. The shield lags like crazy and apps crash constantly. The Roku is stable, but can't decode h265 or av1. Both at riddled with ads. Does anyone have a solution they're happy with? I mostly watch content from major streaming services and stream media from my NAS. I have a raspberry pi 4 that's not in use right now, I tried to get it working as a set top box, but couldn't get DRM content to work so I went back to the shield.

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[–] treyf711@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Roku TV has been unbearable lately. There’s a whole row of ads before I even get to the physical inputs on the TV. Plus there is a full height ad on the right and a half height ad on the left.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Confirm. Never seen something chatter on the network so much as well (remote control setting on maybe?). I don't know the model but i threw it on a physically separate wlan with no Internet and a pihole and holy jebus it's almost as bad as the Google nest hubs.