What up are you using. I have several and the performance isn’t quite what I expected. Specifically over Wi-Fi. It has a really hard time with anything 1080 or above. 1080 will usually play but heavily buffered and occasionally stuttering. I’ve had to upgrade to mini pc’s and even they can’t do the 2k’s and up. I’ve got a couple of Marvel movies in 2k and even on the minis they stutter really bad.
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Hi there! I‘m using composite for plex. You are right though. Wifi is no good for 1080 plus. I have wired my living room pi which plays 1080, with no problems ever since. The bedroom pi with 720p on wifi works perfectly as well.
The important part here is that we need to improve on kodi/its addons because the pi can actually do a lot imo.
From a poweruser/hobbydev perspective, there could be a lot of reasons for issues. I do think the python base isnt insanely fast, the hardware does not seem to be fully utilized by the video addons so there is room upwards. If wifi is so problematic although it should be fine with 100mbit+, the protocol might be too dependent on latency or bandwith. We should monitor the bandwith usage and optimize that.
For this to work, we need more people to work on this stuff and the rest to donate some money. I suggest everyone who is financially stable to donate 1% of their income to open source if they use any of it. Those who cant should write a letter/email to their political reps to push for more funding.
Our enemies are those who do not act.
Very ambitious project. I hope that you get this working and it's cross-platform this would be a big deal for a lot of like arm pcs
Thank you! I will do my best. Btw: Feel free to test and feedback on my kodi-peertube addon. Beware, its very early in development.
All I know is Moonlight is a thing.
They have Raspberry Pi 4/5 🔗 for clients.
Install Sunshine on gaming PC Host.
Thanks for mentioning this! Sources are always very helpful. :)
It’s probably a good idea for me to look through their sourcecode if available so I know how to communicate with steam back and forth.
Of course I need to make/find one that works for kodi since I dont want to switch everything for playing steam. Also I want the other folks that use kodi to be able to play steam games.