It’s not that I don’t want to buy a mini PC. But for this little project I might abandon like my many programming projects a massive investment is just not worth it. I payed 300€ on a TV some years ago, I just cannot pay the double amount for a device I use for streaming. I might upgrade if Jellyfin turns out to be my companion, but then everything needs to work, remote streaming from outside my network included.

Thanks for your advice though. I will look into a used fire stick, but if I understand correctly, this would act as a jellyfin client for watching on my TV.

Nah, it’s a cheap Chinese TV with a random OS, so I guess I need to find a workaround. I don’t buy at amazon so I thought of another Pi.

Noted, RAM is important.

Okay, so without the need of transcoding I gather a Pi 4 or 5 may actually be fine? What about the rare case I get hands on a Blu-Ray, H.264 would not work?

Noted, remote streaming will be an extra step I can tackle after I created my setup, it may easily work or may not.

How do I find out what codec a file has? I guess there is a ffmpeg command to check and also to convert?

Does that mean I can rip all my DVDs to the H.264 format to be sure all devices can play the file? Is there a disadvantage using H.264?

With remote streaming I mean of course streaming outside of my network.

I always need to laugh when I read “Agentic AI”

Inflation is also rising. I am not so sure Spotify raised its prices more than inflation.

Better start downloading the important documents now