I’ve seen a couple articles about an android tv alternative and it’s got me thinking about a streaming box again. A while back i gave kodi a try and didn’t care for the experience. Granted, it was on a pi so expectations were low but it missed the mark for me. This time around i’ve got a modest nuc with proxmox i was thinking of moving to the living room and standing up a fresh vm of kodi to stream to.
I could just access the files over the network but i’m already running both plex and jellyfin so why not use either for my watch history. All that being said is kodi still my best bet?
Why proxmox? At some point down the road i’d like to get a capture card in the mix to stream games and that feels like the most flexible way to do everything.
For straight Plex stuff I use an AppleTV since I actually own and encode all my own media from disc for my server. So the formats are all the same and optimized for that device. No transcoding required(not even for subtitles).
This is use case specific… I wanted something that would play 4K disc rips without losing anything. So I picked up a AM6B+ streaming box. Flashed coreElec and loaded the Dolby vision stuff in and use Kodi. That allows me to play 4K disc rips straight from the folder with all features (Dolby Vision profile 7 full enhancement layer) and all audio formats (Atmos/DTS:X, etc). I control it with a K400 Plus wireless keyboard. Since this is still Kodi you can load a Plex plugin and pull content from there no problem.
More setup Info(sorry Reddit link).
Kodi recognizes my DV display and the receiver is picking up Atmos no problems.