My media pc is getting worse. Now it won't read some double layer blurays. Am I cooked?

#bluray #mediapc #opticalmedia

I know I'm dreaming, but my dramas with my media pc have led to me thinking about building another machine with a more robust setup.

Does anyone know of a machine that is:
a. Small (like, mini-itx small)
b. Fanless, or super quiet
c. has a 3.5" drive bay

I'll probably run Linux, because apparently I like pain :(

#mediaPC #Linux #TinyPC #HeadlessMachine #QuietComputer

Tôi đang cài Raspberry Pi thành media‑PC hỗ trợ HDMI CEC và muốn đặt tên thiết bị dễ hiểu, được vợ chấp nhận. Các bạn thường dùng “media‑pi”, “home‑theater”, “cec‑device”, hay tên theo chức năng? Gợi ý cho tên CEC và các thiết bị NAS, thùng media được?
#RaspberryPi #MediaPC #CEC #HomeTheater #TênThiếtBị #Networking

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1p6mbxc/what_do_people_name_there_devices_cec_nas_and_any/

So the bd drive in my mediapc doesnt work anymore, i hope its just my wack ass windows 7 installation and not the actual drive cause that would be horrible.

#mediapc #bluray #opticalmedia

@jay Oh it's a pain in the ass and won't launch. I've tried both the #Steam install and the #Lutris #WINE install. Both crash and fail into the #Blizzard crash reporting window. I have run it successfully on #Linux on a #mediapc with a #GTX1080, and my #SteamDeck, but the machine I'm on now is running an #RTX3080. I've tried a few different #distros and #desktop environments too.

I know it can run, but something specific is stopping it running on *this* machine. 🤷

Looking for some advice regarding options for the home media center.

I'm running a NAS that has Plex server happily running on it but I noticed when playing videos on end devices it transcodes often and the transcoding is slow on the NAS which seems to be a common issue.

I'm looking to offload that work. I was thinking of setting up a SFF/MiniITX PC or piece of hardware that does transcoding well and simply install the Plex app and target the Plex server for data. I have a spare GPU I can use already if necessary. I also saw there are devices like the NVIDIA shield. I was thinking for this device it would simply need some GPU w/NVENC or Intel CPU w/QuickSync. Am I missing any options?

If I do go with the SFF/MiniITX build I would need a remote. I was thinking maybe the FLIRC receiver and a legacy remote. Any better options for that?

Lastly does it make sense to skip the Plex server and mount the media directly on either the SFF or NVIDIA Shield, sync the data every so often, and then transcode locally off faster disks? If so is it easy to get a shell or OS-level access on the Shield?

#media #mediapc #sff #nas #plex #miniitx #NVIDIA #nvidiashield #flirc #intel #transcoding #homelab #selfhosted #selfhosting