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Gutless2615 Aug 12, 2024

Please help me stop my baby from crying because kodi keeps buffering

Please help me stop my baby from crying because kodi keeps buffering - The TTRPG network

The toddler loves having Kodi full of all their faves but I haven’t been able to iron out all the buffering I’m getting streaming from my mini-pc NFS mounted shares to the pi4 libreelec hooked up via Ethernet in the living room. Everything is wired, so I wouldn’t think that would be an issue but here I am about to put down a couple hundred dollars for a Synology router that looks like the monolith from 2001. Is this going to do the trick, you think? Is there another router recommended to keep a distributed little homelab (any 10tb spread between various usb hdd, raspberry pi’s and mini PCs all hosting a variety of containers and services) running smoothly? Budget I’m hoping to keep under 300 and lower the better but happy toddler and buttery smooth streaming over lan is the priority.

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jay Aug 12, 2024

Leave Kodi behind in 2010 and switch over to Jellyfin for better results.

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Gutless2615 Aug 12, 2024

FWIW I have jellyfin as well already, it’s also on the machine serving the nfs shares. I would expect streaming over lan to always be a lighter load then sending a transcoding request through the internet and back to the machine four feet away, but I could be wrong. I am always curious though what people are using as jellyfin clients for their TVs. How are you actually getting jellyfin into your living room? I had hoped to use a dedicated pi4, and I’ve already gone down the route of trying to boot to a light desktop with an auto loading chrome kiosk window to my jellyfin server, but those results were less than ideal too.

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vithigar Aug 13, 2024

Traffic for a local Jellyfin server should definitely not be going over the internet. Also any reasonably modern client should be able to direct play most media without transcoding.

As for my own Jellyfin setup, one TV has an Nvidia shield plugged in and is using the standard Android TV client. The other is a Samsung smart TV onto which I have side-loaded the Jellyfin Tizen app.

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Gutless2615 Aug 14, 2024

You know once I expose a service to the internet and get a nice easy to remember url I practically forget that I can still access locally. I should check that out.

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Humorless4483

If you set up ipv6 on the jellyfin server, you’ll be connected locally to your server because with ipv6 even if you use a domain name, if the server is in your lan it’ll connect locally to it.