Media Player recomendations (WD TV died)

[98elise]

weeboot said:

98elise said:

Does Kodi need a media server running? I have a WD MyCloud. We tried plex which looks great, but you need to run a seperate media server, and I've found it laggy and slow. The initial UI library is great though.

I have a WD MyCloud serving as storage, Kodi plays files from the NAS over the network, no additional server required.

Thanks, that may solve my problems

I can watch media on my smart TV but the DLNA nterface is crap, i just need something i can plug in and read the media on smart or non smart TV's.

[giger]

Apologies folks, I forgot I was going on holiday

Will check back in next week, already feeling old. Need to think of the best forward for how I use my kit

[giger]

Back in the room

Having re-read this thread I am liking the sound of the pi media player. I don't think I need a nas for my movies as they are only watched in the lounge where the home cinema kit is, I don't own any physical music anymore and I am doing something else with photos. Also, as I'm not watching films that often, having them on HDDs hard wired to the media player is fine.

Any advance on the raspberry pi media player package from pi hut?

[dave_s13]

No, just buy it. Works a treat.

[new_bloke]

I followed this thread with interest, being in exactly the same boat (expiring WD TV live). I am a huge fan of Pis and have a number of them in use as music players, airplay receivers and spotify connect devices.
I have a had a good play with Kodi and am certainly impressed - it's come a long way from when I first tried it.
I've run into a bit of a snag though - for the necessary WAF, I need to get iplayer and Netflix to be easily useable. iPlayer is offered by a (not very pretty, but at least it works) plugin. I've had no joy at all with netflix. I am reaching the conclusion that right now, it just isn't possible (due to the DRM).
If that's the case - are there any other players that might fit the bill? In addition to the requirements above, I need to be able to play movies (mostly ripped from blu ray to mkv containers) from a NAS device.
Is the amazon fire tv able to do that? I assume that apple TV won't do the NAS bit?

All thoughts welcome!

NB

[giger]

Right folks - I have my pi 3 media centre from pi hut!

Question 1 - what OS/image to install?

Raspbian (recommended)
LibreELEC_RPi2
openELEC_RPi2
OSMC_RPi2

[giger]

Scratch that, installed openelec and all is good!

Next question, pi is hooked up to av amp and then goes out to TV. Can't seem to get the CEC/viera link working to control the pi from my TV remote. I guess the amp isn't handshaking properly with the TV. Any work arounds?

Loving kodi so far!

[Skittle]

If you put Kodi on you should also try the TV add on Exodus

[davek_964]

new_bloke said:

I followed this thread with interest, being in exactly the same boat (expiring WD TV live). I am a huge fan of Pis and have a number of them in use as music players, airplay receivers and spotify connect devices.
I have a had a good play with Kodi and am certainly impressed - it's come a long way from when I first tried it.
I've run into a bit of a snag though - for the necessary WAF, I need to get iplayer and Netflix to be easily useable. iPlayer is offered by a (not very pretty, but at least it works) plugin. I've had no joy at all with netflix. I am reaching the conclusion that right now, it just isn't possible (due to the DRM).
If that's the case - are there any other players that might fit the bill? In addition to the requirements above, I need to be able to play movies (mostly ripped from blu ray to mkv containers) from a NAS device.
Is the amazon fire tv able to do that? I assume that apple TV won't do the NAS bit?

All thoughts welcome!

NB

Amazon Fire can play ripped movies from a NAS - but in fact, I use Kodi on Amazon fire to do it. The user interface is much prettier on Kodi, and it does a very good job of organising the films etc. - obviously you can browse them by title, but it will create box sets, browse by genre, browse by actor etc. etc. It's very good.