Is a nvidia shield still the best? Are there others? I’d like to play various 4k HDR video files. Which one to buy? Any recommendations? Nvidia shield looks very much outdated but there’s nothing new.
What about plasma bigscreen? Would that be good? I’d just use it for jellyfin, the DE doesn’t matter much.
Same setup minus jellyfin. You can play directly from your server/nas using NFS, and Kodi will scrape for the meta data and match the show/movie. Now I only use Jellyfin for when I’m out of the house. Worth noting it also does Atmos!
Would HIGHLY recommend the oDroid N2+ with CoreELEC!
Bonus, if you use any *Arr programs, they can also sync to Kodi, for notifications on media added, and to sync and clean Kodi’s database for deleted media.
Kodi still plays via SMB/NFS when configured in direct play mode. Only the metadata is provided via Jellyfin and play progress is synced to Jellyfin.
The Jellyfin plugin is not the most stable piece of software but it gets the job done.
I switched to Jellycon that doesn’t integrate with the Kodi library, but rather acts like other basic Kodi add-ons. You can still browse the Jellyfin library through the add-on in Kodi, and through the Kore app by navigating to add-ons > Jellycon > Content tab, though I mostly initiate media playback from the Jellyfin app on Android. Direct play works too.