Streaming media from one house to another

[ghost recon88]

Looking for options to stream on the fly media at House A to House B. These are all MKVs I've built myself. Is Plex the only option? For a single stream, what kind of hardware is sufficient for 1080p? Can any of the cheap Android boxes connect to my external drive, then transcode on the fly without stuttering?

 

[cyclohexane]

Are the two houses on the same network?

 

[poofyhairguy]

If you don't like Plex there is always Emby.

I wouldn't trust anything ARM for transcoding though. Not yet at least, Intel dominates that segment.

 

[JeffMD]

Plex seems like the best. still trying to figure the best way for my anime collection. It organises like crap and if files don't appear, you are not told why.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Wait a minute, I just realized something OP, you only one HD worth of material?!

Screw streaming, buy a second hard drive and a Raspberry Pi 2. That is such a better solution that will cost less than a machine that can transcode decently.

I get blinded sometimes by my own biases.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Um, something tells me just buying a Pi 2 will not be a pop-in solution. The Op will need to learn and configure it, which is a whole other hobby unless you are helping him.

 

[ghost recon88]

Are the two houses on the same network?

They are not. Several miles between them, and different cable providers.

If you don't like Plex there is always Emby.

I wouldn't trust anything ARM for transcoding though. Not yet at least, Intel dominates that segment.

Intel does seem to be preferred for these kind of things, just wasn't sure if the mobile market had anything.

Wait a minute, I just realized something OP, you only one HD worth of material?!

Screw streaming, buy a second hard drive and a Raspberry Pi 2. That is such a better solution that will cost less than a machine that can transcode decently.

I get blinded sometimes by my own biases.

I was looking at the raspberry plex pi thing, not sure I fully understand it though.

 

[Kartajan]

if both sites are PC based, why not use a crashplan account to sync files on both ends?

 

[gus6464]

Roku and Plex? Why is there a need to complicate life?

 

[sdifox]

They are not. Several miles between them, and different cable providers.



Intel does seem to be preferred for these kind of things, just wasn't sure if the mobile market had anything.



I was looking at the raspberry plex pi thing, not sure I fully understand it though.

You dont need plex if you are just playing local hdd stuff.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Um, something tells me just buying a Pi 2 will not be a pop-in solution. The Op will need to learn and configure it, which is a whole other hobby unless you are helping him.

Openelec is super easy to install on a Pi, as full detailed instructions are on their wiki page. Anyone on this forum could do it.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I was looking at the raspberry plex pi thing, not sure I fully understand it though.

You install Openelec on it, which is basically a Kodi OS. Then you hook up the HD and it will play anything not 4k. No Plex needed, hell Plex is a fork of Kodi actually. Kodi (once called XBMC) is the mother of it all.

 

[Kartajan]

if you are that adverse to diy but want the pi, you could always buy a kit already set up...

http://www.amazon.com/Raspberry-Med...3517706&sr=8-1&keywords=raspberry+pi+openelec

or a non-pi openelec box (cheaper_

http://www.amazon.com/ACEMAX-OpenEl...=UTF8&qid=1453517781&sr=8-1&keywords=openelec

 

[cmdrdredd]

Plex seems like the best. still trying to figure the best way for my anime collection. It organises like crap and if files don't appear, you are not told why.

I've setup Plex with my anime collection as a TV Show library and it did a good job of properly grabbing the metadata and organizing them by name and often by season and episode name. Though I don't have anything obscure on there. Most of the stuff I have is fairly popular.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I've setup Plex with my anime collection as a TV Show library and it did a good job of properly grabbing the metadata and organizing them by name and often by season and episode name. Though I don't have anything obscure on there. Most of the stuff I have is fairly popular.

Even obscure anime will work fine with Plex just given a little effort:

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...a-agent-hama-installation-instructions.36469/

 

[JeffMD]

Even obscure anime will work fine with Plex just given a little effort:

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...a-agent-hama-installation-instructions.36469/

main archive has errors in it. Doesn't look like corruption but rather a non standard zip tool was used.

 

[SMOGZINN]

main archive has errors in it. Doesn't look like corruption but rather a non standard zip tool was used.

Try 7Zip if you have not already tried it. It tends to be able to open things WinZip and WinRAR can't.

 

[Kaido]

Roku and Plex? Why is there a need to complicate life?

I've been preaching this combo for years :thumbsup: