Are mini stick PCs practical to set up as a media player, eg with jellyfin? Some advantages are the small form factor that plugs straight into the HDMI port, and flexibility/privacy vs using a dongle from a shitty company like amazon/google/roku.
Are there any things to watch out for to ensure it has enough compute power and hardware decoding? I just want it to play HD video with a jellyfin app/browser page.
I’m assuming it’s no big deal to install Linux on (x86 hardware?), do you need to watch out for specific device support? Thanks
It’s more expensive, but I grabbed a vero 4k a couple years back and have been really happy with it. They’ve since put out a new model with av1 support. https://osmc.tv/vero/
It’s just about the best possible dedicated jellyfin client box out there, so I felt it was worth the extra squeeze when I got it. (HDR support even!) It’s all open source though, so support for things like YouTube, netflix, or any other streaming doesn’t really exist in user friendly manner.
Interesting, good to know that there are open source / privacy respecting (seemingly) options out there