Subj : The urge..
To   : Accession
From : Gryphon
Date : Tue Jan 10 2017 08:50:20

On 01/09/17, Accession said the following...
 
 Ac> Hello Gryphon,
 Ac> 
 Ac> On Mon Jan 09 2017 14:30:22, Gryphon wrote to Accession:
 Ac> 
 Ac>  Gr> I know that urge well.  I'm currently looking into building a kodi
 Ac>  Gr> media center and would like to use an RPi3B because it has built-in
 Ac>  Gr> wifi.  I already  have the odroid XU4 and use it as my desktop.  I
 Ac>  Gr> compare that to my Acer Aspire with 4GB of memory, and the ODROID is
 Ac>  Gr> far and away the faster and more powerful device.
 Ac> 
 Ac> Not sure if you've dabbled in this realm yet or not, but I'm currently
 Ac> running plex-media-server on one of my RPi3's, and it doesn't seem to
 Ac> want to play anything larger than 720p HD (non-blu ray). As soon as I
 Ac> try to play a blu ray movie it actually gives a warning message saying
 Ac> the server isn't powerful enough. :(
 Ac> 
 Ac> So keep that in mind when you add movies to your media center, in case
 Ac> you see anything similar.

I don't think blue-ray will be a problem for me.  The primary reason I wanted
to dabble in a media server was so that I could digitize my DVD collection
and reclaim my shelf space.  But I stopped buying DVD's about 5 years ago.  I
ended up doing the DVD rental from Netflix or Redbox, and then moved on to
streaming when more titles became available that way.  I have yet to delve
into blue-ray, as I do not intend to buy a blue-ray player.

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