Using Serviio with Android set top box, any tips?
I'm just wondering what I have to do to use it with Serviio. Also can Serviio and Kodi work together? or is there no point in that?
Thanks!
JakeChip wrote:I'm looking at getting an android box for streaming movies. Do I need a media server to use it? Does it already come with it's own media server? The one in particular that I'm looking at is the mymatrixtv android box, http://www.MyMatrixTV.com. If you can't already tell, I'm new at this.
atc98092 wrote:JakeChip wrote:I'm looking at getting an android box for streaming movies. Do I need a media server to use it? Does it already come with it's own media server? The one in particular that I'm looking at is the mymatrixtv android box, http://www.MyMatrixTV.com. If you can't already tell, I'm new at this.
What you are looking at it is a media player, not a server. The web site you listed says they use XMBC, which is now called Kodi. Since they still refer to it as XMBC, they either haven't updated their web site in quite a while or they're using pretty old software.
Kodi/XMBC can be the media server, but I doubt you can add much in the way of storage (hard drives) to that box, so your library couldn't be very large. More that likely you could only plug in USB drives, and probably not many.
I would instead use Kodi as your front end player, and run Serviio on a computer somewhere else on your network. I've tested Kodi as a player, and it's not bad. And these small Android boxes can usually play almost any type of video or audio file without transcoding, so your Serviio computer wouldn't have to be mega-powerful.
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