Serviio

Hi

I've just bought an Nvidia Shield Pro and I'm disappointed to see that I can't install ServiiGo from the app store. Does it work with Nvidia Shield Pro? Can the apk be sideloaded?

I don't believe it can. But there's really no need for it. You can use VLC, Kodi, MrMC, or other player app for use with Serviio. I have all three of those on my Shields, although Kodi is my go-to player app. MrMC doesn't show metadata, other than the cover art, and VLC is the same, with what I consider a vastly inferior user interface. VLC is a great player, and I have it on all my computers. But it's not that great on Android devices.

The Shield is a great player. You don't need to use any special profile. It plays everything I have without transcoding, including WTV files from my old Windows Media Center PC.

Thanks for the prompt reply. I've been having a bit of trouble setting up mounted drives on my Linux Mint PC in Kodi but that looks like the solution. I think I saw ServiiGo as a quick solution so I can get up and running faster!! I'll just keep plugging away until I trip over a solution!

You don't have to mount any drives on the Shield if you're using Serviio. Just add it as a uPnP source and that's all you need. Serviio handles all the rest.

Now if you're running Serviio on your Mint box, then I understand the drive mounting issue. I built a test Mint box to experiment with, and I could never get Serviio to link to a networked file location. I had to mount the network location to the Mint file structure, and then it worked fine. No problem with Serviio using a networked location from a Windows PC. Obviously I was missing something under Linux.