Depends what you want to do. You can do stremio + real debrid on just about anything but if you want to do your own server I would get a cheap used tower off of eBay that has an intel processor with integrated graphics and throw Ubuntu server on it and drop in a commercial NAS drive for storage like a WD Red. I did that for ~300 and am happy with the results (half of that budget was storage)

[–] jollyrogue@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How is transcoding handled? Does the Intel iGPU have the drivers/support to do transcoding on the fly?

Anyway… In this instance, I’m mainly looking for a client reccs. I have a crappy Roku streaming stick that needs to get replaced, and I’m wondering which client device is the best. An Android device or AppleTV seem to be best choices, since I could get commercial services with hardware acceleration on them if I wanted to.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

Yep, intel processors support hardware transcoding starting with sandy bridge

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video

To your second point I have run stremio on a chromecast and it’s been fine. But I also don’t stream anything higher than 1080p