Offline alternatives to Roku / Streaming boxes
Hopefully this is the right kind of question for this community, my apologies if not.
I'm looking for some sort of device that will let me load my own media from a USB / SD card, and play it to my TV. Does such a device exist? Some sort of remote controlled box that can just load mp4 / mkv files from locally hosted storage? I have been using my PC over HDMI but it can get annoying having an awkward room layout because my computer always has to be next to the TV to do this.
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How about an Orange Pi running Android with a external USB drive?
It actually seems like one of these or a raspberry pi running Kodi might be exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks!
Second the pi with Kodi.
Been using this for years now. Works really well.
You will need a flymouse too.. Good luck mate 👍👍
Just a note, the orange pi drivers are not in great shape. It’s getting better but I have a cluster of raspberry pi’s for development, bought an orange pi without first checking out much about them and it’s rough. Rockchip CPUs are great, and the driver / firmware situation is getting better, but something I’d read up on before buying one.
I’d still look at the N100, it’s about 2.5x the performance of raspberry pi 5, and being x86 you have more options than arm.