

low bitrate stuff) and supports ancient hopelessly insecure versions of smb and DLNA playback of mkv…

I’m still looking for something to help me organize my libraries and easily produce transcodes, but I’ve lived without it for a few years now… on devices other than my main TV, I have VLC. … I gave up on media servers as none would let me cast HDR with subtitles onto my Chromecast, and I just bought a odroid N2+ - with that I don’t need to transcode, ( unless you count decoding and resizing while GPU is displaying the picture, I just call that playing)

there’s the home theater kind, who value picture/sound quality over portability and don’t want to fumble around with stupid physical media “transcoding is a never ever do that”.have lots of TVs (or 2+ TVs they watch regularly), or do lots of watching on the go, or in multiple poorly connected locations - “transcoding is a must”. there’s the kind that prefer their media portable e.g.
