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Is Samba not FOSS? Also the PC can probably run entirely free software while the Pi will require non-free binary blobs due to its proprietary Broadcom hardware

• abdullahkhalids 6y ago
  Indeed it is https://www.samba.org/ https://www.samba.org/ Also, comparing flawed performance on a RPi, vs good performance on a full-fledged PC.
  • scubbo 6y ago
    > Also, comparing flawed performance on a RPi, vs good performance on a full-fledged PC Is 1Gb RAM and 4x1.5GHz not considered sufficient specs to stream video? That is a genuine question, I'm not up-to-date on hardware specs nowadays - but it _seems_ like it should be sufficient to me. Obviously "more is better", but I'm surprised to hear that this is considered insufficient.
    • SpliffnCola 6y ago
      It's transcoding that is troublesome on the RPi and can be worsened as the resolution/image quality increases; Direct Play(stream) via Plex may alleviate that pain point, but your stream-playing device needs to be able to decode it directly. My Xbox One S for example can decode most streams with Direct Play using the Plex app (or all using VLC). Here[0] is a recent update from a Plex Team member about their knowledge of and intention to fix these issues, no timeline though. [0] https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-for-raspberry-pi-4-plex-media-server/538779/85 https://forums.plex.tv/t/hardware-transcoding-for-raspberry-...
      • scubbo 6y ago
        Thanks!
• scubbo 6y ago
  > the PC is preferable from a freedom perspective Again - my 13-year-old self would have be stunned to hear that anything-other-than-Linux was preferable from a freedom perspective, and that "the standard Windows interoperability suite" is FOSS.