Hi all, I have a Proxmox server hidden away where it annoys nobody, and a small PC I’m the TV cabinet that I need to turn On/OFF every time I use it and when a movie needs to be transcoded, the fan spins like crazy.

Have anybody tried to use a Windows VM and share the desktop with NDI? In this way I just need an NDI decoder behind the TV and all the job will be done by the server.

Any thoughts about this?

Edit: NDI: Network Device Interface: basically it’s an audio/video (and intercom) transmission over IP with low latency. The sender could be an hardware encoder or a software.

  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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    2 months ago

    Not if it’s what you want, but I had success with moonlight+sunshine. Latency is unnoticeable and picture quality is great as long as the connection between the client and server is good

    • peregus@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      I’ve never heard of those, but it seems that are both software and I wonna get rid of the PC connected to them TV.

      • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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        2 months ago

        If you have a smart tv or chromecast ultra, you can install moonlight directly in your tv. If you’re still using a computer for the tv, at the very least using moonlight won’t make your client computer’s fan spins like crazy. You can even replace it with a low power computer like a raspberry pi.