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Hey, I'm not really savvy with hardware. I wanted to use a pi4 to be my home TV controller to stream content to a TV or projector.

A long time ago I saw this appear: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26495719

And it seemed to sort of work but not quite enough. There were stutters in the content streamed and strange clicks in the audio. Will this new one be enough? Was that even the likely limiting factor?

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Honestly? You can get a business mini PC with better performance and software support for less than a Pi4/5

Yes, but consider the energy consumption.

In context, it isn't awful. You can get a J4125 machine in that price range often times and that is not far at all from a Pi5.

In my experience my Raspberry Pi 3, running Kodi, was able to keep up with a 720p MPEG2 stream as long as I had no network hiccups.

Not sure what file format your Raspberry Pi is trying to transcode from though.

I very much want to just run through a familiar browser interface with a mouse and keyboard and use netflix and sflix and what not.

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