Playing 4K movies from HDD on AV Receiver

[RiddleX]

Hi Folks,

 

I've got High Quality 500+ movies on my USB Hard Disk, and I'm planning to buy an AV Receiver (For e.g. Yamaha RX-V6A) to play them. The end goal is to build a home theatre. What will be the best way to play/stream my movies?

 

I have a 65" 4K Google TV (Sony X82L), and a high end PC (AMD 7800 X3D CPU + AMD 7900 XTX GPU). I researched a lot, but I didn't find a proper solution. I don't know if I should build a Jellyfin media server on my old laptop or is there some other way to play the movies using the AV Receiver. Please help guys.

 

Thanks and regards.

[johnt]

4 hours ago, RiddleX said:

Thanks and regards.

You need a pc to run plex or jellyfin server. That’s where you store all your media. Then you can use a built in app on your tv to access it. Plex will work for sure on a Sony. Not sure about jellyfin. Or you can use apps on a fire tv or Apple TV or shield. I recommend the shield since it’s the only device that does bitstream from plex and you are planning to use a receiver. 

[Bersella AI]

A TV box may be grabbed to play these movies from this USB drive, then if you have proper speakers and an AV receiver with HDMI eARC pass-through functionality, they can be connected to both the TV and the box. I have, for example, an X96 X4 box to stream my contents on TV. The website AndroidPCtv can be referred to for further information about TV boxes.

[LIGISTX]

The best device to use as a Plex playback client, unless things have changed, is the nvidia shield tv pro. You will want to instal Plex on a laptop or your gaming pc, use that as the server, and nvidia shield tv plugged into your receiver as the client. 

[m9x3mos]

9 hours ago, LIGISTX said:

The best device to use as a Plex playback client, unless things have changed, is the nvidia shield tv pro. You will want to instal Plex on a laptop or your gaming pc, use that as the server, and nvidia shield tv plugged into your receiver as the client. 

I second that. I have a fair amount of content that is 1080p and the upscale on the shield is pretty good. Looks almost as good as true 4k content and can really only tell the difference in high movement. 

[LIGISTX]

57 minutes ago, m9x3mos said:

I second that. I have a fair amount of content that is 1080p and the upscale on the shield is pretty good. Looks almost as good as true 4k content and can really only tell the difference in high movement. 

Even more important is, as far as I know, the Shield TV Pro has the best support for codex. It will play more codex than anything else... at least as of ~2022 when I got mine. I am not aware of anythign that has beaten it since.

 

Cant wait for another version to come out.

[m9x3mos]

1 hour ago, LIGISTX said:

Even more important is, as far as I know, the Shield TV Pro has the best support for codex. It will play more codex than anything else... at least as of ~2022 when I got mine. I am not aware of anythign that has beaten it since.

 

Cant wait for another version to come out.

It's been since 2019 when it was released. I wouldn't hold your breath with nvidia creating another one soon sadly. 

[aggie113]

I use some Android media boxes for playing video files and ISOs from my NAS to my various TVs.  The requirement for playing ISOs of discs is a limiter for what devices I can use, if that's not a need you have then you may be able to get by with something else.