I’m looking for a privacy friendly device to use as TV box which can play 4K HDR ~90GB movies without problem, do you guys think the orange pi 5 could handle this type of files?

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I’ve been very happy with my Nvidia Shield. It’s powerful enough for all 4k HDR media and runs Android so it’s customizable but I don’t have to think about it.

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NVIDIA Shield is generally considered the best.

It can also side load other apps like ad free YouTube or custom launchers that won’t display ads on your home screen.

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The non-tube version though.

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What do you mean?

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I like my Shield but it was a real bummer that I couldn’t just plug in a USB drive and play movies on it. It’s annoying that I have to setup Plex or Jellyfin or whatever to serve movies to the Shield

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You can use VLC if you want a simple video player. And XPlore if you want a better file browser

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Why?

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I’m also happy with it, but when selecting a media player today, I’d get one with hw AV1 decoding.

Maybe a next-gen chromecast, if there will be a version with an ethernet port.

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