Anyway… In this instance, I’m mainly looking for a client reccs. I have a crappy Roku streaming stick that needs to get replaced, and I’m wondering which client device is the best. An Android device or AppleTV seem to be best choices, since I could get commercial services with hardware acceleration on them if I wanted to.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

Yep, intel processors support hardware transcoding starting with sandy bridge

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video

To your second point I have run stremio on a chromecast and it’s been fine. But I also don’t stream anything higher than 1080p