shield network questions

by magicker2000

Hi there

I was about to hit buy on an Nvidia shield but bottled it and thought I should check that it will do what I want

We have an LG webos OLED connected to a 5.1.4 atmos setup. Normally we use the internal Plesk app to connect to connect to the media server in the garage and this works great.. except for 4k movies.

  1. the network is not up to the job

  2. the TV will not send atmos / truehd to the amp over arc.

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So the plan is to add a shield into the mix plugged directly into the amp and then the TV to play 4k content and new sound formats. However, i dont want to be plugging in external drives to get the movies to the shield. If i plug in an external drive to the shield to hold 4k movies can I access this drive from the network? ie will I be able to send movies from any PC in the network to that external drive on the shield?

Uberutang

I've mounted an external hdd connected to my pi-hole raspberry pi device to my shield for plex. So plex just reads the contents from that network shared hdd.

magicker2000

Holy crap batman..
I pushed the button and grabbed a shield.. this thing can play 4k TV direct from the garage over a less then perfect ethernet connection! There was a warning about the link but so far no stuttering of buffering and dolby atmos popped up immediately on setting Pass through to auto!

I am so happy right now :)