Hello,
I'm wondering if there's a way to hardwire an Nvidia Shield TV directly to a Windows PC in order to access the files on the PC faster than a network connection would allow.
My media is currently hosted on my Windows 10 PC, which is shared over the network via an sFTP Docker container, which of course is running on Windows Subsystem Linux.
It's very reliable, the only problem is that because I'm going through WSL, the transfer rates are slow in comparison to something like SMB. This wasn't an issue until a week ago when I got my first 4K TV. The increased bitrate of 4K is causing buffering issues.
I really enjoy the flexibility/ease of a Docker-Compose file for my NAS needs, so rather than set up an entire server just to stream smoothly to my Shield, I would prefer to hardwire the Shield to the PC since they are only two feet apart.
Anyone know if this can be done or have experience with something similar?
In short, no, you can't do that, and you should look into another option.
It's hypothetically possible for something like that to exist. For a computer to present itself as a USB Mass Storage device virtually , while still allowing the OS to manage the drive. But that's not something anyone is doing, so it would be both hardware and software that doesn't exist or hasn't been used for this purpose. Which is to say, not worth it.
Is there a reason you're using SFTP and not SMB? In WSL1 files are accessible to both Windows and the WSL side without any extra work needed -- is that not the case for WSL2? What I mean is -- couldn't you set up your media storage (with SMB share) in Windows, then have the docker access that directory?