Is it possible to setup OSMC to work like that:
I’ve got network drive connected directly to my router. Is it possible to see all movies in OSMC from that drive?
And second question is it possible to only stream videos from OSMC on Raspberry Pi 2 to ma TV which will decode them and render subtitles? Or it can be only decoded on RPi?
I’ve heard that Raspberry Pi 2 hardware decoding don’t support all video codecs and 1080p videos with subtitiles may be to much to handle for RPi2.
Yes - if your networking is set up properly, and the router will cooperate
[quote]And second question is it possible to only stream videos from OSMC on Raspberry Pi 2 to ma TV which will decode them and render subtitles? Or it can be only decoded on RPi?
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Not sure which question you are asking here - what do you mean by streaming here, and how is your TV connected?
There are a couple of (cheap) licences needed for hardware decode byt RPi of mpeg2 and VC1, but the ability to decode H264 is ‘built in’
Your TV has what it has - impossible to add, as we don’t know what you have.
Derek
Right know I have my videos on USB stick. I plug it in to the TV so TV is decoding and playing them. So my TV is capable of decoding videos I use and I’m not sure if Raspberry Pi will be able to handle them.
That’s why I’m asking if it is possible to OSMC work like that: Read file from network drive and stream it to TV which will decode and play video?
I very much suspect that the Pi will handle a much wider range of video formats that your TV.
Does the TV have an ethernet socket? If it does it may support uPnP (DNLA). If so enable uPnP in kodi settings (and on TV) and you should be able to click context menu of a video file and say “play using…” and choose the TV as the player.