My trusty old ION based mediaportal box is struggling with modern formats and playing even 720p files so I’m searching for a replacement.
The few requirements I have is optical audio output, and the ability to play media files stored on my synology NAS, movies, tv series, random videos etc…
Is vero 4k+ the obvious replacement? It appears to tick all the boxes, however I have never used kodi and want to be sure it is simple for accessing the media and doing covers for movies and series like I and used to with mediaportal.
Will I need to setup something like emby etc to act as media server for kodi?
sorry for the basic questions, up until now mediaportal has been awesome and if it wasnt for my ageing hardware I would stick with it!
Covers (and other information for movies and series are either collected online (by scrapers that are part of Kodi) or they are retrieved locally if you have respective covers and nfo files stored with your files. For the Online scrpers to work well you need to ensure that your movies/series are named respectively that they are automatically discovered (https://kodi.wiki/view/Naming_video_files/TV_shows)
No, basically your NAS serving the files should be good enough
thankyou for the quick response… I have the vero 4k+ in my shopping basket ready to go
One last question, I saw something about a remote extension needed if you use your own IR remote but cannot see that in the shop to purchase. I use a harmony remote currently to control everything and guess it will be simple to use with the vero, but do I need an extension?
One last point, yes I believe Mediaportal is quite outstanding and the move to Kodi will be a bit of work the good thing is that ones you have moved to Kodi you are no longer bound to Windows (x86) machines only but can use the same Media Center on many different kind of devices. And maybe actually a Linux OS on your ION with Kodi installed might even bring it back to some use.
