What's the /g/ recommended media player? Something that
>Isn't slow (especially with browsers and stuff)
>Is piracy friendly (not locked down can do side loading)
>Likely works with an airmouse and/or bt remote

>>105987875 (OP)
i have an old 2nd gen shield tv that hasn't broke yet (1st gen one broke) so i still use it. they have been playing the game where they pretend to break it so you'll buy a new one, but they haven't fully committed yet

>>105987875 (OP)
an onn 4k pro can do all of that and costs 50 bucks

I got the HOMATICS Box R 4K Plus from Aliexpress and it works better than my Nvidia Shield that I sold for more than the new box cost.

All Android boxes are dog slow because 99% of them use the same Amlogic crap. I think even the nvidya shield still performs better than anything released today.

>>105987875 (OP)
>x86 desktop pc
>Linux
>qBittorrent+VPN or seedbox
>wireless keyboard with mouse
>or keyboard and mouse with long usb cable
>airmouse etc. whatever you want
This is only working solution that did work, works and will work forever.

>>105987988
Hopefully you don't need HDR support btw.

>>105987986
This is true.
https://www.androidtv-guide.com/streaming-gaming/av1-androidtv-players/

>>105987875 (OP)
just get a cheap NUC and install whatever OS you want.

>>105987986
Amlogic isn't the problem. It's shitty poorly optimized roms. Amlogic boxes tend to outperform the Allwinner and Rockchip ones. They also have the best community support with Armbian, CoreELEC, and EmuELEC. If you buy any cheap chink Android box and use the stock rom the main pain point is google play services. If you're willing to manage apks yourself go through with adb, they usually give you root, and just start fucking purging everything. But disabling, perhaps not uninstalling, google play services is essential.

>>105988075
I'll give some more advice since I thought about it more. In addition to the Linux stuff for Amlogic boxes there are community developed roms that are much better than stock. They also tend to give you an interface that makes sense on a TV, rather than the frankenstein Android phone roms chink boxes usually have. But there's a serious risk in flashing Android images. There's a good chance you could brick the box if you do something wrong. It's much safer to play with the Linux stuff because you can boot it from a SD card or USB drive, it can effectively be dual boot. This means you can do the things you want in that OS then switch back to Android. These boxes can be had for less than $15 on Aliexpress though so if you like tinkering you can get a few and start dicking around with them.

>>105987997
No, you don’t “need” HDR support.

>>105987875 (OP)
NVIDIA Shield, specifically the non-pajeetware version, which is sold out everywhere and nearly impossible to find.

>>105987875 (OP)
Smart TV
+
Screencast from smartphone.

>>105988300
The nvidia shield is old news, the real high end pirates are running CoreELEC Ugoos AM6b+ or Minix U22X-J [Max] for it's proper Dolby Vision support.

>>105988346
>CoreELEC Ugoos AM6b+ or Minix U22X-J
Never heard of these products. How are they better?

>>105987875 (OP)
An N97 or N100 mini-pc is best. It's really nice to have the option to run a full browser, espcially trannyfox with ublock and videodownloadhelper. Then you can watch your local collection and stuff online with no ads, or grab stuff from online for later.

>>105988371
Full Dolby Vision support. Perfect for playing either UHD remuxes or BDMV folders/isos with menus. Both HDB and PTP have active threads about these devices because of this. There really isn't anything else on the market that fills this niche for a high end piracy device. You can dual boot Android and CoreELEC, Android to do whatever normal shit you would do with one of these boxes and CoreELEC to take advantage of the dovi capabilities through Kodi.