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Message: [QUOTE="geckomantis, post: 48625, member: 6772"] I just want to point out that if you do setup a media server application like plex or jellyfin then you can still use it while offline. That's because the whole point is you're setting up your own computer to act as a server so you're running the whole thing locally. That said you do need a computer to do the transcoding for your video files and you already said you're 2 laptops aren't good enough to even play video files. My recommendation if you're planning on spending money anyway is to get a better PC. As a person who has their own ever growing hoard of video files I've tried most of the ways and while I haven't mined some of them. At the end of the day nothing beat just having a media center PC with a wireless keyboard. An old cheap mini PC with a modern enough CPU like an AMD 5000 or Intel 12th gen should be good enough to play any video file without lagging and some of those are in the $100-$200 range. A different option if you already have a newish phone is to just use that. If it can play all your files then just airplay/screen mirror your phone to the tv to play video files. My Samsung phone even has a full desktop mode called dex and I can actually plug it into tvs with cheap usb c dock. It might help people if you actually listed what hardware is avalable to you. Like how old are your laptops and what kind of phone do you have? [/QUOTE]

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