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I couldn't find any promising looking subreddits for the topic. Feel free to direct if you know of a better place.

What I have now is Playon running on a fairly beefy PC and it is transcoding and streaming via a hardline to my Xbox 360.

This has treated me well for a few years now but with more and bigger HD video coming down the pipe my system is having a hard time keeping up. I think the Xbox and the fact that most video going to the Xbox ends up having to be transcoded.

So I would like to go for something new but I don't want to have to become a streaming video expert just to be able to pick a setup.

Ideally the new setup would cut out the transcoding altogether. Most of what I play are MKVs and AVIs. So it would be nice to be able to go to native 1080P MKVs without all the chop and buffering.

I am not averse to putting a HTPC in my living room, and it would be hard to be louder than the Xbox, so while noise is important the bar is set pretty low currently.

I had been looking at just swapping out the Xbox for a
<bot>: Need a new means of getting video from my PC to my TV that has good codec/file type support and can handle large HD files without choking.