I’m currently using windows but my Prime streams stutter a lot and are all jittery. it’s really annoying. So I’m wondering if getting a mac mini or something a bit more powerful than my PC would help.

Obviously there are DRM issues, those can be fixed on windows by turning off Hardware Acceleration in my browser. Is it easy to get around DRM on Mac?

Anyone have any experience or know where I can go to get help/talk about it with people?

System Specs: Intel Core i5 10400 GTX 1050 TI 16gb Ram 500gb SSD (for OS) and another 1tb SSD for recordings

I use Bandicam to record my Edge browser. Prime is a bit smoother when I make sure my PC is not running on efficiency mode, but still stutters a bit.

Netflix and Apple TV only run in 720p or worse, can't get them to get to 1080p which is my target. I have to use a 4k monitor to get Prime to play at 1080p.

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[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Ah bummer. That's most of my software tricks. I'd break out my hardware equipment next step, but that's pricy.

[–] froth@lemmy.cafe 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

All good, bummer it's so difficult.

By hardware equipment do you mean just a stronger CPU / GPU?

[–] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Since you can't use GPU for rendering or recording, a faster CPU couldn't hurt and is probably your best bet, but it isn't really thaaaat old. (There being no other hardware bottlenecks of course)

There are, cough cough I think, ways to decrypt and record HDCP protected streams but I'd imagine you'd have to have a render unit and recording unit in your setup. Sort of complicated.