Reminds me of annoyances... I recall trying to play some anime with mp4 encoding and blocks of it were decoded wrong and looked glitchy, yet worked fine on my computer. Probably the biggest reason i haven't used my Pi as much as i'd like.

Didn't ask for a GG discussion, asked for alternatives.

I have used one (the old kind) to run RaspBMC/OSMC for streaming video files from my PC over the network to my old CRT television that doesn't have modern inputs like HDMI. It has done the job, but been a bit clunky, OSMC is total overkill for what I need it for and makes the simple task unnecessarily hard.

The CPU is weak, but the GPU has enough oomph to display fullhd videos of the supported types. I particularly like how this setup downscales 1080p video files for the TV without a hitch or complaint. Other solutions that I have tried have outright refused to play them, or then done a really poor job of it.

It can't run Netflix. I think there was some solution that would involve some software (that costs money) on a Windows computer that would act as a middle-man with Netflix, but that doesn't sound very handy.

I have no problem believing it would do just fine downloading my GOG library, since it's not a CPU intensive task.

Hash integrity checks, and copying incoming data to files, no harder than using a torrent.

I got one of the first Raspberry PI computers and a power supply (which melted itself down). However, it's an awesome little Linux box, worked rather well and if you put about 20 of them into a briefcase, you'd have a NOC-in-a-box.

I think the toaster on sale this weekend has a better processor though. ;)