I have 16TB NAS dedicated to storing TV shows. It is just a cabinet with ryzen 2600 and no graphics card. I have installed openmediavault in it to access it via smb to other devices. I am an absolute noob in setting up a server. Please tell me how I should go on about turning it into a media consumption machine.
P. S: I usually use VLC on android and MPV on linux to consume the media.
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Jellyfin or Kodi (FOSS), or Emby (Better than Plex, not FOSS, but developer is very responsive) or Plex (bottom of the rung, corporate money grabbers).
Run one of those on your media server, and grab the client for your phone, or tv device.
TV device can be chromecast, roku, whatever (nVidia shield is expensive but it does support DTS and stuff - if you need that (does your TV room have 6+ speakers?)
Personally, I like Emby. It just works.
Plex is far better than jellyfin at the moment. Hopefully that will change at some point.
Shhh, best not to mention Plex on Lemmy. The jellyfin mafia will come down and tell you repeatedly how amazing Jellyfin is and why we should give up our lifetime plex pass’ to use an inferior product cause its free and open source.
Jellyfin or Plex media server on the NAS.
To view content, there are several options. Both servers have client apps for various platforms, this usually provides the most features and best experience. Another option is using a browser, both come with an integrated web server. The third option is through DLNA, which is a protocol for media streaming that many players already support, but it may be a bit more limited.
Jellyfin or Plex are great front ends that can help organize all your media.
I personally use Plex, but have heard Jellyfin is comparable 😀
Plex is way harder to set up. Their UX is a mess and hasn’t changed in 20 years. All carried over from its chaotic days as an open source project.
Jellyfin can be challenging at times, but it’s a much more modern take on the premise, as mirrored by its UX.
Hard? I did it really easily a few years ago. The hard part is naming everything correctly, not setting it up.
With Plex it also sets up remote access automatically which I don’t believe Jellyfin does.
None of this information is accurate
Lol, plex and hard to set up… Starting a docker container really is hard. And Jellyfin and a modern UI? Jellyfin where setting up HW decoding basically takes a degree? Come on man… Really?
Plex has a way better interface, especially on the client side
Can you even watch jellyfin away from home?
Yes, but you need to know a little about network configuration to do that
You need to know a little about networking for all of this 🤷♂️
Obviously
I already have plex lifetime pass
You can set up wireguard on a compatible router in 5 minutes or set it up through docker just as quickly. Then you can use that to tunnel into your network and watch media as if you were there. Never had any problems except when trying to do it on mobile data in low reception areas. On someone elses wifi, no difference than when at home.
I might look more into Jellyfin and see what I think because I am pretty bored of the outdated feel of Plex lately. Is casting supported well with Jellyfin? I like being able to cast my media to my TVs and smart speakers which is relatively easy with Plex. Once it’s set up of course.
Yeah it does it all
And you can run both together
plellyfin and jellyflex
For sailing the high seas/acquiring more Linux ISOs, get a torrent-client, qbitorent is probably the most popular (and depending on where you are a vpn-subscription), then set it up with the arrs:
I would recommend setting up jellyfin as it has a nice streaming interface and it’s pretty straightforward to set up
Nice interface and Jellyfin in one sentence, my heart. I get recommending it based on it being FOSS, but for the interface?
Seconded. It will work for your Linux/Android use case and has apps for some smart TV devices, if that’s useful.
Setup jellyfin and pick up a 4k Google Chromecast for your TV. Then use the jellyfin client app on that. Nice and easy.
This is a guide someone on Reddit gave me years ago. Hope this will be helpful
I imagine most of your integrated torrent searches involve "linux distros" in 1080p and 4k. I'm a step above that because I have not even touched the qbittorrent app in months. It works automatically. An *Arr stack is a collection of software that tracks, adds, searches, organizes and downloads your media collection. My stack consists of Radarr - For tracking and managing movies. Sonarr - For tracking and managing series and episodes. Lidarr - For tracking and managing music albums, artists and songs. Readarr - For tracking and managing books. Prowlarr - Containing torrent tracker information to automatically add to the above 4 apps. Ombi / Overseer - Requesting media - Movies, Series, Books, Music qBittorrent - Downloading stuff. All this runs on a "home server" as Docker containers. Thy all have web interfaces that you can access, even qBittorrent. Your workflow is as follows: Say, you want to watch a movie that comes out in 3 months. You go to Ombi and put in a request for that movie. Ombi forwards the request to Radarr where the movie has its metadata downloaded and analyzed from IMDB and TMDB. Radarr tracks its release and once that happens it starts searching torrent trackers for a torrent meeting your search criteria like size, quality, etc. To search torrent trackers you need special queries that are handled by Prowlarr and distributed to all other *arr apps. Once a suitable torrent is found, it's sent to qBittorrent where it's downloaded automatically. qBit plays very nicely with the *arrs. After downloading, the file is moved, renamed, pampered by Radarr in the media library. A movie is no big deal but imagine you are downloading and renaming a series with 9 seasons. You can top that off with something like Jellyfin (like Plex) and you have your own homegrown Netflix. It sounds very complicated but it isn't. Eventually you have to go to Ombi to request and to Jellyfin to consume. And it really pays off in the long run. For example The Witcher S02E01 leaked a few days before its official release date on Netflix. I found out about it when I opened Jellyfin and saw a new episode waiting for me. It's set-and-forget.
