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.
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.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?
it’s honestly pretty good I haven’t had an issue and the overall experience has been awesome
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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.
oh boy … you posted a question I’m not sure you were ready to hear an answer to … the REAL answer is … you’re going to have to learn a lot and get more acquainted with a LOT of tech to get this to work like the sub is going to want you to.
Even tho I’m an infrastructure engineer. I’ll play devils advocate.
The easy answer … is to pay for a streaming service of your choice instead.
Otherwise, just setup a
Jellyfin or Plex are great front ends that can help organize all your media.
I personally use Plex, but have heard Jellyfin is comparable 😀
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plellyfin and jellyflex
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.
None of this information is accurate
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.
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?
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Yes, but you need to know a little about network configuration to do that
Yep it’s not simple, but also not too difficult. Get a domain name and set up DNS. Open 80/443 on your router, use linuxserver.io’s SWAG container for easy automatic cert generation/renewal and nginx reverse proxy to access your hosted services. Have a decent upload speed. That’s about it
Obviously
I already have plex lifetime pass
Setup jellyfin and pick up a 4k Google Chromecast for your TV. Then use the jellyfin client app on that. Nice and easy.
