I am looking to basically just transition to a small time, forever on, server to support my growing Plex footprint. I don’t need anything top of the line, and I’ve already crimped my lines to the room.

What’s the most cost effective way to go about this? Figured i would come to the pros.

Thanks!

  • unitedwithme@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Can I chime in without sounding anti-Plex? Nothing specifically against it, but they’re kind of going bad. Jellyfin is a lot more private and better to host for data control/privacy.

    Don’t get me wrong, Plex of easy to setup, configure, share, etc. with a lot of robust features, but their private equity or venture capitalist money has them selling/sharing data and are cutting out jobs to save money, etc.

    JF gives you the freedom Plex once did before its corruption. I’ve been on Plex 12+years and switched about a year ago.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      10 days ago

      Can I chime in without sounding anti-Plex?

      There’s nothing wrong with being opposed to enshitified proprietary apps.

    • D_Tom@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      11 days ago

      See, I hadn’t even heard that. Is JF on anything like Apple TV (like Plex) or would i have to figure out the streaming part?

      • darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        11 days ago

        It’s pretty much everywhere Plex is. The main issue is that it’s trickier to set up for sharing outside your LAN.

        • gdbjr@piefed.socialEnglish
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          11 days ago

          The Jellyfin clients for Apple TV are not very good in my opinion and use case. Thankfully there are a lot more than there used to be 6 months ago. But, at least for me, they are lacking in features. I keep trying to them every so often hoping they have improved so I can finally make thr switch.

          • lokalhorst@feddit.orgEnglish
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            11 days ago

            Very easy server-wise. But you may neeed to help your family member/friend with the initial set up on the client, if they are not so tech-savy.

            • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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              10 days ago

              A big PSA here is to have them pass you the device activation link that pops up when they first start Tailscale, and activate their device on your tailnet.

              Then you tag it, write an ACL rule for it (or you probably already have a rule for Jellyfin clients connecting only to the Jellyfin server on your tailnet by now, so just the tagging is enough) and that’s it.

              MUCH simpler than having non-savvy people attempt to set up a Tailscale user account. Plus, you can only have 6 users in a free tailnet but you can have 100 devices.

              • lokalhorst@feddit.orgEnglish
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                9 days ago

                Interesting approach, I would have to test this out. I don’t usually add people to my Tail net, but share my server as single device. I don’t think there is low limit for that, but I am not sure.

    • ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.netEnglish
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      10 days ago

      I tried to move to Jellyfin…but it wasn’t capable of scanning my library… either too big or too many different video types…but it has never been able to complete.

      Quick google search says this is a known issue, so I abandoned it.

      • horus_son_of_isis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 days ago

        one of the learning curves on jellyfin is naming conventions. you have to read the documentation on it. if you don’t have the file named appropriately respective of the type of media, Jellyfin won’t know how to categorize it. I use renamer a lot for bulk renaming, and you can often rearrange the info in the file name pretty easily once you get a handle on how renamer works.