yeah, I only download small, x265 (for compatibility) rips, I avoid x264, because they generally look too shit, relatively, at least. I only transcode bd muxes if I really can't find stuff. In general im hunting for more obscure movies, so I take what I can get.
I run VLC for playback, but he tells me to make a Plex account. Opinions?
I haven't used vlc in ages. I use jellyfin on android tv (pozzed but convenient) and use jellyfin media player on the pc (it's mpv.io based which uses windows color profiles and really plays everything). Some time ago I figured out that proper gamma calibration makes all those HEVC artifacts way less visible and HDR movies looks really noice. Not a problem on the TV tho, it's pretty good from the factory.
100% get Plex. It’s quick, easy, free and the UX is like using Netflix for your own media,
That is a good price. It cost me like $180 to buy two 12tb drives to add to my jellyfin server. I got like 32tb of drives so far and only have 4tb of free space so it's time to get more drives (and maybe swap out the 4tb drives as they small).
They also did that retarded shit where they would email a list/round up of what you have been watching to your friends/people you share your Plex instance with. It is opt-out (because of course it is) but still, this just highlights that for some stupid reason information regarding what you are doing with your media is being collated on their server for no benefit to you etc
Honestly it's so much more fun just building your own server with the open source tools
ive never gotten any ads but i'm a lifetime member. plex is hit or
What is this? A cable clone using Jellyfin would be pretty nice.
The main page is Organizr, which gives a tabbed interface for your server that can be used as your homepage. If not logged in it only shows the first three which are jellyfin, nextcloud, and RomM. Then there's Radarr and Sonarr which are used to find and download movies and shows and anime, then at the bottom are Vuetorrent and nzbget which are used to download said movies and shows.
Kodi is designed to be a self contained client on a single computer, that maybe pulls videos from a network drive like Samba. What you're describing is pretty much Jellyfin. Though last I checked the Xbox One Jellyfin app was a web browser wrapper that had a virtual cursor to navigate and wasn't as slick as their Roku app.
This is pretty well my exact setup. I use Kodi on a box on the TV. I have a hard drive in a computer that is set up as a network share. You can just share it as a simple smb or ftp share. It's super simple to map it in Kodi.
With Jellyfin I can just install an app on my phone and log into my server anywhere I have internet, and I can set my server to transcode video to be more bandwidth efficient of in in a place with slower internet. My watch history is synchronized among all of my devices, and everyone has their own account with its own watched history. Setting up on a new system requires no more configuration then just entering the server address and logging into my jellyfin account. There is no third party server that acts as a middleman or has access to my network.
Does your whole family actively use your server
