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~nogger~ said:
absolute steal. I paid that much for 3 tb. i fell robbed now. though, I avoided shingled recording and low rpm green drives on purpose. But one is running out of reserve sectors already... I think read somewhere that shingled recording is bad for raid, so I'm not sure if getting cheap externals and gutting them for nas use is a good idea but I'm contemplating it now.
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Yeah, he has a 20TB RAID, working on getting a 22-25TB. He said it was collecting dust. I still end up downloading smaller files, as long as they have subs.
 
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Count Grishnackh said:
Yeah, he has a 20TB RAID, working on getting a 22-25TB. He said it was collecting dust. I still end up downloading smaller files, as long as they have subs.
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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.
 
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~nogger~ said:
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.
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I run VLC for playback, but he tells me to make a Plex account. Opinions?
 
Count Grishnackh said:
I run VLC for playback, but he tells me to make a Plex account. Opinions?
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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.
I had a long mpc-hc plus madvr sperg phase before that, so I'm really disconnected from the vlc experience.
Never used plex.
I think emby is better, if you go for paywalled. Jellyfin (emby fork) is a mixed bag, it is rigid on the expected folder structure, you need to follow it's rules or else it fucks up season and specials - i had a folderless music dump and had to push all albums into respective folders, too. Kinda retarded but otherwise i'd still recommend jellyfin if you are down to fiddle with it. Emby is more evolved overall, I think they don't demand the folder stuff and it's more stable. If you go remote, you need to spin your own https certs for jelly, tho. Or don't use https... :|
 
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Better yet get Jellyfin. Plex has tried several times to put ads in content people host themselves. Like if a series is available on your own NAS as well as with ads from a streaming service that cooperates with Plex, they will show you the one with ads. Or would at least, it was like a year ago I read this.
 
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Count Grishnackh said:
Just got back into torrenting. Buddy of mine hooked me up with WD Elements 18TB external HDD for $50! Far more storage than I'll ever need, but couldn't pass.
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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).
 
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Susanna said:
Better yet get Jellyfin. Plex has tried several times to put ads in content people host themselves. Like if a series is available on your own NAS as well as with ads from a streaming service that cooperates with Plex, they will show you the one with ads. Or would at least, it was like a year ago I read this.
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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

Image is from a random reddit thread, there were a bunch of these that got squashed on the main Plex subreddit for obvious reasons.
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Civillian 18 said:
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

Image is from a random reddit thread, there were a bunch of these that got squashed on the main Plex subreddit for obvious reasons.
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Honestly it's so much more fun just building your own server with the open source tools
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Tried Plex, but couldn't get any of my content to play(error s1001 network) Not going to mess with all those workarounds, unless someone here has some useful advice.
 
Susanna said:
Better yet get Jellyfin. Plex has tried several times to put ads in content people host themselves. Like if a series is available on your own NAS as well as with ads from a streaming service that cooperates with Plex, they will show you the one with ads. Or would at least, it was like a year ago I read this.
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ive never gotten any ads but i'm a lifetime member. plex is hit or
miss with remote transcodes. the transcoder hangs sometimes. haven't had issues with emby but remote access is a bitch, their emby connect service sucks dick.

oh and plex needs an internet connection even for local playback.
 
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anustart76 said:
What is this? A cable clone using Jellyfin would be pretty nice.
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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.
 
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forgive me for being tech illiterate but can Kodi work on 7th gen and up consoles? and can they work in tandem with one another on PC to the console? i ask cause i'd like to setup a streaming box of sorts using a dell optiplex and putting a 6tb drive in there and house all my stuff on the pc
 
fartsnstuf said:
forgive me for being tech illiterate but can Kodi work on 7th gen and up consoles? and can they work in tandem with one another on PC to the console? i ask cause i'd like to setup a streaming box of sorts using a dell optiplex and putting a 6tb drive in there and house all my stuff on the pc
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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.
 
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fartsnstuf said:
forgive me for being tech illiterate but can Kodi work on 7th gen and up consoles? and can they work in tandem with one another on PC to the console? i ask cause i'd like to setup a streaming box of sorts using a dell optiplex and putting a 6tb drive in there and house all my stuff on the pc
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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.

I know some things like Plex work for some people, but what I like about the Kodi to PC setup is the share on the PC and the box with Kodi connect directly over my home network with no communication with the outside Internet required.

I don't have any experience with Jellyfin, but it seems like it's functionally the same thing as doing a Kodi/smb setup, so just do what works for you.
 
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Never Scored said:
I don't have any experience with Jellyfin, but it seems like it's functionally the same thing as doing a Kodi/smb setup, so just do what works for you
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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.
 
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