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What, exactly, is your end goal? To have a way to play movies that you're bringing with you on the hotel TV?
Edit: I only all because this seems like a hell of a lot of work just to play movies while you're traveling, when you could just play them with VLC directly.
Or, if you really want to steam movies to your phone, put VLC on your phone, run minidlna on the computer, and plug it into a GL-iNet Slate Plus.
But if you're really, like, going to some big get-together and are responsible for media entertainment for a crowd of 20 in a rental, then yeah, taking Jellyfin makes sense. But the hardware doesn't, unless you make damned sure there's nothing that'll need transcoding. One movie, most CPU/GPUs can manage, but if several people are transcoding multiple movies at the same time, it'll be a fairly beefie machine.
VLC is an option I hadn't considered, I'd still have to get the media on the hdd, but something to consider for sure. I won't be hosting any showings, this is just for personal viewing.
I agree to just fill up the HDD with media and bring that to play with VLC. Setting up the *arrs and usenet seems like a lot.
Like someone else suggested, maybe just bring a laptop and then you can manually torrent the few new episodes of whatever show you're currently watching rather than dealing with the automation aspect.
Yeah, then definitely just install VLC. Far easier than mucking about with Jellyfin.
That's fair. I'm already very familiar with jellyfin, so the setup wasn't much concern, but the other options provided are good.