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I don't know if you can do this with Jellyfin but this is what I could do with Plex:
In the end no one else sees Mom's special, while your mom sees everything and Mom's special.
Use your words. Tell her you don't want to and why.
Build her a server, install it at her house, set up some sort of automated DVD ripping mechanism so that she can digitize her own collection, wait for the inevitable tech support call, then go spend a Sunday afternoon fixing her server and digitizing her collection for her while she makes you dinner. You get to call it "quality time", and you get fed while keeping her happy and her collection as far away from yours as possible. Win/win, everyone is happy.
I'd say a good middle ground could be making that stuff only visible from your mom's user (or even setting up a completely separate server)?
It depends on what YOU want to do, really... personally, I would be ok hosting religious nonsense if asked, as long as it's not generally available in kids' accounts and stuff (also, porn), but I would come clean and outright refuse if it was neonazi,racist and/or conspiracy stuff. It depends on where you decide to draw the line.
BTW: there's also the passive/aggressive, cowardly option of sayng "I'll rip them when I have time" and then sequester all the DVDs and only ever find the time to rip the ones you don't mind
If its just for her, I don't really care what content I host for family unless it straight up nazi/gay hate shit. New age "found christian" movies are massive yuck, but innocuous otherwise. She's gonna consume them regardless of whether you host them or not.
Move it to its own library, make sure to rip in low quality (480p low bitrate) so you're not spending too much disk space in her, and let it be. It's not worth driving a rift in the family over.
Good level headed reply, I like this. Others have suggested that as well, I'll move the crud over to her own library, then it doesn't pollute my main library and I can hide it from the others.
I loooove bad movies. Not religious-bad, more mystery science theater bad.
I rip everything and plunk it into it's own library just for me.
If you have the space and time, go ahead and limit access to her. She's already seen them or will anyway. You hosting a file for one individual isn't going to tip the grand scale of anything.
If you have a moral issue against it, don't host the content. You've already made up your mind, it's just taking you a while to realize it.
Blunt answer, but an honest one, appreciate it
Host it exclusively to her user or don't host it at all. If you're not going to host it, you know your mother better than any of us, so you'll know which approach would work better.
I'd just host them in a library only visible to mom and members that would want to view it.
Also consider the unintentionally comedic value of such films, they're sometimes fun to watch just because of how bad they are.
Well, my mother has asked me to digitize her collection too and have me host it. Originally, fine, you give your movies to me, I host them, same thing.
Did your mom buy your computer and hard drives? I doubt it. You spent your own money, right? So she's giving you a whole bunch of stuff which is consuming your space. Quote out the cost of buying components for a separate server for her with her own drives. When she buys the parts, build her her own server and put her stuff on it.
It's the person's mother, and they already accepted the request. I feel like giving her a price quote is a huge jackass move.
Well, just don't host them, what she gonna do? Tell the police ?
Do one of the following:
I'd personally use option 1, but you do you.
I don't have this problem exactly, but what I would recommend is putting it in a specific separate library. You could even set it up so only your mother's account can access it, and you never have to see it, or you could have it visible but never go to it.
This is a good idea, and an approach I'm going to think about and probably take. Then it's away from everything else, and not polluting my actual good movies.
Would probably do this, but also rip it in very poor quality to be sure it does not take too much space :D
Malicious compliances in action. Not that you can't do, but this can tense up the relationship.
Ive not shared mine to the point anyone can arbitrarily get media. They have to ask. And I can always say “Oh its not available on my sources” or whatever
hindsight is 20/20 there, yeah, wish I hadn't done this. To others, this is the best approach, don't accept it in the first place
I mean, you don't have to watch it.
I don't like hosting things I disagree with for others to view and consume
So don't?