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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

didn't take me long to go from 2tb being a lot to 100tb being not enough.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus, I'm struggling to fill my 24TB already; I have no idea how I'd fill 100TB

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just download all the porn of Youporn. I believe they hit the 100 TB threshold like a decade ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I miss the days I only needed 2 tb

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had to start trimming things, but I can't get rid of hard-to-finds. It's mostly new shows, I'll only keep recent seasons.

I can't lose shows like Captain Star or Duckman, but I probably don't need every season of Westworld.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I hope you're seeding those hard to finds!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me, that would have been over 15 years ago. Even my NAS from 2014 was pushing 16T or so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm at 28T and I'm eying some 18T drives for an expansion unit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe a dumb question, but how is this better than having your files on a nas? I have a nas and just play my media files from there on my tv and laptop. What do I get from having jellyfin?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A slick interface with nice title cards and pictures, feels like your own personal streaming service with no drawback

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Kodi/XBMC has been providing that for like 20 years though...

What jellyfin does provide that Kodi doesn't is on the fly transcoding for watching on mobile device and remote access. If you don't need that, Kodi might be a better choice providing a far wider array of features.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I prefer jellyfins interface. Plus its easy for my bon tech familyyto use jellyfin

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's fine, but it still doesn't do a tenth of what Kodi can do.

I also don't really see how it's easier in terms of browsing. It's a list of movies and tv shows...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not wrong but there are still drawbacks to Kodi where Jellyfin ends up being better. In my use case, with 5 tvs in the house, 2 are hooked up to Nvidia shield tvs but the other 3 are Chromecast w/ Google TV which have very limited storage unless I want to spend a fortune in hubs for each one to add a USB drive or micro SD.

With kodi installed I would regularly hit the storage limit of the device and have all kinds of weird bugs. Just as an example I had my daughter set up with a kids only account, but account switching would cause Kodi to become unresponsive for anywhere from 30 seconds to having to do a hard reset of the device. Jellyfin gives me the same access to my library with a lighter, more streamlined, persistent interface across devices and with easy and fast profiles. It still allows me to keep a pi as the host so the whole setup is low power (important for me as we're on solar, every watt helps!)

I don't really need the Kodi plugins I used to have if the main purpose of streaming my local content isn't smooth and simple for the family. This is coming from a long time XBMC user, I've been running it since my original modded Xbox in the early 2000s.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then you are doing it wrong. I have three instances of Kodi, one of them on completely hard drive less machine booted via PXE, the other two are Pis with minimal is on an SD card. All the media's are stored on a NAS, and all the metadata is shared between the instances on MySQL, all of it (profiles, views, etc) shared across all the instances.,

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Goes through hard drive with kid

"Everything the light touches, is our kingdom!"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jellyfin? What is that, some computer based television network you populate and schedule yourself? Because I totally would want that. That would rule.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Unsure if your asking seriously (if not, whooosh to me), but it’s an open source alternative to Plex.

Plex is a media server that you run to host your TV shows and movies. Think of a self-hosted Netflix.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a FOSS alternative to Plex, if you're familiar with that. Less like a tv channel, more like a streaming service you populate yourself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

more like a streaming service you populate yourself.

The most concise description of Plex/Jellyfin that I've seen

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

DIY Netflix is the one I like.