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How to begin setting up a media center? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by agame@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I have 16TB NAS dedicated to storing TV shows. It is just a cabinet with ryzen 2600 and no graphics card. I have installed openmediavault in it to access it via smb to other devices. I am an absolute noob in setting up a server. Please tell me how I should go on about turning it into a media consumption machine.

P. S: I usually use VLC on android and MPV on linux to consume the media.

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[-] onevia 24 points 1 year ago

Jellyfin or Plex are great front ends that can help organize all your media.

I personally use Plex, but have heard Jellyfin is comparable 😀

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Plex is way harder to set up. Their UX is a mess and hasn’t changed in 20 years. All carried over from its chaotic days as an open source project.

Jellyfin can be challenging at times, but it’s a much more modern take on the premise, as mirrored by its UX.

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

None of this information is accurate

[-] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hard? I did it really easily a few years ago. The hard part is naming everything correctly, not setting it up.

With Plex it also sets up remote access automatically which I don't believe Jellyfin does.

[-] onevia 3 points 1 year ago

I might look more into Jellyfin and see what I think because I am pretty bored of the outdated feel of Plex lately. Is casting supported well with Jellyfin? I like being able to cast my media to my TVs and smart speakers which is relatively easy with Plex. Once it's set up of course.

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah it does it all

[-] onevia 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, that user interface looks a lot like home assistant. I wonder if they use the same framework.

[-] elscallr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Plex setup is literally just installing it on a machine. It took me an hour because I decided to move it to a different machine after I set it up.

[-] yuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Can you even watch jellyfin away from home?

[-] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, but you need to know a little about network configuration to do that

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

You need to know a little about networking for all of this 🤷‍♂️

[-] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Obviously

[-] yuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I already have plex lifetime pass

[-] PeachMan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

For the record, a Plex pass isn't required to watch remotely....but if you like Plex, sticking with Plex is fine. Jellyfin is cool and open source, but it doesn't have any killer features that Plex is missing. They both do basically the same thing, it's the minor details that are different.

[-] danafest@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yep it's not simple, but also not too difficult. Get a domain name and set up DNS. Open 80/443 on your router, use linuxserver.io's SWAG container for easy automatic cert generation/renewal and nginx reverse proxy to access your hosted services. Have a decent upload speed. That's about it

[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Lol, plex and hard to set up... Starting a docker container really is hard. And Jellyfin and a modern UI? Jellyfin where setting up HW decoding basically takes a degree? Come on man... Really?

Plex has a way better interface, especially on the client side