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- Jellyfin (like having a personal Netflix, comes with a built-in web interface and has clients on Roku, AndroidTV, and AppleTV, among others—I spent north of a

- Jellyfin (like having a personal Netflix, comes with a built-in web interface and has clients on Roku, AndroidTV, and AppleTV, among others—I spent north of a decade fucking around with XBMC/Kodi before settling on this, way more watching stuff, way less fiddling with the system, vastly better than Kodi for my purposes, anyway, far more usable by the non-geeks in my house) - A Minecraft server for the kids. [EDIT] Buying actual Minecraft is such a huge pain in the ass now that I did try to convert my kids to Minetest with a Minecraft-alike plugin, but they rightly called it out as both very different-feeling and worse. I felt the same way when I tried it but hoped they'd be OK with it, but no, rejected within a minute and it was hard to argue with their verdict when I'd come to the same conclusion myself. - Pihole. (ad blocking, local-network DNS which is handy sometimes) - Samba (alternative works-almost-everywhere access to all those files Jellyfin is serving) - Prowlarr (torrent meta-search, lets you search across dozens of torrent search engines with one query, very handy) All of these are hosted in Docker on an old Lenovo workstation I bought off Ebay, then added extra ECC ram and a bunch of hard drives to. Linux, but the bulk-storage drives use ZFS. I'm considering adding: - Nitter (much-better Twitter interface—though IDK how long this is going to be relevant, the way things are goin) - Some kind of solution for hosting YouTube stuff. Jellyfin can kinda do it but it's far from ideal. And the 3rd party plugin for it breaks some Jellyfin clients, so that's useless, plus its mode of operation isn't ideal even if it did work, so it only really works OK for YouTube series that happen to have TVDB entries so you can treat them as TV shows. Ideally this would let me use admin-level accounts to browse actual YouTube and save videos from it, then make only saved videos available to non-admins (with the ability to filter some categories or channels out, as you can with "libraries" in Jellyfin, so I can save stuff the kids shouldn't be seeing yet, without their gaining access to it). I dunno what this will end up being, yet, if anything. - Maybe something for music that's better at hosting music than Jellyfin is. It's OK but could be better.

rolisz 4y ago
For the YouTube you can try this: https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist I've set it up on my NAS and I've downloaded a couple of videos, but I haven't used it extensively yet.
princevegeta89 4y ago
What is your take on Plex vs Jellyfin? I am considering the move, but haven't really had a lot of problems with Plex other than it not being open-source
- yamtaddle 4y ago
  Never tried it. From reading others' comparisons of them in the past, I think the main material difference is that Plex has clients on a few more-obscure platforms than Jellyfin does (mostly TV operating systems other than Roku or AndroidTV). Me, my server's not strong enough to live-transcode past maybe SD resolutions, and a bunch of my stuff's in h.265, so I'm stuck buying nicer streaming boxes that have hardware h.265 decoding, rather than relying on e.g. Samsung's built-in OS (I eventually even had to give up on Roku, when I got enough h.265 content) so it doesn't matter a bit for me.
- hd4 4y ago
  Plex just works on LG TVs (i.e. has a native app), Jellyfin doesn't have a native app. Plex is also "good enough" for most purposes and actually relatively painless to set up. It gets shit on a lot here but I'm grateful it exists.
lostmsu 4y ago
I tried to use Jellyfin twice, and my problem every time was that in comparison to Kodi it produced very broken results when scanning my library. E.g. wrong show names, almost arbitrary movie names, etc. Have you faced that?

rolisz 4y ago

For the YouTube you can try this: https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist I've set it up on my NAS and I've downloaded a couple of videos, but I haven't used it extensively yet.

princevegeta89 4y ago

What is your take on Plex vs Jellyfin? I am considering the move, but haven't really had a lot of problems with Plex other than it not being open-source

yamtaddle 4y ago
Never tried it. From reading others' comparisons of them in the past, I think the main material difference is that Plex has clients on a few more-obscure platforms than Jellyfin does (mostly TV operating systems other than Roku or AndroidTV). Me, my server's not strong enough to live-transcode past maybe SD resolutions, and a bunch of my stuff's in h.265, so I'm stuck buying nicer streaming boxes that have hardware h.265 decoding, rather than relying on e.g. Samsung's built-in OS (I eventually even had to give up on Roku, when I got enough h.265 content) so it doesn't matter a bit for me.
hd4 4y ago
Plex just works on LG TVs (i.e. has a native app), Jellyfin doesn't have a native app. Plex is also "good enough" for most purposes and actually relatively painless to set up. It gets shit on a lot here but I'm grateful it exists.

lostmsu 4y ago

I tried to use Jellyfin twice, and my problem every time was that in comparison to Kodi it produced very broken results when scanning my library. E.g. wrong show names, almost arbitrary movie names, etc. Have you faced that?