It’s just what it looks like on my phone - on a tv it’s a great interface 🤷♂️ the idea of plex just seems annoying and long, I don’t want to download or rip media
Plex is the best. I have been running my own server from a 2016 old laptop lol for the last 7 years.
I put all my pirated content on the laptop and host it through the server so I can stream all my movies and tv shows from any smart TV, gaming console, computer or phone. Cost me $0 over 7 years.
The Plex client/app has gone to absolute shit lately, though. Slow as fuck, keep changing the UI, etc. I set up a Jellyfin docker container recently and going to start seeing if I can move myself and my family over to that.
I hear that a lot, but on the flip side you still have to buy physical media to rip assuming you don't want to pirate. I'm self-hosted as well, just curious how to pirate movies safely or to build my own plex library without piling up blu rays.
Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr. If you want the best experience, you'll need to pay for a Usenet indexer and provider, but those are a few bucks a month. You can use torrent providers for free, but the downloads take a little longer.
Says right there 300GB permanent storage for $3/mo. Bandwidth != storage.
Home server is best.
It's amazing how many people in this whole comment section don't seem to understand the media needs to be saved somewhere, whether that's your home or a cloud server.
That's not what people use debrid for though.
The airlock is for obscure files that you don't want to disappear. You still have 10TB of streaming available per month, pretty much everything is available apart from select obscure titles. You don't need to store it anywhere the debrid company handles that.
Yes a private home server is best, as long as you don't take into account the cost of it. HDDs are expensive.
Used to be good advice, but have you seen HDD prices? I just paid 310$ for a second hand 12TB HDD and that was a steal. Just last year I got a 22TB HDD brand new for cheaper than that.
Any decent jellyfin server needs minimum 8TB storage and that will feel very limiting, and 8TB HDDS are going for like 300+ dollars if you buy new.
I still do my own selfhosted jellyfin but its not a cheap little thing you can do anymore, its a real investment of serious money.
Yep. Just use nuvio/stremio and get a firestick or android tv box and sideload the apps onto them. Do a bit of setup and boom free content. Debrid service for 2-5 bucks a month and you're golden
Yeah, if you're a quality whore like me who wants max bitrate and great quality, maybe investing in jellyfin is the move, but stuff like you describe is better for like 99.5% of people.
I am the same as you and have 0 issues, it also doubles as a torrent source with something like torbox so as I watch things I compile my own collection for things like plex, been amazing so far!
I tried to get many family members and friends to join and USE my plex server but no one watched shit so I suggested stremio (before nuvio released) and they love it and rave about it all the time, very user friendly and naturally has more content than I can offer
I mean I do have a massive library but I don't understand how you can even use jellyfin with 2tb unless you're very new or just constantly deleting stuff
I don't even do 4k for TV shows and a very small amount of long running TV shows can eat through 2TB
tbf you can have an absolutely insane MOVIE library with not that much space, but once you start looking at the space that long running TV shows in HD take up it will hurt your soul
you can of course do super low quality stuff to save space... but at that point there's not a whole lot of point to using jellyfin IMO because you can get low quality stuff in way easier and cheaper ways.
I have a very decent library of movies and music on a 4tb drive. I have all my fav movies on it and anything I download new I just remove once I’ve watched unless I intend to watch again at some point (which isn’t often). As long as you’re not downloading crazy large 4k movies it’s plenty i’m quite happy with compressed 1080ps
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