I've never heard of this before. I was on IRC in the oughts, probably a bit late to see it happening. Neat.

Thanks, I'm hearing similar things in this thread. I'm gonna look into it

I haven't used jellyfin, only Plex. I hear they are similar in features, with Plex pulling ahead both in features and polish, as well as the variety of apps that can access it.

Jellyfins main problem, for me, is its lack of easy remote access. Lots of configuring to do to make it work safely, or safe but clunky to use with a VPN.

Thanks! Someone else said video streaming is against their TOS, so I may have shot myself in the foot

Amazing thank you, when I get time to sit down with this I will probably have more questions!

At all? Even just using their reverse proxy?

Can you elaborate? I've been trying to find a way to expose jf to the Internet safely without a VPN, and I'm getting mixed messages from people.

I just got a cloudfare domain the other day actually.

Public exposure to the Internet without needing tailscale or a VPN. I keep hearing mixed opinions on whether it's recommended or not.

I'm not afraid of configuring it, reverse proxy and all that. I just want it to be secure, and I keep getting mixed signals.

For now I'll keep dealing with Plex, but eventually I'm sure I'll need to figure out a solution using jellyfin.

50TB!

I know many people have much more, but wow. 4k I'm guessing? Or full quality 1080 Blu-ray rips?

My TV is... Inadequate. An old 1080p LCD that won't die. But it's plenty big, and the backlight is even and the blacks are black enough. It's plenty clear.

I've really enjoyed 4k stuff on my buddies TV. But not enough to justify ditching a perfectly good TV, and the costs associated with a proper HDR OLED, and the increase to my current storage solution (8TB) and the time to find and download everything at Max resolution. I download most my stuff at 720p, I don't really notice the difference between the two unless I'm pixel peeping.

Plus my family uses my media server remotely, and my upload is only 14mbps, so I'd need to force transcoding, and I'm not sure my server has enough chooch to do 4 concurrent transcoded streams.

I really should just bite the bullet and start with my storage and get higher bitrate stuff now.. gah.. it's a slippery slope lol, and so far I've been happy with my simple setup..

Sorry for the wall of text, guess I just needed to write this all out 🤷‍♂️

Don't forget deleting things you "bought" from right out under your nose.

Seriously, I did the same thing, early times pirating, only for my whole family. And when Netflix was good, requests for TV shows and movies went way down. I only had to pirate really obscure stuff that wasn't easily accessible.

But now I'm back in full swing, more than ever before honestly, out of necessity. And I don't see it slowing down.

Thanks, I actually have it installed and I've been playing with it. It's been playing smoothly.

The problem is that the authentication with my account is failing, so I can't get my subscriptions and watch history. I'm still working on figuring it out

It's what I want from an app like this 🤷‍♂️