Yarr matey, we be sailin the high seas alone this fine evenin.
Anon needs Jellyfin.
I prefer NGINX with autoindex. Lightweight, no JavaScript, looks like every Linux ISO mirror, filenames already have all the required info, can be quickly searched with CTRL+F, fits perfectly to my laziness.
If you want some improvement, you can use FancyIndex module.
But the files need to be in codecs supported by your browser(s). I prefer AV1+Opus in WebM container which have been supported by Firefox for a while. At this point itās really only Safari not fully supporting AV1 because it relies on hardware decoding and Apple wants you to buy new hardware.
Sorry, your favorite media server is just files you play on a browser?
I mean, not shaming, I just had never heard of that being preferable to Plex/Emby/Jellyfin.
Yeah, I am too lazy to set up something like Jellyfin. It only makes sense for me with music, for which I use Navidrome. But again, my setup is mostly directory/filename based, so itās really being carried with m3u playlists as opposed to proper metadata.
I mean, maybe Iāll use Jellyfin if Iāll do something in a proper way, but currently I donāt see the point of it. And anyway, I can always copy the URLs to VLC, which will even accept DVD ISO files.
e.g.:
vlc --no-dvdnav-menu http/dvdnav://192.168.49.1:8080/media/ISOs/Interstellar.iso
letās me play entire copy of a DVD, properly with menus and bonus features, just as if I used the DVD directly.
Although I donāt do this anymore because of storage limitations, but Iāll likely return back to it once Iāll have a proper media server and LAN.
The biggest issue with that is it requires all of your media to be in a flat folder for search to work right.
Auto index has a mode to return results in json. With a touch of html and js you can make a page that will crawl the directory tree and build a simple searchable cache of name to path, and then you can play it from there. It ends up making a request per folder, but in realistic terms itās not gonna be enough to actually be noticable.
You can then use something like this on a cron to convert anything your browser canāt play and youāre pretty close to a minimalist media server with only static files.
The one I used to use was just a bash script so I didnāt have to wrangle python modules, but I canāt seem to find it.
I ended up dropping it when I bought a nas with all that stuff built in and it generally made my life easier. Worth the money if you can afford it.
Do you just remember where you are in every show (or movie that you only partway watched)? Thatās the biggest appeal of jellyfin/plex to me, so I can go in and continue from where I left off without keeping track.
Itās Usenet babe. Get thisā¦ itās been around since 1980! Isnāt that wild, babe? It just goes to show, if a distribution system isnāt broke, donāt fix it.
Hahah I was gonna come mention Usenet but glad you already did.
A month ago I was frustrated waiting on some torrent and decided to finally give Usenet a try. All I gotta say is - why didnāt I do this switch years ago???
Yearly rates for a provider and 2 indexers still doesnāt come close to the cost of all the streaming subscriptions youād need to have the same library access. Coupled with the ability to use RSS feeds and other homelab services to essentially automate your collection, itās just absolutely worth every penny.
But I wouldnāt know firsthand, because Iām a law abiding citizen, and this is all hypothetical. I just read about it on the internet somewhere.
IIRC that might have been the reason I previously disregarded the idea of trying Usenet. However if itās not on Usenet, one can always fall back to torrents :p Havenāt had to do that yet. *knocks on wood*
What goes missing? You I donāt know how Usenet works.
Edit: edited to say I donāt know instead of you.
Yeah my ex wife initially made fun of my server with my Plex media on itā¦
Guess what she wanted after our divorce? Thatās right Plex.
If she scoffs at your media setup sheās wrong for you.
She just got filtered. Another successful test by anon.