I’ve heard a lot about setting up a Plex or a Jellyfin server locally, but from what I can tell they are just media storage platforms and in order to watch anything you would have to add your own content. In this age of digital content, it is very unlikely for a simpleton like me to go out and purchase hundreds of movie disks separately and manually load them into my CD drive to even have a fraction of the catalogue these streaming services combined provide. Also torrenting really isn’t a viable option for me as I personally use a free tier Proton VPN which doesn’t allow P2P, and even if I did get a proper one, I would still be limited to availability of seeds for movies I want to watch, which may or may not exist depending on the popularity of the said movie. I currently use a niche streaming movie to watch my movies without any issues. Are self hosted plex/jellyfin servers really for a person like me?
ScaNtuRd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Jellyfin is the way to go. Yes, you’ll have to download your own content. It’s more work, but I highly recommend it. Use qBitTorrent as your client, and sites like yts.mx are great for movies.