I’m a Jellyfin Server Guy, and same deal. Around a dozen friends & fam, no charge.
I’m not sure why needing transcoding would keep you off Jellyfin though, Jellyfin transcodes just fine.
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deranger@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
I’m a Plex server guy for friends and family, I have about a dozen users and maybe 3-4 at a time at the peaks. I charge nothing, it’s just a hobby. We’re out there.
I’d switch to Jellyfin but my users need transcoding and Plexamp is my favorite audio player since Winamp.
kandykarter@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
hperrin@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
Does Jellyfin not do transcoding? I’ve been using it with transcoding for almost two years, so if it doesn’t, man that’s gonna be quite the shock.
db2@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
It definitely does do transcoding.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I dunno, maybe it didn’t when I was first setting up my server a few years back. It doesn’t have Plexamp though and that’s a deal breaker.
Buffalobuffalo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
It has finamp though right
deranger@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Doesn’t have the excellent Plexamp automix nor ability to add all my friends shares to my radio stations.
I appreciate the efforts but I’m very happy with my current setup.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I’m that guy as well, but can’t get family to use it. So when they complain they can’t steam something, I just ignore them. I do it for myself, they just get it because. But I’m not going to keep offering, fuck it. Go spend your money on shitty atreing services. I’ve got 7000 movies now and almost 300 series.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I’m specifically doing this to get family and friends to cancel their streaming subscriptions. Not to save them money, to hurt the corporations more than I can do just myself.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Can’t make someone do something they don’t want to, even if it benefits them financially. I stopped trying.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
True that. I don’t pressure them into it.
myrmidex@belgae.social 12 hours ago
I love wireguard for this. If they can’t get that working, then no jellyfin for them. Filters out the PEBKAC people wonderfully.
overload@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
Thanks for introducing me to PEBKAC, great term.
AZX3RIC@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I’ve been wondering about this, how does hiding the activity from your ISP, as well as the ISP of the person streaming from your server, work?
I have friends I’d like to share my library with but am always nervous about the risk.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Https traffic will be enough to hide your streaming activity. They’ll be able to see that you’re streaming something based off of the traffic patterns, but won’t be able to see what specifically is being streamed.
kungen@feddit.nu 11 hours ago
Why would that matter? It just looks like HTTPS traffic if you set it up right. And even if they fingerprint it as Plex, they can’t see what exactly is playing. Yes, my Plex library only has public domain content of course.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
HTTPS
bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
With P2P file sharing, your client is sharing the files with random people on the internet and you’re identified by your IP address (or a VPN IP address / seedbox IP address / etc). MPAA hires companies to check for popular content and log the IP address, time, and content shared, and then sends that to the ISP. The risk and issue is sharing content with anyone randomly, since that is how your ISP is informed of the activity.
With media servers, unless you’re somehow sharing publicly, it’s safe to assume your members aren’t going to report you to your ISP. I guess in theory the ISP could see high upload bandwidth and investigate, but more likely than not, if there are limits, automated systems will just throttle the bandwidth, and no deep packet inspection or other forensics is performed.
randombullet@programming.dev 32 minutes ago
I’m transcoding on a HD770 without an issue on jellyfin.