Honestly, I’d rip my collection, but at the time it takes to download that quality rip I’d be quicker just typing them all into Radarr and coming back later…
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mctoasterson@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Several tech YouTubers have talked about moving entirely to Jellyfin or similar, self-hosting their own movies and TV series from legally owned, ripped copies from their own DVD or Bluray collection.
It takes some work and time to rip, encode, and organize the files. But if you want to go this route, there has probably never been a better time. You can routinely purchase used DVDs and Bluray from thrift stores for a few bucks per disc… sometimes less. If I had a server and hard disk space I’d probably be going this route for media consumption.
Eventually the DVDs will go away entirely and then it will be impossible to create your own legal archival copies.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Entropywins@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Be careful I started down that road with a 500gb external hdd and now I’ve got a 40tb raid array and a homelab consuming my walk in closet.
btaf45@lemmy.world 3 months ago
and now I’ve got a 40tb raid array
Um, I would like one of those.
firepenny@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Say this now. And you start self hosting everything and have 2 40tb raids
GladiusB@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ok someone explain Jellyfin. I tried to figure it out and it just wasn’t clicking.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
It’s your personal netflix with your stuff on it.
eletes@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
If you know plex it’s the same thing just open source.
But they are just video player front ends for your media libray
GladiusB@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I mean I have VLC. I have no issues with most media. I was under the impression it was a source for the media. Thanks.
FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Plex and Jellyfin organize your media using metadata and it’s pretty much your own Netflix, Hulu type thing.
However, if you get a Plex pass you can stream your media outside of your network to friends and family. Or just yourself when you’re out of the house. But your PC would need to stay on, unless you have a NAS bay with the hard drives in it.
histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
It’s basically a gallery for all your downloaded movies/shows, that you can just click play on whatever you have downloaded.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ve been doing this since 2008 - although I only recently setup Plex in 2017, before that I just ran a web server and played movies in a browser on various smart TVs, but around 2017 was when my main TV got an update that rendered its browser mostly useless… Fuck Sony by the way. And before smart TVs I just had a video card with TV out and long cables… Or burning VCDs, I still have my 5-disc DVD changer that could play VCDs as long as they were burned to CD-RW discs, though it’s just gathering dust now.
DrowningInteger@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ve had enough movies and shows unavailable to me that I’m doing exactly this. I bought a PC just to use as a media server, set up Plex, and started ripping all my DVDs to the computer and I can stream them to my Chromecast. No ads, available permanently. I can buy movies from thrift shops and garage sales, and at least for now DVDs are super cheap. It’s not high quality video but I don’t really care too much.
thecookie94@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
“Self hosting their own movies and TV series from legally owned, ripped copies from their own DVD and BluRay collection”
Ngl, whenever they say that they be doing that in said videos I smirk a lil. Yeah sure, that’s what you say when you’re in front of the camera&recording a video pointing out what others could be doing as well. All while they likely got stuff obtained from the seven seas on there as well, just like folk that are going to replicate that setup are going to have as well. Let’s not kid ourselves, a whole lot of content is only legally accessible via streaming services with no other options (shortly before it gets removed from the streaming services, leaving no legal way to access it), and that amount is becoming more each and every single day 😅