Add HTPC capabilities to home server

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Willdrick@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

My server is a regular pc hidden away behind the tv console, it’s running ubuntu server and most services run inside docker.

One of the most used services is Jellyfin. It works reliably on all PCs but it’s a mess on my samsung tv running tizen. I enabled developer mode and built jellyfin app for it, but depending on the codec or size, it’ll buffer or skip audio and its getting really annoying.

How would you go about adding a jellyfin frontend (jellyfin media player) on the server itself, since I could plug in a 2m HDMI cable for video output?

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poVoq@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Via KODI maybe?

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Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
i also would like a solution that doesn’t require a dedicated GPU

for security issues i don’t really like to give direct access to the whole server just to watch movies (yes, i could create a limited user on a limited group that can access the movies directory and nothing else, but then because i’m not a linux guru…)

i’d like to have a VM running on the integrated GPU

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- Willdrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  setting up a graphical session with a non-root user and sandboxing Jellyfin media player would be relatively easily, for example using only flatpak, you could sandbox it so it only has access to your media path.
  
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- towerful@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Proxmox would help. It’s great for running VMs and managing hardware
  
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  - Willdrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s been over a year and a half since I built this setup, and to this day I kick myself for not building everything on top of proxmox. That being said, I’m on a rather limited hardware, so I don’t know how much better would be to migrate to it (R3 3200G, 6gb of ram)
    
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  - Moonrise2473@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    i tried but i had no luck in reassigning the igpu to the vm. It only works with a dedicated one :(
    
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- scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Cleanest is to just separate the server from the client.
  
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