Background: I’ve been writing a new media server like Jellyfin or Plex, and I’m thinking about releasing it as an OSS project. It’s working really well for me already, so I’ve started polishing up the install process, writing getting started docs, stuff like that.

I’m interested in how other folks have set up their media libraries. Especially the technical details around how files are encoded and organized.

My media library currently has about 1,100 movies and just shy of 200 TV shows. I’ve encoded everything as high quality AV1 video with Opus audio, in a WebM container. Subtitles and chapters are in a separate WebVTT file alongside the video. The whole thing is currently about 9TB. With few exceptions, I sourced everything directly from Blu-ray or DVD using MakeMKV. It’s organized pretty close to how Jellyfin wants it.

What about you?

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    3 hours ago

    My Linux ISO collection take up around 12TB, 268 of smaller ISOs, and 751 big boi ISOs.

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    Nowhere near as big as yours. I haven’t bothered checking, but probably something like 100 movies and about the same number of TV shows (only a handful of series). It consists pretty much only of what I’ve ripped from physical media, plus a handful of things my SO uploaded. Total storage is about 2TB, and mostly DVDs w/ a handful of Blurays. Rips are full quality, and mostly ripped from MakeMKV, with a handful ripped w/ Handbrake.

    We don’t watch a ton, but I do order new stuff periodically, so it slowly grows (most recent addition is Adventure Time).

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      1450 anime

      Since you listed them separately from shows does the count also include anime movies?

      Still, if I add up both my shows and movie I’m at 1447. Damn you!

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    2.71Tb/515 series for TV, 6.28Tb/1176 titles in Movies.

    Almost everything in MKV because that’s what I prefer.

    I use Plex so it’s organized according to their requirements.

    Everything is stored with a redundant backup on a Synology NAS with 6/9 HDD bays filled, totaling 48Tb in total storage space.

    I run two servers (one on the Synology, one on a NUC-type Asus box) along with all my other systems.

    Oh, and I have dual antenna tuners connected as well for live TV, DVR and playback.

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    12.8TB. Mostly uncompressed rips from Blu-rays, some DVDs, some from iTunes Store. Some from the high seas, but not in a long time because the market solved that problem with streaming.

    • Spooky Mulder@lemmy.4d2.org
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      The short answer is because it’s a fun project, and I wanted to see if I had it in me to make exactly the media server I want.

      The longer answer is that I wanted something dramatically and fundamentally different from what either Jellyfin or Plex have to offer.

      • Can run without breaking a sweat on junk/old/cheap hardware like a Raspberry Pi or old laptop.
      • Can be safely Internet-facing – no anonymous access, and no web-based admin features or API.
      • Hyper-lean and minimal. All-in, I wanted something on the order of 1MB for client app, server, all dependencies, everything.

      I don’t see either of those goals happening with a contribution or fork, because achieving them would require some dramatic feature deprecation.

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        18 hours ago

        All-in, I wanted something on the order of 1MB for client app, server, all dependencies, everything.

        Okay that’s gotta be radically different!

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        Haha. Thanks. I really didn’t want to pay Netflix or any other streaming service. But it might have been cheaper than hdds and electricity.

        This is something I’ve been building for over 10 years at this point. I’ve gone through so many iterations of servers and storage architecture. I’ve lost my entire TV and movie library multiple times. (I don’t back it up because a. It’s expensive at this scale and b. this data is easy to rebuild over time.)

        It’s been a part of learning about hosting and data management that I’ve brought to/from my work.

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          I’m in a similar place with books and comics. Of course, nowhere near the Jupiter size collection of media you have, but easily 2.5TB+ of just books and comics.

          My wife, my kids and I are all avid readers, so we are always sharing some book or comic arc. We’re all rerunning all of Lobo’s arcs, it was Deadpool a couple of weeks ago (that should tell you all anyone needs to know about our family 😜)

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    4TB mostly TV, then movies, then a distant third is music. Novice at all, tried remuxing a few things that didn’t work. Everything works on jellyfin android and PC. Android TV jellyfin is frustrating, some things don’t play so well

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    Sometimes I hear about other people’s storage setups and I think, “that is overkill, no one really needs that.” According to this thread, I am quite mistaken about that. 😳

    I have 2,057 songs, taking up a measly 51 GB, on a Funkwhale server. No movies or TV shows.

    That should get a little larger soon. I have about 100 vinyl records that I want to make digital rips of.

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        I’m kind of surprised that it’s only 51 GB. They’re all FLAC files ripped from CDs – I was expecting like 300 GB at least.

        So apparently this 1TB SSD is going to last me a while. :P

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    cries in broke

    I have 4x3TiB drives in a currently-degraded RAIDZ1 due to a hard drive failure. I have a replacement coming, and my fingers are crossed that I don’t lose another drive beforehand.

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    I use Tdarr to transcode everything in VP9 (can play in a browser and doesn’t need transcoding from Jellyfin).

    Audio is AAC 2 channel (I keep the original audio track and add the new AAC). Subs are in SRT.

    Everything is made for play from a browser without issue. I use Infuse on my Apple TV and ether never the web player but when my family watch something form Jellyfin wathever the device no trancode needed.

    TV Shows : 172 | Movies : 394 | 7.2 Tib

    Actually, not all files are transcoded the process is very slow. All files are stored on my NAS (Synology DS918+) with SHR-1 (hybrid RAID with 1 drive fault).

    I use Janitorr, he removes old files when I run low on space. This is why my library is not big.

    Feel free to ask if you have questions.

    Sorry for my English.

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      Playing files directly in the browser and avoiding the need for transcoding is exactly what the system I’ve built is designed around, so I get the appeal!

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      Wow, thanks for suggestion of Tdarr — that project indeed looks very nice. What is. your experience using it? Any quirks?

    • HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
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      I tried tdarr, but have issues using more than one node. I may just wind up installing docker on my more powerful desktop specifically for tdarr, instead of on the proxmox server I have without a real gpu. (It’s a Xeon Supermicro board with their onboard VGA)