I’m excited!

I’m excited for the scaling sort.

Throwing it in my All feed at least so other people in my instance will see it eventually next posts =)

Ya, it still has a backlog of great answers to questions from the past, but hopefully as new questions are asked and new issues are brought up, Lemmy can grow that backlog as well.

Maybe it’s my VPN provider then. I’ll have to try it with another one. I’ve followed so many of those documents. Do you use Port Forwarding with PrivadoVPN?

I’ve spent all today and yesterday trying to get this working with PureVPN and QBitTorrent and it hasn’t been working much at all 😭. It’s been painfully slow when it works at all, which has been rare. Although it has been doing the job of hiding the Docker container IP so that’s good, and it makes me think it’s something minor, like port forwarding not working because of PureVPN or something off with my settings, or it’s a qBittorrent issue, or Docker and Linux inexperience.

Admittedly troubleshooting has been slow because I’m super new to Linux and Docker and keep running into permission and file system issues. Running the VPN and torrent straight in my computer was way easier, but I’d really love to be able to run Plex and a torrent client on the same computer on at the same time with Plex not going through the VPN and the torrent client going through it, which is what this seems great for.

Thanks. That’s good to know.

Well that’s a huge caveat. I bet their communities would be bigger then.

It looks very similar to Plex, right? Do you have a tl;Dr on the advantages of jellyfin?

Ooh that is nice and cheap. I’ll have to look into that. Also, thanks for the explanation of transcoding! I’ve been seeing that term everywhere.

On a separate note, it’s nice to see Lemmy building up it’s own knowledge base on these issues so I, and future people in my position, won’t have to rely on googled Reddit answers lol.

Nope. I just had Plex already installed on my Smart TV because some friends let me share their Plex servers and as a techie person I wanted to experiment with doing that, too, rather than asking them to get the content I wanted.

Tbh, I haven’t looked into jellyfin too much. Would you say you prefer that over Plex?

Was it cheaper than $200? That’s one draw of the Nvidia Shield and Raspberry Pi other people in this thread have mentioned. Although I’m sure they’re less powerful.

When do you need transcoding?

The best way to summarize it is the writing lol. And they tried to rush plot points way too fast.

Thanks! That’s a good actionable next step. I’ll have to look into what benefits Plex pass gives, too.

Sounds nice and simple. May I ask which NAS you use of recommend? Or maybe it doesn’t matter?

You got it, that’s basically what I’ve got so far. And thanks for the suggestions! I’m going to look into these two options.

I’ll probably pick the one that takes up the least amount of space. Hopefully I have enough room behind my desk for all these new devices. I’m already taking up so many plugs with lights, cell phone chargers, the router, wifi, work laptop, personal laptop, monitors, and random LED strips, speakers, a device dock, etc.

It’s only for games, right?

Can the US just please stop making the world worse?

Damn, Nvidia Shield Pro is kind of expensive, $200. And so are some of the NAS’s I’ve seen pop up on google. Trying to get both sounds like this will end up being a long-term project over a couple paychecks lol.

I’m guessing you have to plug a separate hard drive into the Nvidia Shield Pro to stream files that large? I’ve been thinking of going that route since Netflix has started being sucky. I don’t want to support them, but I miss their 4k Dolby Vision/Dolby Atmos/5.1 content for my own basic, little home theater.