• Omega_Jimes@lemmy.caEnglish
      141·
      11 months ago

      I’ve had to start trimming things, but I can’t get rid of hard-to-finds. It’s mostly new shows, I’ll only keep recent seasons.

      I can’t lose shows like Captain Star or Duckman, but I probably don’t need every season of Westworld.

  • ArugulaZ@kbin.social
    331·
    11 months ago

    Jellyfin? What is that, some computer based television network you populate and schedule yourself? Because I totally would want that. That would rule.

    • devdad@programming.devEnglish
      121·
      11 months ago

      Unsure if your asking seriously (if not, whooosh to me), but it’s an open source alternative to Plex.

      Plex is a media server that you run to host your TV shows and movies. Think of a self-hosted Netflix.

    • bizzmarquee@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      What you’re describing is something I’ve been on the lookout for, still looking!

      • CarbonConscious@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        It was mentioned elsewhere, but ErsatzTV does exactly that. You can set up channels, build playouts, set schedules, and even do things like adding pre-rolls, fillers, commercials, and watermarks. Really neat project.

    • Imreallybored@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Not sure about Jellyfin, but Plex has a related app ErsatzTV that might be exactly what you’re looking for

  • tun@lemm.eeEnglish
    183·
    11 months ago

    When the time comes for them to watch, they have their own version of our favorites - remake or remastered, adaptations or whole different series.

    Now the collection is for the dads’ nostalgia.

    • Kalash@feddit.chEnglish
      28·
      11 months ago

      Have you seen the recent remakes of disney Films?

      Let’s just say, they won’t become timeless classics like the original animated movies.

      • tun@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I think toy stories span from 1995 to 2019 (over 2 decades). If someone born 1990, ther is a chance that his child could also share the same enthusiasm about the toy story.

        I was born in 80s and I was thinking about little mermaid, beauty and the beast, snow white, tom and Jerry, Hercules, etc.

    • tun@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I am not against the collecting.

      I myself have a collection for my sons. But I couldn’t introduce my favorites to them. The collection will be of value when they are exposed to the current ones and they want to backtrack.

      It is just my frustration written as comment to this post.

  • Roundcat@kbin.social
    151·
    11 months ago

    Goes through hard drive with kid

    “Everything the light touches, is our kingdom!”

    • theoldman@infosec.pubEnglish
      12·
      11 months ago

      How does one get a NAS without spending an arm and leg these days? I started pirating because I was broke, I don’t have triple digits to spend on hardware.

      An old PC with a bunch of hard drives (they shouldn’t be NAS drives necessarily) + TrueNas. The main cost will be the hard drives which is about 20$/TB

      • Majestic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        72·
        11 months ago

        $20/TB is a bad deal.

        You can get WD Red Pro’s on sale twice a year for $16/TB.

        Further you can order unused data center and enterprise drives for anything from $11-$16/TB and those things are built to take way more use and abuse than home users can throw at them.

        I would not pay above $17/TB for traditional magnetic spinning disk storage.

        • Baut [she/her] auf.@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          That’s like incredibly less than what I have been able to find. Where exactly would they be on sale for that cheap?
          Don’t want to buy used since you never know when they will go south on you

          • Majestic@lemmy.mlEnglish
            31·
            11 months ago

            https://diskprices.com/

            Beware MDD at the top is alleged to sell drives they’ve refurbished which are essentially used but with wiped smart. Other cheap deals… check sellers. If it’s not sold and shipped by Amazon it could be slightly used drives (usually third party sellers do a mix so some people get brand new, others not so much). Also beware third party sellers and Amazon itself often sell OEM drives without warranty. I always check the serials online before opening the anti-static bag to make sure it’s in warranty.

            Also: shucks.top

            You need to wait and watch for the good deals but they come around multiple times a year.

            Also, understand there are certain storage ranges to get these prices. Generally 8-18TB drives are best deals per TB. You pay a premium for 20-22 top size drives as well as for smaller drives like 2-4TB. 14TB seems to be the current sweet spot most of the time.

            Lastly. Understand SMR drives are alright for backups but not ideal for streaming high bitrate content from or using to seed files. CMR is better.

              • Majestic@lemmy.mlEnglish
                21·
                11 months ago

                Looking up technical specs for the drive it’s often mentioned on data sheets (often as conventional magnetic recording drive or else shingled if SMR). Other than that third parties have compiled lists and many but not all Amazon pages in tech specs mention it if you look closely. Try searching drive-model and cmr and then smr and see what comes up. Beware some drive families different sizes of drive may be cmr vs smr. WD red pro and ultra star DC line are all CMR, WD blues many are SMR. WD black as far as I know are all CMR. WD red (non-pro) can be SMR I believe.

                I’ll be honest, the real difference is getting a 7200 vs 5400 RPM drive, particularly one with a larger cache, I’d always go for 7200 except for purely offline backup stuff.

                In terms of external drives and shucking, it’s largely a crapshoot. You can try searching what drives others found in a model, however they’re subject to change.

                Bottom line: If money is tight and it’s just you, you can absolutely do SMR and 5400 RPM external drives and have a smooth experience as long as we’re talking re-encodes not raw Blu-ray remuxes (I have seen an external 5400RPM SMR drive choke and fail trying to smoothly play a file at 24MB/s bitrate but it worked fine with 10MB/s re-encodes, even those with burst rates of 17MB/s). If you can afford a bit more try to go 7200 and CMR.

          • Majestic@lemmy.mlEnglish
            71·
            11 months ago

            OP said money was tight.

            And why pay more for less? Over the purchase of 3 hard drives I save enough to get a fourth “free” off the difference in savings.

            $4x14tb=$56 for example.

            But please. Continue to pay whatever you want. More cheap drives for me.

    • constantokra@lemmy.oneEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      You can even start with an old laptop and external drives. Plenty of people shuck them anyway, so you’re not exactly overpaying. They’ll just be a bit slow. But if you’re mostly planning on streaming video that doesn’t matter too much.

      If you do have a little to spend, you can do a ‘naskiller’ build. Just search for it and pick one. Basically some people put together lists of cheap, reliable used hardware you can get to build a pretty great nas, with different flavors. ‘Quiet’ ‘fast’ ‘compact’. I built one and went all out. I think it was about 600 bucks without the drives. Build up from there.

  • fernandu00@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    I have a small 1tb collection …love jellyfin and it’s UI but I miss kodi when it comes to scrapping metadata and playing all formats …I use jellyfin mostly because of its ui and because my crappy TV can’t handle kodi very well

      • fernandu00@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Yeah I tried one of them but either way I’d have to follow the jellyfin standards to name the files and have to use kodi to run them …the best way for me would be having kodi to scrape the library no matter how messy it is …and jellyfin would just play it because my TV is garbage and crashes on kodi

  • balderdash@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    There’s a large possibility that your kids will be apathetic towards the media that you watch now. When’s the last time you listened to a song or watched tv from the 50?

    (I can hear you typing right now; yes, I myself even watch the Adams Family and listen to psychedelic rock every now and again, but that’s not typical.)