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Some context: my friend has an absolute monster of a machine at his place. He went from 'I have an old computer for plex' to like... a giant rack that we all had to make a special trip for to move as a group when he moved into his new place over like 10 years.

It always seemed kinda cool that he had this setup but kind of, I don't know, overkill?

Anyway, I got to talking with him recently about how annoying it was to move books from my storage drive to my reader and he offered to set up a server for me to use. So I spent an afternoon setting up a book download-to-hosted pipeline, and then I realized my manga doesn't really play well with Calibre-Web, so I added a Komga container. But then I wanted something to sort them so I could just dump all the files in the same place and just have them sent to where they needed to be, but I wanted to make sure that it could handle audiobooks, and video too, because Jellyfin sounds kinda cool and it would be nice to have an organized Anime archive somewhere.

I guess I just mean that I understand it now. My friend is being super generous at the moment, but he's already sending me links for some starter hardware that I can build out once I can set aside a little more money for it. I'm so pumped to see what else is out there.

So uh... what are y'all's setups like? :3

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[–] thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So jellyfin runs on the server but the movies are stored on the nas? Sorry I was interested in running a similar set up but I wasn't sure if it could work that way.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yup works great. The NAS drive auto mounts as an NTFS drive on the server with read/write access. All works smoothly.

[–] thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How well does it handle streaming multiple devices in the same network?

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 2 points 4 months ago

It works fine with 2 simultaneous direct play streams. Haven't tested beyond that.

[–] skip0110@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

I also run this way. NFS4 mount for the media Dir. Cache Dir on the local SSD. No problems streaming 2-3 devices. NAS is happy to serve other files at the same time.

Docker host is nothing special, old Mac mini running Ubuntu.