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?

  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    1,028 movies

    517 shows (20,702 episodes)

    Shows are all 1080p or lower except a couple seasons of select shows in 4k. Movies are 4k HDR when it’s available, otherwise best quality I can find.

    I use Jellyfin because of the client apps and FOSS nature.

    I tend to prefer HEVC/h.265 encodings for the strong trade off between player compatibility and smaller size for the quality level, but h264 and AV1 are also both in my library. I don’t reencode anything except through the Jellyfin server transcoding.

  • tuckerm@feddit.onlineEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    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.

      • tuckerm@feddit.onlineEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        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

  • lemmylommy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    ~2000 movies ~200 tv shows

    Many English only, many German and English, some German only. A few in different languages, if it’s the original language.

    ~50TB

    Mostly 1080p h264. Lately, due to free space running out, I have started prioritizing and redownloading accordingly. Low bitrate h265 1080p for less important stuff, 4K h265 for important things and normal bitrate h264/265 (preferably the latter) 1080p for everything else.

        • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Lol. I feel your pain.

          I setup a 2.5TB RAID box in 2011, thought it was going to last a while.

          Now my server has a single 8TB data drive, my NAS is 7TB, and I have 2 4TB drives and everything is replicated between them.

          Now I need to build another NAS as all this stuff is aging.

  • ISolox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

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

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    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.

      • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        i settled on gonic via docker, for now, with jukebox mode controlled from dsub2000, as the device I’m using as the server is an old autonomic mms2a running debian. (not enough horsepower to run a full DE so it needs to be remotely controllable)

        i just about drove myself crazy trying every single version of any subsonic related server and client, jellyfin (still running) ampache, mopidy with plugins, addons for kodi, various MPD iterations and control points, including trying to drive it from home assistant.

        i am not sure if I’m completely happy with my setup, but with vpn, i can listen on the phone anywhere, make playlists that are immediately visible on the machine that can play to my speakers in the house (driven off of a matrixing amplifier)

        i am giving my brain a rest before i try to look into snapcast