What do people use for their media servers today?

What do people use for their media servers today?

Plex?
>trying desperately to change their privacy policies in hopes to sell your info to third parties
>implementing a bunch of retard features such as "news" and ads into their software

Emby?
>less features and more shitty than plex, only reedeming feature was that it was open-source
>Have started ignoring GPLv2 license requirements, doesn't give out all files required for compiling/building yourself, releases a bunch of close-source shit like their tv-client
>does some shady shit and when people raise concerns about it they just ignore it

So what do you even use now?

Personally I use Emby even though I have lifetime plexpass, but now Emby is starting to go down the fucking drain as well.

Is it time to just go full kodi? How do you access your media remotely?

Other urls found in this thread:

github.com/nvllsvm/emby-unlocked
github.com/nvllsvm/emby-unlocked/blob/master/patches/PluginSecurityManager.cs.patch
github.com/nvllsvm/emby-unlocked/blob/master/replacements/connectionmanager.js
universalmediaserver.com/
twitter.com/AnonBabble

>people actually using plexcloud and uploading all their shit to google drive in their own name

just asking for trouble

Plex are fucking bad but Emby devs are fucking scum

>release under GPLv2 license
>get a bunch of people to contribute to your project because of it
>other people do most of the work
>start closing it off and then selling it

You're forgetting
>people fork Emby to get rid of annoying 15 sec pre-play unskipable splash "PLEASE GIVE US MONEY" screen (which you're allowed to under GPLv2 license, this is to prevent this exact fucking thing happening)
>Emby devs go fucking bananas
>guy who forked it opens up all premium features due to Emby devs whining about him forking it (even though that's what you're supposed to do when original devs fuck shit up under GPLv2 license)
>now everyone is fucking livid, especially Emby devs who can no longer make a quick buck

Using Plex and I’m pretty much happy about it regardless of their policy bu I don’t use their cloud system. I’m currently traveling abroad with only an iPad pro and I watch streamed or synced versions of my animu from my FreeBSD home server back in my homeland. Really comfy.

I just use a samba share and stream from mpv or vlc if on andriod

Is this fork the answer then? If so where can i find it?

How do you make money with free software? I'm told you can by RMS. Is he lying?

Just Google before you ask user.
"Emby unlocked fork"

I like Plex, they haven't done enough to piss me off yet, but I'm also pretty indifferent to botnet shenanigans. Good interface, handles all the metadata shit perfectly, and still easy enough for my retarded friends/family to use to watch my library remotely on their Rokus and whatnot. Really have nothing to complain about.

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>How do you make money with free software? I'm told you can by RMS. Is he lying?

By knowing how to configure it, unlike your customers who are making so much money using it that they need 100% uptime even though they are shitting themself on Monday morning because the cleaner unplugged something but didn't plug it back in.

Get a real job and you will know this.

So it must be hard to configure well?
That's what you're saying really. If you have a convenient program that doesn't need service it shouldn't be free software?

There is some bullshit with plex like not being able to log in on your LAN without an internet connection. There is a ip whitelist but of course you won't know that until after you are locked out.

The open source + paid support business model really is my favorite. Also ends up being a good litmus test for whether you've built something worthwhile or not if people like it enough to be willing to pay for support.

*shrug* Pretty sure I dealt with that back when they first changed that, but either way I'm perfectly happy falling back to Samba if I need to. Thankfully I live in a major city, and I think my internet has gone out only once for like an hour at 2am in the past 5 years, so I'm not exactly concerned.

>be me
>be retarded

So how does one unlock the Premium features of Emby? I just want to be able to watch it on my tablets and tv and what not without limited playback or some trial period expiring.

From: github.com/nvllsvm/emby-unlocked

i just ssh to my server in putty

Do I just wget the patch file

github.com/nvllsvm/emby-unlocked/blob/master/patches/PluginSecurityManager.cs.patch

run this command as sudo:

patch -N -p1 -r - Emby.Server.Implementations/Security/PluginSecurityManager.cs < ../PluginSecurityManager.cs.patch

then wget this file

github.com/nvllsvm/emby-unlocked/blob/master/replacements/connectionmanager.js

and overwrite the existing one?

Is it that simple?

I just hooked up an old desktop to my tv.
running windows 7
several hdd's full of movies and shows, decent gaming rig too, as good if not better than last gen consoles.

So somebody please educate me, what is the point of a media server today? All i can think of is if I had a bunch of tv's and only wanted the one PC, i could remotely serve the other tv's with it. seems like i'd still need to get pc's to link with the server anyways.
Is the whole point to watch media on the go, streaming from your home server?

if thats the case whats with all the software like plex and kodi? doesn't windows have built in networking? I've been using a standard windows pc as a HTPC for years now and i can't figure out why anybody would need anything more

Kodi on an android box with a USB 4tb HDD plugged in... 320 complete TV series(half animu with dubs AND subs @ HEVC, half western) and about 1000 movies(mostly yify's. I dont care, its on a 720p 32" tv)

No internet, no cable, no recurring fees, no risk of it going offline. Only fear is the hard drive crapping out on me, so i am thinking of getting a 2nd one and also getting a 8tb internal one for my PC to have 2 backups.

This is basically the main thought I've had for creating an alternative to Plex. I think it's possible to sell people on the ability to "create their own private Netflix" if you can nail the UX stuff down, with the option to pay for some quality of life things that would require to be run through the business' server and network.

I use Emby because of its kinda-officially available API. That allowed me to play videos in MPC-HC on my PC while also maintaining viewing progress synchronized across all clients (Kodi, shit which basically uses the web interface).

Last time I looked this wasn't really possible in a non-retarded way with Plex, even if I was willing to put in development time myself. They don't appear to support or want 3rd party devs at all or some shit, all I found was a bunch of reverse engineered and obviously incomplete information on their API. Fuck that crap. With Emby I just grabbed their API client library and wrote a simple Emby client myself which just talks to the video player. I wasn't even aware of them being so shitty as to ignore the GPL, the product isn't perfect anyway, it's just Plex is even worse for my practical purpose.

>I just want to be able to watch it on my tablets and tv and what not without limited playback
There's no limited playback on the web client that I know of. Just use a web browser on your tablet, I'm sure the mobile apps are just a web page packaged into an app anyway, nearly completely identical. On TV I'd suggest using Kodi with the Emby addon, works fine.

Really? No mention of UMS?
Fucking plebs.
universalmediaserver.com/

1) through selling support
2) through selling a service (aka cloud shit)
3) only provide paid binaries to make money from Windows brainlets while Linux users install via package manager because maintainers compiled from source
4) get commissioned to add specific features
5) sell closed source plugins with extra enterprise functionality (icky because not fully FOSS)

Does it build/maintain a library with metadata like Emby and Plex or does it just transcode and stream videos with no management beyond that?

i like Kodi - but how does Kodi (with Emby addon) work with the Users/Parental Control and what not?

>What do people use for their media servers today?
Samba or sftp file server. All my devices can play 4k 60fps video so no need for plex or the like.

Can't help you with that sadly, I've never had any use for those. You need to specify a user name to use when you connect the addon to the server, so perhaps that might help? I don't know how user accounts and restrictions work with Emby in general.

This. I don't get this whole "let's copy Netflix/the cable companies" meme. They're the enemy, remember?

Plex, its convenient.

Last time I checked it worked badly, you can restrict libraries access to specific users, but the search functionality sometimes displayed result ignoring the restrictions.

Orb aka Winamp remote was the perfect solution. Simple and worked. They were bought and killed now the only suitable replacement is plex.

I just use Kodi for 3 reasons
>included in retropie as an optional package
>kore, an app that can turn my phone into a remote control for kodi
>newpipe has a feature to play the video on kodi

Mirror in RAID. While "RAID is not backup" is true, RAID is reasonably resilient for media which isn't valuable.

What's the point of all these shitty programs?

If I need to access files on my main PC I just use Windows shares.No 3rd program needed.

I don't care about some riced up UI that looks like Netflix to show me how my library looks. Then again having a massive library of media is retarded.

I use NFS + mysql to sync my files + library to all my kodi machines.

>universalmediaserver.com/
Just streaming

That's too bad, I do like having a decently organized library

Convenience.

Its how you know new episodes are out, or where you left off in an episode.

I can understand using this for the fuckhueg TV interface but do you really need a program to tell you what day of the week it is?

Yes.

Doesn't plex re-encode all your shit? Why the fuck would you want that?

it also means I can switch from my PC to my phone to a TV without losing my place in a show
I can throw my media at it using some simple scripts to move shit around and it organizes, tags/categorizes everything for me
it doesn't have to

>not waiting until a season is finished.
>not watching whole episodes

...

>waiting to watch deathmarch raphsody

looooool
No I can't do that.

I personally can't stand to wait a week between episodes.

>>Deathmarch Raphsody
>one guy and a bunch a of girls around him on the cover
It's harem shit, isn't it?

I know isekai is far and away the most stale genre in all of media, but Deathmarch Rhapsody takes it to an extreme even beyond that. It's so bog standard that it goes all the way around and becomes charming. Definite ironicweebcore staple

100% harem fanservice.
Its fucking great.

He walks into town and literally the first thing that happens is a 13 year old girl with D size tits drags him into an INN and hes like WHAT YOU ARE ONLY 13.

>100% harem fanservice.
In to the trash it goes...
year old girl with D size tits
>oppai loli
INTO THE TRASH!

OpenElec or LibreElec

He literally has two flat loli slaves that he saved from some dickhead that he orders around for an entire episode while they escape a dungeon.

Sounds like trash desu

How did you make this?

I've been using LibreElec and it has been working well for me.

I use Plex and have been using it for 2 years or so now. Convenient, and pretty user friendly as long as you name everything correctly.

Its a feature of sonarr. Its a dvr type mono application for torrents/nzb with a web front end that tracks shows.

This.