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How big is your media library? (twun.io)

submitted 3 days ago by SpookyMulder@twun.io to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

~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.

[–] zerodawn@leaf.dance 1 points 1 day ago

Save yourself time on downloading and look into tdarr

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

50TB?

Dang, thought I was doing well at about 5TB,haha

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago

I know, right? I feel like the little guy in the memes next to the Giants in armor.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I thought 20TB of storage would last me forever

I've had low storage warnings for years now

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.