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

submitted 2 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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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why start anew instead of forking or contributing to Jellyfin?

[–] SpookyMulder@lemmy.4d2.org 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The short answer is because it's a fun project, and I wanted to see if I had it in me to make exactly the media server I want.

The longer answer is that I wanted something dramatically and fundamentally different from what either Jellyfin or Plex have to offer.

Can run without breaking a sweat on junk/old/cheap hardware like a Raspberry Pi or old laptop.
Can be safely Internet-facing -- no anonymous access, and no web-based admin features or API.
Hyper-lean and minimal. All-in, I wanted something on the order of 1MB for client app, server, all dependencies, everything.

I don't see either of those goals happening with a contribution or fork, because achieving them would require some dramatic feature deprecation.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 1 points 16 hours ago

Does it not need to transcode then if it runs on cheap hardware?

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

All-in, I wanted something on the order of 1MB for client app, server, all dependencies, everything.

Okay that's gotta be radically different!