2023-06-23, 12:02 AM
(This post was last modified: 2023-06-23, 12:04 AM by TheDreadPirate. Edited 1 time in total.)
Arrrr matey, I'm TheDreadPirate.
I've been using Jellyfin for about 6 months now after having tried Plex for about 3 months. I am running Jellyfin in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS natively, bare metal, behind an Apache reverse proxy to handle all external https requests. DDNS provided by No-IP and certs curtesy of LetsEncrypt. It runs on an Asrock Intel J4205-ITX, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, with 9TB of an available 12TB (6 + 3 + 3) of storage dedicated to Jellyfin. The rest is reserved for my Windows desktop's SMB shares.
Before going into this I was concerned that my puny Intel Atom couldn't handle self-hosting media, in general. Particularly when transcoding was involved. And I was considering upgrading because any time the stream was transcoded it buffered a lot when I was running Plex on Windows. And it transcoded for nearly 100% of the time when accessing my video media when I was not home. Same with Jellyfin on Windows. But it turns out the problem was Windows Defender anti-virus hogging CPU time any time a file was read from disk. Jellyfin on Ubuntu transcodes lickity quick with this Intel Atom. About 6.5x real time for 1080p30 HEVC files to H264.
I switched to Jellyfin from Plex because A) I didn't want to pay the subscription or even the single lifetime fee, B) I, and I think a lot of other Plex users, felt unheard by the developers, C) because even though I hosted my media, Plex's servers were still involved as a proxy and I wanted my setup to be completely independent, and D) it was cluttered with suggestions for "free channels" or whatever. As well as my growing support of FOSS/FLOSS software, in general.
As for my reasons for self-hosting, it's probably the same as a lot of people here. I'm tired of paying for an ever increasing number streaming subscriptions. I'm tired of shows coming and going or permanently moving to new streaming services (Star Trek TNG/DS9/Voyager going to Paramount+ was the last straw and catalyst for this journey). I'm tired of not OWNING anything I watch or listen to.
I've been using Jellyfin for about 6 months now after having tried Plex for about 3 months. I am running Jellyfin in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS natively, bare metal, behind an Apache reverse proxy to handle all external https requests. DDNS provided by No-IP and certs curtesy of LetsEncrypt. It runs on an Asrock Intel J4205-ITX, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, with 9TB of an available 12TB (6 + 3 + 3) of storage dedicated to Jellyfin. The rest is reserved for my Windows desktop's SMB shares.
Before going into this I was concerned that my puny Intel Atom couldn't handle self-hosting media, in general. Particularly when transcoding was involved. And I was considering upgrading because any time the stream was transcoded it buffered a lot when I was running Plex on Windows. And it transcoded for nearly 100% of the time when accessing my video media when I was not home. Same with Jellyfin on Windows. But it turns out the problem was Windows Defender anti-virus hogging CPU time any time a file was read from disk. Jellyfin on Ubuntu transcodes lickity quick with this Intel Atom. About 6.5x real time for 1080p30 HEVC files to H264.
I switched to Jellyfin from Plex because A) I didn't want to pay the subscription or even the single lifetime fee, B) I, and I think a lot of other Plex users, felt unheard by the developers, C) because even though I hosted my media, Plex's servers were still involved as a proxy and I wanted my setup to be completely independent, and D) it was cluttered with suggestions for "free channels" or whatever. As well as my growing support of FOSS/FLOSS software, in general.
As for my reasons for self-hosting, it's probably the same as a lot of people here. I'm tired of paying for an ever increasing number streaming subscriptions. I'm tired of shows coming and going or permanently moving to new streaming services (Star Trek TNG/DS9/Voyager going to Paramount+ was the last straw and catalyst for this journey). I'm tired of not OWNING anything I watch or listen to.
