2023-07-01, 09:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 2023-07-02, 02:41 AM by Egilman. Edited 1 time in total.)
Hello,
Egilman here from the Great Pacific Northwest....
Pardon me but I taking my first steps into media serving... I've already determined that Plex is not for me...
Everyone I've chatted with are telling me that Jellyfin or Kodi is the go to for what I want to do...
My hardware is old, a dual xeon 48 core machine that I used to do DC with it currently runs windows 11 pro... right now it has 8 gig of memory running off a 2T harddrive... the motherboard is a supermicro X-10DRI. I have three HD bays one containing a 10T HD for TV shows and 2x 4T drives for movies and documentaries the bays are hot swappable...
Currently my TV is a Samsung UN43TU7000BXZA which claims it is DLNA capable and the manual says that the TV will automatically read and connect to a DLNA server, all I had to do was plug into the lan port and the TV will take care of the rest... {chuckle} that is not the case I have learned...
I tried Jellyfin on the proposed server, it installed fine but given my lack of knowledge about what I was supposed to do I couldn't get it to populate the libraries... So I uninstalled it and installed Kodi which I have gotten to the point of it working over my network and am able to access it on my desktop...
Everything is hardwired through a network switch... I have Xfinity for TV and Internet...
Personally I do not care if the server is Kodi or Jellyfin...
I want to have my video collection hosted on a standalone server accessible by my TV... (the reason for this is the wife has gotten tired of the way TV broadcasts show episodes she hates watching the same four or five epis several times a day, day after day) and also like to catch movies on sundays...
I've been working on this project now for a week prepping all the vids, getting them organized, and figuring out how to populate the server with the meta data scraped from the internet....
The software doesn't matter like I said, I just want to get it to work like it seems everyone else has...
A standalone video server feeding a single TV over a Cat 8 cable controlled by the TV remote...
Is it even possible?
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated and I'm open to any suggestions on how to get it to work...
I'm not a computer newbie, I've built my own machines including the ones I'm running on now... But that being said, I barely know how to use a cellphone in fact I don't even own one... The only networking I know is how to wire up my own computers to the modem through a switch...
Any and all help, please total newbie to video streaming here...
EG
Egilman here from the Great Pacific Northwest....
Pardon me but I taking my first steps into media serving... I've already determined that Plex is not for me...
Everyone I've chatted with are telling me that Jellyfin or Kodi is the go to for what I want to do...
My hardware is old, a dual xeon 48 core machine that I used to do DC with it currently runs windows 11 pro... right now it has 8 gig of memory running off a 2T harddrive... the motherboard is a supermicro X-10DRI. I have three HD bays one containing a 10T HD for TV shows and 2x 4T drives for movies and documentaries the bays are hot swappable...
Currently my TV is a Samsung UN43TU7000BXZA which claims it is DLNA capable and the manual says that the TV will automatically read and connect to a DLNA server, all I had to do was plug into the lan port and the TV will take care of the rest... {chuckle} that is not the case I have learned...
I tried Jellyfin on the proposed server, it installed fine but given my lack of knowledge about what I was supposed to do I couldn't get it to populate the libraries... So I uninstalled it and installed Kodi which I have gotten to the point of it working over my network and am able to access it on my desktop...
Everything is hardwired through a network switch... I have Xfinity for TV and Internet...
Personally I do not care if the server is Kodi or Jellyfin...
I want to have my video collection hosted on a standalone server accessible by my TV... (the reason for this is the wife has gotten tired of the way TV broadcasts show episodes she hates watching the same four or five epis several times a day, day after day) and also like to catch movies on sundays...
I've been working on this project now for a week prepping all the vids, getting them organized, and figuring out how to populate the server with the meta data scraped from the internet....
The software doesn't matter like I said, I just want to get it to work like it seems everyone else has...
A standalone video server feeding a single TV over a Cat 8 cable controlled by the TV remote...
Is it even possible?
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated and I'm open to any suggestions on how to get it to work...
I'm not a computer newbie, I've built my own machines including the ones I'm running on now... But that being said, I barely know how to use a cellphone in fact I don't even own one... The only networking I know is how to wire up my own computers to the modem through a switch...
Any and all help, please total newbie to video streaming here...
EG