lilkiduno

Seems like I missed quite the conversation here. Okay, forgive me again it appears again my ignorance was on full display. I was assuming the no account thing tied into remote access, that would make sense that you should be able to access your locally stored media without an account. Due to this being my first venture into a media server everything is kind of new to me. I chose to use plex, because at the time I hadn't heard of Emby, only Plex and Jellyfin. It was my understanding that you had to use more web based interfaces to use Jellyfin, and becasue I wanted more of the "Netflix" experience of having an app on all my devices that's what pushed me to Plex. Once I get my feet under me, I can try and use Emby as well, but I first need to rip all these movies and get a feel for how this is going to work. I do know that I might be pulling this out of the Antec 300 and finding a 2u or 3u chassis to put this in and run a lack rack for a little while so I can start investing in a quality UPS as the power had gone out at work during the night the last two days and I'd be damned if the parity check doesn't take 10 hours.

How would you access your stored media if you don't have an account? Is there a unique url for your server? Personally, I don’t really care for mobile/remote users ATM, it may very well be an issue later. I was thinking about a RPi + SSD loaded with the .mp4 files running OMV with a plex server docker to access movies in the RV. I haven't given much thought to the few times a year when I have to fly out for work, I may just take a couple .mp4s copied over to my laptop and carry HDMI cables to hook up to the Hotel TVs.

Is there any advantages to emby over plex? I am already a PlexPass member, so cost wouldn't an advantage any longer. I am pretty ignorant so I'd be interested in learning.

Alrighty, so the mix up was my bad use of terms, I apologize. Yeah, that's the theory to start off with what I had, luckily I found the 6700 system sans the storage and memory, otherwise this would have probably started on a 4th gen i5. No, I perfectly understood your point, I was trying to make jokes, It's something I do more than I probably should. I think for the time being I am just going to run MakeMKV and handbrake on my "2nd Office PC" the one with the 11700K, GTX 1660 and 16 GB of DDR4. I have already spoken with our IT Department, they don't care what I do with it as it's all my own equipment as long as it doesn't hit the secured network. I installed my Bluray drive and a spare 2TB Barracuda HDD I had in there, until I get my hands dirty and learn both unraid and these programs I think I want to use them separately for now. Currently I am piggy backing off the companies provided guest WIFI with a KING WiFiMax wireless router, this is temporary as I was just testing it out and becoming familiar with it for my upcoming Family Camping Trip. My Father has Starlink RV, but my RV being a couple spots down generally doesn't pick up the Wifi on my Playstation 4, I am hoping that'd take care of it. However, because I am enjoying actually receiving WiFi in my work area I my end up bring it back and forth until I buy another.

The office keeps Storage and Memory, so I can’t get any of that. Unfortunately I don’t work in our IT department where the occasional kit of memory may happen to disappear from the large corporate supply room. Yeah, I knew the 8 GB was going to be a limiting factor. As far as the “transcoding” I was referring to, it would be ripping the movie in MakeMKV then using Handbrake to compress into a file format more friendly to the streaming devices. Or am I misunderstanding on my end? I didn’t want the processor to have to live encode if I could avoid it. RAM is dirt cheap right now, so I may end up and buying a cheap 32 gb kit. Do I have to set up a VM to run MakeMKV and Handbrake, or can they both be ran via containers inside of unraid? My co-worker showed me a server he’s building, for the company, that houses a core i5 11600k and a Mini-ITX motherboard in a case more sorted for a 4 bay NAS, with hotswap, with 14TB surveillance drives for a camera server for another branch. Kind of made me want to rethink my build.

Okay, so forgive me as this is my first set up, and I am still in the ordering/setting up phase. My original plan was to recycle an old desktop my job was sending to the recycler, they had been recycling out some 3rd gen core i5 Lenovo’s but when I saw a 6th gen Lenovo in the pile, I snatched it up. My plan was to get this project up and running with the least amount of upfront spending possible so I am using parts I currently have on hand. So, here is the parts list as of right now: · Lenovo M910t barebones (Intel 6700 CPU) · 2 x 4 gb DDR4 2400 · 3 x 4 TB Seagate Ironwolf NAS drives (I really wanted to go 2 x 8TB drives for the cheaper expansion with 8 TB drives in the future, but the additional cost was a little out of reach for the time being.) · ASUS BW-16D1HT · Rosewill 400W PSU · Antec 300 Case · Unraid Basic · Cheap 24 pin to 10 pin PSU Adapter The main purpose of this system is to host a Plex server and be able to stream to the maximum of 4-6 devices at a time, due to the size constraints I plan to transcode/compress (not sure the correct term this is my first forte into video hosting) the source videos. Basically because our movies are stored in the basement and not organized the most efficiently it has become more convenient to buy movies I already own on Amazon video so the kids don’t have to hunt for that one movie, it’s a total waste of money I know, but I realize the quality of the Amazon streams are not the highest quality so if I transcode to “1080P streaming quality” for my storage it should allow me to pack the 8 TB with a lot more content postponing the need to add more drives and keeping the cost down. Because I plan on carrying the drives forward is why I purchased these new, and I needed a Blu-ray reader to start ripping my collection and I scoured different forms and found one of the 4k friendly drives, I think, but I don’t have any 4k Blu-ray disks so I am not in a big hurry for that function but I wanted to ensure that I purchased a friendly drive since I had to purchase a drive regardless. I was wondering if I would see a huge performance uptick in performance by biting the bullet and using a 11700k CPU and Motherboard instead. I picked up a combo deal from my local Micro Center a few months ago and I have been running this CPU as a hush hush Minecraft playing PC when I have downtime at the office, ssssshhhhhhhh it’s our little secret. Is using the igpu on the 6700 okay for transcoding/compressing or should I really look into putting in a dedicated gpu, If I steal form the 11700k system I guess I could put in a EVGA 1660, I know this will aid in performance, but I'd be gutting my break time PC and don't want to do that if it's avoidable as I am not sure the Rosewill PSU can handle the system + GPU. As I mentioned earlier, I do plan on doing upgrades down the line, so I’d really like to add additional RAM by replacing the 8 GB kit with at least a 32 GB kit, a AUDHEID K7 8 Bay NAS Case, a compliant PSU and more drives down the road. House is already wired for 1GB Network with Cat6 cabling throughout the house and as many devices hardwired as possible.