David_TheMan
Banned
SSD is to expensive to go with for media servers, physical disks are still the king.
Emby is my Home Server of choice, works perfect for me and I can even stream on my phone via browser without a client.
Home Servers\Homelabs: NAS, Plex, & Everything Else
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Emby is my Home Server of choice, works perfect for me and I can even stream on my phone via browser without a client.
Yeah I had Plex setup with Sonarr and Radarr. shyt is piff when everything is automated like that. I'll look into high capacity physical drives
soulfuljah
All Star
The work those developers are doing over there is amazing. I moved to Emby because their Live TV set up was miles ahead of Plex and I haven't looked back. Once I get my storage back in commission, I'm about to throw that joint on the Shield to see how it works for my simple needs instead of buying a Quadro P2000 like I was planning on doing. Saving those $400
soulfuljah
All Star
That's the best way to go. I use SSDs/NVMEs in my setup for ESXi boot disk, datastores, and cache for my backup server. For my storage needs, I just use 10TB hard drives since it will saturate my network throughput now. But now, I'm setting up 56Gbps in the network.....just because....
David_TheMan
Banned
If your Shield has a browser you dont even need an app, and for all intents and purposes outside of music, the web functionality gives you better play than the app. You can actually que up movies.
The work those developers are doing over there is amazing. I moved to Emby because their Live TV set up was miles ahead of Plex and I haven't looked back. Once I get my storage back in commission, I'm about to throw that joint on the Shield to see how it works for my simple needs instead of buying a Quadro P2000 like I was planning on doing. Saving those $400
soulfuljah
All Star
I didn't know the browser worked better than the app. This might be something I need to look into. The only reason I wanted to use the Shield was because I knew I would be able to do direct play from it since both the server/app was going to be tied directly to the client, instead of Storage --> Emby --> App on Roku. Honestly, I think it was the app on Roku that was causing all my issues since I wasn't doing any modifications to the MKV. I wanted my blu-rays to be as close to the original as possible and Roku doesn't support passthrough, so audio stayed getting transcoded.
David_TheMan
Banned
I use the Roku app because I have to , my mp3 was fukking up via the browser, but other than that the browser was perfect.
This is where a good NAS is great. Along with all of the other uses.
soulfuljah
All Star
I wonder how the browswer handles FLAC.
David_TheMan
Banned
I have .flac .ogg and mp3
with roku app I can listen to all of them.
I'll check my flac and ogg tonight.
Golayitdown
Veteran
My stuff is so automated that I forget how to find shyt sometimes.
Golayitdown
Veteran
Emby is miles ahead of anything else for me. It's amazing how well it works once set up properly.
STAN JONES
Fire John Harbaugh
i might have to give Emby a try
Ive been using Plex media server on my NAS for about a decade and never really considered anything else
I just recently got put on to Infuse on the Apple tv 4k so i mostly use that as a front end now(i still use Kodi too)
i never fukked with the Plex media player because you cant bitstream HD audio but all the people i let watch shyt off my server uses it
Ive been using Plex media server on my NAS for about a decade and never really considered anything else
I just recently got put on to Infuse on the Apple tv 4k so i mostly use that as a front end now(i still use Kodi too)
i never fukked with the Plex media player because you cant bitstream HD audio but all the people i let watch shyt off my server uses it
GreenGrass
All Star
Reddit people say avoid Emby and try "x" software such as Air Sonic, or whatever else. I do not mind installing those but i hate following those tutorials because there is no proper one click gui setup style. You always have to install a server or a docker setup. It may me, but i can not do that.
I am trying out EMBY and I will pay for the lifetime pass if i am able to stream my stuff over HTTP to my cell phone. Wish me luck..
I am trying out EMBY and I will pay for the lifetime pass if i am able to stream my stuff over HTTP to my cell phone. Wish me luck..
I said "pirated movie repos". Yeah, it always had pirate potential, but the years from 2016 thru early 2018 was on another level of ridiculous with those movie repos.