Anyone on here have recommendations for private trackers? I'm running a Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr stack and finding public indexers hit or miss for older/niche content. Open to interview-based ones too.

#homelab #selfhosted #arr #privatetracker #mediaserver

Most media servers use SQLite. It is fine for small libraries, but the single writer lock starts to sting at scale.

Norri uses PostgreSQL for concurrent access, full text search, and proper indexing. Faster lookups, smoother UI, and stable performance with big libraries.

Full write up: https://blog.norri.tv/postgresql-over-sqlite/

#selfhosted #mediaserver #postgresql #homelab

This is probably the first, last, and only time I’ll ever mention the former “Bad Boy” of “Pop”.

A common motif scattered around the Academy campus is the visage of Robbie Williams. Site-based stage innovators TAIT have built scenery for his prior productions, with the larger than life result donated afterwards to make an effective fire assembly point. In wintry weather I observe it’s not the first time he’s had snow on his nose.

On a smaller scale, a 3D-fabricated sculpture of his face provided a challenging projection mapped surface as my Visuals module heads toward end-of-term assessment. Indulging a desire to integrate facial projection into future projects, this was the ideal static subject to try things out over a few hours of experimental studio time.

Despite any knowledge of his career purely culled by cultural osmosis (really!), I was able to piece together a collage of clips to represent the journey. With a simian base layer invoking the Better Man biopic, I swiftly incorporated his more recent cartoon appearance on a certain cat food commercial. Going back to the KISS-inspired makeup from “Let Me Entertain You”, the montage was topped off with the skin-stripping coda to the “Rock DJ” video. Looping that segment through the projector’s tinny speaker was sufficient to get everyone’s toes tapping – whether they wanted to or not.

Sourcing the elements in short notice was a challenge within itself, necessitating some quick thinking across many resources and creating new ones on the fly. But for a dabble it did the job nicely – despite a few imperfect keystone masks and off-centre aspects.

Although my studies and assessment focus on mastering Green Hippo media servers, I took the opportunity to try something different. Cracking open the case for the first time on our prized Troikatronix Isadora server, I soon found myself a quick learner.

Green Hippo has a warm, organic user interface that sometimes seems counter-intuitive despite its obvious power. Isadora presents a more familiar building-block style of boxes and properties, allowing links to be dragged between outputs and inputs to visualise how everything is hooked up.

My familiarity with node-based workflows such as DaVinci Resolve Fusion, combined with my coding background, made getting to grips with Isadora a cinch. Although I can understand how the blank starting screen can seem intimidating to non-techies.

Although there are likely far more efficient ways to structure my little throw-together, I was able to coax the effect I wanted by combining smaller known sub-processes. This combination of nodes and lines offered mathematical means to make it work where I may have floundered with an artier interface…

… so I guess I’m loving angles instead.

Plex Pass lifetime: $120. Annual: $40/yr.
Jellyfin: $0. Forever. No account required, no telemetry, no ads for your own media.

Same hardware transcoding support. Same client apps (mostly). Your media library, your rules.

#selfhosted #jellyfin #plex #mediaserver #foss #opensource #homelab

Jellyfin vs Plex in 2026:

Jellyfin:
✅ Truly free — no premium tier
✅ No account required
✅ Hardware transcoding included
✅ Active open-source development

Plex:
✅ Better app ecosystem (smart TVs, consoles)
✅ Plex Discover for unified search
❌ Requires Plex account for everything
❌ Plex Pass ($5/mo) for some features

For self-hosters who value freedom: Jellyfin. For app ecosystem: Plex.

#selfhosted #jellyfin #plex #mediaserver #homelab #foss #opensource #linux #docker

Jellyfin vs Plex: the perennial self-hosting debate.

Jellyfin: completely free, no paid tiers, no tracking, no telemetry. Full control.
Plex: more polished clients, better remote streaming, but hardware transcoding costs $120 lifetime or $5/mo.

If you value ownership, it's Jellyfin.

https://selfhosting.sh/compare/jellyfin-vs-plex/

#selfhosted #jellyfin #plex #mediaserver #foss #opensource #homelab #docker

I have a raspberry pi 4 (8GB) and I wanted to try out Kodi... Stupid question... Is it possible/advisable to containerise it and run it in kubernetes (I'm thinking microk8s) instead of running a dedicated kodi distro?

If this sounds crazy, my reasoning is that I want to run some object storage for an unrelated project on the same raspi (but kodi wouldn't rely on it for media, it would use streaming plugin to connect to Jellyfin hosted somewhere else on my LAN)

Also; I want to manage the microk8s with my existing fluxcd stuff so I can learn about multi-cluster management. Hoping that I can have many "edge raspis" hosting various services throughout the house in the future and this would be great as a PoC

#selfhosting #selfhost #homelab #kodi #mediaserver #kubernetes #k8s

Samsung Smart TV owners can now use Jellyfin natively, as the open-source media server is now available on the Tizen platform.
https://linuxiac.com/after-years-of-waiting-jellyfin-finally-lands-on-samsung-tizen-tvs/

#jellyfin #mediaserver #opensource #samsung

Jellyfin đã chính thức có mặt trên cửa hàng ứng dụng của TV Samsung Tizen! 🎉 Đây là tin vui cho người dùng muốn thưởng thức nội dung giải trí cá nhân trực tiếp trên TV mà không cần phần cứng bổ sung. Ứng dụng hỗ trợ phát trực tiếp, quản lý thư viện phim ảnh, nhạc và hơn thế nữa, hoàn toàn miễn phí và mã nguồn mở.

#Jellyfin #SamsungTV #Tizen #MediaServer #Streaming #Jellyfin #TVSamsung #PhátTrựcTuyến #MãNguồnMở

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1qt5nje/jellyfin_on_samsung_tizen_tvs/