My 2.5 year old loves watching classic Pokemon. I’ll be honest, so do I. But have you tried doing that? It’s fucking insane.
- The first half of S1 is on Netflix
- The second half is on Amazon but you need an extra subscription to watch it.
- The theird season (johto) is also Amazon.
- The 4th is no where but Archive.org of all places… Which is called Johto Champions, so it really feels like the end of the season but it’s another 52 episodes!
You would think pokemon.com would have all this (they have a lot, and it’s all free) but they don’t!
Seeing S4 (is that even right?) On Archive.org is really pushing me to want to build a Plex server. Having all this content in one place would be very nice.
I do IT work by day, and I have some older 2TB platter drives from a retired camera server laying around. What’s the easiest way to get my foot in the door? Do I save up some $$ for a Synology box?
Love to get your input!
Would 100% go JellyFin vs Plex, also toss in some sonarr/radarr automation and organization. Everyone should have some kinda media streaming server, even if its just kept in house.
Yo, I already have Plex set up. I can add Pokémon and invite you if you want as long as you don’t need 99.9% uptime, I’m just some dude :)
“I’m just some dude”
I relate to this so hard.
find a paid plexshare. Cheaper than Netflix, has everything, no weekends wasted on being a devops
p.s. sorry I didn’t look where I’m posting. I’ma open
notselfhostedHaha this comment is keeping it real. That’s a good point. I’ve never looked into a plexshare before. I’ll have to look it up.
There are also free ones, BUT they’re a lot harder to get into, and a lot of times don’t have as much content or aren’t managed as well. They do exist if you’re patient though, I managed to get into a pretty good one a while back.
Where’s a good place to find a good plexshare?
I use a paid plexshare and it rules. Cost aside, it’s so convenient to have everything on one place, especially for kids shows.
How would one go about finding one of these plexshares?
There was a subreddit for it. Wet should create a Lemmy community though.
Which share are you using?
I run a personal plex server for a couple of years now and never knew about plexshare.
I have mixed feelings about it, on one side looks great and I like the social aspect. On the other side, I’m scared this thing is going attract Hollywood lawyers like bears to the honey.
Jellyfin, not Plex ;)
Jellyfin looks like it has more features and has a non-commercial license
https://github.com/Protektor-Desura/Archon/wiki/Compare-Media-Servers (at time of writing this was last updated Nov 2022)
I’ve been meaning to try jellyfin, but I like that Plex has pretty decent first party apps for most devices. How is app support for jellyfin across different platforms? I mostly watch Plex from a Fire TV stick and Chromecast, besides my phone.
If you are casting it really doesn’t matter. Sadly I don’t have a hardware Chromecast, only the software one built into Android TV.
Jellyfin’s advantage, or disadvantage (depending on how you look at it) is that it all uses the same UI with the exception of AndroidTV (incl FireTV) and AppleTV. Apps are basically web wrappers. Which is good on PC and mobile, but for example Xbox…
Jellyfin has a Demo. I haven’t tried if it works on TV or with casting, but it should https://demo.jellyfin.org/
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Building a NAS if your comfortable with it is the better option, better hardware/cost generally then pre-built synology (the benefit is really they are the ones responsible for managing the experience). Once you have the case/hardware, you can toss TrueNAS on it.
Personally, I have one machine setup as a NAS, one machine as a router running VyOS (virtualized on proxmox) with core services, then a few extra machines for things like jellyfin, etc.
I have most of the pokemon collection, you can find a lot of the seasons on ebay and rip them once you get the disks. There are several auto ripping scripts out there (personally made my own, pass through the dvd/blu-ray drive and auto detect media type).
I don’t have to worry about a company just not providing video service anymore for some licensing issue or something
I recycled an old QNAP NAS (old, but still running an Intel Core x86 CPU) installing a small SSD and TrueNAS on top, completely bypassing the QNAP OS and I’m so much happier! It’s a gamechanger!
I’m using Jellyfin on a cheapo dell sff from shopgoodwill website. I hear you on the fragmented children’s content. The kids stuff was a big motivation to set it up.
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I used plex for like a decade. I loved it. It had all the features i would ever need. A year ago i tried out an open source media server called Jellyfin and was blown away. It was so easy i started digitizing my library again. I use makemkv to backup the bluerays (it handles multiple audio streams too), and handbrake to reencode them to a streaming format. If you encode the movies into a streaming format, there’s mo need to re-encode when serving them, thereby saving a lot of provessing.
I’ve still been using Plex, bought a lifetime license a long time ago and it’s mostly been set-and-forget for years (except when they broke plex on the shield for like 3 months, ugh). What are the top things that makes you want to use Jellyfin over Plex?
I’m also interested in hearing what makes Jellyfin better than Plex?
I pretty much followed these guides. I’ve completely cut the cord and streaming services. I just go to my Overseer page and click what I want and it automatically sends it to sonarr, a few minutes later shows up on my plex.
or these ones: https://trash-guides.info
As a Pokemon fan I understand your pain. It’s not like it’s an obscure series, or from a small company. Why is it so hard to stream such a popular anime? I’m surprised The Pokemon Company hasn’t rolled out their own streaming platform yet.
Before diving in to Plex I would highly recommend looking at Jellyfin first also. It’s offers much the same features as Plex but is fully free and open source.
For my own media server I use an old HP Microserer G8 purchased second hand, and upgraded with a Xeon e3-1260L, also sourced cheaply used. It’s small, easy to service and happily runs my Linux disro of choice. I know other people using various SFF PCs, or even repurposed old desktops. For best performance look for a CPU (or GPU) with hardware video encoding support. Otherwise, the rule of thumb for Plex used to be a CPU with at least 2000 Passmark score on cpubenchmark.net per concurrent 1080p stream.
It’s so funny because you can watch the show on the pokemon app but it has the same issue. The seasons are broken up weird, they have weird names. I think they have indigo league and orange islands and that’s it. But it’s not a “streaming service” by any stretch.
I’ll look into jellyfin. I might just try and run it off my PC for now until I have a device I can chuck into my rack.
The easiest would be a Synology Nas, but make sure it has transcoding capabilities otherwise its such a headache if the device you’re playing the video on doesnt support the codec.
otherwise i’d just try and see for a 2nd hand thin client which will be way more powerful than a synology and sweet sweet intel quicksync.
Also look into Jellyfin instead of Plex :)
Can Synology nas with transcoding handle 4k content? I’ve been using my old desktop for ages to handle Plex, but the CPU is too old to handle live transcoding of 4k
depends on which synology model. any intel cpu thats like 8000> generation has very good transcoding support.
My 918+ handles it fine. I think Plex requires the pass to utilize hardware transcoding, though?
Can Synology nas with transcoding handle 4k content?
Only a few models, and most of them have issues with HDR.
This is what you’re looking for: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MfYoJkiwSqCXg8cm5-Ac4oOLPRtCkgUxU0jdj3tmMPc
Thanks! Trying to grok the list. For the hardware transcoding that reports “H264 Output”… What does that mean? Like what limitations will be on the transcoding that they didn’t say “yes”. Does that mean it’s effectively downconverted out of HDR?
Exactly. For HDR content you usually need 10 bits, which is supported by h265 but not h264.
You can technically generate a HDR stream with 8 bits, but good luck finding a TV that can decode such mess correctly.
This means the h264 output (if the file needs to be transcoded) is only SDR.
Would have to be on the beefier end of synology boxes, in my experience my 220+ has not been great for 4k. Perfectly fine for less than that though. So maybe you wouldn’t have to step up much.
I have a Synology DS220+, and it works great as a Plex server for my purposes!
For Pokemon specifically I can recommend pokeflix.tv. I think there are all seasons on there.
A close friend of mine has a Plex server, and set it up for the exact same reason lol - he’s got a ~5 year old whose TV interests of just a handful of different franchise span like 100 streaming services.
Dude said ‘fuck that noise’ and set sail.
Kinda awesome that a key driving force for piracy is just parents placating their toddlers, lol.
For me it’s because all these companies hate Linux for some reason. I have Amazon prime, Hulu, HBO max, and Apple TV, but they would only show sd if I’m on Linux.
For me it’s because all these companies hate Linux for some reason. I have Amazon prime, Hulu, HBO max, and Apple TV, but they would only show sd if I’m on Linux.
While I understand Linux consumers are a tiny, tiny fraction of the market, it also admittedly feels a bit weird that Linux support can be so poor, considering that I bet every one of those is hosted on Linux and developed by a Linux-heavy set of developers. It’s DRM bullshit that just makes things worse for legit users while not seeming to stop pirates anyway.
Much of piracy is down to ease of access, not cost.
I would argue it’s both
That is a user agent thing.
AFAIK, it’s an HDCP thing (DRM), not user agent.
Really? Fuck em. It was easy to just change the user agent some while ago. So if I try it in 4k monitor, it won’t work‽
yes. Fuck DRM
Nope, even if I install wine version of internet explorer, I still get this
I’m glad don’t have to deal with that. Sorry about it.
I use Jellyfin deployed with podman. It is pretty simple to get it installed and then drop movies into the library
