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Just buy them on eBay. Why does it matter where they come from? Again, four of them have to die before it’s no longer worth it. It’s extremely unlikely you’d be that unlucky.

Personally I have 15 drives in my NAS, all of them were bought used and they’ve been running 24/7 for 4+ years without issue. Originally I expected to lose at least one per year but they just keep chugging along. All of them have at least 40k power on hours, with the oldest 3TB ones having over 80k (9+ years)

I use unRAID so if/when one does die it’s as simple as pulling out the dead one, popping in a new one, and letting it rebuild itself.

Especially for hard drives. 8TB SAS drives are down to about $45 a piece.

Brand new enterprise-grade 8TB drives are more around $180 new. Meaning as long as you have redundancy (which you should anyway) then you can lose four used drives before it stops being worth it. Not to mention drives get cheaper so if your $45 drive dies 2 years from now you could probably replace it for $35 etc.

Arch and EndeavourOS are the same thing. There is no functional difference between using one or the other. They both use pacman and have the same repos.

Weird. I’ve had a Pi-Hole + Unbound running on a Pi Zero since 2018 and it’s never had any issues. I expected the Zero to kinda suck but it has been nothing but smooth sailing. It gets USB power from my router and even if my router reboots the Pi also auto reboots itself.

I do next to no maintenance on it and it just keeps on chugging along. Maybe once every six months or so I SSH in and do a pihole -up and that’s it.

Yellow bubbles for all RCS messages.

To be fair it is always my fault when things break not Arch’s. It’s not like Arch does anything on its own.

It’s also ironically easier to use day-to-day than some other commonly suggested distros. Sure something like Mint or Pop_OS is much much easier to set up but later on when you need a newer version or something that isn’t in the repos. Too bad! That doesn’t exist. Time hunt down a PPA and hope it’s trustworthy.

With Arch 99.9% of the time if it’s not in the main repos it’s in the AUR. And since it’s rolling there’s no worry of doing the big upgrades (been seeing plenty of posts about issues with the transition from Fedora 38 -> 39 lately). I have daily driven Arch for almost 10 years now and there have only been a handful of times across that whole span where a pacman -Syu actually broke something.

So yeah, first question is whether or not there is a way to migrate all of that data.

JellyPlex-Watched is exactly what you are looking for.

I don’t think there is a way to migrate the posters but I could be wrong.

Is there a way/tool to do this on jellyfin?

For audio and subtitles there is a setting for Jellyfin to remember which ones you want for a specific series so you select it for one episode and it will keep using it for subsequent episodes. No external tool required. I’m not sure if they are enabled by default but you can find “Set audio track based on previous item” and “Set subtitle track based on previous item” under the Playback settings.

The audio track language/title is often either unamed or named inconsistently, so it often never works. And for subtitles, you have the same issue, except you have to also include the fact that there can, and usually is, two or more English subtitles for dialogue, signs(on-screen text), commentary, etc.

Part of your problem here is also just bad sourcing. If the releases you’re downloading are incorrectly labeling their tracks those releases are probably not worth grabbing. I would avoid whichever ones those are. When they’re done correctly both Plex and Jellyfin (and almost any other player) will correctly select Japanese+Full Subtitles or English+Signs/Songs automatically.

So basically, what are my options for direct-play with jellyfin, if any?

Jellyfin Media Player on desktop, Findroid on Android, Swiftfin on iOS.

It’s 2023. Every device I own is more than capable of playing every format, codec, etc that I could possibly need.

That’s not Jellyfin or Plex’s fault. Especially with anime most is in HEVC which is not supported by most browsers because of patents/licensing issues. Chrome and other Chromium based browsers added support recently but if you use Firefox that is probably the issue.

When my Internet shits the bed, will I be able to keep watching my stuff, or will jellyfin throw a hissy fit and refuse to work, like Plex does.

All accounts on Jellyfin are local so it works perfectly fine offline. My internet actually just went down for a couple hours yesterday and Jellyfin was the only thing I was able to watch.

And any other tips and tricks for migrating from Plex to jellyfin without having to do countless hours of manually configuring/editing my massive library, would be helpful.

One recommendation I have is just run both Plex and Jellyfin at the same time. You can point them at the same folders and they won’t interfere with each other. Then if you end up not liking Jellyfin you can continue using Plex. Something that also helps with recognizing files correctly is if you include the imdb, TVDB, or TheMovieDB IDs in the file names. If you use the *arr apps they can rename them for you. For example all of my files have names like this so it is impossible for them to be misidentified:

Monogatari - S02E01 - Karen Bee Part 1 [imdb-tt1480925] [tvdb-102261] [Bluray-1080p] [x264] [FLAC 2.0].mkv

Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - [imdb-tt1856101] [tmdb-335984] [Bluray-2160p] [x265] [TrueHD Atmos 7.1].mkv

Interesting. Being able to import them using the folders as albums is fantastic, although it seems like there is no {{album}} variable for the storage template so the problem still persists. Once I’m using it there would be no easy to way to export the albums out.

From what I understand (I could be wrong) all of the images get imported into a single folder and albums are done via the database. I currently have my albums in individual folders. So not only would I have to recreate dozens of albums but I don’t think there would be any way to export them in the future. But if that isn’t how it works maybe I will give it another go.

I wanted to try Immich but I quickly found out you can’t simply point it at an existing folder structure like say Plex or Jellyfin. You have to “import” all your files via a client and if you’re like me and already have thousands of images in Nextcloud then even with their bulk upload CLI tool it is too much of a hassle.

Plus I don’t want to be locked into their format, I want to be able to switch if the project goes under or I find something better later on. Nextcloud’s photo management is not great but I am willing to sack some speed and usability for using raw folders rather than a database.

I would be worried about finding drop bears up there.

Plex and JMP both use mpv under the hood, so the only difference is going to be playback settings. I am pretty sure the profile=gpu-hq setting enables debanding so that is probably the culprit. Your mpv example is noticeably smoother so that is some really heavy-handed debanding while Plex goes for something more balanced.

The JMP is probably exactly how the source looks so ideally you should find a better source that doesn’t have banding in the first place. That is some really bit-starved video. But if you want debanding you could try adding an mpv.conf file to JMP and try some different deband settings. The defaults by adding deband=on should be enough but you can also mess with the threshold/range/grain options if necessary.

In the future if it is something you are really worried about it is normal to have subdomains for each docker container using something like nginx proxy manager. It is really easy to setup and you can have cookies for teddit.example.com and radarr.example.com separately.

I would highly recommend that you pay the extra and get the Quadro P400. NVENC is much easier to work with and AMD’s encoding quality in general is really poor in comparison. Also the Pascal cards like the P400 have the 6th gen NVENC encoder while Kepler cards like the K620 only have 4th gen so a huge quality difference there as well. And while neither can encode or decode AV1, the K620 can’t decode HEVC while the P400 can. So if you have any 4K content you actually can’t go any lower.