• toastmeister@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I pay for an emby share personally.

    Plex/emby/jellyfin, there are a ton of paid shares out there that are cheap.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        That’s pretty much the self-made home media system I’ve upgraded to some months ago, only mine has an N100 CPU (which is nicer from a power consumption point of view for an always on system since its TDP is 15W).

        It’s wired to my TV, running Kodi on the foreground, runs qBittrorrent on the background over an always on VPN and serves as my home NAS.

        From Aliexpress I got a wireless remote that let’s me control Kodi as if it was a TV box, so from my sofa I handle it as a TV box whilst from my PC I can ssh to it and to any computer kind of management.

        Probably one of my best purchases ever.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I pay for an emby share personally.

      I read this as “enby share” and thought, “Is that like a queer polyamorous social group? If so, I want in.”

      (BTW I use emby share to pirate too, so no need to explain. My brain just expects the word “enby” first.)

    • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Do I misunderstand emby or does it just not seem like a good deal on the basis of it being an ongoing subscription? I use the free version of emby and it’s really great. There was at least one feature that required payment to unlock. I like emby already and when I tried using jellyfin, the core features that were on both it and the free version of emby worked far less reliably and the paid feature on emby that was free on Jellyfin, worked extremely unreliably. Obviously resources and development had been spent to make something that worked very well and their paid feature probably would too. I use emby to make it easier to cast media locally to my chromecast and to access media on my computer, from my phone in my bedroom, so for me, it’s a fancy file browser and media player. The feature I wanted was to do with free to air tv streaming and I was thinking I’d be happy to pay for the Emby software to unlock this since they made good software that works. But here’s the thing, it’s FREE to air TV and yet they want me to pay, ongoing, in a perpetual arrangement to use it. I don’t get it. I use it to play media, but the media is my media stored on my machines. I understand software development isn’t free, I was happy to pay ONCE, but why would I keep paying when they don’t actually produce the media I use it to play? That seemed unjustifiable.