I have 16TB NAS dedicated to storing TV shows. It is just a cabinet with ryzen 2600 and no graphics card. I have installed openmediavault in it to access it via smb to other devices. I am an absolute noob in setting up a server. Please tell me how I should go on about turning it into a media consumption machine.
P. S: I usually use VLC on android and MPV on linux to consume the media.
You can set up wireguard on a compatible router in 5 minutes or set it up through docker just as quickly. Then you can use that to tunnel into your network and watch media as if you were there. Never had any problems except when trying to do it on mobile data in low reception areas. On someone elses wifi, no difference than when at home.