• Scrollone@feddit.it
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    10 months ago

    You can always setup a nice Plex server and give them all the movies they want.

    It’s not like you can’t unsubscribe from Netflix

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      10 months ago

      I have to find the time to do it, I had seen jellyfin as a solution, but I also have to find something that acts as a server, my raspberry pi 3B+ is not powerful enough for 1080p+ streaming

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        10 months ago

        If you parents have a standard TV stick or Apple TV their devices support a variety of codecs.

        This means that you can “direct stream” content from Plex / Jellyfin with minimal CPU impact.

        At 1080p it should at least support ~4 direct streams when it doesn’t have to “transcode”.

        That said, even if it is weak by today’s standards it’s a good platform to learn the setup on. Then you can move to something else more powerful (but still cheap) once you understand it all.

        At least that’s how I did it, 3b+ -> Pentium J5040

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        10 months ago

        Personally I bought a used office PC (with 8 GB of RAM and Intel i5 6th generation) on eBay for less than 100 €. It works really great!

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          10 months ago

          yes, but singleboard computers take up less space, make less noise and have almost non-existent energy consumption

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      10 months ago

      I find this to be an option with Movies/TV Shows but a struggle with Music. At least once my kids were older and listening to stuff. They were constantly asking for stuff to be downloaded, my mom and wife were asking for stuff, my brother, etc. Had a subsonic server set up and just got tired of actively managing it. Spotify isn’t great but it works and it saves a headache. I just wish there was better options because I don’t like the Spotify app. YouTube Music is even worse, especially since it subscribes to everything on YouTube too so all my subscriptions got jacked up.