As the title states I am wondering what would be a good machine to build for my piracy. I am open to buying a used machine on eBay and expanding over time.

The last time I was sailing I had a Dell R610 Server Rack but I don’t have the space for this now. So something that can sit behind a tv stand in the corner next to the router.

  • I would be running Plex / Jellyfin
  • Some kind of torrent software
  • Something for NZBs if still viable
  • then the usual SONARR, RADARR, etc

I would like to be able to let friends connect from outside my house to stream media and allow them access so they can add films and the server goes off and finds them, extracts them, and adds them to the media server.

Thanks.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    The only things that really matter are storage space and power consumption. If you want to transcode videos, then you will need a GPU that supports encoding whatever codec you want to use.

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      Thanks.

      This is useful as I didn’t really know what “transcoding videos” meant and why I might need to be concerned with it.

      I now know that it the process of converting a video from its original format, resolution, or bitrate. And that this can be important if one of my friends is using a device that say isn’t 4K compatible and all my content is 4K.

      I know you probably already know this, but I thought I would add for others that may stumble across this.

      • CCMan1701A@startrek.websiteEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        I avoided transcoding by making sure to only host videos compatible with all clients. Also, I will spend the time to reencode codes that are too large for my taste. Which happens after a rip of uhd disks.

        H265 with slow preset really works wonders for non-grainy film. AV1 is what you have to use when there is grain.