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Bruh just use jellyfin. Using it for over 2 years w/o a hiccup.
Do you host it locally or in the cloud? Can you use it while traveling? /gen
not the commenter your responding but yes with proper setup travel is no issue.
I've never tried to host in the cloud so I have no input on that, but locally + tailscale is very doable and pretty dead simple to setup and manage.
I would highly recommend the linuxserver.io docker image. with a modern cpu and the docker image, transcoding won't be too much of an issue with most titles and only one or two users. my server has media only in hevc, so some clients need transcoding. my 3700k is perfectly fine with it.
if you want to expose it to a domain you gotta be a little more careful, reverse proxy + an external auth provider like authentik at minimum is what I would suggest. fail2ban and anubis are also great ideas.
I have it on my n100 mini pc server in docker. I expose it to the open internet through a reverse tunnel (Pangolin) hosted on a VPS in my city. It is secured by crowdsec and geoblock whitelist mode. I can access it from anywhere in my country. If travelling abroad I will just whitelist that country. Me and my gf do watch parties on it in 4k while simultaneously my brother and sis in law watch something on it on their TV. Bandwidth is not a problem at all. The only hiccup that might come is while transcoding multiple streams. You need capable hardware for it. It hasn’t impacted me yet.
What about Emby? Or Kodi? Or DNLA streams?
Haven’t tried them. I have tested Kodi with Jellyfin Integration, which works well, as I am planning to use some old PC as an HTPC with Kodi sometime later.