ITT: Share your home media setups. Because fuck all these subscription services.I'm using picrel on an old CRT I have in my house to capture that 90's era programming. I've got a Pi5 with a 2TB NVME connected to it, running 4 channels at the moment. The whole setup was about $250, if memory serves. The case in picrel fits the Pi perfectly, and then I run an HDMI to Coax adapter out to my CRT. My kids love it, we call it the "time machine" in our house. Source for the project is all here:https://github.com/shane-mason/FieldStation42I'm trying to set up a movie channel, and I want to add more 4:3 movies to the lineup. I've spent the last 3 days drudging through the Internet Archive for halfway decent VHS rips of movies and found a few. Does anyone have any recommendations for good sources of 4:3 movies?Here's a few of the shows my kids love:https://archive.org/details/the-big-comfy-couchhttps://archive.org/details/WishboneTVSeries19951997https://archive.org/details/MSBTVSerieshttps://archive.org/details/double-dare-1988_202011What does your media center look like? What software are you using? What hardware?
In my basement I have an HP 380 Gen9 server running proxmox. I built a VM that I pass a 980ti to, this is hooked to a TV in my living room via a 50ft HDMI cable passed through the wall. There is also a long USB, for bluetooth mostly, this lets me use a wireless controller on my TVVM. I have a snapshot from the moment I got the VM setup as I wanted, so if anything goes wrong I can just restore the backup and move on like nothing happened.I run a pihole LXC as well to blackhole ads. My phone is connected to my pfsense VPN so anywhere I go I am protected by the pihole as well.
>>2939004I'm assuming VM is for running streaming sites? Do you run the mainline ones or do you have alternative sources that you use?
>>2938987A 1964 silvertone 7407 tube stereo receiverAuvio HD receiverproton 240 tape deckPioneer PL-990 record playerOnkyo 6 disk CD changer2 rebuilt/reconed 60 watt 1964 the fisher XP-9C speakers, with modern tweeters.
Sony 75" TVSony Blueray playerRCA surround sounda computer I got for freeoptimus 10" stereo speakers.some 3 speaker center speakeraltec landsing rear channel speakers
2010 amd phenom ii six core 16gb ramold ass hd6970 that will run arkham asylum but drags ass on anything newer*arrembynot quite 40tb of storage (not even half full)various pis running libreelec on various tvs and such2.3k movies80+ shows with over 6k episodes50k songs give or take
>>2938987get a SSD in there it's actually a good build
>>2939327I do. It's a 2TB NVME SSD on a riser going into the board. Picrel, it's the riser board I used.
>>2938987> movie ripsMovies? I want the commercials left in for full effect. Also you should re-broadcast them.So you can tell two friends, and they’ll tell two friends, and so-on, and so-on, and so on.
>>2939373You're in luck, FieldStation42 will automatically stitch in whatever commercials you add to it.https://github.com/shane-mason/FieldStation42/wiki/2:-Add-Station-Content#about-bumps-and-commercialsSo you can add whatever commercials you want. I've got over 200 in my setup, separated by kids programming and everything else.
>>2938987I have a WD TV Mini Media Player plugged into my 27" Sony Trinitron ProFeel CRT TV. I've already watched a few movies on it so far this year, the most recent one being 28 Days Later. It is perfect for anything like that shot in standard-definition, or AVI files. For my 77" LG OLED TV all I do is simply plug in a USB stick with my latest downloaded torrents from my PC, and everything works perfectly.
>>2938987This is cool. Thanks anon. Some torrent sites might unironically be good archives.>morethantv.me or other private torrent sites>fmhy.net is a collection/jumping off point; may have some useful links
>>2940550I have a private tracker that I use that's got a ton of great material. Most public trackers are too suspect for me, barring the more obscure media. I'll check out fmhy, that site sounds interesting.
I just built a cheap server with a PCIe SAS HBA in IT mode from ebay and filled it with cheap HDDs shucked from externals that were on salemergerfs is pretty nice it lets you get up and running with very little planningI use premade docker containers for all the services I run
>>2941956>145.6TBWhat's on your SAS, anon? What's the oldest file?
>>2941981linux isosI don't know the oldest file I have one that says the date modified is from 1881 but thats obviously wrong. I do have screenshots from 2010
We own most of our media (been collecting for years). It's all digital. We stream VERY little and it's usually only stuff we don't care to own. I run a Linux server on an old machine (AMD Athlon X4, 32GB ECC ram, 14TB storage and a tiny SSD for the OS). We use SFTP for all connections and in every room, we have a TV in almost every room that is connected to either an old tiny desktop or an Amazon FireStick. In my router, I block all internet traffic to the Amazon sticks (no ads, no nothing) and use Kodi to watch all the movies/shows etc. The living room has the most powerful machine (a mobile i5 with 4GB ram and an SSD running a HIGHLY customized Linux, optimized for streaming, gaming, video chat etc...) and we use a KB400 keyboard touchpad combo to control everything on that machine. I make custom shortcuts and add them to Plank (a self hiding MacOS-like dock) so we can launch whatever we want (Kodi, Food Network, Minecraft, whatever) and it all goes through a simple 2.1 stereo. We don't like being too immersed with 8K Amoled and 9.2 surround. We like TV the way it was when we were young. We also use the Linux server to record our security cameras (VM running AgentDVR) and to host a NextCloud instance that we use for our businesses. Karaoke is HELLAfun because we use YouTube for all the karaoke vids, and we pull out our portable PA and two mics so people can sing and we have some strobes and LEDs. It's pretty cozy at our place and it costs me almost nothing because I use old free hardware.
>>2943200How is your storage connected? Is it on a NAS? Or are the drives connected directly to the server? If it's the latter are they set to automatically mount on startup? Does that make adding new content difficult? I ran into issues with my two internal drives on my general use desktop with automatic mounting. Wondering if you know something I don't...What distro do you use in the living room? Looking to do something similar in my house.
>>2938987>we call it the "time machine" in our householy shit, I've been looking for something like this, thanks for sharing.>>2939380Does it add them at set time intervals or can it scan for blank/silent spots in movies and insert breaks there?
>>2943215The logic is a little funky on that at the moment. I believe the current roadmap plan is to use chapters in the near future. Right now, it's a little random when it inserts the commercials. There was a whole thing a few months ago where they tried black screen detect, but it caused more problems than it solved. So the creator scrapped it for the new plan.
>>2943212The drives are directly connected and I use ZFS to manage them so the server IS essentially a NAS (with much more power and flexibility). I use different flavors of Linux but Mint is usually my go-to. Automounting drives is easy as pie. I can help you correct your mistakes.
>>2943212I forgot to address one of your inquiries: What do you mean by "difficult" when you ask about adding content? Storage is storage. I copy files to and from my internal drives like any other drive.
>>2939078Nice
>>2943411I run mint on my desktop. I used the disks app in the launcher. I turned on auto mount in there. When I did, files would be locked to read only and I could only access them when I accessed the drive as root.USB connected drives would automatically mount, but my internal drives connected via SATA would only work with root permissions.But this is venturing into /g/ territory...
>>2943415Right. The drives are being mounted with fstab and the highest level directory (the mount point) is owned by root. Simply change the ownership of the mount point and set sane permissions. Something like: sudo chown -R username /mountpoint/on my system, that looks like:sudo chown -R steve /media/steve/04fgh56/You would then set permissions to something like:sudo chmod -R 755 /mountpoint/chown will assign ownership. chmod is used to modify permissions. The -R flag applies those changes recursively (meaning that all files and subdirectories under the mount point, and not just the mount point itself, are set with the same ownership and permissions as the mount point).755 basically means that you have exclusive read/write/execute permissions, while all others have read only permissions.If we go into much further detail, the others in this thread will likely get annoyed and we might start an intellectual masturbation debate, where the "AKSHULLY" people will all want to chime in.Let me know if I can assist you further. I'm sure I can help you break something else haha
