I’m checking this out to see if it’s useful to me. I can see where being able to drop straight into a shell on a docker container would be handy. My only real gripe is that I can’t use it to connect to my free-tier oracle linux cloud VMs because they deploy OracleLinux out of the box.
I don’t begrudge you wanting to make a living from your work. It’s just frustrating.
I am going to try and live in it for a week or two and we’ll see if it sticks.
Yeah the commercialization model is not perfect yet. Ideally the community edition should include all normal features required for personal use. Would that only be like one machine to connect to or many? I was planning to experiment with allowing a few connections where a license would be required in the community version.
There is a version of VLC for the Nvidia Shield, but it has a somewhat irritating UI and I don’t know if it can actually read the menus like the desktop version can.
Infuse for Apple TV will do this. You can point it to any folder on your NAS as an SMB share. It’s how I play back my own Blu-ray Discs, 4K or otherwise. It doesn’t do menus that I remember, but you can select the title easily enough.
Highly recommend also pointing it to your Jellyfin instance and using that as your front end for other files as it seems to me to have the best ability to do direct playback without transcoding, and the fewest hiccups for audio playback sync issues which can be annoying.
While you can just point Infuse directly at your other folders, its metadata cache gets dumped frequently by the OS, and it has to get rebuilt which is slow and annoying when you just want to watch something. Pointing at Jellyfin also lets you use whatever custom Jellyfin posters you’ve selected which helps for keeping special versions/collections identifiable visually.
Yea, looks like infuse does a good job at just playing the movie both in folder format or ISO which is cool. Instantly recognized the movie. No menus unfortunately :/
Think I might just be barking up a nonexistent tree
Space isn’t really an issue for me and I already have converted versions of these movies. For a select few all time favorites and discs where the full experience is part of the package (like the Criterion) I want to maintain the full bluray experience with all the special features and menus.
I like full menus and unaltered files without layering in additional compression. Also enjoy the extras which is why I get the BDs. Space is cheap in this day so I don’t care if it takes up more space. Quality and features to me matter more.
Plex supports extras just rip them to separate files. It’s true you lose the menu though.
It’s just that the compression on the disks is not very good and you can easily compress them a lot more without really any noticeable loss of quality.
Its 5 devices too so with mullvad id get 10 devices… would be nice that i have another vpn that can do lots of devices maybe 50… but airvpn looks banger for torrenting :) (id need only one pc in airvpn)
Love airvpn, it unfortunately trips captchas a lot, and some sites outright block you. If you’re seeing this up on a router, make a wifi network that’s unprotected just for the sake of convenience.
But torrenting and everything critical, rocksteady.
an old LGA2011 xeon workstation. It is wild overkill (and not very power efficient) but it isn’t only a seedbox and it has as much PCIe expansion as I could ever want.
Switching to porkbun would make things a lot easier for you. DNS challenge is why I switched from Namecheap, and it’s less expensive and considerably easier to administrate.
Being a bit pedantic, and could be wrong, but wouldn’t that make Namecheap your registrar only, which registers whatever nameservers you give it for the domain you own with the relevant gTLD entity?
Kodi can play discs if you rip them directly, menus and all.
If you already have plex setup, add the “plexkodiconnector” addon. It replaces kodis inbuilt, standalone media db with Plex, which gives some nice features like media sync between devices and intro skipping.
Jellyfin can do this with its kodi plugin as well.
Can you explain a bit about Kodi playing the discs? I’ve been toying around with this all morning but can’t figure out how to launch the ripped disc. I’ve setup my network files and browsed to the folder with the ripped disc but there’s no way I can see to actually open the folder as a disc that I can see and googling this has failed me.
Internet -> router/firewall -> your network with all devices
No DMZ needed or wanted.
You will want a dhcp server which will likely be the router/firewall. It will tell all your internal systems to use it as a “gateway” for Internet traffic. The router then allows outbound for everybody and does NAT - basically it makes requests on that systems behalf and sends the results back. If your want external access to a system you configure port-forwarding on the router (again it acts as the middleman between external and internal systems).
Edited to add: I love that you provided a diagram though! Makes it much easier to discuss.
It seems, based on your comments and others in the post, that my next step is to flash OpenWRT and do a deep dive on its firewall functions. Thanks for taking the time to educate me!
Yeah - basic home-networking is typically pretty straight-forward. You’ll want to figure out your basic services (DHCP, DNS, and routing) but after that it’s pretty simple. OpenWRT should handle the DHCP and routing. I’m not sure about DNS though.
DHCP will tell systems "here is your IP, here is the CIDR of the network you are on, here is the router that handles traffic for things NOT on that network (e.g. the internet), and here are the DNS servers you should use for name resolution.
With DHCP you can also hand out “static leases” to give systems reliable IP addresses based on their MAC addresses. Then you can setup a DNS server that does internal name resolution if you want to be able to reference systems by name. This DNS server doesn’t need to be publicly available (and indeed should not be).
The Firewall is typically only for things coming into your network from the internet. You can restrict outbound traffic as well if you want but that’s less common. By default things on the internet will NOT be able to get to your internal systems because of NAT. So to allow things “out there” to access a service running on an internal system you’ll need to do port forwarding on your firewall. This will a) open a port on the internet side and b) send all traffic to that port to a port on an internal system. The router will handle all of the network-to-network and traffic handling stuff.
I’ll make a note here that a firewall is useful for internal traffic, too. Those IoT devices can get pretty annoying, so you’d want to e.g. drop your cheap webcams into a VLAN and disallow them from talking to enjoying but their cloud, and especially the other VLANs, or isolate Alexa capable device so it won’t try to figure what else you got there in your house over mDNS (it will).
A managed switch would do nicely. Having isolated ports on the switch (and the wifi AP) is also great if you want to make sure the specific device will only talk to the gateway and not its peers.
2 - 8 watts of power for a Pi vs 9-150watts for an x86 system. There are definitely use-cases.
I use a Pi for DHCP, DNS with PiHole, Tailscale Subnet Router, Rustdesk server, Vaultwarden, Syncthing (connects to local device shares, rather than run ST on each device), ArchiveBox, and working on instant messaging (maybe SimpleX, not sure yet). It’s kind of maxed out.
But all this runs under 8watts (actually it’s so low my smart switch doesn’t even register the consumption).
New X86 processors are as efficient as the Apple M series. They are far more power efficient than a Pi under load, though they will consume slightly more at idle. But not nearly as much as you’re suggesting.
Uh, my server is an x86, is fanless and the cpu idles at 9 and maxes at 12. Is much faster then my pi and has quicksync.
I run plex, jellyfin, smb shares, mealie, tailscale and rerouting, notes, and books.
I like my pi but performance per watt isn’t as drastic with x86 if you build for it. Did I mention it’s also fanless? Passive heating that just works on the cpu.
Yea, I’ve been eyeing a box like that, looks like it could be useful.
Yep, it’s all tradeoffs, gotta know what you’re shooting for. My Pi cost $5, I’m using an old phone charger (I have many), and an old microsd. If anything fails, I just grab another from the junk box.
All I know with my current use-case is I can’t measure the power consumption with the tools I use. I imagine that means under 5w draw (not really sure what it’s capable of measuring).
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