Pokemon is driving me to want a Plex Server. (lemmygrad.ml)

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My 2.5 year old loves watching classic Pokemon. I'll be honest, so do I. But have you tried doing that? It's fucking insane.

The first half of S1 is on Netflix
The second half is on Amazon but you need an extra subscription to watch it.
The theird season (johto) is also Amazon.
The 4th is no where but Archive.org of all places... Which is called Johto Champions, so it really feels like the end of the season but it's another 52 episodes!

You would think pokemon.com would have all this (they have a lot, and it's all free) but they don't!

Seeing S4 (is that even right?) On Archive.org is really pushing me to want to build a Plex server. Having all this content in one place would be very nice.

I do IT work by day, and I have some older 2TB platter drives from a retired camera server laying around. What's the easiest way to get my foot in the door? Do I save up some $$ for a Synology box?

Love to get your input!

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[-] rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.io 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How many drives do you have laying around? Synologys are nice (I have 2) but they’re a little pricey. You could go with one of the plus units and run Plex directly from there.

One of my coworkers got a TerraMaster NAS and installed Xpenology (basically the synology OS) on it. There hardware is a little cheaper.

[-] RedWizard@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I think I salvaged like 6 of them. I'd have to dig them out of a box for a good count.

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[-] entropicshart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Most TVs can read from a usb drive directly; I used to load up all the the seasons of Pokémon onto a external hdd, usb plug it into the tv and just watch it directly

[-] athos77@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

We have an old desktop that's usually turned on for one reason or another. The easiest thing for us was to make the D:\ drive visible on wifi, put all the media on the D:\ drive, and stick VLC on everyone's Roku/FireTV sticks. That way we didn't have to manually add new things to specific drives or worry about which TV's could watch which shows or accidentally run out of space on a thumb drive.

[-] boothin@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I also used plex for my kids for a while and for the longest time I simply put a couple HDDs into my personal PC and ran plex off my PC. It was more than adequate for just letting them watch whatever shows they wanted, no need to go crazy if you don't have the need for more!

[-] RedWizard@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

This is true... I have a feeling my PC is pretty power hungry. I'll see how hard it would be to get my PC to WoL. I could have it boot up on a schedule and then power off on a schedule.

I can always migrate off it later.

[-] MisterB@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I also work in IT and I hate for old things to go to waste so a lot of my Plex server is 'salvaged' hard drives from desktops that were collecting dust after the changeover to thin clients.

It's mostly desktop hardware I run, the only thing that's remotely 'server grade' is the Dell Raid card that came out of a decommissioned server also from work.

Also, if you can then encode your files in MP4 for maximum compatibility across devices and less overhead. Plex is great

[-] mrpibb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I’m using Jellyfin on a cheapo dell sff from shopgoodwill website. I hear you on the fragmented children’s content. The kids stuff was a big motivation to set it up.

[-] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Jellyfin, not Plex ;)

[-] malloc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Jellyfin looks like it has more features and has a non-commercial license

https://github.com/Protektor-Desura/Archon/wiki/Compare-Media-Servers (at time of writing this was last updated Nov 2022)

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