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- Published on Mar 16, 2026
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We all know he started pirating right after this video… 😂
fr LMAO
I never payed for movie to watch on my tv. All pirate on 4k UHD. I also go on theaters to watch movies.
But can’t prove
@Djmaxofficialyes the only way to pay for movies is theater
piratebay is one of the best creations of humanity
Your local library is a huge resource for free dvds and blu rays.
TECHNICALLY that's pirating though if you rip them. Technically. That's pretty much the same as peer-to-peer sharing.
@wildphilpresents pirating, but you're saving internet bandwidth, no risk of viruses, no cable or movie companies who can track your IPs to try to get your ISP to remove you (yes, they do that in the states), and the highest quality possible via physical media.
@wildphilpresents As long as he isnt giving access to other people there is virtualy no way of him getting caught doing it :)
They normally have encrypted dvds
@wildphilpresents Legally? Yes. The issue is that no company has enough resources to look into everyone who borrows DVDs from libraries.
Sailing the high seas is justified,don't be scared
I could even say that its elite, or rather 1337x.TOnight is a great day for pirating
If buying isnt owning, "sailing" isnt stealing
@Basti08XDYeah!
you say this until the knocks at the door
@thisismyname1701 well i didnt do it yet but im getting closer...
I think this idea would be great with like 10 friends, each person could upload whatever personal collection they already have and slowly add more overtime.
I’ve been trying to talk some friends into this. Then we all agree to contribute a fee we previously sent to Netflix/hulu/Disney whatever, to the library budget. Biggest problem I’ve been having is our DVD library consists mostly of Disney movies for the kids and my best friends have almost entirely adult anime and obscure Korean horror flix. Nothing wrong with either of those things but does leave a number of big holes in the library 😅
Yeah imagine if there was a sort of website full of people uploading their personal collections to share with other people? That'd be crazy.
@PeronJamesPiracy!
@LazarusLong10 Go to your local library and borrow CDs there
for that you need good internet speed and the owner needs to have A LOT OF UPLOAD or download if multiple users happend to do it at once.
when you gonna watch you will burn owners upload for the duration which can go with 4k files from 60-120mbs easily. and you will need to match that with your download speed.
now if everyone happans to watch at the same time, you can imagine, he needs to have over 1Gbs of upload with internet carrier.
If buying the movie doesn't mean owning a copy, then pirating the movie doesn't mean stealing a copy.
^^^
THIS
Damn thats good 👍🏼
fr
Yes pirating is just downloading the whole trailer which include all of the movie 😌 pirate4life
and finally buy a solar panel
*panel
@vvishknewgotta buy a new keyboard
A solar array saves a load of power over the course of a year. A modest 3kW array here in Australia generates as much as 19kWh on a good day, and will still manage a couple on a bad one. Don't expect to get much out of the power company for what you export to the grid though.
Not very helpful when they can modify the weather at any given time
@disarrayxxwho is and can modify(ing) the weather my love
Not recommending, but a trip to your local library can give you a bunch of CDs if you only need them for a few days 😏
why did I never think about this
@AlexanderPulsipher i always did this lol and u can see which cd is in which library on the library pc
& what if your library is closed down in your City due to budget cuts 😂
@Emperor-Inker go to another city ig?
Dvds aswell
4:35 it's funny how simplified drawings of cellphones used to be rectangles with pills at the bottom and now it's a rectangle with a pill at the top
That’s actually a really good observation
Best off topic comment.
I liked this comment
I appreciated this comment too
@hosstamon topic. off topic: Who is your favorite Undertale boss?
Arrrg, may the seas be ever kind, fellow pirates. Buying isn't owning. You'll own nothing and be happy.
This is just an excuse over the real reason which is wanting to save money lol. You don’t care about your ownership of Toy Story 4 bro
But I care about owning a copy of “The Pursuit of Happyness” in its full pixelated form yet all the streaming platforms either hide the film or fiddle with the quality of streaming that the film looks like it’s shot on a silver lens the whole way through so we are all justified in our reasonings to sail the seas..:
@byteblox100 could not care less about the money I spend if I actually get something that is worth it in return, but these subscriptions are pure corporate greed and basically a legal way of stealing from the ordinary people. Money isn't everything my guy, maybe you'll learn that one day.
Buying is owning a licence which lets you watch the movie. Therefore, you buy to own the movie.
@blyat420 I see subscriptions as convenience tbh. Like if I want to own something yeah there are many super easy ways to find and download it lol. But platforms like steam and Spotify let me access millions of these instantly
One thing that is really the kicker for me is that instead of 20,000 titles of which 99% are garbage, I have 100 titles, all of which I love watching and sharing, and also represent me and my tastes in a way that is better than any algorithm. I still have a CD player in the car and typically I just cycle out the same 6 Albums and occasionally add and replace one of the albums.
Yup. And you can self-host an open-weights AI to recommend movies and shows to you that are similar to your interests.
@thatguyalex2835get that ai slop suggestion outta here
@IRDStudioAI isn't actually bad lol, TikTok and other social media maybe even RUclips used AI for user algorithms (cmiiw). Ppl only hate it when it comes to AI "arts" cause it stole actual human art for the purpose of "learning" when it didn't have any permission from the artist it stole its arts to study from.
Exactly this. I only own a baker's dozen titles on Betamax and a small collection of phonautograms which play reliably in my Fiat 4 HP.
AI is actually bad because it uses up the Earth’s natural resources (especially water), and huge amounts of electricity to answer stupid people’s stupid inquiries, all while those same stupid people get taxed to hell for the same reason. On top of that, it’ll often just spew some bs to make you like it, so you’ll spend more time with it. People are using ChatGPT as their psychologist, training this AI while freely providing these tech companies with even more personal information than you already freely give out on facebook, twitter and what not.
On top of that, AI will replace everyone it can in time, making people jobless and causing a new financial crisis. It’ll create soulless art - painting and photographs which are in reality nothing but mashups of hundreds of thousands of human creations; movies with no actors, no writers, no talent; music with no thought or heart behind it - but it’ll probably sound ok.
That’s why AI is bad. Not because it stole, though it is part of it. But because it’ll kill us all; just not exactly like Terminator. AI is controlled by the rich, and the rich couldn’t give less of a shit about any of us.
But ok, self hosting an AI is possible, right. Your model will still come from somewhere, still have to be trained on datasets of some sort, and it’ll still suck.
I sure do hope it’s just a bubble that’s about to burst spectacularly.
Thrift stores have a HUGE selection of DVD's, always. like fill a bag or a basket or 10 for 10 bucks, and I mean.. You can always donate them back for them to sell again - double up for the good cause
Yeah, if you don't like the movie, it was only a buck, and donate it back, and consider it as a donation.
@Yt-Viewer0 The first time I did this it hit me, "well it's cheaper than renting from blockbuster"
YOU NEED AN UPS POWERBREAK! Cant stress this enough. I havent setted up one myself on my own server. But I know thats the next step.
This is basically so when power goes out you still get a few minutes so that your services shut down *gracefully*
100% I got one a little after and it has already saved me a few times
@WhatsAnotherHobby From my experience: In case of SHTF try to simulate power loss (even if you have a UPS) of the server and check if it starts gracefully too without errors after sudden power loss - power on ac loss set to always on in BIOS/UEFI and check if services start properly + filesystem is correctly mounting.
And one storage helpful setting is to disable storage write cache to prevent bigger data loss.
If you buy an old laptop to use as your server the laptop battery will act as an UPS
@WhatsAnotherHobbygood call. Do you have your server connected to the UPS? You can set it to gracefully shut down if the UPS is about to run out of charge. This has saved me a few times as well
@matthewbunn2017 is there a way to get the laptop to automatically power on after ac loss?
Samsung doesn't sell RAM sticks, at least to consumers, so when they're referring to Samsung they're only referring to the chips, which is the only part that matters anyway (in theory)
Thanks for the info, yea seeing a few people mention that. Good to know. That listing Was a little odd though it gotten taken down soon after I bought. Ended up eventually finding a better deal on a set at MicroCenter a little later
That’s true, the one shown in the video had the Micron logo on the chips though. And if the sticker on it was genuine (it’s also accurately listed like this on Newegg) he got a better ECC RAM set than the Samsung one. 3200 with a CL of 22 vs 2400 CL 17 has ~25GB/s bandwidth vs ~19 and an approximately 0.4ns lower latency
And there’s me running my NAS on a raspberry pi 4
Aura
@mlandry5244 couldn't help it (also hadn't got to that part of the video lol)
OG
Just for the private working cloud is great, a lifetime investment. I had a GoPro option with cloud storage, missed a payment and after 4/5 years (I can’t recall) all the unique footage and personal data I stored while upgrading my other systems was gone. Footage from wandering the deserted Covid streets of the centre of my home town, all gone
Damn...I'm sorry to hear that
sooo fcked. disappointed but not surprised
Can't you contact support and ask them to pay for it? It's probably not really deleted forever tbh, at least for a couple of years. I know it sounds bad paying for your own stuff, but if you really care about it, ask them to pay for it. Pay what they ask(or try to negociate if you want) and then be done with them and make your own "cloud". It will cost you a pretty penny because you need at least 2, preferably 4 drives(size of each you determine, depends on how much data you want to put in the "cloud") and configure them to be using the space of 2 and the other 2 for redundancy. So 2 can fail and you're still good to go, just replace the ones that failed a.s.a.p. and you have peace of mind again.
Sorry to hear that this why I like home storage units nas or a sever where one can control.
Ask them for data export (GDPR thing) even if you are not GDPR country citizen.
LOL. I accomplished this with 22tb of storage on my home computer and installing Jellyfin. I stream my media to my TV and other devices around the house. I have Jellyfin and tailscale on my phone to connect me from where ever I am. I switched my computer over to Linux about a year ago and since then have learned to do a hell of a lot more than I ever knew before.
Right but did you set your media server to do transcoding on the fly?
I'm being sarcastic here. Isn't it insane to have the server do this at all? How many esoteric unsupported codecs is he going to use? What obscure lost technology is he and his friends going to be accessing it with? (no, I'm not asking sarcastically)
@UnanimousDelivers My system works perfectly.
I personally couldn’t get jellyfin to work but love Emby
@leo1999matt It took me a while to figure out the tricks to getting jellyfin going but it's easy once you get it. I am going to have to check out Emby.
Piracy is fully Legal here, so i fully take advantage of that
when i watch and rip movies/tv shows
odn-n6q Switzerland probably
@hugojiyen6973 holy i didnt even know that its legal here thank you 🙏 ill have to build my own nas now
odn-n6q Somalia 😀
odn-n6q probably albania
If 'piracy' is fully legal where you are, then it is not piracy. That said, file sharing is not illegal anywhere (regardless of how they lie to you about it), therefore downloading a file from others is perfectly fine. Where it does become illegal is when someone asks for money in order to download that file.
It’s a neat idea. My university friends and I built a media server / NAS like this around 2002. It was full of BitTorrented content, digitized versions of our own VHS/DVD libraries, mp3s, photos, etc. I miss those days, the internet was…better.
I love who you explained everything without just talking about how good the nas are
For your physical media: libraries, thrift shops, estate and yard sales, facebook marketplace - ESPECIALLY if you are okay with DVD versions of movies
Question: will true blue ray DVD's audio and picture quality better than streaming sites
@Ah-fx2ltyes, but if you rip to a media server like he did you can stream that same quality if you have fast enough lan, ideally gigabit
Blueray, yes, DVD no.
Craigslist always has a few people selling massive DVD collections too, if you are near a metro
After my favorite show was taken off Netflix, I decided to start collecting blu rays and dvds. Maybe it takes up physical space, but at least I have access to the media I love! Plus it’s not exactly like I was watching Supernatural on my phone or anything lol
I can definitely think of a couple shows I'd like to watch again that I should grab
Same, started buying records, DVD's, and CD's.
Good luck with that. Sounds like you enjoy watching things a decade or more after they come out. Great for classic films, useless for 75% of tv or anime and worthless for so many documentaries that can only be gotten from cloud sources.
I have a huge Dvd Collection, but getting anything on dvd made in the past 10 years in a format I can read (and keeping spare players to use with my pre-smart tv so I don't have to use the net) is NOT an easy task.
@WhatsAnotherHobby this is madness dude just pay netflix premium $15.99
@josephteller9715 Did you completely ignore they were buying Blu-rays too?
without piracy this is WAY more expensive than just paying for streaming services for months that u want to use it
Local libraries and pirating
long term cost for streaming services will bite you harder than the initial cost of buying and setting this up while also acquiring media
@mother8304 thats only if u pay every month for streaming and use multiple services. for me, i just get hulu free trial every month with new accounts, ive had netflix annual subscription since it came out around 2009 ish, and prime video comes with amazon prime for shopping. if theres a show i really want to watch, then i would pay for just a month of subscription which is only like 9 bucks. i also have tons of dvds that i burned from redbox rentals. hes paying lots of money for dvds he probably wont even watch, and they already amount to over a month of subscriptions. so maybe it will "bite harder" in like 10-12 years worth of yearly subscription to amount to the cost he took to make the system and buy dvds for it, but other than that, i still think its not worth it at all if hes not pirating thats js the facts.
@nolanfontaine7973 dude libraries have SO much selection for movies/tv shows idk why more ppl dont realize that. kanopy and hoopla are some popular apps/websites u connect to ur library and its like its own free streaming service
@nolanfontaine7973 Not everyone has a local library, not everyone's local library has digital media + they literally said "without piracy"
Libraries also tend to have copies of things you might not be able to find. My local library system had DVDs of tons of series I couldn't find in stores or had exorbitant prices on eBay. Between the library and raiding my parents dvd collection I was able to pretty easily remove my streaming dependence.
Another way you can cut money on making this is to get a library card. Most libraries have DVD, blurays, and CDs available for rent and they are free. I plan on making a NAS with an old laptop that I was planning on tinkering with anyway so hopefully I can make this for like basically pennies :’)
you just reminded me i have a nas sitting behind my television collecting dust.
i should probably like. plug it in and see if it works. and maybe set it up.
then send it to me...
I didnt understand half of what you said in the video, but it was really cool to watch. Now I want my own server 😅.
The cool Thing is you can just Ask friends and family if they still have some DVD's and Blueray sitting in the basement for you to borrow and copy.
What I also would use that cloud for is hosting a photo Library with all the family Photos that you just never Look at because they are sitting on some hard-Drives and SD-Cards. Way more accessible that way.
And a PDF-Library with all the old articles I painfully photocopied from books in University. No Idea why I would read about anchient pottery and sociology again but I COULD if I wanted to lol.
highly highly recommend seeing if your local library ever has a book sale!! mine does semi annually and u can get cds for as little as 25 cents! plus tons of dvds of movies, tv shows, etc
3:22 holy shit the cosmic ray meme lives on
6:25 literally just get a library card?
That’s smart
i dont get it do u mean like use the computers in ur local library?
@ammoYAYno, libraries let you borrow discs with movies and stuff, and you can just borrow a disk and rip the file off of it
@0nlyvictorr ohhh Smarrttttt
@0nlyvictorr yes but that's just pirating with extra steps 😂 and if you aren't pirating you're just back to borrowing 😂
5:42 use tailscale!
yes
That wiggle isn't for good measure it's a holy ritual by this point
I have a raspberry pi with 7 terabytes of storage, it runs jellyfin, homepage, Syncthing, Filebrowser, qbit with gluetun and watchtower all via docker containers except for tailscale that runs native and i'm not even using 1/8 gb of ram i have, with less than 10% cpu usage. I feel like a raspberry (entire thing cost me 150 bucks btw) is underrated if you already have two external drives laying around. (one of them is 1tb ssd, one of them is 6tb hdd). but if you have less that's perfectly manageable. So if anyone would want to get into this it's not even gotta be expensive.
Can you tell me how did you set it up
hey little question: how did you expose your containers to tailscale
i tried to funnel those and it doesn't work for me
@TheAntonyTious So my Pi and my Laptop are both on my Tailscale network. My Docker containers use the default bridge networking, I do everything via docker-compose.yml files so i just assign the ports to the services with :
ports:
- 8096:8068
Like this ports are bound to the host, which is my pi, and tailscale runs directly on the pi (not in a container) if your tailscale runs in a container that's probably the issue.
Another issue it might be if that's not it: check if you have something like ufw setup, or other firewall rules. They might block the traffic between tailscale and docker.
its all got levels depending on buget, limitations and dangers (mostly datalose and such, unless useing real low quality hardware)
these kinds of things can range from old garbage to useing better hardware then many actualy survice providers
@nikolaideianov5092 idk i just use two drives that back up each other and i've never had an issue. I've got a good samsung t9 ssd though as one of them so it works well.
But recent movies and series can only be obtained through piracy?
Pretty much. in another year physical media may legit be dead for new releases.
If only we had endless media from the last several decades...
@iPlayThat At that point they aren't even worth watching. Some old movies are great too
you know sailing the high seas is ok cuz they will never know
I download from pirated sources and watch them on VLC. As a layman, it is hard to understand why this is different.
(I live in a country where piracy laws are not enforced)
being able to store at home and watch or listen anywhere, storing information about where you are in a series, sharing with friends or family. stuff like that. Not fun to have a lot of movies stored on your phone for example.
With things like plex/jellyfin it gives you a nice frontend like Netflix with all the movie covers, synopsis and associated meta data of your watch history.
You can also stream out to other devices across your home from a single computer.
The other benefit is sharing outside of your home network via your internet. But this has higher hardware requirements due to transcoding and can be limited by your upload speeds.
There's also additional security risks when sharing your media server if you poke holes in your routrr/gateway via port forwarding. For this you want to utilise a vpn back to your home network with something like tailscale/teleport/open vpn etc.
It's not massively different, it's about set and forget the place where the movie is physically stored and being able to access it from anywhere by anyone you want to be able to access it. I partially do something like this with my pc, i use a smart plug and on the bios I have it set up to turn on if the power goes out and comes back. So i can turn my pc remotely and then i use tailscale to access it remotely and i mostly use it to play games.
Maybe when i get a new pc i'll turn it into more of a real server, the equation seems to me a lot more interesting when you have an old pc rather than having to buy the parts, even if you find good deals on the used market.
@doctorno3912 i never got into the streaming services and simply having all my movies in the same folder is enough, even my old tv can browse external smb storage and find the file by name. Hell, i already made an effort to get the file, i am pretty sure i want to watch it. Do people really use transcoding these days? Haven't seen it since DLNA was a thing. Every time i look, everything is either in h264 or in one of the three codecs supported by every 2020s device.
what websites allow u to download the movies?
6:23 Bro, just say you started pirating, it's not a shame... If you don't own what you buy, than piracy isn't stealing 🏴☠️
He’s not saying it because piracy is a crime punishable by the FBI and he would be publicly admitting it
Flea markets and online auctions are good for boxes of DVDs
Get a library card for your local libraries. If they see that you come in and check out 5 CDs and DVDs a week and then swap them for new ones the next, they won't stop you. Just don't do the trips more than once a week, lest they get a little suspicious.
I download my apple bought movies and shows and then throw them onto a drive, that way I have the copies ‘forever’. They do sales each day for movies that are less than 5 of whatever currency you use. Nice way to build up a solid collection.
i downloaded 80 4k movies in 2 hours for $0
How did you locally store your movies bought through Apple?
@3O98 wonderful
@kaushalanurag18 onto a drive, NAS is the next stage.
How does that work? Do apple not prevent you from downloading the file?
LOL. How to say 'pirating' without saying pirating. Yo ho ho!!😂
12:18 Holy based music taste man
What is that album between From Mars to Sirius and Cloud Factory? It's the only one I don't know.
EDIT: Nevermind, went down a few comments and found it lmao
EDIT 2: ITS SOO GOOD HOLY SHIT
If anyone is still wondering its "Afterburner" by "Dance Gavin Dance"
For accessing everything from outside your home, Tailscale is your best friend!
I used the 3D printer to print a 3D case for the 4 bay drives and used a lenovo thinkcenter M920q, Hexa Core i5-9500T, 16 GB DDR4. The QuickSync works fine for most tasks and I have 4x 8TB drives in Raid 10. I use Jellyfin and works flawlessly. Yours is overkill, but for a RUclips video it had to be.
In a perfect world we would all have server boxes instead of wifi boxes.
12:17 Dance Gavin Dance mentioned!!!!! Afterburner is so fire
Love that Album
@WhatsAnotherHobby build a python tool that scrapes all IPTV links mu3 or whatever from all over internet
would be good then it auto transcode it using ffmpeg (mp4)
this is one of the best videos i've seen on 15 years of fooling around
i'm just waiting till the time earn money and build these, watching people build this and implement these is crazy, being in high school in a country where even for part time work being 18 years old is mandatory.
What an incredibly informative, easy to follow and enjoyable person. Hats off.
my aunt burns movies on disks lmao. obviously not legal but it's cheap to get a big stack of blank disks
thats really nice. the amount of knowledge you just gained by trying to just self host absolutely everything is also really nice
if buying is not owning, pirating is not stealing
Really great video! I started a Plex server last year using an old dell PC from Amazon and this gave me some great ideas for upgrades. Didn't know that RAID could make reading data faster which is an issue I've been having with high bitrate media. You've earned my like and follow!
That's awesome! and yep it can just gotta make sure to look into which configurations have what pros/cons. Also good to be aware of any other bottlenecks you might have like your network bandwidth or the network card on your machine
honestly the seas are great but I need the DVD/Blueray boxes. If i can get physical media I do 100% if not sadly poating is a stretegic profession also remember friends and family can lend you the disc's and you can back them up for them so entire library made slightly easier. also if you have a library card remember borrowing and backing up works too.
A third option for acquiring media is to record the stream from a streaming services using a piece of software called a Streaming Video Recorder. One I have found and have liked is called Audials but there are options. For this basically the software will stream the video you want to watch from a service and will simply record the video or music as it is streaming. It is going to be against the ToS of the platforms but it falls in the same legal area as recording with a VCR so long as you are using it for personal consumption.
1:35 is way to real 😂🤣
Awesome video. Thanks for sharing your build in so much detail!
Gotta say.. running jellyfin exposed on the internet.. nothing wrong with that, as long as you do it securely.
The quality of this video for a channel of 6 video is off the charts
yup, i set up my own plex server not to long ago, might switch over to jellyfin eventually. my current issue right now is im running out of HDD space, a year ago i bought a 12tb seagate from ebay for 80 bucks, today that same refurbished drive is about 250-300 so i guess we gotta delete stuff i dont actually like and stick to 1080p downloads for now
The prices for HDDs have almost doubled since November of last year. It's just that only the increase in RAM prices has been reported by the media. I hope the prices will come down again in two or three years. If you need to buy anything right now, you are screwed.
@Revan-kq7ihHDD tend to skyrocket every few years due to something going as far back as I can remember buying them so HOPEFULLY they will for sure drop in price again. I hope the whole AI bubble pops soon
@CtrlAltPrint I can't wait for it to die. I should've built my PC last year instead of getting my Macbook. I intended to build one a few years after but I couldn't have foretold what has happened to the market....
@nya4198 pretty crazy that a macbook is probably the most affordable option in 2026 lol
I had a ton of fun watching this video! Thank you so much for sharing this project.
Public libraries generally have enormous DVD and Blu-Ray collections. Music CDs too. I don't distribute what I copy. I get the disc, copy it for when "I" have the time and desire to watch it. It's hardly pirating since those discs are still available to me at the library. All free free free.
I don't care about piracy, but this is absolutely piracy.
@pyramidschema8668 Well that's kind of moronic. Getting my hands on the physical media means I had an absolute right to view it, no matter who I borrowed the media from. Making a copy so I can view it later is piracy? I don't share anything on my NAS with anyone but family. Give me a break Karen. Absolutely piracy indeed. It's certainly not on par with going out to the internet to gain the copy by other means. Besides, who's fucking side are you on. Haven't you heard, if owning isn't owning, then piracy ain't piracy? Ease up on the righteousness dude. We've been going through dark days and we have to find a way out.
@Naku-n4ku You can flip out and call me names all you want buddy. The simple fact is that you have the right to copy physical media for exactly as long as it is legally in your possession, then you are legally obliged to delete all copies.
Just torrent things. Stop trying to find "one weird trick" to avoid being a pirate and own it. I support piracy, but I don't support ignorance.
Made the same on a pi5, I love that thing, I need another pi pico or something for pi hole and the setup is ready.
13:28 I would prefer streaming because I don't like to re watch movies. So it wouldn't make any sense in buying them.
piracy
@aaronbradleycorbettpretty much pirate it…
The used - artwork cd took me by surprise, good album
Plex and jellyfinn outside is just a reverse proxy or port forwarding (plex is 32400 for example)
but its a private network, you wouldnt be able to see the internal connections
So we were without internet over Christmas for days a few years ago. We stream everything. Like everyone else. I ended up running out to walmart and thrift stores and buying up a bunch of DVDs and Blu-rays. For literally less than I could lease the license on any of the other platforms. It really is worth the hunt to get stuff exactly what you want
What bluray reader did you use? There is conflicting information on which one works
you need a ripper
My days of sailing started on a peculiar bay 12 years ago.. haven’t looked back since
Hey I also recommend Kavita for literature. Team behind it is awesome and very great to hold conversations with. As for storage I will always stand by western digital for hdd and have personally had an external 20tb serve me well the past 3 years
Oh cool I'll check it out
Just had a look at their website, they're subscription based which is what WAN is trying to get away from in the first place.
@r0x0r-p4t kavita is not subscription based it’s completely free with the option to subscribe to the team for $4 a month and you get a few extra features. I’m fine with paying money if I know the team is using it to make their services better and get updates out quicker. You’re not missing out on anything by just using normal kavita
@r0x0r-p4t is that not just kavita+? from my read it seems base is free, with plus unlocking some extra features and supporting development.
I really appreciate the captioning 😭 I’ve been trying to watch videos on this topic but so many of them only have automatic captions and it’s been really hard to understand how this all comes together because even people that speak pretty clearly have things in their speech that get transcribed incorrectly.
5:00 so you spent what? $115 is like 7-10 month subscription on one of the streaming services. now add the total cost of the build and youve spent 2-3 years worth of subscriptions plus the movies/shows you have to purchase
And now he has those "subscriptions" for the rest of his life. And he wont have to pay anything more when there inevitably comes more subscriptions that are more expensive
@pkneppsexcept those hard drives probably need replacing like every 5 years. So another 1000 bucks every few years.
@germanXHTHard drives just keep getting cheaper and cheaper, so more like $200, then $100, then $50
I have had a home NAS for many years. Super useful. I do have dvds that were ripped to add to our Plex server but they take a long time to convert so not a quick process to build your library. But I still have a Netflix subscription for TV shows and international content.
Building around bit flip correction is so overkill I love it
I just did the same! Last week I finally built my own nas and I'm loving it so much. No more throttling issues when streaming media
What was it he installed above the GPU at 10:19?
Network card
Your way of explaining everything is really good!
16:15 Sorry, are you sure your power monitoring is correct? 1.2 KWh/day would mean the system is using 50 W, which for a desktop with 4 HDD, a dedicated video card, etc seems quite low!
If it's not always under load and can idle efficiently, averaging 50W might be reasonable
@planefan082 not to mention it’s a low power GPU and a Core i3. Not parts known for high TDP like a Xeon or GeForce card.
4 HDD at idle are like 3-5 W each, so 20W for HDD, say gpu is 20 as well and that leaves 10 for the CPU or whatnot.
What disc drive did you use to rip the dvds and blurays? I didnt see it listed in the description.
Look at me. I am the captain now
You hooked me at THPS4 soundtrack 😆
i was watching this video in the background until i heard the words "thermal paste pattern"
you 100% chose correctly
X marks the spot
Got my Synology DS423+ back in like June/July last year, and haven't looked back. Feels so amazing being able to watch whatever I want, when I want, where I want -- all in one place. But damn, the search for content is never-ending, as I'm constantly adding more stuff to my server, while reducing file sizes as best as possible.
This is all great, but I don’t think self-hosting can truly replace streaming services, mainly because so many shows are now platform exclusives. For example, you can’t watch Stranger Things on DVD or Blu-ray-no matter what you do, you either have to subscribe to Netflix or resort to piracy.
This has become the trend for most popular shows. While there will always be content available on physical media, it’s mostly older titles; moving forward, this will become rarer and rarer. I hate this system because it forces our hand, making us spend too much on multiple subscriptions, but I don't think self-hosting is the ultimate solution for that specific problem.
On a side note, while I hate the 'console war' vibe of TV streaming, I actually love the music streaming model. Since every platform offers basically the same library for a similar price, it works way better than the fragmented mess we have with movies and shows.
It's in these cases, sailing to Tortuga is a viable option.
I'm glad more people are finding out about self hosting
after watching this and before having to fix my youtube playlists because youtube kept removing songs i realized this:
pirating and downloading is the real internet, it's the king. I have all the songs at highest quality, like 4000 songs all together maybe 22GB from my plalists
could you pass over what websites you use? im still fairly new to piracy and havent been able to find any good sites + im worried about viruses eek,,
You’ve made an awesome breakdown of how the process looks like. Thanks ❤
I VPN into my own network with my phone so I can watch my Plex server. Otherwise my Plex server is completely closed off from the internet.
Which VPN? How?
@livinginmatrixtail scale
@livinginmatrix if your router is new enough, it can probably host an l2tp server or ovpn, if not, you can port-forward to your server and host a vpn on it. Or you can use nextcloud and just access your files in a browser. You will need a white IP for both. You don't need to pay for a domain name, you can get a free DDNS service from no-ip, or grab one if you own a Zyxel or D-link device.
I wonder if Hamachi is still alive, it used to work too.
@andycg2010 build a python tool that scrapes all IPTV links mu3 or whatever from all over internet
would be good then it auto transcode it using ffmpeg (mp4) and its free of cost $0 lol why spent over $2000 thats the price of an RTX 5090 lmao
WOW!! this is the first time i have seen someone talk about doing this and then didnt just magically show at the end a super huge library of movies and music and never mentioned one bit on how they got any of that content and got it sooo quickly... we all know how most get it. But seriously this right here is great info for people to learn on how to do this legit and not just pirate the media. Good job!!!
6:48 ... that was good 😂
Yeah
He's got memory, GET HIM!
16:44 why FBI in cornor
probably because intel CPU's are backdoored so an intelligence agency like the FBI could access the contents of your system without you knowing
@shabdev build a python tool that scrapes all IPTV links mu3 or whatever from all over internet
would be good then it auto transcode it using ffmpeg (mp4) and its free of cost $0 lol why spent over $2000 thats the price of an RTX 5090 lmao
Could be a play on piracy and the piracy disclaimers at the start of every VHS in the 90s and early 2000s.
But surely you wouldn't pirate and illegally distribute a film, right? ... Riiiight? 🤨
That's so cool, my parents owned a video store when I was a child and they still have a lot of dvds in their house, like a 100 movies we dicided to keep after the store closed because we liked them, it would be really nice to do something like this...
2:18 did he just doxx himself??
Bro does not live in 90210
There’s a sarcastic arrow in the bottom left saying “totally real” lol
Great video, I actually learned something
The fact that this video is still live is Wild. At this point I have to say all cloud service providers must keep an eye 👁️. On this guy and also us "the viewers" cuz if this guy disappear we all now who to suspect 2:44
Not my exact case in the thumbnail that I was thinking of turning into a server 😂
I'm just starting out with the whole self hosting and this video was super beginner friendly and easy to follow. I got a bunch of new leads for my own research into this topic, so I thank you kindly
Might try this with an old Optiplex Tower I have lying around
Thanks, this video will be very useful when I build my own nas. I already got a nice collection of movies and shows about 20 tb, have to find music as well, but it’s a nice start
Dude has peak music taste, just earned a sub, can't wait to have the spare cash to make one of these myself