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  • The short answer is because it’s a fun project, and I wanted to see if I had it in me to make exactly the media server I want.

    The longer answer is that I wanted something dramatically and fundamentally different from what either Jellyfin or Plex have to offer.

    • Can run without breaking a sweat on junk/old/cheap hardware like a Raspberry Pi or old laptop.
    • Can be safely Internet-facing – no anonymous access, and no web-based admin features or API.
    • Hyper-lean and minimal. All-in, I wanted something on the order of 1MB for client app, server, all dependencies, everything.

    I don’t see either of those goals happening with a contribution or fork, because achieving them would require some dramatic feature deprecation.




  • True.

    When I migrated off of Jellyfin, I re-encoded everything up to that point directly from the Blu-ray rips wherever possible. Because I’d already started culling those for space, I did end up just doing another pass on the first round of encoding for a portion of the library. There’s some noticable degradation on those, and I’ll want to re-rip those at some point.

    Fortunately, I’ve got my process pretty dialed in for ripping and I actually enjoy it, so if I ever have a quality issue, it’s not a huge ordeal to re-rip and encode.