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Originally Posted by dobbles
Ok, what the actual f%&k are you guys talking about??!?! I thought I was doing good with my plex server the last few years.... I backed up my physical media and then a buddy and I merged our together so we'd have more and then I'll rip movies from the library or redbox to grow my collection.
But I am apparently an ignorant toddler compared to all the complexity you guys have! Oddly, just this week I stumbled on this article: https://dailysysadmin.com/KB/Article...-media-server/ which I think talks about a lot of the same things you guys are talking about. I bookmarked it so I could come back and digest at my own pace in the future!
Do you guys have any basic learning I can do? Heck, I'd settle for a good place to get content as getting stuff at the library takes forever! |
Rather than digitizing or re-encoding movies from physical media, just download it from either Torrents or Usenet (think message board where ppl just dump their movies encodes and where a lot of high quality movie releases get posted). Usenet will cost you since ISPs no longer bundle it with internet but is private and you don't share content with anyone and Torrents are P2P which is unsecure as others have pointed out so you will need to use a VPN to hide your traffic.
To get started with Usenet you need a good Usenet Indexer (i.e. Search engine for Usenet) and usenet subscription are key to getting lots of content fast OR a good VPN and then torrent if you aren't worried about getting things fast.
Here's a good primer on Usenet Indexers (i.e. search engine) and their associated costs
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/indexers
Primer on what Usenet is in reddit's usenet wiki
https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki....2Fusenet_wiki
Then a Usenet Provider like Frugal Usenet or Eweka Usenet.
For Torrents. RARBG listed in your guide is good. I'd recommend a VPN like IPVanish or Private Internet Access for security.
Once you've chosen what to do, you enter your credentials into your usenet or torrent downloader of choice like SabNzBd (usenet downloader) or Deluge/Qbitorrent (torrent downloader). These can get linked into Radarr (searcher and manager for movies) and Sonarr (searcher and manager for TV) like in the guide you posted. Both of these programs are like PVRs that will search for, download, decompress, and move the files to your plex folder so Plex can automatically pick it up.
Everything working together should look like this. Stolen from Reddit. You can ignore the nginx/docker stuff if you don't do your own domain. Ignore VPN if you don't do torrent and only do usenet.
Spaceinvader One's Youtube channel has some really good videos on how to set these up step by step if you don't feel like reading the guides. They are built for users on the Unraid OS, but if you are using Windows instead you can just skip past the install sections to the configuration parts of the videos. Hope this helps