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Originally Posted by TnT~55
I built an unraid media server using a used supermicro motherboard with a Xeon E5620 + 24GB ram in a mid-tower atx case with a few hard drives.
I use emby server as my backend instead of plex (same idea, but I preferred how emby handles subtitles). It manages all of my movies, tv shows, music, and OTA recordings (using a hdhomerun tuner). Clients for my tvs are nvidia shields and mi boxes. All of my boxes are hooked up to my network via ethernet.
All of my dvds and blurays were backed up using makemkv. It takes a while but it's handy when it's done. Makemkv will let you pick and choose what you want to back up off the dvd. I strip out all the menus and extras, and just keep the movie, audio track(s), and english subtitles. Some people will also compress the mkvs with handbrake to get the size down, but you sacrifice some video and/or audio quality to achieve this.
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I use Emby as well and run a server with over 10 people actively using it. I also have an HDHomeRun CC that works really well and I get all my cable TV channels on all my Android TV boxes at home. It works much much better for live TV, TV recording and post-processing than Plex did when I tried both out before.
You can get the video/audio quality and save a lot of space by using Handbrake. I tend to use the H265 profiles now, even at the same quality, it's less than a quarter of the size.