I’d like some streaming help please.

I’ve got a linux mint laptop, a windows pc, an nvidia shield and films that I’d like to watch from anywhere. Can you suggest a best way to do this, or any ‘best’ method that I can adopt?

I’ll add that I’m not great at Linux, and all these devices will be on sleep mode when I’m away from home (apart from my nvidia) - which I believe is always on.

If possible I’d like to keep costs down, but I’m open to learning some new stuff.

Thanks for any help.

Edit: tarted up text.

  • @lechatronEnglish
    7•6 months ago

    I’ve used Plex to run a media server from my home in the past, been a few years though. I believe you can still do that with the free version. Then you just need to set up Plex to wake on LAN so the computer you’re using for the media server will wake up when you want to watch something. This does require that the device is hardwired as WiFi doesn’t offer wake options.

    • @Rambler@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      3•6 months ago

      Thanks. I couldn’t get plex to run from ‘off site’, it was probably something that I wasn’t doing properly.

      I’m not sure if it was the vpn or not, but it never connected even though I set the tunnelling like it said.

      • @HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4•6 months ago

        You don’t need a vpn for this, plex has servers to let you connect to your home computer. I believe it’s called remote connection . Check it out in your plex server settings.

        One of the things that can prevent it from working is called double Nat where your server is behind multiple routers on your network, there are many guides for how to resolve this.

        • @Pzulu@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3•6 months ago

          For me it was CG-NAT. Pretty much the same as the double NAT HeavyRaptor has pointed out, just now something you fix yourself.

          I am lucky and for a reasonable price can have a fixed IP for my broadband.

          That made Jellyfin work perfectly, over a VPN using Wireguard.

          It was more difficult setting up Wireguard than it was getting Jellyfin working!

      • ripcord
        4•6 months ago

        They’re also really trying hard to pivot to making users the product and to also sell a bunch of junk no one wants (like revealing everything you watch to all your friends). And pushing their ad-laden video stuff.

        I also run Emby in parallel which is just the streaming video and that’s it. Also as someone else mentioned, Jellyfin.