I’m looking into redoing my media server and I would like recommendations for a front end. My hope is to find one where I can have a node at my parents and my girlfriend’s parents houses that have some but not all of the media. I want them to not have to care about the servers and just be able to pick something and if it is on the local server it will pick that one. If anyone has any recommendations I would love to hear them.
The networks will be connected by VPN tunnels and I have my methods of moving the media between the servers sorted out. I’m currently using plex but I dont like that I cant see whats on all available servers at once, not to mention FOSS would be ideal.
Are you trying to serve higher than 1080p? I have heard that 4k can be rough, but I avoid that personally because it also dramatically limits the amount of media I can store. Not sure of your actual bandwidth, but the raw bandwidth required on regular 1080p streams should be relatively light while utilizing modern codecs and you can also limit the per-stream bandwidth in your remote access settings.
I’m in the US, but I have pretty shit upstream bandwidth and I’ve served 7 people at once before. It pushed it a bit, but plex managed it. If you are doing 4k content though, yeah, that’s going to be rough with anything and I have no good advice.