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.
Easiest: say “hey pick the movies you want and I’ll load those ones for you”. I’m sure you have movies that they are not ever interested in watching.
Most technical: I’m sure there’s some kind of “just in time” filesystem, or maybe some kind of tiering. I’m imagining a FS that stores just enough of the first few MB to cover streaming the rest from a peer. Tiering definitely exists, though, where you could offer all media, but some files might only be available over the WAN.