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How big is your media library? (twun.io)

submitted 11 months ago by SpookyMulder@twun.io to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Background: I've been writing a new media server like Jellyfin or Plex, and I'm thinking about releasing it as an OSS project. It's working really well for me already, so I've started polishing up the install process, writing getting started docs, stuff like that.

I'm interested in how other folks have set up their media libraries. Especially the technical details around how files are encoded and organized.

My media library currently has about 1,100 movies and just shy of 200 TV shows. I've encoded everything as high quality AV1 video with Opus audio, in a WebM container. Subtitles and chapters are in a separate WebVTT file alongside the video. The whole thing is currently about 9TB. With few exceptions, I sourced everything directly from Blu-ray or DVD using MakeMKV. It's organized pretty close to how Jellyfin wants it.

What about you?

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[–] Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

650 shows, 1400 movies, 1450 anime. Take up like 130TB or something

[–] remon@ani.social 3 points 11 months ago

1450 anime

Since you listed them separately from shows does the count also include anime movies?

Still, if I add up both my shows and movie I'm at 1447. Damn you!

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 11 months ago

You got them all in uncompressed 8K or something!? How on earth does it take up that much space?