UniversalMediaServer VS PhotoPrism

DLNAmpvRenderer UMS

You can give a try to apps like Universal Media Server, they usually do the trick on Windows.

Download and Install Universal Media Server: Go to the official website (https://www.universalmediaserver.com/) and download the latest version of Universal Media Server (UMS) for Windows. Install the application by following the on-screen instructions.

I've never used a Jellyfin media server. I've usually just used Universal Media Server and it does read/stream/transcode iso files on the fly and stream them to any DLNA UPnP device on your network

You could try streaming to your PS3 via https://www.universalmediaserver.com/

After you have your SBS video, you then have a few different choices on how you want to play it on your Quest. You can play it on your computer with VLC and connect to your computer with BigScreen remote desktop in SBS mode (not the best because the controls for pause, rewind, ff, are difficult to hit this way), you can buy Skybox and play it off of an SMB share, you can buy Virtual Desktop and stream it from your PC, or you can setup a DLNA server such as Plex or Universal Media Server but not Window's builtin DLNA server nor Jellyfin and play it in BigScreen, Skybox, MoonVR, or any of the other video players that support SBS video played from a DLNA server.

Also, the newest version of Universal Media Server has a new feature that will do on-the-fly conversions of 2D content to 3D. I haven't tried it yet, but do have a guide on how to set it up for Quest 2 saved somewhere. Ah, found it. Not sure how that compares quality wise to a ripped 3D Blu-Ray.

I have been using https://www.photoprism.app for a couple of years, and it works better than expected, with the latest updates it's actually quite fast and the face tagging works reasonably well.

For self-hosting, there's Photoprism[1] as well.

Ente's strength lies in end-to-end encryption[2] and its cloud[3] offering so you don't have to worry about reliability.

So if self-hosting is what you're after, Immich, Photoprism and Damselfly (TIL!) are perhaps better designed to serve your needs.

[1]: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

[2]: https://ente.io/architecture

[3]: https://ente.io/reliability

For quite a while I'm also in search for a solution which allows me to share galleries with my family, without having to ask them to jump through hoops in order to access them.

After some searching I'm now testing photoprism [1] which is a fantastic application, especially for self-hosting of photos. There's no mobile app for it (yet) and user-management is just starting to get implemented, but it shows alot of promise. Unfortunately not yet enough for putting it on the tablet of my granny but one can hope (and donate!)

Either way, I'm afraid that building a good mobile gallery app is an equally large task, after all the best solution would be to replace the users' native gallery-app with an equivalent that also supports custom Online-Galleries...

[1]: https://www.photoprism.app/

out of curiosity, why no sort-of-established pkg and internal dirs? What do you think of https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism structure?

Thank you!

Ente was first a piece of hardware, then a self-host-able project, but we had a hard time monetizing both, which lead to the E2EE pivot.

TIL about TagSpaces, thanks!

Our server can be open-sourced, but we're unsure of the value E2EE will provide, with services like Photoprism[1] and Immich[2] already doing a good job of serving customers who prefer to self host. In this context E2EE might become a constraint, rather than a feature.

[1]: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

[2]: https://github.com/immich-app/immich

Ive seen github issues like this one https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/issues/907 in which it is implied that this is very very difficult.

Hi. I want to implement an image server similar to Photoprism using ImageAI to tag images based on objects and context. However I don't want to spend to much time working on the frontend, at first I were thinking about using Danbooru and use Flexbooru or the web interface on my phone. But it doesn't have any encryption or password protection (since the purpose of it is to be used as a public image board).

https://www.photoprism.app in Docker.

PhotoPrism[0] and some ugly plumbing[1] to semantically tag all images in the gallery.

0: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism