youtube VS mythtv

I've never seen a dime from TrueNAS, but I can't speak for other content creators. I am explicit about my sponsorship, and will always mark a video and add information in both the video itself and the description disclosing exactly the relationship I have with any sponsoring vendor.

See: https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#sponsorships

Jeff Geerling, this guy does cool stuff with raspberry pies: https://www.youtube.com/c/JeffGeerling

COFFEE

James Hoffman: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb0O2CdPBNi-QqPk5T3gsQ

Deep dives into coffee machines, grinders, techniques, beans, roasting, etcetera with a healthy dose of scientific discipline to each.

Lance Hendrick: https://www.youtube.com/c/LanceHedrick

As above, only WAY more detail. Sometimes more than you need. I found his reviews of low-priced (yet high quality) coffee grinders to have almost too much detail, but when I slogged through it I eventually worked out the perfect grinder for my needs and only ended up spending around $300-400, which frankly is amazing.

FOOD

ThatDudeCanCook: https://www.youtube.com/c/CookingwithSonny

High end chef techniques that are explained in impressively accessible detail. My only problem with this channel is I now am always disappointed when I order steak out anywhere because I know I can cook it SO MUCH BETTER MYSELF. If you take nothing else from this list, watch his video on cooking filet mignon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDrkI9_EEe8 If you follow the technique your mind will be blown.

How to Cook That: https://www.youtube.com/c/HowToCookThat

Food scientist esoteric cooking techniques, ingredients, weird stuff, and quite mind-blowing investigations into the Russian content factories that pump out fake "5 minute life-hack" media.

Chinese Cooking Demystified: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChineseCookingDemystified

American + Chinese couple living in Guangdong exploring authentic Chinese regional specialties. They do a great job of explaining the techniques and testing realistic alternatives for the more obscure ingredients that are simply unavailable outside of China.

Blondie in China: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlondieinChina

Aussie girl fluent in Mandarin, living in and exploring China's regions, cuisines and discovering all the things about day-to-day life that we just don't see from outside. Always entertaining, informative and interesting.

Tasting History: https://www.youtube.com/c/TastingHistory

Recreating famous dishes from history and taste-testing them, with detailed backgrounds of the why, where, how, when and who for each.

Xiao Ying Cuisine: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJJDD-Hy76jvUMRG-dpFkcw/fea...

New recipes almost every day. Dunno who she is, but they're always interesting dishes and mostly stuff I've never seen elsewhere.

SCIENCE/NERDY STUFF

Up and Atom: https://www.youtube.com/c/UpandAtom

Physics, Quantum theory, Maths.

Tom Scott: https://www.youtube.com/c/TomScottGo

Really hard to categorise, but he does a great job exploring all manner of obscure things in detail.

Julian O'Shea: https://www.youtube.com/c/JulianOShea

Industrial design, architecture, city planning, Melbourne, obscure stuff.

HARDWARE

Jeff Geerling: https://www.youtube.com/c/JeffGeerling

Great projects in and around the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, maker electronics spaces.

MUSIC

Dub Monitor: https://www.youtube.com/c/DubMonitor

Far too much detail about Dub Techno, minimalist techno.

VISUAL

Max Cooper: https://www.youtube.com/c/MaxCoopermax

Thought-provoking and mind-bending visuals and excellent music.

Max Hattler: https://www.youtube.com/user/maxhattler

Not that active any more, regrettably. But similar to above. What is it with people called Max and visuals?

I highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/c/JeffGeerling and his book "Ansible for DevOps" and https://www.youtube.com/c/TechnoTimLive among other youtubers. Learn from other people's fails before you invest a dime.

Last but not least, before we get started, I used the following guide from the brilliant Jeff Geerling when I was trying this out for the first time on a Raspberry Pi cluster I built (maybe that will be the basis for another guide!). I urge you to check out Jeff's page and YouTube channel, he makes great videos.

Technically, they didn't pay... but they did offer the display as compensation (I'm going to be integrating it into a new studio build—if I can get that to happen!).

A silly distinction in some ways, but a distinction nonetheless. I explain how I accept different types of sponsorship / review samples in my youtube repo: https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#paid-videos--product-...

Yes you need a TV tuner card and Plex might be serviceable but there's possibly better solutions like myth https://www.mythtv.org/

You may be interested in MythTV.

MythTV - Amazing (if a bit crotchety) PVR for OTA TV programming, as well as a decent media server. I think I might be the only one on this list running it! :D

A decent explanation of how to use MythTV to identify commercials is available here, https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/tree/master/mythtv/programs...

I wanted to like jellyfin. It seemed like a great option for playing music.

But the 17,000 music tracks in my library crashes the jellyfin server every time I tried to play music.

Plex and Emby phone home all the time (why should they need to do that when all my media is local? No thanks!)

And so I stick with Mythtv[0] (which really seems out of favor with folks these days) which has awesome codec support (I haven't had to transcode anything, it just plays -- probably because ffmpeg is their back end).

It plays my music library, it plays and manages my 10,000+ item video library, supports a real remote control (in my case an Inteset 422[3]) via IR or Wifi.

I can keep my backend (server) (VM with multiple data sources) and frontend (playback/library management) version sync'ed with normal update processes via the appropriate software repositories (in my case, RPM Fusion on Fedora, but other distros[1] have the same).

It doesn't support streaming from Android/IOS/etc, but I just make my libraries externally available via Nextcloud[2], which meets my remote streaming needs.

No, it's not perfect. Yes, the add-on ecosystem is pretty awful. The devs seem much more interested in the DVR functionality (which I don't use) than the video/music library functionality.

That said, it's under active development with regular bug fixes and feature releases and has a fairly active user community.

But there's zero external communication required (unlike Plex or Emby), nor are there any commercial integrations (well, if you want to use the DVR functionality you do need to buy a yearly subscription (IIRC ~USD$15) for the guide data, but I don't use the DVR functionality, so I don't need it).

There certainly are limitations:

1. No streaming apps, but I don't care about that. If I want a streaming client I'll just use my roku;

2. Grabbing video metadata can be a pill if file naming conventions are too different from themoviedb.org and/or thetvdb.com;

3. No direct torrent integrations;

It's not fabulous, but it works for me. And if you just want something to host/play your local media, it's pretty darn good.

Did I mention that I have yet to transcode anything to get video (with or without subtitles) to play?

[0] https://www.mythtv.org/

[1] https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Packages#Targeted_Linux_Distribu...

[2] https://nextcloud.com/

[3] https://www.intesettech.com/product/4-in-1-int422-universal-...

I use MyrhTV with two PlayStation PlayTV USB tuners. Each tuner has two units internally, so it's actually four physical tuners connected.

The solution is to buy a large 4K monitor rather than a TV and then control the TV side of it yourself using MythTV or similar:

https://www.mythtv.org/

MythTv https://www.mythtv.org