mythtv VS Apache

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

Single-page applications (SPAs) existed before S3, but given that you still had to set up, scale, and maintain servers using something like Apache or NGINX in order to serve them, the advantages for “Ops” or “DevOps” were not so different to running a “real server” with a language like PHP, python, or Java.

Apache(prefork mode) + mod_php.

Simiplicity is nice, but there are reasons why Perl and PHP were the popular choices for web stacks in the early 2000's--they are faster and easier to develop with than C and likely safer than C too.

mod_perl (https://perl.apache.org/) and mod_php (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?c...) helped to make Apache httpd (https://httpd.apache.org/) the number one web server in the early days of the web.

https://httpd.apache.org/ - Apache2 website

The Apache HTTP Server project was initially launched in 1995 by a group of web developers and administrators who sought to improve upon the existing web server software available at the time. The project has since evolved into a collaborative effort, with contributors from around the world working together to maintain and enhance the server. Today, the Apache HTTP Server is managed by the Apache Software Foundation, a non-profit organization that oversees the development of numerous open source software projects.

Apache websites of friends and acquaintances

Apache: This is the web server that is used in the LAMP stack. Apache is an open-source web server that provides a flexible and scalable platform for hosting web applications.

Install the web server software: Download the appropriate version of Apache HTTP Server for your operating system from the official website (https://httpd.apache.org/). Follow the installation instructions provided in the documentation.

Popular web servers include Apache and Nginx. Apache is the most widely used web server on the internet, and it is known for its flexibility and extensibility. Nginx, on the other hand, is known for its speed and efficiency, and it is often used as a reverse proxy or load balancer.