ustreamer VS Streama

FYI until recently this was known as 'rtsp-simple-server', but it outgrew simply being a RTSP server so it was rebranded. It is commonly used in the 3D printing community for serving webcams attached to printers along with ustreamer (https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer).

uStreamer is far superior to the mjpgstreamer utility that nearly everyone uses. It supports the Pi's OMX media encoder, so you can get reasonable quality with low CPU usage.

I've been in the same situation as you and have been looking into https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer as an alternative to mpjg-streamer under Raspian Bullseye with the unicam driver and the Media Controller API framework.

Maybe look at https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer

...the documentation includes an example for the rPi camera as well as simple steps for making it a service.

I've done work before where we stream USB cameras via mjpg using https://github.com/pikvm/ustreamer

Granted this project looks like a lot more streamlined.

I think this would be a bit of a hiding to nothing, an alternative considering you own all the DVD's, would be /r/selfhosting on something like Streama or Plex - assuming you have some spare hardware to do so, and can be bothered digitising your collection!

https://github.com/streamaserver/streama or Airsonic maybe?

I used Streama a few times. It's really great. You should check it out. https://github.com/streamaserver/streama Demo: https://streama.demo-version.net/

Ahhh I see! Jellyfin was great, but I ended up moving to Streama as it's got a nice interface akin to Netflix's one! It doesn't have the bells and whistles Plex and Kodi do though, and no TV stuff - I normally just pop an HDMI cable from a laptop into the TV.