Open Source Alternative

[wrinkledcheese]

I haven't the slightest idea where this should go.

I've been working with your containers for the past few days. Once I got the kinks worked out of using cockpit, I was cooking with gas. Got Sonarr, Jackett, RUTorrent, and Plex all running and configured in a couple of hours.

So then I went to use a Plex plugin for Kodi. Requires a subscription or a once per device fee in order to use it. I so I tried the Plex client for Android. Until I create an account and logged into both devices, they would not connect. I abandoned the idea of Plex. I'm going to create my own container with one billionth the skookum-ness of a linuxserver.io container. Which is why I think you guys should create an open source alternative.

--------------------------- 6 Years Earlier ------------------------

I tried using Plex back in 2012. I had an XBOX Original and a PS3 for streaming content to. The XBOX could not handle anything above SD. So I looked at pushing the work off onto my newly acquired 3 year old server hosting 2 Opteron 2435 and 24GB of RAM and oodles of TB of disk. I tried Plex and I tried PS3 Media Server(PMS) - R.I.P. I settled on PMS for a few reasons. In 2008, I started a ill-advised project which was intended on being what YouTube is today ( ad revenue profit sharing from day one ). I had become quite experienced with ffmpeg so I preferred tweaking it rather than the klunky Plex.

------- Meanwhile, in the future of yesteryear ( today ) -------

I contacted the People of Universal Media Server and asked them if they could make something skookum in an LXC docker container image thing. Here I am poking you asking you to do the same free work I have not done myself yet. At least I've taken the first step - https://deis.com/blog/2015/creating-sharing-first-docker-image/.

The idea that you host all of your docker image source on github is awesome. I might try that.

[j0nnymoe]

If Plex isn't working for you, I highly recommend checking out emby and thier sync client for Kodi - no subscription needed.

I'm not really sure what your asking for us to do tbh - what is skookum? We wouldn't look at developing an opensource alternative as we only package up other people's work into docker images.

[wrinkledcheese]

To be fair there was alot of fluff. But here's the jist: "package up other people's work into docker images." "Which is why I think you guys should create an open source alternative." "informal adjective: skookum - (of a person or animal) strong, brave, or impressive."

[j0nnymoe]

Take a look at emby, we don't make a container for that as there is already a good one they provide officially.

[wrinkledcheese]

Okay, thanks.