more microsoft hell - windows 10 vm edition

What’s with you and Windows? You’re running a full hypervisor setup just to keep Windows? Stop doing that. Just leave it. Whatever tools you’re trying to run probably work better on Linux anyway. Ditch PVE and install Trixie. Stop worrying about the OS and all that and just start running services. ZFS is a TON of overhead for home use, especially surveillance and media.

Should have one docker compose for plex/jelly qbittorrent dispatcharr radarr sonarr seerr prowlarr unpackeerr vodstrm. All under gluetun. Push all remote TV, VoD, torrent, and TMDB access through VPN and then expose access to those services locally and jellyfin to reverse proxy. I dont use unpackerr though.

Infra juice isn’t worth the squeeze. Things just don’t really crash now a days. Hell, my “main” home server (everything but frigate) has a “docker ps” over 5 pages long. It’s also a crappy laptop system board that I saw WAY too cheap on eBay and hacked it into a working system just to see if I could do it. core ultra 155H, 32GB ddr5x. Fan is controlled by an arduino and boot only works because another arduino keyboard emulator. Still never crashes…

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Windows 10 Pro runs fine unauthenticated. If the "not genuine" watermark bothers you, google massgrave.

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interesting. So no time out or "you can no longer use this" concerns? Will my ESU still work?

You could upgrade to win11 pro and get a lifetime key for $10 on flixeasy or groupon...

my hardware doesnt support win111

i see that now :/ AI lied to me. i guess it was trying to 'be politically correct' and not recommend paths that are technically working around corporation's legal nonsense.

oh well. i may just build a second Win 11 VM and move over to it and kill the Win 10 one. No rush.

Tell me a bit about what you're doing with IPTV? my old implementation was through plex and threadfin but to say that was fragile was an understatement. i would like dvr capabilities and better management of channels but also a decent client on android tv devices. So far i've hated every one i've used so i haven't considered purchasing anything yet.

but thats not a priority right now..

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Dallaswho

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how many sources do you have for prowlarr? i have ipt, 720pier and orpheus but open to invites if you have any. happy to share any with you as well

im new to ipt.. thats only source...

xaque8787/vodstrm turns your 300k vod library into jellyfin libraries.

dispatcharr is a proxy, and a lineup organizer, you can put 10 streams on one channel and it uses them in order of preference.also watching same channel on 4 TVs counts as one stream. I also use this ffmpeg profile in dispatcharr because it makes my tv better. its also good to keep all the arrs behind gluetun except the exit ports locally. jellyfin and seerr go to reverse proxy here.

As for client, I use jellyfin on android but I have it play via VLC instead of built in player.

requires hardware acceleration but very little resources:
-err_detect ignore_err -user_agent {userAgent} -reconnect 1 -reconnect_streamed 1 -reconnect_delay_max 2 -probesize 192k -analyzeduration 192k -fflags +genpts+igndts+discardcorrupt -i {streamUrl} -init_hw_device vaapi=va:/dev/dri/renderD128 -filter_hw_device va -vf "format=nv12,hwupload=extra_hw_frames=16" -af "aresample=async=1" -c:v h264_vaapi -profile:v high -level:v 3.1 -refs 1 -bf 0 -g 60 -keyint_min 60 -c:a aac -avoid_negative_ts make_zero -f mpegts pipe:1

I live dangerously. If you want to call it that. App data is backed up offline every couple weeks. If someone gets my mullvad key or ipt password I’m out $25. I’d be more mad if someone messed with my personal GitHub but not the end of the world. That’s about the blast radius other than botnet proxy or crypto mining. Maybe some nudie hot tub footage but that doesn’t bother me at all.