Darn. That’s why I’m with SMPlayer; that time continuity is extremely helpful to the point of being a requirement for me. VLC also has it but it actually makes the jump-to-time prompt vanish if you take too long to click it (which is… a bizarre “feature”).

I do have some other hobbies! 😁

I don’t believe you… I fully believe you spend most of your day looking at owl pictures!

Thanks for the recommendations :D I’m not dedicated to it at all, but i think it would be fun to try. Bookmarking your comments for later :)

I’ve been playing with it since my last comment. I just installed 8 plugins. There are 3 that are so freaking good.

My only wish is there was a way to make a song like in Garage band, where you can overlap the instruments and loops more easily. I think it’s there, but I’m just not good enough at it yet. When I play with the piano, I get a really good sounding melody, but then it’s gone.

26 tax laws? You mean 26 volumes, right? /S from the US.

Yes, this is all assuming you have a way to get all the media files you need.

Some of us have been collecting it for years.

!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

While I don’t have much experience with Plex, I can say that it’s really not hard to set up Jellyfin for streaming across the internet.

I’m running a docker container using the linuxserver.io image and all I had to do was forward the HTTP/S ports. I will grant that when a third party has to make an easy-to-use container for a service, there’s a problem to address… but if I remember correctly, Jellyfin is easier to set up on bare metal where it can use uPnP.

You think so yet I provide accommodation for dozens of people. If I stop they are homeless because no one will rent them for my price. If there is a mold outbreak they get cancer. If someone comes with bugs I need to handle the bugs. If something breaks I need to repair it.

If someone is drunk and on drugs I need to kick them out so the rest of people are okay

It’s not some kind of passive income lol

There are various activities slightly less profitable for less work but I enjoy providing this service. Also I like renovation and interior design. It’s a real art to make interiors the most appealing with least amount of money.

Would you prefer if I kept my land barren?

Docker is a program that runs on an OS, usually Linux, and the docker apps or images are run by docker on the OS docker is installed on.

I’m a rookie, but I run TrueNAS which runs docker images. Previously I ran plain Debian with docker installed to run docker images.

I am going to be pasting a set of commands to get docker and docker compose set up, but please be wary of people giving commands to run in the terminal. You could use the information I’ve provided to help you find guides to confirm that no weird commands, but I copied this from my guide I use whenever I set up a new VM to use docker.

So the commands below add any dependencies for docker, adds the GPG key to verify and then installs docker and docker compose. I also set up a docker user add them to the docker group so I don’t need to use sudo to run.

I then use docker to create a portainer instance. Portainer allows you to use a webUi to see what you have running and stop start any of your services from there.

After this I have provided a docker compose file which would be named docker-compose.yml. Yaml sucks as it constantly moans about spacing, but essentially you want to use spaces and not tabs and each new line would be indented two spaces unless it’s a sub part of the section above then it would be two more spaces etc.

This docker compose might or might not be what you need, this one first sets up gluetun, which is a VPN layer which I can route other services through as you don’t want to torrent from your IP.

So gluetun is set up using ProtonVPN and you pass the username and password. Username has +pmp for port forwarding.

Then each service under here can choose to use the services/gluetun or bridge network. The former is for the VPN the latter is routed through regular network. Notice how anything routed through the VPN has the ports defined in the VPN service.

The others things you would need to be conscious of is the paths I have used for /mnt/vault/* as these are network attached storage from TrueNAS. Depending on how you want to store things you’ll need to just add the paths to these. The paths look weird but the part before the colon is where it is on your machine and the part after is what it is called inside that container.

You’ll notice that Plex requires a claim key but you can google how to find that.

This isn’t going to get you up and running and you will likely run in to permission errors and other errors along the way. I would suggest coming back here with your errors or giving them to ChatGPT, just don’t blindly copy commands if you don’t know what they do.

Once your docker compose incomplete your can run docker compose up -d to spin it up. Then in portainer you can see all the containers and then login to each and do the setup. Docker compose down to stop them all.

When I set this up I did the gluetun and then Radarr. Get that working and then add your next thing and then the next and so on until you have what you want.

As I said this isn’t a complete solution and you will run into roadblocks, but that’s the fun for me and I am happy to help when you get stuck along the way.

### Docker

Install dependencies

`sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common -y`

Add the Docker GPG key to the server’s keyring

`sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/%E2%80%8Blinux/ubuntu/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc`

Add the latest Docker repository to the APT sources

`echo “deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/​docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/%E2%80%8Blinux/ubuntu $(. /etc/os-release && echo “$VERSION_CODENAME”) stable” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/​docker.list > /dev/null`

Update the server package index.

`sudo apt update`

Install Docker

`sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin`

Verify

`sudo docker --version`

Enable the Docker system service to start automatically at boot time.

`sudo systemctl enable docker`

View the Docker service status and verify that it’s running

`sudo systemctl status docker`

#### Install docker compose

`sudo apt install docker-compose-plugin -y`

Verifiy the installation

`docker compose version`

#### Portainer

Create a Volume for Portainer Data

`docker volume create portainer_data`

Deploy Portainer as a Container

```

docker run -d \

–name=portainer \

–restart=always \

-p 8000:8000 \

-p 9443:9443 \

-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/​docker.sock \

-v portainer_data:/data \

portainer/portainer-ce:latest

```

Acess Portainer

`https://your-server-ip:9443`

#### Running Docker without Sudo

Add your user to the docker group:

`sudo usermod -aG docker $USER`

Log out and log back in, or restart your system.

Verify by running:

`docker ps`

Below is the docker-compose.yml file.

services:
  gluetun:
    image: qmcgaw/gluetun
    container_name: protonvpn
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    devices:
      - /dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun
    ports: # These are the qBittorrent ports, I like to use random ports and not the default ports 49152
      - 49893:49893 # This is for the qBittorrent WebUI Port
      - 6881:6881 # Listening port for TCP
      - 6881:6881/udp # Listening port for UDP
      - 7878:7878 # Listening port for Radarr
      - 8989:8989 # Listening port for Sonarr
      - 9696:9696 # Listening port for Proxlarr
    environment:
      - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=protonvpn
      - OPENVPN_USER=USERNAME+pmp # REPLACE with your OpenVPN username (+pmp for port forwarding)
      - OPENVPN_PASSWORD=PASSWORD # REPLACE with your OpenVPN password
      - VPN_PORT_FORWARDING=on
      - SERVER_COUNTRIES=France # These countries must support P2P
    volumes:
      - ./gluetun:/gluetun
    restart: unless-stopped

  qbittorrent:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/​qbittorrent:latest
    container_name: qbittorrent
    environment:
      - PUID=1001 # to find your current ID just type “id” in the terminal
      - PGID=1001 # to find your current group ID just type “id” in the terminal
      - TZ=Europe/London
      - WEBUI_PORT=49893 # Must match the port used on gluetun for the WebUI
      - TORRENTING_PORT=6881
    volumes:
      - ./qbittorent/config:/config # this will create the config folder in the same folder as the yml file
      - /mnt/vault/Downloads:/​downloads # adjust to your desired download directory
    network_mode: “service:gluetun” # must match the container name of gluetun
    restart: unless-stopped

  prowlarr:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/prowlarr:​latest
    container_name: prowlarr
    depends_on:
      - gluetun
    environment:
      - PUID=1001
      - PGID=1001
      - TZ=Europe/London
    user: “1001:1001”
    volumes:
      - ./prowlarr/config:/config
    network_mode: “service:gluetun”
    restart: unless-stopped

  radarr:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr
    container_name: radarr
    depends_on:
      - gluetun
    environment:
      - PUID=1001
      - PGID=1001
      - TZ=Europe/London
    user: “1001:1001”
    volumes:
      - ./radarr/config:/config
      - /mnt/vault/Downloads:/​downloads
      - /mnt/vault/Movies:/movies
    network_mode: “service:gluetun”
    restart: unless-stopped

  sonarr:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/sonarr
    container_name: sonarr
    depends_on:
      - gluetun
    environment:
      - PUID=1001
      - PGID=1001
      - TZ=Europe/London
    user: “1001:1001”
    volumes:
      - ./sonarr/config:/config
      - /mnt/vault/Downloads:/​downloads
      - /mnt/vault/TV:/tv
    network_mode: “service:gluetun”
    restart: unless-stopped

  jellyfin:
    image: jellyfin/jellyfin
    container_name: jellyfin
    environment:
      - PUID=1001
      - PGID=1001
      - TZ=Europe/London
    volumes:
      - ./jellyfin/config:/config
      - /mnt/vault/Movies:/movies
      - /mnt/vault/TV:/tv
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 8096:8096
    network_mode: “bridge”

  plex:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:​latest
    container_name: plex
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - PUID=1001
      - PGID=1001
      - TZ=Europe/London
      - VERSION=docker
      - PLEX_CLAIM=CLAIMKEY
      - NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all
    volumes:
      - ./plex:/config
      - /mnt/vault/Movies:/movies
      - /mnt/vault/TV:/tv
    deploy:
      resources:
        reservations:
          devices:
            - driver: nvidia
              count: all
              capabilities: [gpu]
    runtime: nvidia
    restart: unless-stopped

That’s great you’re starting from a place that should make this easy.

Let me jump on my PC and get some information to help you get started.

You could follow a guide to install portainer, it’s got a web gui to manage docker. It can handle installing most types of docker containers.

When you find a cool project to install, they almost always have a docker compose template you can use to install their container.

The docker compose tells docker which containers to install and how they might rely on each other as well as which ports to run on and where all their config and/or data files should be stored.

Using a docker compose makes things super simple to update by using portainer to repull the images to the latest versions and run those. The new containers running the new versions will have all the same config and see the same data/config directories that you specify in the docker compose.

I run a bunch of containers, some good examples are the ARR stack to download tv shows and movies. Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, Transmission are all defined in one docker compose. Another couple of great containers I run are Actual Budget for budgeting software and Tandoor for saving and managing recipes and grocery lists. Actual Budget and Tandoor have their own docker compose configs.