Selfhosted @lemmy.world ad_on_is @lemm.ee 7mo ago

Odin - a self-hosted FOSS streaming service.

Hey, I just published a self-hosted streaming service, it's called Odin. Odin comes in two parts, a server and an Android app. Both can be found on GitHub, with their install instructions.

Odin Server https://github.com/ad-on-is/odin-server

Odin TV App https://github.com/ad-on-is/odin-tv

Motivation:

I've used many of the readily available apps in the past, and they all came with their pros and cons. I was mostly annoyed by the fact, that most of them use their own server-backend, somewhere. So each time, the app stops working, I didn't know whether their server just crashed, or the developer abandoned the app and I had to look for something else. I also started becoming paranoid, whether someone was collecting my data and offering them to "the highest bidder". Oh, and I also disliked the UI of these apps.

That's why I started working on Odin. In fact, I've been using it for almost 4 years now, and did a LOT of iterations during these years. Now, I'm more than happy with the end result, and wanted to share it with the world.

The main features of Odin are:

Discovering movies and TV shows
A nice and beautiful UI
Customizable Trakt lists
Multi-User support

I hope you like it!

Oh, and feel free to submit any feature requests or issues on GitHub. If you want, you can star the repo, so I know there's actual interest in the project.

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For the folks confusing this with an alternative to Jellyfin or Plex, I believe this project is more meant to be akin to Stremio, but self-hosted.
Whats the main difference with Jellyfin?
- This only works with a paid pirate service.
how does it compare to something like jellyfin (or Plex, despite not being FOSS it'd be unfair not to mention them)?
- It doesn't. It's nothing like any of these two. They provide local media content, Odin on the other hand streams media directly provided by the debrid service.
  
  So, no downloading and hoarding involved.
  
  So it’s like a torrent streaming service?
Can this play back my local media collection or is it just a debrid proxy frontend?
- no local media collection.
  
  Well that's disappointing
Are you planning on adding support for Premiuimize and Torbox? A lot of people just left Real Debrid (and all other French hosted services) due to France kicking down on piracy. Real Debrid just recently announced they would start to block piracy related content at least.
Is there any way this could be modified for indie musicians to move away from bigTech? FOSS Spotify alternative with bitcoin ?
Interesting. Will have to take a look at it later. I currently use Jellyfin and don't have many issues. The only thing that might be a pain point is tuner support. I didn't see anything mentioned. But looks nice otherwise. And intrigued to see its largely in Go.
- Jellyfin uses the *arr suite, but Odin relies on a debrid service. The benefit is that nothing is hoarded on the device itself.
  
  What? Jellyfin doesn't need any "suite"? You can use it with your collection obtained whatever way.
  
  So it doesn't download for later use? It just becomes a proxy system to stream from the debrid service?
  
  What do you mean jellyfin uses the *are suite?
  I have Jellyfin with any media in different directories as long as I try to match the format the documents mention.
  So, as long as I can get the media in any way I can just put it in any directory and it'll be added to the library.
  
  Is it similar with Odin? Or does it directly fetch the media from where you want to download it?
Is it possible to self host a debrid?

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