MOVIES

Not true. You just need to name them in title (YYYY).mkv format and it will pull metadata from imdb or movie.db and organise by name and genre.

Exactly!!!
All my movies are organized in one single Folder called -=Movies=-
The filenames are like:
Barry Seal - Only In America (2017, Deutsch) (1080p).mkv
>Contains movie name
>Contains Year
>Contains if it has German Language also (english is always embedded in all of them. So no need to name it extra)
>Contains resolution
>Contains file type

Within the file, i have named the video- and sound files after their type, FPS, bitrate in kbps.
like: AC-3 5.1 @ 448 kbps for sound files for example, plus that i add the language via settings.
I do this with MKVToolNix

If you care about this and stay consequent in really doing so with all your files, you can have a shitton of movies and will never need to search more than just the seconds you need to type the beginning of each filename.
And you will also have all the information about the used codecs within the .mkv container at hand while playing it.

I stream movies because my uni flags downloads. Feels good, man, just saw venom yesterday.

Kodi

Sonnarr+radarr+Kodi

That only works if you know the title of the movie you want to watch and are OCD about naming them

Yeah, if you wanna go for genre, you have to meta search. and this means Kodi or some other programs.
But for me it works fine.
I currently have about 5000 movies and 381 TV-series. And i never have problems to find one despite them being on different HDD's. I am not using raid but USB 8TB disks in some docking stations. Swap them if i need to.
And all movies and series are also listed in excel files where i can get the information about what movie or series is on which disk.
You could alternatively make an additional tab that contains information about the genre in such an excel file.

I only watch series and movies on my PC, so no TV here at all.

kodi interface is totally idiotic
plex is much better

Start using categories you nigger. Categories work better for a hierarchical folder structure.

>watching movies

x265

stop being a dumbass and just download things when you need it and delete it after. use the money you save on HDD on better internet

hording is a pathological illness

I got my 8TB disks for around $40 each, and I have 150Mb/s internet. Go blow a hobo.

>hording is a pathological illness
Say people who don't realize that internet can actually go down for long times in the future.
Also, they keep track on filesharing and want providers to simply cripple the ability for downloads. Once this shit is in place, netflix and amazon prime will boost their fees.
Lucky these, who have horded a shit ton of movies and series.

I don't keep movies on file. Also I delete my TV stuff after I watch it. There's no dignity in being that kind of packrat.

MOVIE COLLECTOR:
>New girl comes over
Wanna watch a movie?
>Sure, what do you have?
Basically everything
*Turns on TV connected to KODI media box*
>Damn
Just pick something while I get some wine

YOU POORFAGS:
>Mom comes over
Wanna watch a movie?
>Sure, what do you have?
Nothing but I can download it. What do you want to watch?
>I don't know, what do you want to watch?
I don't know, what do you want to watch?
>Repeat until one of you dies

>new girl comes over
You should know what you're watching ahead of time. You should've already made that decision on your own without her input.

Plex

OP here. So far, here are the votes:
1. Do nothing
2. Kodi
3. Emby
4. Plex
5. Wipe my disks and only download movies one at a time (kinda missed the point there, guys)

I loaded up Kodi & indexed my movies. It's a great interface for a TV but doesn't seem equipped to handle large collections well. Also not super great on PC. Plex is next.

better question
how do you organize your porn folders ? or text documents ?
i'm not a data hoarder so i save links, only best sets are archivized
any tips ?

I sort all of my files in a folder structure that makes sense to me. For example:
/FINANCIAL/Taxes/
/FINANCIAL/Credit Cards/

OP here again. Plex has been indexing my movies for over half an hour now. There's no progress counter, so I have no idea if/when it will finish. Looks like Plex is a no go.

Kodi is nice for that. If you have a bigger collection, it makes it feel like your own private Netflix. Pic related is mine, ignore the krautspeak, they're all dual-language. The files must be properly named though, so the Imdb scraper recognizes them, or a nfo file with the same name as the video file inluding the imdb link.

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Yep, Kodi looks like the big winner so far. It was able to recognize all but a handful of my movies.

I wish there was a way to make the icons much smaller, so it works better on a PC though.

>icons
Do you mean the cover posters? You can change the way they are presented, or just use another skin.

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Yep, exactly. Just so I can fit more movies on the screen. "Wall" looks like the smallest I can go, and they still look huge.

Plex is still indexing my movie collection, and hour & a half later. Pretty sure it'll never finish.

Converting 264 to 265 is pretty fucking stupid unless you're starting with absurdly high quality and can't notice any compression. Also it takes a long ass time
Anyway the script to convert a shit load of files in the same folder goes something like this:
For I in *.mkv; do ffmpeg -i $I -c:v libx265 $I; done
I'm sure some user will correct this if it's off

Filenames, and windows search. How is that difficult?

After a few hours, Plex finally finished indexing. It's MUCH better for PC use, so I'll probably end up using Kodi on my TV & Plex on my PC (I watch movies on both). Thanks dudes.

I'll probably just not do any of that. At 2GB per movie, one of my disks can hold over 4000 movies. That's a bit excessive, even for me.

You
are
missing
the
entire
point
dipshit

Then explain more in your original post, dicknipple.

Plex is also great because it can transcode and stream to any device, and if you pay the 5bux a month you can stream outside your LAN.

>movies
grow up

The key is to organize things as you use them.

For movies it's simple
Movies/Movie Name Folder/Movie files

I just give them sensible names and use Windows Search or locate.

plex it just werks