I think I’m OOTL. An ant-fascist statement from them is wonderful, but what is their association to the Potsdam incident referenced in the statement?

Edit: is it just that they are a German company?

I can’t find anything for sure on the webpage, but I haven’t run across a DVD in good condition that it can’t rip. I may just be lucky and not own any DRM protected DVDs, though.

I typically use the beta version of MakeMKV on Windows, but I would have no clue what to use on my Debian machine. I hope you are able to resolve your issue, though.

I’ve been ripping DVDs for several years now and have never seen this issue. What program did you use? I thought most retail DVDs were read only once shipped, so I am not sure how you could corrupt it.

Have you tried playing it in another player (like a recent game console or a Blu Ray player)? It could be a corrupted driver for your PC’s disc drive.

Until someone comes in with a valid option, MyAnonaMouse has open sign ups with a relatively short interview. That was my first private tracker and I passed the interview despite barely knowing how to torrent. I’ve heard invites are easy to come by if you know someone, too. Ratio is incredibly easy to maintain, too.

It is not a public tracker, and as such does not answer your prompt. Just wanted to provide a stopgap until a valid option is suggested.

Ever since I switched to Linux I don’t really use Eddie as much, but I agree it could be more intuitive. Even on Windows I typically only spent 30 seconds or less with the client, though, so it didn’t bother me.

Port forwarding, relatively cheap, runs a good Black Friday sale, and I think its log policy is decent from what I remember.

AirVPN

Plexamp is fantastic for music, but does it work well for audiobooks yet? As far as I can tell Plex just does not handle long audio files well.

At the moment I’m using Audiobookshelf (completely separate from my Plex Media Server, but running on the same computer) in a Docker container, but since I don’t yet have a reverse proxy set up it is LAN or downloads only. So, I would be very interested in an answer to this as well.

Edit: I just noticed your post in c/Plex; you may want to include a link to the other post in the body so that people answering can check the other to see if their answer has already been offered.

I didn’t follow any single guide, but the following got me through my installation:

• Install Plex Media Server using DEB or RPM repository

• Plex file naming conventions

I used Dockstarter, since I am relatively unfamiliar with Docker. If you haven’t heard of it, it is essentially a GUI script that helps you with directories, ownership, and settings involved with a large selection of Docker containers. It tends to focus on the linuxserver io releases.

• I like qBittorrent, and this particular image worked best with my VPN (AirVPN): Dockstarter: qBittorrentVPN. The linked support forum was helpful figuring out a couple of OpenVPN specific issues I had.

• Dockstarter: Prowlarr

• Dockstarter: Sonarr

• Dockstarter: Radarr

The Trash Guides are useful for setting up the directory trees.

• https://trash-guides.info/Prowlarr/

• https://trash-guides.info/Sonarr/

• https://trash-guides.info/Radarr/

There’s also a list of suggested Plex server settings on that site.

I hadn’t even considered the potential power savings. That is a good point. And it sounds like I will be using Docker a lot. I will look into Open Media Vault. Thank you for the suggestion.

I have the benefit of not being particularly used to any Linux DE yet (my Pi’s all end up headless, and I haven’t been at university for several years now), so I was primarily looking at low-resource ones. Does that not matter as much as I have heard?

I am looking into this one piece at a time. Would you recommend installing a desktop on Debian? If so, do you have one you’d recommend? I am looking at KDE, XFCE, or LXQt for the Live images of Debian to try to get acclimated.

The other option has a download speed in the kbps range, so unfortunately switching is not yet an option. Rural US does not do Internet well. There is a better provider (that I was with at my last home) on the way, so hopefully I will not have these issues for too much longer.

Thank you for the concern, though.

I have a data cap ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

This is a ton of fantastic information. Thank you. Debian is something I’ve heard a lot about, and was the second thing I looked into after TrueNAS.

I haven’t really had any interest in the -arr softwares. I’m primarily ripping my own media. I do feel like Docker will be a must, though, so learning it will be fun (not sarcasm).

I have honestly never heard of LVM before, so I will have to read into it. It sounds exactly like what I am looking for with my drives.

It has been a while since I’ve used it, so I don’t remember which extension I typically use. However, on most extensions I have tried, the subs and [edit: dubs] subs are listed as separate series, and each season is listed as a separate series as well. So, a four season anime would have 8 different series listed for it. I know I haven’t tried Aniwatch specifically, but if you can’t find the (Sub) series on it then it may be worth installing another extension. As a side note, each extension takes up typically less than 100 KB or space, so there is not any downside as far as I know to downloading a few and trying them out.