Here's my conundrum, I'm using an old PC to watch movies and shows. It works well enough using the regular file browser and video player but it is not powerful enough to run jellyfin as server and client.

I guess that what I'm looking for is a pretty browser.

I tried searching for media library managers, most results were for configuring jellyfin so when I excluded the word server all the results where music managers and dvd collection catalogues.

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[–] paf@jlai.lu 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oh ok, the first thing that comes to my mind is Kodi. Depending your pc it might be a bit slow but that should work.

Edit: are you on linux or windows? If windows, you should really consider linux. Old pc comes back to life with linux as it needs way less ressources than windows

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm on linux. That old PC is a refurbished HP Compaq 8000 I bought for 40 euros I don't know how many years ago when it was already old.

I'm aware that at this point I'm asking too much out of that poor thing but it kept me thinking if there was a way to get just the interface of one of those media servers as a way to browse then open the file with the default player.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You should really try Kodi. There are a ton of alternative theme options for it and the video player built into it can play anything

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I just tried, I don't like it but it works so well that I can learn to like it. I'll look more into those theme options.

Thanks.