using unraid only for storage and emby on a windows computer

[1971camaroguy 32]

Hey Everyone,

Currently I have a docker container running emby on unraid and it works great

But there are some emby features and plugins that work better (or only) on something like a windows machine. And I am more knowledgable with windows anyways.

Is anyone running a set up like this, unraid for just mass storage and the media folders are mapped ( via smb share) to a remote windows machine running emby? Just curious if there are some streaming issues? I have nvdia shield's in my home theater and living room.

Thanks again!

 

[Luke 42077]

Hi, I would think that could be fine. You could import the library into the windows server using network shares.

[1971camaroguy 32]

Thanks, I have been playing with this a bit on an old dell 990, I5,  16gb ram, 240gb SSD for windows 10, and a 1TB SSD for cach storage, backups, and pre-roll data

Seems to be working ok and I was able to add some plugins that I wouldn't have been able to do on unraid...play a 4k movie and played just fine to my shield with no transcoding

Copied my emby install to it,. just wating for all of the metadata to populate now (big librarry)