Hey everyone, would really appreciate some ideas on image + video gallery options.

We have a bunch of personal photos and videos taken over the years, and since we don’t want them on cloud providers, right now they are just a bunch of folders on a local share. We do actually enjoy going through them, but browsing a directory isn’t the most fun experience.

Something that had a nice photo/video browser, maybe albums, a slideshow option (maybe with shuffling?), and tags would be great. I’d like to not have to duplicate the images into yet-another-storage-location, so something that can just pull from that share would be great. Backups are also already handled, so not a factor here.

I’ve tried Stash, but thats more oriented toward the adult industry, so it requires a lot of manual intervention.

Ive never tried Immich, but it seems like a lot for this scenario. Maybe I’m wrong though, let me know.

This will never be available anywhere outside of our home (well aside from a WG connection back to our home), so I don’t care about sharing links or any of that kind of stuff. Media is mostly jpg with some Canon and Fuji raws, h264 and h265 videos.

Let me hear your recommendations for open source, locally hosted, no cloud personal media enjoyment!

  • coolie4@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    What’s your hesitation with Immich? Try it out and with a small subset of your collection and see how you enjoy it before moving everything.

    • bendovertherainbow@fedinsfw.appOPEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Honestly just seems way more hefty in reqs, I don’t usually give 6GB or more to an lxc or VM (just to hit the bare minimum). The host i would put it on has 24GB in total and does other stuff as well, and it only has 8 cores on it.

      Immich recommends 8GB+ and 4 cores, the db to be on a local ssd, etc, which seems like I’d need to pick up another whole machine to run it.

      • mlfh@lm.mlfh.orgEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        I run the immich container stack on a vm with 4GiB memory and 2 cores, with db on local disk and external libraries over smb, and it runs perfectly fine. I offload the machine learning jobs to another sometimes-on machine, sometimes, but don’t really need to unless I’m dumping thousands of new images into the external library at a time and want it all to process quickly.

        • bendovertherainbow@fedinsfw.appOPEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Thanks! Another person just posted similar, so I’m going to give Immich a shot and see how it goes. If I can pass off CV/ML elsewhere that’s even better, I have a workstation for media tasks/editing I can use which would work out great

      • coolie4@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        I think those reqs are assuming full computer vision features. I must’ve disabled them because my entire docker LXC is using less than 4GB, of which Immich is only one of the containers its running.