Great job! I've achieved comparable results on my Android TV with Stremio[1] and the Torrentio[2] plugin. Being able to use the terminal for streaming would be a nice thing to have in Linux. It would also be cool to check for malicious files before downloading.

[1]: https://www.stremio.com [2]: https://torrentio.org/

So torrentio provides the metadata and downloads the video on-demand. And stremio handles UI and playback. That's a pretty neat way to keep the storage reqs minimal.

This got me thinking if jellyfin could be configured for something similar (I don't feel like migrating to yet-another-media-library) and turns out it supports .strm files [0], which are literally just urls in a text file (much like .m3u8 playlists) [1]. My use case is private trackers so I would have to write a custom scraper to replace the torrentio functionality anyways. So it probably wouldn't be too hard to have it generate .strm placeholders at the same time. Hopefully there aren't any performance / transcoding issues ...

[0] - https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Ajellyfin%2Fjellyfin+strm&...

[1] - https://emby.media/support/articles/Strm-Files.html

shhhhhhhh