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maybe I've been living under a rock but I don't get all this emphasis on hosting. What's wrong with having a file on your device that you just play when you want to
That is the smallest scale of self hosting. The server and the client are the same device. It is also the most insecure way as you probably don't have any backups and very limited storage space.
Actually self hosting is the next step when you decide you want 5+ TB of data and have it automatically create backups. Digital storage media degrade pretty quickly and if you just have your movies on a hard drive in your computer, after 5-10 years you might start to lose quality or some files completely.
Wait... That's a thing? You can lose video quality off a video file on a HD over time?
Yup, bitrot is a thing. Got a few video files from around 2000 only one player can still open and even then there are lots of artifacts. Moving the files periodically helps to reduce risk. Better is to use a file system\software that prevents that. I'm using snapraid on my server now and do regular scrubs.