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Why you should start a local LLM?

A user described running a local LLM, referred to as Hermes, to automate ripping DVD and Blu-ray episodes for a Jellyfin server, including sorting files by reading on-screen episode titles with vision around the 1-minute mark, cross-referencing Wikipedia for series and episode numbers, renaming files to a naming convention, transcoding with the English audio track, organizing output into season folders, and generating a completeness and file-size report. The account is a first-person use case arguing that local LLMs save time on large multi-hundred-episode libraries.

read1 min views1 publishedNov 13, 2026

That’s basically what I did.

Use case example. I am ripping DVD/BR disc of series for my JellyFin server. Some are hundreds of episodes. I manually just dump the ripped video files into a folder as I was ripping them. I told Hermes to sort though that folder, look around the 1 minute mark where they display the episode title and use vision to get what episode it is, cross reference that to the Wikipedia article to get the series and episode number, then rename the file to my naming convention. Also transcode the video to X format, making sure to get the English audio track. Then put the finished videos in a folder structure based on the season. Then give me a report to confirm I have all episodes and they are all the expected size. It saves me so much time.

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