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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by dang »

Related:

From Plex to Jellyfin Media Server - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33579209 - Nov 2022 (344 comments)

Better than Netflix: Jellyfin on my NAS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33433880 - Nov 2022 (1 comment)

Why I use Jellyfin for my home media library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33362416 - Oct 2022 (228 comments)

Jellyfin Release – v10.8.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31720125 - June 2022 (14 comments)

Jellyfin: Free Software Media System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28664802 - Sept 2021 (199 comments)

Moving my home media library from iTunes to Jellyfin and Infuse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27462767 - June 2021 (171 comments)

Jellyfin: A Free Software Media System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21986282 - Jan 2020 (173 comments)

Jellyfin is an open source alternative for Plex - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20797851 - Aug 2019 (1 comment)

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by takoid »

vezycash wrote: post #179
GranPC wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a demo on their official website: https://demo.jellyfin.org/stable/web/index.html

The demo is passworded and they didn't provide the login details. Edit I don't care about cookies extension removed it. So username is demo. There's no password.

Just so you know, I Don't Care About Cookies was bought by Avast recently: https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/21/avast_buys_i_dont_car...

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by growingentropy »

Musky wrote: post #300
growingentropy wrote: post #296

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I hand-change every file name. Please tell me I'm an idiot and show me a better way. Lol it won't save me the hundreds of movies I've put in "Title (year).type" format, but it will save some future work.

The *arr suite of apps is made to automate the whole process of building up your media library. You have Prowlarr for managing your download sites and clients, Sonarr/Radarr for TV shows/movies, Lidarr for music, Readarr for books, etc. These apps can be self hosted and are fully open source. The basic workflow is that you add a movie/show, it automatically searches all of your download sites for the title, chooses t…

Oh, I will most definitely be checking that out. Thank you so much.

It's funny, I've heard of radarr and sonarr, but I never looked into them because I was learning other stuff.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by d21d3q »

beeb wrote: post #269
Drybones wrote: post #262

I switched to Jellyfin from Plex cause of it being open source and having AMD/VA-API transcoding support I’ve enjoyed it a but more cause I feel like I can do more on the server end. I recently started to use Infuse on my Apple TV for it cause turns out that Swiftfin, still in development, doesn’t have a license for Dolby Audio formats. But the development cycle for Jellyfin and the clients looks healthy, unlike Plex…

Unfortunately I had a pretty bad experience with jellyfin when trying to switch from plex. Plex works for me in almost all scenarios, mobile, desktop, chromecast, what have you. And I can play multiple feeds simultaneously from my cheap Nuc server. With Jellyfin I had trouble to get video even playing without stuttering/buffering on my phone when on the same network, let alone on mobile internet. I'll probably give i…

As other comments suggest, this might be due to transcoding. There is tool Tdarr which transcodes media in advance. h264 could be the safest choice for mobile (hw support) and web.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by growingentropy »

ThatMedicIsASpy wrote: post #297
growingentropy wrote: post #296

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hand-change every file name. Please tell me I'm an idiot and show me a better way. Lol it won't save me the hundreds of movies I've put in "Title (year).type" format, but it will save some future work.

something like tinymediamanager?

I'll look into it as well. Thank you.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by zeekaran »

newsclues wrote: post #291
beeb wrote: post #269

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Unfortunately I had a pretty bad experience with jellyfin when trying to switch from plex. Plex works for me in almost all scenarios, mobile, desktop, chromecast, what have you. And I can play multiple feeds simultaneously from my cheap Nuc server. With Jellyfin I had trouble to get video even playing without stuttering/buffering on my phone when on the same network, let alone on mobile internet. I'll probably give i…

Sounds like a setup issue, which can be tricky on Jellyfin to get transcoding properly working.

Classic open source alternative feeling. I hope the near future of open source software is more stable and feels identical or better than the closed source options.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by zeekaran »

growingentropy wrote: post #303
Musky wrote: post #300

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The *arr suite of apps is made to automate the whole process of building up your media library. You have Prowlarr for managing your download sites and clients, Sonarr/Radarr for TV shows/movies, Lidarr for music, Readarr for books, etc. These apps can be self hosted and are fully open source. The basic workflow is that you add a movie/show, it automatically searches all of your download sites for the title, chooses t…

Oh, I will most definitely be checking that out. Thank you so much. It's funny, I've heard of radarr and sonarr, but I never looked into them because I was learning other stuff.

Also check out Ombi once you have the arrs set up. It's a combined UI for your users (or just yourself) to request a movie or show and then you just wait a bit and it shows up in Plex/Jelly.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by https443 »

ufish235 wrote: post #94
https443 wrote: post #50

Have been using Jellyfin on my synology server for the past 2 years. It's a dream, but you do need to name your files/directories per their naming convention: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/ -- https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/

Which model Synology? I am looking into one of the dual/quad core Celeron models because I heard the iGPU is critical for any kind of transcoding.

It worked on my older "DS 216+II". Could not stream more than 1 person at a time though. That was ok for my usage but not sure for yours.

I recently upgraded to "DS 423+" and it's a lot faster - can have multiple streams going if I want.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by growingentropy »

zeekaran wrote: post #307
growingentropy wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, I will most definitely be checking that out. Thank you so much. It's funny, I've heard of radarr and sonarr, but I never looked into them because I was learning other stuff.

Also check out Ombi once you have the arrs set up. It's a combined UI for your users (or just yourself) to request a movie or show and then you just wait a bit and it shows up in Plex/Jelly.

...super cool. Man, glad I had this conversation. I have projects again.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by NoMoreNicksLeft »

manmal wrote: post #264
Drybones wrote: post #262

I switched to Jellyfin from Plex cause of it being open source and having AMD/VA-API transcoding support I’ve enjoyed it a but more cause I feel like I can do more on the server end. I recently started to use Infuse on my Apple TV for it cause turns out that Swiftfin, still in development, doesn’t have a license for Dolby Audio formats. But the development cycle for Jellyfin and the clients looks healthy, unlike Plex…

Plex might have been stagnating, but it works kinda flawlessly for me. I run it in Docker at home and through a reverse proxy on a cheap VPS (don’t want to expose any ports at home) and even that works really well - the iOS app automagically switches between remote and local networks. Hardware transcoding (Intel) just works, even in Docker. Media scanning is very snappy. User management and parental controls look pow…

> Plex might have been stagnating,

It's not stagnating, so much as they have decided that their initial market doesn't interest them. They were writing software for end users that let end users set up their own person Netflix. But maybe the revenue was unexciting or just insufficient, and now they want to be their own streaming service.

Their streaming service sucks (they're probably at least two orders of magnitude too small to be able to afford to do it right, maybe even 3 or 4), and contaminates the searches on my server with their junk.

Also, it might be true that they're just afraid of the liability of doubling down on their original market. Contributory infringement and all that. This is almost certainly the reason they haven't expanded to include media like ebooks and audio books and karaoke. I mean they have the perfect paradigm for all of these things... the same software that keeps track of where I am in a season of shows, or halfway through a movie could definitely keep track of where I am in a book, if they wanted to.

This isn't entirely speculation on my part... at some point someone had asked them about preroll trailers for new seasons (Archer might be the most fun for these), but they said that they wouldn't add the feature because there was no legitimate source for those videos (even though just ripping them with youtube-dl is dead simple).

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