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A Call for Developers – Jellyfin

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Re: A Call for Developers – Jellyfin

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Post by hotnfresh »

dinosaurdynasty wrote: post #63
mmh0000 wrote: post #27

I do not understand why anyone uses Jellyfin, I've tried it twice, and it seems soo finicky and opinionated. I've always just had a Linux computer hooked up to the T.V. Add a little bit of ktorrent, VLC, and SMB. Never really had any problems with this and its much much simpler.

It's extremely convenient to have software keep track of which episode on a 7 season show I'm on

An actual metadata-aware browsing system that works from my couch, controlled by an ordinary remote or by my phone, is great, too. “Sort by release year” or “what else do I have by this director?” work seamlessly.

Re: A Call for Developers – Jellyfin

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Post by jethro_tell »

heartjudytenuta wrote: post #72
jethro_tell wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tell me you live alone or only with a partner in a single TV home. Multiple users, multiple locations, one setup. That's the value.

Or you could purchase inFuse, point it to a Samba server and literally walk away and be done. They even support connecting to a Jellyfin backend. Paying for commercial software that works out of the box, I know, the horror, I'm literally shaking.

Smb over the internet sucks. So good for multiple TVs single location.

Re: A Call for Developers – Jellyfin

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Post by jethro_tell »

carlosjobim wrote: post #67
jethro_tell wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tell me you live alone or only with a partner in a single TV home. Multiple users, multiple locations, one setup. That's the value.

12 years ago me and my then girlfriend used to torrent a USB pen drive full of the series and movies we wanted to watch and just plug it into a Sony TV and watch. Including subtitles when we wanted. You could put that USB pen drive in your pocket to continue watching at a friends house. 20 years ago, we'd connect any PC or Mac to the TV with HDMI and watch a movie or whatever we wanted.

Nice, I'm sure that works great on an iPad in the car

Re: A Call for Developers – Jellyfin

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Post by ncallaway »

pierat wrote: post #53

Yeah, whatever. They're a pirate media app, like Plex. But the MOMENT you say that a thing doesn't work and they ask for examples, you're booted if you say it was this or that show. Face it, this isn't for home movies. This is for bulk piracy loaded in from the Arrs suite. The more they are truthful with themselves with that, the better they'll succeed.

I use Jellyfin quite often, for a fairly large library, and I don’t pirate anything.

You can still buy physical media, and if you own that media, it’s totally legal to rip to digital storage.

Re: A Call for Developers – Jellyfin

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Post by jethro_tell »

mmh0000 wrote: post #77
jethro_tell wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tell me you live alone or only with a partner in a single TV home. Multiple users, multiple locations, one setup. That's the value.

Ouch. But sadly not true. Both my non-tech wife and my four year old have figured out how to watch things. Which, is, my point. VLC, a directory browser, and ktorrent suite our needs so perfectly. Admittedly, the four year old hasn't figured out how to download torrents yet; but for my wife it was super simple to explain: "goto this website, search for desired show, only download from purple or green pirates." My set…

Fair enough, still a single household solution.

Re: A Call for Developers – Jellyfin

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Post by 22c »

paradox460 wrote: post #80
hotnfresh wrote: post #3

I looked at adding a much-requested and not-that-hard-to-add feature a while back (allowlist-by-tag), got as far as figuring out where to add it in the server code… but bailed when I realized I’d need to shepherd PRs through at least two repos to get the feature delivered, while juggling both repos to do integration testing. Monorepos for tightly-coupled code are so nice… Maybe I’ll give it another look. [edit] incid…

Fwiw, Plex parental controls are absurdly flexible. I have it set up so the kids account can only watch things that have been given a particular tag. Due to how granular Plex tags are, this means you can give them a whole movie or TV show, some of a TV show, or a single episode As it is right now, they have access to a reasonably large corpus of content, but nothing new; every time I acquire a new episode of bluey or…

> every time I acquire a new episode of bluey or something, my wife wants to watch it first

I wish Jellyfin had something similar, as my current process involves manually tagging things with a tag that isn't visible, then removing that tag once I've reviewed it.

Re: A Call for Developers – Jellyfin

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Post by paradox460 »

22c wrote: post #86
paradox460 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fwiw, Plex parental controls are absurdly flexible. I have it set up so the kids account can only watch things that have been given a particular tag. Due to how granular Plex tags are, this means you can give them a whole movie or TV show, some of a TV show, or a single episode As it is right now, they have access to a reasonably large corpus of content, but nothing new; every time I acquire a new episode of bluey or…

> every time I acquire a new episode of bluey or something, my wife wants to watch it first I wish Jellyfin had something similar, as my current process involves manually tagging things with a tag that isn't visible, then removing that tag once I've reviewed it.

Is it possible to automate that via webhook or something similar? You could have whatever media acquisition program you use set that tag, and then remove it whenever you're done. Would eliminate 50% of the steps, until more granular abilities are added

Re: A Call for Developers – Jellyfin

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Post by carlosjobim »

jethro_tell wrote: post #83
carlosjobim wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

12 years ago me and my then girlfriend used to torrent a USB pen drive full of the series and movies we wanted to watch and just plug it into a Sony TV and watch. Including subtitles when we wanted. You could put that USB pen drive in your pocket to continue watching at a friends house. 20 years ago, we'd connect any PC or Mac to the TV with HDMI and watch a movie or whatever we wanted.

Nice, I'm sure that works great on an iPad in the car

How is your iPad going to connect to your media server on the road with no signal?

Re: A Call for Developers – Jellyfin

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Post by distract8901 »

phpisthebest wrote: post #52
distract8901 wrote: post #31

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C# on Linux is only slightly more annoying than Windows. You have to make some effort to install the SDKs and naturally some of the system APIs behave slightly differently, but overall I have only a very slight preference for windows here. Mono does still exist, but since like 2015 or so C# has been supported natively on Linux. No one really uses mono anymore AFAIK. Its only purpose is running dotnet framework apps a…

what you need to do is install powershell on linux, and set that to be your default shell, then install dotnet Once complete you will have the best linux environment to develop on :)

Of all the posts I've seen on this website, this one is the worst

Re: A Call for Developers – Jellyfin

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Post by distract8901 »

barake wrote: post #62
distract8901 wrote: post #25

Oh, I had no idea jellyfin was based on C#. I started my career as a C# dev, but now I only write C++. I miss C# dearly and have been badly wanting a project to flex those muscles on. I guess I'll dive into jellyfin now. I've got a list of annoyances and now that I know it's C#, I'm ready to get fixing

You're likely in for a treat if you haven't written C# in a while. The language has evolved quite a bit, especially around all kinds of nice ergonomics. Interesting things like pattern matching, using statements, and performance oriented primitives. I got back to writing C# full time earlier this year and it's a joy.

I've been keeping up with the language and I am... Less than enthused.

Maybe I'm just yelling at clouds, but I see more bloat than useful features recently.

Non-nullable reference types as default was a bad idea and I will die on this hill

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