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Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by Octoth0rpe »

I tried jellyfin after my most recent nas upgrade (pi5 w/ external drives). It seemed _really_ nice, but it also worked extremely badly for my specific use case. It seems to want a specific folder structure for all of your media, and its layout conflicted badly with my existing conventions. My partner has our media collection obsessively organized by country, then by genre. Jellyfin made some kind of attempt at categorizing this, and just ended up showing us tons of previews for things we did NOT have (eg, our British folder was interpreted as us having The Great British Baking Show, which we do NOT have). It seems like every media solution wants to ignore your folder structure and present some fake hierarchy, which really doesn't work at all for me.

We ended up buying an apple tv and installing the vlc app which connects via smb and is happy to show us the original folder structure.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by mrcsharp »

muppetman wrote: post #8
RickHull wrote: post #6

My media center is a laptop with a broken screen, running Arch Linux and Kodi. Kodi has a web interface that you can stream to. Why might I want to add Jellyfin?

Because you can give your friends a login, they can log in from anywhere, and watch your content. Same for you. You can log in from anywhere and do that. Kodi is more of a local thing, I find the two compliment each other very well. There are native apps for jellyfin as well. Loaded up and hit play. I guess you can probably do this with Kodi but it hasn't been designed from the ground up for this use case.

And when they login you can watch content together in sync too. I use that feature a lot to remotely watch movies with mates.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by triyambakam »

Well this is very timely and relevant. I usually access jellyfin on my network devices like `http://homecloud:8096` but now that I have been exploring adding other services, remembering the ports is getting tedious. I also am trying to be forward thinking about external access in the future.

Looks like I could use some combination of Caddy, Nginx Proxy Manager, Tailscale? What's the simplest setup?

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by yegle »

apitman wrote: post #20

Fun fact: Jellyfin runs natively on Windows. Combined with something like Cloudflare Tunnel it's probably the easiest way to host a media server without needing to be a Linux admin.

Cloudflare Tunnel only works if you access it via a web browser right?

I'd prefer using Tailscale so that I can also access it in their native apps on Android and Android TV.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by loughnane »

Lot's of criticism on here, but I love Jellyfin.

I came from Plex a few years ago after their login server had an outage and I was unable to access the media that was on my local computer. Before that I'd been annoyed by them pushing TV shows and since then I've heard about them giving reports on what people have watched. All in all I'm happy.

My setup is Jellyfin in a docker container running on a debian machine with an i7-1165G7. It's got a mounted NFS link to my Synology NAS with all the files. The main client I used is Android TV running on an NVIDIA shield.

All in all, it's been great. I've got a few nitpicks---loading on ios app isn't as fast as I like if I try to jump to the middle of a movie---but all in all it's great for just watching movies, tv shows, videos, &c. All without any link to the outside world. It's lovely.

They also are producing new features at a nice clip and have a strong community. I expect it to keep getting better and better, but honestly even if it never changed I'd happily use it for years.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by fastily »

Bemused by the number of people complaining about a free and open source project. A quick review of the git history tells me that it’s maintained by a very small group of people who generously work on this in their free time. Luckily jellyfin does accept PRs, so if you think the project needs improvements, then perhaps folks, you can do something about it

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by pixxel »

Larrikin wrote: post #17

Jellyfin feels like its almost to where Plex was 5 years ago. They are catching up fairly quickly and I think I wouldn't bother with a Plex pass if I was coming in completely fresh. But it is not as good as Plex currently. I have a lifetime pass and there is no reason for me to switch. I personally am fine with Plex adding features, so long as they are not taking anything away. They've had a couple missteps but absol…

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Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by p1mrx »

Larrikin wrote: post #17

Jellyfin feels like its almost to where Plex was 5 years ago. They are catching up fairly quickly and I think I wouldn't bother with a Plex pass if I was coming in completely fresh. But it is not as good as Plex currently. I have a lifetime pass and there is no reason for me to switch. I personally am fine with Plex adding features, so long as they are not taking anything away. They've had a couple missteps but absol…

Plex uses cloud-based authentication, which means Plex Inc. is holding the keys to your library. I switched to JellyFin because I was not comfortable with that arrangement.
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