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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 dbetteridge »

ryanmcbride wrote: post #48
loughnane wrote: post #36

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 wit…

Every once in a while I knock around the idea of migrating off Plex and onto Jellyfin. For a long time it was that sharing libraries with friends was a pain, but now literally the only thing stopping me is that they don't have a ps5 app, and that's how one of my friends uses my plex server lol. If they get one, it's all over for plex (in my friend group).

Ps5 Web browser with a bookmark?

But I hear ya, console support tends to lag behind because of the rules and costs of app dev for them

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by ValleZ »

Sheeny96 wrote: post #30
ValleZ wrote: post #16

Jellyfin is not able to group series together and on top of that shows everything in random order, why bother with it when there are alternatives that can do that?

What do you mean group series together? If you mean seasons of a show, yes it does. If you mean collections, it has them.

Then I could not figure how to make it work. Plex did that without any effort from my side though

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by Frotag »

I recently found out Jellyfin supports livestreams so I've been using it to "cast" my screen to the TV (simplescreenrecorder -> nginx's rtmp server -> jellyfin webpage). Theres a few seconds of latency I can't get rid of but ime more reliable than chromecast / the built-in device discovery.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by bhaney »

ryanmcbride wrote: post #48
loughnane wrote: post #36

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 wit…

Every once in a while I knock around the idea of migrating off Plex and onto Jellyfin. For a long time it was that sharing libraries with friends was a pain, but now literally the only thing stopping me is that they don't have a ps5 app, and that's how one of my friends uses my plex server lol. If they get one, it's all over for plex (in my friend group).

Keep in mind that you don't necessarily need to "migrate" all at once. There's nothing wrong with running both Plex and Jellyfin pointed at the same media library, and using whichever one has the better client for a particular platform.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by ValleZ »

russelg wrote: post #25
ValleZ wrote: post #16

Jellyfin is not able to group series together and on top of that shows everything in random order, why bother with it when there are alternatives that can do that?

What do you mean random order? You can choose the sort order for any library yourself.

I have one folder with movies and series. It shows as a randomized mix, maybe it uses something like modification time by default? It's definitely not by name.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by scns »

patmorgan23 wrote: post #44
fastily wrote: post #37

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

Being free does not exempt a project from criticism. It's not like they were yelling about how terrible the project team was, just saying the issues they were having when trying to use it.

And that criticism gets you what?

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by loughnane »

bhaney wrote: post #54
ryanmcbride wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every once in a while I knock around the idea of migrating off Plex and onto Jellyfin. For a long time it was that sharing libraries with friends was a pain, but now literally the only thing stopping me is that they don't have a ps5 app, and that's how one of my friends uses my plex server lol. If they get one, it's all over for plex (in my friend group).

Keep in mind that you don't necessarily need to "migrate" all at once. There's nothing wrong with running both Plex and Jellyfin pointed at the same media library, and using whichever one has the better client for a particular platform.

This is a good point. I did this for probably 6 months before switching over completely.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by dbetteridge »

bhaney wrote: post #49
calmoo wrote: post #35

To anyone considering using Jellyfin - it simply does not work properly for large libraries (1000+ movies/shows) in my experience.

I use Jellyfin for my 32TB media library of 1600 movies, 70 TV shows (5500 episodes), 500 music albums, and 10,000 books. It works perfectly fine with no issues or slowdowns.

Agreed, have several tb of TV, movies and anime and no issues with sync or scroll.

Most of my issues are with the Auth system and random log outs, but I suspect that's my own network.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by fastily »

patmorgan23 wrote: post #44
fastily wrote: post #37

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

Being free does not exempt a project from criticism. It's not like they were yelling about how terrible the project team was, just saying the issues they were having when trying to use it.

Agreed, but that’s not the point I’m making here. It’s not like this is some closed-source commercial product where the community can’t do anything about bugs/lack of features. My observation is simple: all of this time people spend complaining could be better spent helping to improve the project instead

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by furyofantares »

Mainsail wrote: post #38

What are people using this for? Pirated movies, shows, etc? Genuinely curious.

I have a script that scrapes a few youtube channels which my kid uses jellyfin to watch. Youtube is otherwise not allowed, too easy to watch all sorts of crap.
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