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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 bigstrat2003 »

muppetman wrote: post #13
urbandw311er wrote: post #9

Nah - very happy to support Plex with my lifetime pass thanks.

Even with all the cruft they keep adding? Tv shows, Live TV, other random bollocks you have to keep turning off. I'm glad I never purchased a licence with the amount of useless stuff they keep shoe horning in.

I mean, I don't disagree that those things are silly but I haven't had to keep turning them off. I turned them off once, years ago when they were introduced, and they have never come back. I don't find that to be so onerous that it has kept me from enjoying the software. I have my misgivings about the direction the company is going, but at least for now they haven't ruined the core use case so I'm content.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by gosub100 »

triyambakam wrote: post #33

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?

I just got mine working a few months ago on FreeBSD using cloudflared. I paid for a cloudflare DNS and run cloudflared (in a jail, which is optional). Here is a redacted example of my tunnel.yml file (should work similarly on other OS's)

# cat /root/.cloudflared/fbsd0_tunnel.yml

    tunnel: 

    credentials-file: /root/.cloudflared/.json

    ingress:

  # Example of an HTTP request over a Unix socket:

  - hostname: 

    service: http://localhost:8096 #this is where jellyfin would normally run

  # Example of a rule responding to traffic with an HTTP status:

  - service: http_status:404

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by muppetman »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #81
muppetman wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even with all the cruft they keep adding? Tv shows, Live TV, other random bollocks you have to keep turning off. I'm glad I never purchased a licence with the amount of useless stuff they keep shoe horning in.

I mean, I don't disagree that those things are silly but I haven't had to keep turning them off. I turned them off once, years ago when they were introduced, and they have never come back. I don't find that to be so onerous that it has kept me from enjoying the software. I have my misgivings about the direction the company is going, but at least for now they haven't ruined the core use case so I'm content.

Sorry I wasn't clear I meant keep turning off as they add new dumb stuff. I agree once it's off it's off but I had that bollocks defaults to on.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

#85

Post by wang_li »

ValleZ wrote: post #55
russelg wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

In my experience you have to sort shows into directories and sub-directories for a series.

My entire jellyfin library is just symlinks into where my crap has accumulated over the years.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by zeagle »

It’s great. A stock Nvidia shield 2019 tube (!) plays 4K HDR/DV DTS content without stutter or issues with passthrough an AVR which is impressive. I can't say Kodi and various forks were able to do that, at least in the past. Lots of griping about the tube in general as well but it manages without transcoding.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

#87

Post by bigstrat2003 »

scns wrote: post #56
patmorgan23 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Same thing that praise does. It's a discussion board, there's nothing wrong with people discussing the shortcomings of a project as well as its good points.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

#88

Post by gosub100 »

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

our time still has value, even if the developer of the (often time-wasting app) isn't remunerated. I don't have a bone to pick with JellyFin, but there have been FOSS apps that are best avoided and it's fully within our rights to signal that to others.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by speff »

muppetman wrote: post #13
urbandw311er wrote: post #9

Nah - very happy to support Plex with my lifetime pass thanks.

Even with all the cruft they keep adding? Tv shows, Live TV, other random bollocks you have to keep turning off. I'm glad I never purchased a licence with the amount of useless stuff they keep shoe horning in.

I’m not forced to use any of those and when turned off, never came back on. This is a commonly mentioned con by jellyfin…proponents, but I fail to see how turning a setting off is more cumbersome than the jellyfin setup as a whole. My users and I are more than satisfied with plex and their updates

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

#90

Post by foobiekr »

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…

I love jellyfin but their web model is just bizarre.

Why on earth, when you go to 192.168.whatever:8096 does it ask you what server you want to connect to? Like.. THE ONE SERVING THE PAGE.

Just now I decided to connect to Jellyfin over tailscale and it's asking me to add a server; on 100.xxx, which is the jellyfin server which served the UI. And it doesn't seem to want to accept any answer as to what the server URL is.

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