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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.
I ridiculously love Jellyfin. I have found that if my Jellyfin box is IPv6 and I map a domain to that address, such as free DNS from Cloudflare, then I can access my personal media from anywhere on the internet. What I haven’t found is a way to restrict access to known devices, such as MAC address, so that big companies don’t sue me to death. Yes, I know Jellyfin has a login prompt, but I would prefer better security…
I use Wireguard for my private online stuff, that works nicely. Expose Jellyfin only on the loopback address and use Nginx to forward your domain to it, then setup your DNS entry to be the VPN address of your server. Just be aware that if you have your own local DNS server then you might need to configure it to allow serving up DNS entries with private network addresses in them, as these are often blocked for security reasons; or else just modify your /etc/hosts equivalent to manually add the mapping.
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…
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I have a very different experience from most of your issues, to the point where I think something is wrong with your install. I can scroll through a page of >1000 movie cards and there's no choppiness or lag at all in the webUI. The cards have blurhash placeholders until the actual thumbnail loads, which is always very quick. Swiftfin for the Apple TV is admittedly very barebones and can be choppy when scrolling thro…
Having placeholders is part of what I’m talking about when I say lag, and jank is about dropping frames so that things do not appear smoothly animated. Not everyone is as sensitive to jank or they’re ok with it, but if you use something that lacks jank in the animations it feels better even if you don’t know what jank is. The media detection thing might be related to Infuse and not to Jellyfin itself, since it sounds…
You could also try setting up directplay, if your stack supports that.
Lastly, it might just be a limitation of your host hardware. What are you running your jellyfin server on?
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.
https://www.howtogeek.com/303282/how-to-use-plex-media-serve...
It's a mere setting not to have to use cloud authentication within your home network.
I ridiculously love Jellyfin. I have found that if my Jellyfin box is IPv6 and I map a domain to that address, such as free DNS from Cloudflare, then I can access my personal media from anywhere on the internet. What I haven’t found is a way to restrict access to known devices, such as MAC address, so that big companies don’t sue me to death. Yes, I know Jellyfin has a login prompt, but I would prefer better security…
How many music files can it handle? I’ve got a very large collection of mp3s and flac and many of the similar programs I have tried have choked trying to handle the size of the collection.
Probably supports many more, for the collection here the thumbnail browsing, presentation, metadata display etc. isn't bad (MusicBee does it better) but as a media support under the Jellyfin umbrella component it's not the worst.
It's weak on support of FullAlbum.flac with TrackIndex.Cue arrangements though.
MusicBee present those as individual tracks with jump to track and shuffle options whereas Jellyfin (as of today) has them a single blob of audio start to finish.
Cue support is on the issues list (although issue support has a slow turnover thanks to the small time).
Any bored audio format programmers looking for open source support credits??
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Then I could not figure how to make it work. Plex did that without any effort from my side though
First hit on google: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/
I switched from Plex to Jellyfin/Infuse for three reasons: 1) better tone mapping, allowing me to watch HDR movies on SDR without it looking bad. 2) Plex, on my variety of clients, had regular issues with audio out of sync. I’m very sensitive to this and it drove me nuts. I have no issues with Jellyfin. I fiddled with all kinds of platform and Plex settings but couldn’t find a solution that solved it for good. 3) It’…
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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/