Jellyfin is great in that it just works. I managed to install it on Samsung TV with Tizen OS and it has been just solid experience for many years now.
WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
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Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#12Jellyfin is great in that it just works. I managed to install it on Samsung TV with Tizen OS and it has been just solid experience for many years now.
Agreed. I honestly chose Jellyfin over plex because I preferred the branding, not sure what I’m missing. I really enjoy Jellyfin, and thy seemingly have support for most devices in some way.
My GF has it set up on her iPad, phone, computer. App is on our TV and has no issues. We have Netflix at home. She’s non technical and hasn’t had any trouble once I gave her a login.
The only hiccup was when she tried to watch during one of her lectures. I had to explain that Jellyfin is only at home ;) (for now)
Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Wii supports 240p, though, which is very hard to replicate these days.
Or 480i if you want to watch classic anime on a CRT.
It can't really decode 480p/i very well.
The fact that it has component video out makes it a swiss army knife for everything else 240p/480i/480p.
Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#14Noticed that Jellyfin had inched out Plex when sorting by popularity on the TrueNAS app catalogue the other day (45,178 installs vs Plex's 42,225). The existance of this project seems to confirm that the dev ecosystem around it is getting stronger!
And that plex really pissed off the community by changing its pricing model.
Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#15Has anyone tried to horizontally scale jellyfin to running on a multi node cluster?
I'm wanting to set it up for around 20 households to share, and with transcoding that exceeds a single (cheap) node.
Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#16Has anyone tried to horizontally scale jellyfin to running on a multi node cluster? I'm wanting to set it up for around 20 households to share, and with transcoding that exceeds a single (cheap) node.
For hardware acceleration you might be interested in the remote hardware acceleration strategy...
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/h...
The jellyfin DB itself is unfortunately sqlite instead of being DB agnostic. Maybe you could hack together something such that only one node handles writes and everyone else handles reads... if getting multiple cheap nodes gets your more bandwidth. I have to imagine that jellyfin fairly quickly stops being in charge of the media stream directly.
But yeah I think the transcoding and the size of your data pipe is the only "hard" part. The DB read/writes themselves are going to not be an issue (I think)
Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#17Jellyfin is great in that it just works. I managed to install it on Samsung TV with Tizen OS and it has been just solid experience for many years now.
The one trick is to make sure your file naming & organization is good. They have good documentation on it. Everything's pretty much automatic then, almost zero further work. The naming conventions aren't too bad, and the resulting file tree would be a reasonable way to organize your files regardless.
Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#18Jellyfin is great in that it just works. I managed to install it on Samsung TV with Tizen OS and it has been just solid experience for many years now.
Agreed. I honestly chose Jellyfin over plex because I preferred the branding, not sure what I’m missing. I really enjoy Jellyfin, and thy seemingly have support for most devices in some way. My GF has it set up on her iPad, phone, computer. App is on our TV and has no issues. We have Netflix at home. She’s non technical and hasn’t had any trouble once I gave her a login. The only hiccup was when she tried to watch du…
> The only hiccup was when she tried to watch during one of her lectures. I had to explain that Jellyfin is only at home ;) (for now)
Tailscale got me outside-the-home Jellyfin with a grand total of maybe 30 minutes of effort, including signing up, getting my server connected, and getting it on my MacBook, AppleTV, and phone. I'd never used it before.
Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#19Noticed that Jellyfin had inched out Plex when sorting by popularity on the TrueNAS app catalogue the other day (45,178 installs vs Plex's 42,225). The existance of this project seems to confirm that the dev ecosystem around it is getting stronger!
I started out my home server journey with Plex but it just kept getting worse, forcing me to switch to Jellyfin, which imo works just as well and seems to not fall into the whole pay us to stream your media business practice yet. Paywalling such a core feature was pretty harsh
Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii
#20Has anyone tried to horizontally scale jellyfin to running on a multi node cluster? I'm wanting to set it up for around 20 households to share, and with transcoding that exceeds a single (cheap) node.
For hardware acceleration you might be interested in the remote hardware acceleration strategy... https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/h... The jellyfin DB itself is unfortunately sqlite instead of being DB agnostic. Maybe you could hack together something such that only one node handles writes and everyone else handles reads... if getting multiple cheap nodes gets your more bandwidth. I have to…
The database changes late last year is laying the grounds for other database engines[1].
[1] https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.11.0/#the-lib...