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Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by prmoustache »

Arainach wrote: post #105
prmoustache wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess this applies to a relatively small subset of population who are always on the riad and travelling for work. One must have a nightmare of a vacation to even consider turning on a tv in an hotel room, I can't even remember the last time an hotel TV served any other purpose than hanging a wet towel.

It means access from anywhere. Want to watch an episode of that series while you're sitting at work waiting for a long test pass? Plex. You're hanging out with friends and they want to watch that movie you own? Plex. You're at the gym and want to watch The Wire instead of whatever reality show is on the gym TV? Believe it or not, straight to Plex. To your direct point, it doesn't have to be a terrible vacation. Any t…

I guess we are a different breed. I didn't even knew there were TV in gym clubs (I am exercising outside, never understood paying for exercising either). I don't really understand why someone would be so little engaged on his exercising/training/sport that they would need a screen to entertain themselves to be honest.

That is interesting to hear, a completely foreign concept to me that sounds a bit like addiction to be honest.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by tmountain »

al_borland wrote: post #45
walrus01 wrote: post #26

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I still am not quite sure what value something like Plex offers for my personal HTPC media needs. I have a large collection of disk space that's an SMB file share on my local LAN, on a server in my garage. My home theatre PC mounts it over the LAN. I have an XFCE4 desktop environment on the HTPC with the font size cranked up a bit and can run nautilus, thunar, or any other file explorer metaphor browser to explore th…

It lets the user browser with cover art, descriptions, trailers, sorting by release date, rating, etc. It keeps track of watched and unwatched movies. Shows what’s recently be added, recently released. Keeps track of where you’re at in a TV series, to always play the next episode. It can transcode as needed, to something like a mobile device or TV that might be more picky than VLC. Lots of quality of life improvement…

Yup, it’s a great UX and it makes the media experience feel finished, not hacky.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by hnarn »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #148
squigz wrote: post #124

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Do people doing non-FLOSS work not also sometimes face severe burnout?

Yes but those people aren't doing it as a hobby.

What’s your point, or are you just engaging in a conversation while completely ignoring the context?

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by adamors »

ssl-3 wrote: post #41
judge2020 wrote: post #25

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Makes me feel lucky that I got it for $120 in 2021. But I appreciate that they still offer a lifetime pass at all.

$120 isn't too bad. I paid $75 in July of 2019. $750 is nuts .

It was $120 even a year ago (bought one in April of last year), the jump $750 is really weird.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by hnarn »

cube00 wrote: post #82

I simply could no longer provide the effort (mental or time-wise) that the role demanded, and thus I was not performing my duties to an acceptable degree, facing severe burnout, and risks to my mental health. [...] We've proven that FLOSS works, and is in demand. If "FLOSS works" maintainers shouldn't be "facing severe burnout", I've come across two more in the past week alone: * Filebrowser (Mar 2026): https://hacdi…

> If "FLOSS works" maintainers shouldn't be "facing severe burnout"

So your success criteria for ”FLOSS works” is that zero people involved in it experience stress related issues?

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by butvacuum »

FrinkleFrankle wrote: post #136
bob1029 wrote: post #132

There's never been a better time to consider writing your own media server solution from scratch. I really don't like the idea of transcoding on demand. It has always created a janky experience on the client. I've been using a custom solution that runs everything through ffmpeg normalization as part of the media upload phase. Whenever a client wants to stream something we give them raw byte ranges directly from the b…

Sounds cool. Care to share it?

sounds like a bastardized HTTP Live Streaming implementation- which is now fully supported by ffmpeg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by abnercoimbre »

KingMob wrote: post #119
whynotmaybe wrote: post #59

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Maybe it's a Linux thing? I've been using it on Windows for years with multiple devices and it's been working flawlessly.

Could be, but it also had problems on my mac. I had to abandon Jellyfin for Emby over it. Every so often, Jellyfin would choke ingesting a video. Worse, it would hang the whole ingestion process, so videos later in the list wouldn't get processed. Restarting didn't fix it, either, I had to delete the problematic video (which notably, played ok in things like VLC and IINA).

Tell me more about Emby. Solid replacement?

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by gamblor956 »

bob1029 wrote: post #132

There's never been a better time to consider writing your own media server solution from scratch. I really don't like the idea of transcoding on demand. It has always created a janky experience on the client. I've been using a custom solution that runs everything through ffmpeg normalization as part of the media upload phase. Whenever a client wants to stream something we give them raw byte ranges directly from the b…

You just described Plex 0.1.

There's a reason they turned to transcoding: it means every device can get the highest quality version it is capable of displaying. Your solution limits the video to the lowest common supported quality.

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by freetonik »

al_borland wrote: post #45
walrus01 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still am not quite sure what value something like Plex offers for my personal HTPC media needs. I have a large collection of disk space that's an SMB file share on my local LAN, on a server in my garage. My home theatre PC mounts it over the LAN. I have an XFCE4 desktop environment on the HTPC with the font size cranked up a bit and can run nautilus, thunar, or any other file explorer metaphor browser to explore th…

It lets the user browser with cover art, descriptions, trailers, sorting by release date, rating, etc. It keeps track of watched and unwatched movies. Shows what’s recently be added, recently released. Keeps track of where you’re at in a TV series, to always play the next episode. It can transcode as needed, to something like a mobile device or TV that might be more picky than VLC. Lots of quality of life improvement…

>It lets the user browser with cover art, descriptions, trailers, sorting by release date, rating, etc. It keeps track of watched and unwatched movies.

Infuse [1] is a nice way to get these features on Apple TV and iOS devices while simply sharing files via SMB.

1. https://firecore.com/infuse

Re: Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

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Post by b3lvedere »

al_borland wrote: post #45
walrus01 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still am not quite sure what value something like Plex offers for my personal HTPC media needs. I have a large collection of disk space that's an SMB file share on my local LAN, on a server in my garage. My home theatre PC mounts it over the LAN. I have an XFCE4 desktop environment on the HTPC with the font size cranked up a bit and can run nautilus, thunar, or any other file explorer metaphor browser to explore th…

It lets the user browser with cover art, descriptions, trailers, sorting by release date, rating, etc. It keeps track of watched and unwatched movies. Shows what’s recently be added, recently released. Keeps track of where you’re at in a TV series, to always play the next episode. It can transcode as needed, to something like a mobile device or TV that might be more picky than VLC. Lots of quality of life improvement…

This is not a rant or an attack on you. I get the point of easyness that Plex and/or Jellyfin offer. I merely would like to explain why i do not need it. I tried both Jellyfin and Plex, but i could not find a huge benefit in using them in our household. Again, not a rant.

I think it's an extra layer on top of things i do not need. I do not need cover art, descriptions or trailers. The smb shares have a folder hierarchy that's very logical and easy to our household so sorting and reindexing is not needed. Kodi (Windows,Linux, Android) keeps track of where i was, but i don't really care that much. Usually i remember what i was watching. File Explorer Pro (paid version) on IOS plays anything. I do not need transcoding, because all the players can play anything i throw at it. My wife and kids know how to use Kodi both on the pcs and the chromecasts.

Mp3's go to a Sonos at the moment. If more mp3 devices would be needed in the future, i'm kinda curious about the CrowdSupply Esparagus systems [1][2]

1: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sonocotta/esparagus-media-center 2: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sonocotta/esparagus-audio-brick

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