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Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by benoau »

egeozcan wrote: post #33
doctoboggan wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes it really does, and I intend to switch eventually but from what I heard the last time I looked into it, the end user clients are a big area where plex still beats Jellyfin. Since that’s where my non technical friends and family mostly interact with the system, it’s the area I need to be the most polished and hands off.

This gave me an idea, what if I let an agent make a proxy for Jellyfin to act like Plex? Best of both worlds! Maybe worth a try.

I don’t think it’ll work because Plex gates everything with a sign in to their online accounts, so auth would have to go through them and there might be server-to-Plex verification going on too.

That said, I’m very interested in this space - I’ve been building a music server that provides compatible APIs for Synology and QNAP mobile apps, with a few more on my todo list. I’d love to include Plexamp so if it is possible please let me know!

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by post-it »

RajT88 wrote: post #14
yunaflox wrote: post #7

Does this introduce basic UX changes, like saying that a media will be permanently lost instead of "will be removed from Jellyfin" which is inaccurate? Edit: And making it more secure? Just because it is commonly for LAN doesn't mean it can be insecure

Including, but not limited to, sending passwords in cleartext on login.

As opposed to what? The password needs to reach the server. Encryption is the job of HTTPS.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by mzi »

firecall wrote: post #3
doctoboggan wrote: post #2

As a long time plex user with a lifetime pass, I always enjoy seeing the good progress with Jellyfin as it will increasingly give me a soft landing for when Plex finally does something to make me move. At the very least it will hopefully keep some of plex’s most user hostile behavior in check. As an aside, I recently started having Claude help me with configuring my *arr stack and it has helped tremendously. I used t…

Feels like only a matter of time with Plex doesn't it! I've got the lifetime pass, but it really does feel like a Sword of Damocles situation...

I have a lifetime pass as well, but switched to Jellyfin years ago.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by al_borland »

doctoboggan wrote: post #8
firecall wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feels like only a matter of time with Plex doesn't it! I've got the lifetime pass, but it really does feel like a Sword of Damocles situation...

Yes it really does, and I intend to switch eventually but from what I heard the last time I looked into it, the end user clients are a big area where plex still beats Jellyfin. Since that’s where my non technical friends and family mostly interact with the system, it’s the area I need to be the most polished and hands off.

Performance was also a big issue for me the last time I tried running Jellyfin on the same hardware as my Plex server. I’m happy to see that has been their focus.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by scubbo »

bitexploder wrote: post #38
doctoboggan wrote: post #2

As a long time plex user with a lifetime pass, I always enjoy seeing the good progress with Jellyfin as it will increasingly give me a soft landing for when Plex finally does something to make me move. At the very least it will hopefully keep some of plex’s most user hostile behavior in check. As an aside, I recently started having Claude help me with configuring my *arr stack and it has helped tremendously. I used t…

For what it’s worth, I am very happy with Jellyfin and the *arr suite. It took a bit of agent prodding to get them all playing nicely together and bypassing Cloudflare CAPTCHAs. However, it's pretty sweet when you get it all working.

> bypassing Cloudflare CAPTCHAs

Can you say more about this? I've never encountered this problem in nearly a decade of running the same stack.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by davkan »

dgrin91 wrote: post #20
doctoboggan wrote: post #2

As a long time plex user with a lifetime pass, I always enjoy seeing the good progress with Jellyfin as it will increasingly give me a soft landing for when Plex finally does something to make me move. At the very least it will hopefully keep some of plex’s most user hostile behavior in check. As an aside, I recently started having Claude help me with configuring my *arr stack and it has helped tremendously. I used t…

What are you using for audiobook requests? I also recently setup arr stack, but I saw readarr is depreciated and there doesn't seem to be a clear successor.

If you don’t want to commit to one of the vibecoded no community arr clones for books then i recommend shelfmark. Lightweight grabber, easy to start with, easy to rip out later.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by jshier »

doctoboggan wrote: post #2

As a long time plex user with a lifetime pass, I always enjoy seeing the good progress with Jellyfin as it will increasingly give me a soft landing for when Plex finally does something to make me move. At the very least it will hopefully keep some of plex’s most user hostile behavior in check. As an aside, I recently started having Claude help me with configuring my *arr stack and it has helped tremendously. I used t…

Also a lifetime pass Plex user, I'll leave as soon as someone has a good solution for identifying raw Bluray rips automatically. Why do I have to manually name the episodes? We had CDDB last century, why isn't there an equivalent for raw video rips? The ripped data should be identical, a simple hash should uniquely identify it.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by [deleted] »

thesh4d0w wrote: post #53
altano wrote: post #16

I hate people who are demanding of open source projects but... doing performance improvements and adding comic book support before making the product secure enough to expose to the internet is wild prioritization and I don't know what else to say. Or release native clients that can use OIDC. Doing neither sucks =[.

I've had my instance on the internet for years without issue. (Tailscale is great for me, but not feasible for family)

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Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by drdexebtjl »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #54
drdexebtjl wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had this problem, but I fixed it by setting it up so it extracts all embedded subtitles into SRT files, and enabled a setting prevents Jellyfin from serving embedded subtitles. From what I remember, some clients don't support streaming subtitles, so they must download them completely in advance, when the movie starts, before they start appearing. If you pick embedded subtitles with these clients, Jellyfin must extr…

> If you pick embedded subtitles with these clients, Jellyfin must extract the subtitles files immediately, and this takes a while depending on container format, file sizes and server load. Really? How? My expectation would be that extracting a subtitle file takes a few seconds at most. If you had to do it on the fly every time you watched anything in your library, it wouldn't matter.

I don't undestand how movie containers work, but I ran this on a 70 GB movie file to test:

    ffmpeg -i input.mkv -map 0:s:0 /tmp/subtitles.srt
The movie is 2 hours long, and the expected time to complete is 21 minutes. It seems like it's reading the entire file. This is on an average SATA SSD that is also being read/written to by the torrent client in the background.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by ThomasBb »

senectus1 wrote: post #58
firecall wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feels like only a matter of time with Plex doesn't it! I've got the lifetime pass, but it really does feel like a Sword of Damocles situation...

really is just the normies access to it via samsung and LG TV's that hold me back.

There is a nice Jellyfin app for LG now
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