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Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by Borealid »

jack-cooper wrote: post #137
izacus wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... as opposed to using salted hashing like in every tutorial since 1990s.

I think you have some confusion between expectations upon the client and the server. This very site (and almost every other) sends your password in plaintext over form data when you sign in. Hashing (and/or salting) a password client-side before sending it would offer next to no protection, as if the server is expecting this value and the attacker intercepts it, they could just replay the hashed value themselves. Why…

I don't think this is what the GP meant, but he's accidentally correct in that there is indeed no good reason for a password to reach the server.

The client could do a challenge-response PAKE with the server, proving the client held the password while not transmitting it. The session cookie could be sent from the server as part of that exchange, encrypted so only the holder of the user's password could decrypt it.

That's not how the web works, but it's strictly superior to the accepted standard of the client sending the raw password to the server, and it would be secure even over an active MITM unencrypted link.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by IAmBroom »

jshier wrote: post #112
0points wrote: post #93

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Are you describing a plex feature? I was under the impression they required the media to follow certain naming conventions. [1] Maybe mkv-renamer is of use to you? [2] 1: https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-... 2: https://github.com/ssanj/mkv-renamer

I'm describing a hypothetical feature that I want. Essentially an automatic version of mkv-renamer that can identify series, episodes, and special content based on the signature of the ripped files. For whatever reason, such a service doesn't even exist.

Does Filebot not do this for you? A quick glance suggests it does, but I'm not overly concerned with its decision-making; name matches are close enough.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by JoeBOFH »

OroPla wrote: post #220
JoeBOFH wrote: post #173

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Can I ask why you have TV shows in the same folder? I have a /video folder and under that /tv /movies /kidsmovies /kidstv. Just kinda curious.

Plenty of shows continue in a movie, like Firefly (2002) -> Serenity (2005), so I can see why you'd want to mix.

I get it’s a personal thing but yeah I’d still separate them. Tv != Movie.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by jmuguy »

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...

Its hard to tell if the folks at Plex understand the position they're in. They definitely are dancing right up to the line of pushing people too far. I could see them trying to boil the frog with stuff like putting their garbage free streaming stuff front and center more. Like so there won't be one specific thing they do that makes everyone realize its time to leave.

I think one silver lining is that whenever it does reach a tipping point there's going to be a ton of support for projects like Jellyfin, so hopefully we see more feature parity - in particular for shared access for friends and family.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by swat535 »

Gareth321 wrote: post #167
y-curious wrote: post #159

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For people that don’t know, Infuse lets you use Jellyfin on Apple TV and it’s very helpful for day purpose

Crazy expensive though. It's basically a Plex subscription, just for the player.

I just bought a lifetime pro access , I think it was around 200$ but really worth it. I get all the updates for free.

Whenever I can, I buy my software now these days instead of renting it.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by joseda-hg »

mock-possum wrote: post #90
getcrunk wrote: post #86

Did they fix that thing where like you can’t have mixed movies and tv in the same folder without it going nuts

How would jellyfin be able to tell whether the video files in a directory are movies or tv? What does going nuts actually look like, and what causes it?

I assume via metadata, classified externally, which is a large part of the selling point of Jellyfin

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by OroPla »

danparsonson wrote: post #191
OroPla wrote: post #184

I do run a Jellyfin server for family, but I don't use it that much. I just do everything through a terminal, like I do most other stuff. It's faster and less finicky, I feel.

How does the terminal replace a networked media player?

By using a bunch of CLI tools and self-written scripts.

I don't use streaming (though, mpv can likely handle it). Prefer to have all media I use locally. Don't watch video on my phone, either.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by [deleted] »

davidwritesbugs wrote: post #132
rcarmo wrote: post #105

I have a trifling complaint about this, which is that it smacks of LLM aid throughout, especially in headings. I wish people would aggressively filter for these things--I have a technical writing SKILL.md that tries to remove all the AI tropes it finds and use simplified technical English (it's a thing, look it up) to do docs, and that makes one heck of a difference...

this skill may help: https://github.com/blader/humanizer

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Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by hk1337 »

Looking forward to this upgrade. I didn't know or think about using Jellyfin for books though. Are there any apps (on mobile or iPad) anyone would reccommend that could read the book list similar to iBooks?

Anyone have the live tv (via iptv not connecting a tuner with an antennae) working well with Apple TV?

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by buran77 »

heed wrote: post #165
firecall wrote: post #3

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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...

they'll eventually come out with a completely new overhauled version of plex that's sub only but your lifetime pass will still be good for "plex classic" which they'll stop supporting

The Plex rug-pull is just around the corner. I've been running Jellyfin pointed at the same content as Plex for some time now. I still find some rough edges on Jellyfin but they smooth out a few more with each release so I'm confident I'll be just fine when I need to switch. The clients are getting better too, I'm using Infuse on Apple TV and Moonfin for everything else.
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