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Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by tclancy »

Gareth321 wrote: post #166
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…

> As an aside, I recently started having Claude help me with configuring my arr stack and it has helped tremendously. LLMs have been AMAZING for home server maintenance and improvements. I have completed SO many of my "some day" tasks. I never have to read another fucking log file ever again. It has taken all of the friction out of the hobby. It's all* fun now.

Next step: set up a scheduled job to read the logs to find any issues before they bite.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by embedding-shape »

drdexebtjl wrote: post #217
embedding-shape wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, I thought we were talking about Jellyfin's "extract subtitles on the fly when playing", which I think is how it works by default, which is what I described before. If it's a async process that runs on import/update of the library, that sounds great. I'm guessing we're/you're talking about Bazarr then? Although I don't see it explicitly mentioned in this thread earlier. Or some other application?

There's an official plug-in called "Subtitle Extract" that does it in advance, no need for Bazarr :) You can use this and then block embedded subtitles on a per-library basis, which is what I vaguely described a couple of posts up.

Uuuh, where has that been all this time?! And also, why isn't this the default behavior in core or at least optionally so, rather than a somewhat hidden plugin?! Fake outrage aside, thank you for the pointer. I did read it above, thought it was talking about something else, re-read it now and actually understood it, thanks for sticking with it! :)

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by Avamander »

JoeBOFH wrote: post #173
crazybonkersai wrote: post #160

Coming from Plex, I gave Jellyfin a try, but returned back to Plex after several months. My biggest gripes were poor subtitle support and inability to differintiate TV shows from movies stored in the same folder. Does this version improve these issues?

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.

I would even recommend separating all and any anime + animated movies from the rest. Different metadata sources, easier to browse.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by wccrawford »

bhaney wrote: post #18

Upgrade experiences, anyone? I have a ~40TB library and was still on 10.10.7 because of all the performance issues with 10.11. Upgraded straight to 12.0 and was impressed with how quick and painless it was! As the upgrade instructions warn about, some of my titles disappeared until a rescan added them back, but that was the only weirdness. The whole initial migration only took a few minutes.

Probably 20TB here, 10.11.11, upgrade was smooth and quick. Maybe a few minutes of migration time?

I was actually just getting frustrated with Jellyfin performance and had just told my wife last night that I was switching back to Plex. I didn't realize it was a .11 thing. I just realized that it had gotten worse lately.

12 is working good in the browser so far, but I haven't really put it through the paces fully on Android.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by kiririn »

tym0 wrote: post #133

As other have said the apps for devices is still the issue with Jellyfin. For TV you pretty much have to use Kodi and all the decent theme require a surprising amount of other plug-ins to work... Anyone know of a decent theme for Kodi that won't fall over next time it updates? I just need "Resume Watching", "Newly Added" and alphabetical lists.

I'd love a Kodi theme with the design and responsiveness of the Jellyfin Roku app but sadly nothing I've tried has come close. I always end up going back to the default Kodi theme - it's ugly but it works.

(I'd jump to Roku or Apple TV on my main setup in a heartbeat if they supported DV 7 FEL and all audio passthrough formats.)

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by drdexebtjl »

internet101010 wrote: post #95
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…

If there is one thing that needs to be re-written and consolidated it is the arrs ecosystem. Replacing/consolidating the arrs themselves is pretty straightforward. The trap that quickly becomes a token incinerator is incorporating the downloader into the library manager itself. A lot of learned lessons in that sabnzbd codebase.

I agree. In particular, I think it needs declarative configuration, and it needs to stop storing configuration in a database.

It's insane that the current setup options are:

- Click through dozens of pages importing JSONs from TRaSH Guides, then do it all over again on the other app.

- Run an app that basically does the same thing but over the REST API.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by benoau »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #100
benoau wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 possib…

> I don’t think it’ll work because Plex gates everything with a sign in to their online accounts... That isn't true. You can configure the server with which subnets are trusted, and do not require auth.

The mobile apps require signing in through the Plex website before you can do anything?

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by drdexebtjl »

embedding-shape wrote: post #232
drdexebtjl wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's an official plug-in called "Subtitle Extract" that does it in advance, no need for Bazarr :) You can use this and then block embedded subtitles on a per-library basis, which is what I vaguely described a couple of posts up.

Uuuh, where has that been all this time?! And also, why isn't this the default behavior in core or at least optionally so, rather than a somewhat hidden plugin?! Fake outrage aside, thank you for the pointer. I did read it above, thought it was talking about something else, re-read it now and actually understood it, thanks for sticking with it! :)

No problem, glad I could help :)

I agree this should be easier to find and set up.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by ezst »

c0nsumer wrote: post #26
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.

Yes, this is the big one for me. Seemingly unlike a lot of folks, Plex is my main music server. Years ago I ripped all my CDs (1800+, IIRC) and Plex + Plexamp is really, really, really good for listening. I haven't yet found anything else that works as well. I use Plexamp on desktop/laptop computers and then the Android and iOS apps for on-the-go music. I tried Symfonium [1] because it seemed promising and would give…

My audio needs have been satisfied for many years with subsonic, then airsonic, and now navidrome. They all expose the same subsonic API, which gives quite some flexibility on the audio player client to use. At the moment, Tempus (Android) seems well maintained, but I miss from DSub the lower clarity as to what is cached for offline consumption.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by zchrykng »

penetrarthur wrote: post #212
fl0id wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

tailscale + cloudflare for lets encrypt support. can then give family tailscale access

Has cloudfare become any more strict with passing large amounts of video data through them? I heard they were kind of against it, but haven't enforced anything.

If you don't proxy or tunnel the connection, it isn't an issue. I assume they are using Tailscale for the actual connection.
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