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Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by villish »

Cider9986 wrote: post #28
villish wrote: post #27

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This seems like spam in order to get people to sign up to a service with your referral link. It’s literally just a guide on how to create an account.

That's not mine. I can remove the link if it makes it look less spammy.. It's not always easy for people to do the setup.

My apologies then. Those debrid services seem like they are run in on borrowed time though so I don’t use it. I have friends that do and seem to like it, but I prefer having a local library (*arr stack)

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by drnick1 »

joshstrange wrote: post #175
Gareth321 wrote: post #166

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> 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.

I’ve set up literally hundreds of different self-hosted applications over the years on my homelab. I’ve configured the reverse proxy by hand, setup the docker containers, etc. Now I can just tell Claude “Setup XYZ app on my server” and it does it all and leaves a note in my Obsidian vault documenting the service (setup instructions, backups, hostname, etc). Trying out new things has never been easier now that the eff…

I would caution against this approach. It's fine to have Claude write a setup script, or whatever you need, but don't run coding agents as your main user on your production machine with full access to your files or whatever your "homelab" consists of.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by unshavedyak »

zchrykng wrote: post #241
LollipopYakuza wrote: post #215

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One does not need cloudflare for letsencrypt. The tooling has become really simple to use.

You do need a DNS service with API access for automatically creating/renewing the certificates for things that are only served over tailscale though, since they aren't publicly accessible for the letsencrypt servers to talk to.

I've got a Caddy instance setup which proxies my traffic and has dead easy integration for domain DNS registration. Super handy

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by IncreasePosts »

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?

mplayer -vo caca /mnt/nas/example.mp4

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by sharts »

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.

Not as expensive as a Starbucks habit

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by dev0p »

SamuelAdams wrote: post #249
dev0p wrote: post #208

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What features is it missing, exactly?

I have always had issues with playing high bitrate BluRay remuxes, with HDR and DTS 5.1+ audio. Granted the last time I tried JellyFin was January 2025 so it is possible this has changed. Have there been improvements on this front?

Are you sure the client and the server are powerful enough? Do they support all required codecs? I have issues with 4k movies because my Jellyfin is served by a mac mini, and my client is an old Android tablet that doesn't support hardware decoding, but that is hardly Jellyfin's fault. Though they just updated ffmpeg to the latest version, so it might help.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by rcarmo »

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

Mine already covers all of that, based on what Codex says…

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by arwineap »

jmuguy wrote: post #224
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...

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…

I left this year when they told me I'd have to re-buy my lifetime pass. I suspect they rolled it back, but as you said that was the last straw. All of these streaming nonsense that keeps getting re-enabled, totally troublesome to help friends with the same settings

I couldn't help but think with all the ads they were serving me directly, that they must be selling my data as well. That's not the point of self-host. No thank you.

Jellyfin still missing download w/ transcode, but with space getting so cheap I don't miss it. I do need to improve the music side though

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by BeetleB »

buran77 wrote: post #230
heed wrote: post #165

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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.

> The Plex rug-pull is just around the corner.

I've been hearing that for as long as Jellyfin has existed :-)

Until they handle OTA (along with its EPG), and DVR properly, it's the inferior option for me.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by altmanaltman »

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.

ducks before people start throwing paper balls at me

Windows 11, upgrading jellyfin has literally never been an issue.

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