Jellyfin 12.0 • Hacker News Board

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by account42 » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 9:32 AM UTC

amiga386 wrote: post #280

allthetime wrote: post #272

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Are they not paying themselves?

No. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-meta/blob/master/polici... > Jellyfin funds itself exclusively from donations by individual users. It does not and will not accept any sponsorship or other monetary compensation in exchange for features, priority access, support, or any other work by the community. They spend the donations on paying for hosting servers, etc. They don't pay anyone a salary. Their post highlight…

This is really the most healthy way to do things for small or medium-sized open source projects. Paying some people just creates and unnecessary hierarchy that is divorced from the how much they actually contribute to the project and can be an endless source for drama.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by villish » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 9:51 AM UTC

Mashimo wrote: post #349

villish wrote: post #248

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Tailscale. Your friend just needs to be invited to your tailnet. Super easy to use with clients on all the major devices.

Even on TV? Without their other traffic is going through network? Also for non technical people?

Yes, I have Tailscale on my AppleTV. Only traffic attempting to reach your tailnet is routed to you, the rest is on his own network.

If you want to make it super easy for non technical people also use reverse proxies to your tailnet so jellyfin/plex is reachable at like “https://watch.example.com”. Pretty much the only friction for non technical people would be creating a tailscale account and being invited to tailnet I guess. But you could also just do that for them I suppose with auth keys

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by account42 » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 9:56 AM UTC

sfRattan wrote: post #155

mock-possum wrote: post #90

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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?

Not OP, but I've run into similar instances of Jellyfin "going nuts." Mixed media type libraries are depreciated and "broken" according to the documentation[1], which is fair enough, but sometimes this results in weirdness if a TV-show is also part of a franchise and has associated TV-movies (e.g. the Battlestar Galactica reboot, Futurama, or Breaking Bad). If you want to keep those movies on your file system in a fo…

Thanks. My collection has grown to the point where I'm considering adding some kind of front end to index/search/filter but this means that Jellyfin will not be an option. Probably I'll just end up hacking together some minimal custom solution.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by account42 » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 10:17 AM UTC

IncreasePosts wrote: post #254

danparsonson wrote: post #191

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How does the terminal replace a networked media player?

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

Man get with the times and switch to mplayer2 already /s

mpv can still do terminal ANSI-art output if you really want but it can also display pixels directly via DRM without a display server if you launch it from a random VT.

Re: Jellyfin 12.0

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Post by altmanaltman » Wed, Sep 09, 2026, 11:38 AM UTC

Synthetic7346 wrote: post #327

altmanaltman wrote: post #260

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ducks before people start throwing paper balls at me Windows 11, upgrading jellyfin has literally never been an issue.

Windows 11? booooo J/k whatever floats your boat my dude

yeah when I started my homelab journey I wanted my windows desktop to also be a server. Over time i moved to pis and other smaller footprint stuff but my media server still is my desktop pc and works via a remote wake up and sleep method over day/night cycle to manage less power consumption. only I use my jellyfin mostly so how can i watch stuff if i am asleep