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Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by HumblyTossed »

xattt wrote: post #6
louwrentius wrote: post #5

I’m running Jellyfin because I want to reduce my energy footprint. I’m happy to watch series on my iPad instead of a TV. I also don’t need my disk-based NAS turned on if I put content on an external SSD hooked up to a Raspberry Pi4 with Jellyfin. I had an issue where my Mac or iPad could not stream anything in h265 (not 100% sure about the format) in the browser. The Raspberry Pi would start transcoding which it lack…

Is it common for people to use web apps first when a native client is available?

From commercial entities, hell yes. They don't need a permanent spot on my device.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by PUSH_AX »

For years I just wanted a good user experience playing video files from my MBP to a TV, I spent a lot of money (on NAS, chromecasts etc), used a lot of software with objectively terrible user experiences (Plex I'm looking firmly at you).

Finally, I discovered the combination of Jellyfin and Infuse App. It works really well.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by DarthNebo »

Absolutely love this on my Android TV, I just spin up a container on my laptop with mounted folders & I am able to play large files without plugging & copying anything to a USB drive. Android TVs for some reason cannot fathom that video files >4GB do exist along with other basic filesystems like ExFAT & NTFS......smh

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by compsciphd »

jellyfin has some nice features that will probably never come to plex, but in the end plex is just so much more pleasant to use. i have both setup against same library and in practice all i barely use jellyfin except for some minor use cases

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by yrro »

DarthNebo wrote: post #14

Absolutely love this on my Android TV, I just spin up a container on my laptop with mounted folders & I am able to play large files without plugging & copying anything to a USB drive. Android TVs for some reason cannot fathom that video files >4GB do exist along with other basic filesystems like ExFAT & NTFS......smh

I expect the manufacturers don't want to license Microsoft's patents.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by jeroenhd »

femboy wrote: post #2

Relevant: Collection of potential security issues in Jellyfin[1] 1: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

Many of these don't seem too bad to be honest. A lot of these are information disclosures that require knowing very long tokens.

The LDAP addon listing credentials is bad. The rest seems like it shouldn't be a problem for normal (in-home streaming) usage; i.e. users reading each other's last login time shouldn't be a problem if you trust the people you share the server with.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by jeroenhd »

u_boredom wrote: post #12

Jellyfin server is pretty decent. The client apps need tons of work, especially on iOS. Using Swiftfin/Jellyfin iOS app convinced me to buy Plex Pass lifetime. Probably less of an issue on android with the Kodi app integration.

I'm not a fan of Kodi on Android, but Findroid is my go-to for playing media files on my devices. The lack of Chromecast support is the only downside.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by skydhash »

u_boredom wrote: post #12

Jellyfin server is pretty decent. The client apps need tons of work, especially on iOS. Using Swiftfin/Jellyfin iOS app convinced me to buy Plex Pass lifetime. Probably less of an issue on android with the Kodi app integration.

Infuse is what you want if you only have movies and other video collections.
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