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Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#101

Post by avh02 »

Godel_unicode wrote: post #91
wussboy wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to Jellyfin because Plex refuses to just show me the files in my directory. Why can’t you just let me have a directory view? Makes my blood boil just topping it out.

I don't understand this desire, why would you ever want that? The point of using something like Plex is to organize by metadata.

Because some people just prefer something to be laid out a certain way. I have that with music for example, I don't care about albums other than a grouping unit for files (my playlist is flat though). Album art, etc is otherwise irrelevant to me, but some music apps will fetishize organization by album, etc and the art is highlighted etc.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#102

Post by klahaha »

wussboy wrote: post #86
jszymborski wrote: post #2

I've been a Plex-to-Jellyfin convert for a long while now, and I've nothing bad to say. I switched because Plex kept pushing their streaming services, and the fuzzy feeling I get from running FOSS. Jellyfin used to run on my desktop which has a beefy CPU/GPU, but runs fine on my puny Synology NAS.

I switched to Jellyfin because Plex refuses to just show me the files in my directory. Why can’t you just let me have a directory view? Makes my blood boil just topping it out.

hello using jellyfin for months no idea how to folder view. can you explain?

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#103

Post by klahaha »

rglullis wrote: post #18
candiddevmike wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How difficult is the transition from Plex to Jellyfin, do you lose any capabilities? Also what's the fuzzy feeling you get running FOSS? Do you contribute to the project?

Just being an user of a FOSS system is already a huge contribution. It provides a good feedback loop for developers and brings motivation for the teams to solve issues that are sidelined when no one seems to care. Granted, FOSS developers don't live off user feedback alone, but if you depend on 1% of your user base becoming faithful financial backers, the more users you have, the better it is.

jellyfin is good but lots of bugs need help. "just being user" like me is not helping very much

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#104

Post by klahaha »

ajnin wrote: post #40

I've setup jellyfin on my media server but I barely use it because the web player bugs make it unusable for me. I think most issues are due to the fact my hardware is underpowered for the task, and the player gets confused when the server replies come slow and not in the same order as they were requested. In practice subtitles go out of sync regularly, I get "codec not supported by browser" messages with the actual v…

> subtitles go out of sync regularly

can be problem with subtitle source?

> "codec not supported by browser"

probable problem with browser not jellyfin?

> There are also other annoyances like the player forgetting my subtitle selection when jumping to the next video of the same season of a show.

+1

> There's also no quality setting that is just "stream the source file directly". It seems to always want to transcode when embedding subtitles, which I guess is done by ffmpeg on the server but is really the player's job.

Direct source file is download button it can play in vlc, or can use FTP. why embed subtitles? here i think jellyfin use external track for subtitle (default parametres)

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#105

Post by klahaha »

querez wrote: post #35

In contrast to most people in this thread, I don't find Jellyfin to be an all-around great experience. Maybe because I run the JF client on a Google Chromecast, and the "Jellyfin for Android TV" app is very unstable. I get roughly one crash a day, mostly when restarting a movie-watching. The UI is okay, but there are a lot of small annoyances (why is there no "restart from beginning" button? Why can't I use the "whee…

> Why can't a folder contain both movies and tv series?

i don't understand this too... i just want to respect folder not have simple metadata control all

also subtitle SRT upload is broken (maybe fixed in source now)

and jellyfin want to own media plays ok with nextcloud but when i have permissions broken, after i fix chown jellyfin was 100% broken delete/add library didn't work (scan never started) had to entirely delete jellyfin db to work it again

jellyfin is good software, better to alternative, but needs work for improve

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#106

Post by klahaha »

napkin wrote: post #32
notesinthefield wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much of your use is audio streaming? I'm dying to make my collection remotely accessible after leaving the Plex ecosystem.

Just try Navidrome!

i use navidrome but no folder view, so mixtapes with many artist is counted like many albums

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#107

Post by 3np »

parineum wrote: post #45
querez wrote: post #35

In contrast to most people in this thread, I don't find Jellyfin to be an all-around great experience. Maybe because I run the JF client on a Google Chromecast, and the "Jellyfin for Android TV" app is very unstable. I get roughly one crash a day, mostly when restarting a movie-watching. The UI is okay, but there are a lot of small annoyances (why is there no "restart from beginning" button? Why can't I use the "whee…

I would recommend installing Kodi on your chromecast and using the jellyfin addon[1] into Kodi instead. The app is garbage and Kodi is awesome. (Don't use the Jellyfin Connect addon, it's different and I wouldn't recommend it) [1] https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-kodi

What makes you not recommend Jellyfin Connect? I've been on Connect ~1y now and I found it a smoother and hassle-free experience compared to Jellyfin Kodi (which I was on for ~1y prior to switching).

JC has less bells and whistles with library integration and metadata but I'm not missing anything, really.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#108

Post by 3np »

jfneedswork wrote: post #48
querez wrote: post #35

In contrast to most people in this thread, I don't find Jellyfin to be an all-around great experience. Maybe because I run the JF client on a Google Chromecast, and the "Jellyfin for Android TV" app is very unstable. I get roughly one crash a day, mostly when restarting a movie-watching. The UI is okay, but there are a lot of small annoyances (why is there no "restart from beginning" button? Why can't I use the "whee…

100%. I’m glad JF exists, but it needs so much work. From the server to the client, it’s an awful experience. I want to leave Plex so badly, they introduce bugs more frequently than their useless “features”, but the experience is still streets ahead of JF.

When did you last try? 10.6 -> 10.7 was a pretty big transition that took forever to complete and there were several issues around there.

For some there time every other release had something break bad while the team were all personally running test versions from the master branch...

After that settled down I've found it pretty much rock solid (since around June) and the team seem to have learned from the friction there and have a better release process now.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#109

Post by klahaha »

Godel_unicode wrote: post #91
wussboy wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I switched to Jellyfin because Plex refuses to just show me the files in my directory. Why can’t you just let me have a directory view? Makes my blood boil just topping it out.

I don't understand this desire, why would you ever want that? The point of using something like Plex is to organize by metadata.

manual change for metadata is bigger work when you have big library, move or rename folder is easy and fast from terminal of FTP you dont require custom web app

and auto-metadata from IMDB and other API is bad if you have niche videos (me: documentaires for anarchism, feminism, anti-colonialism). so bad it can replace good data with bad data (example sub.media/c/trouble documentary series becomes "good trouble" series)

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#110

Post by japanuspus »

For serving local music, the free and open source "Logitech Media Server"[0] is a great solution -- main weakness is the lack of a central organization promoting it. In addition to working smoothly with dedicated ("squeeze") clients which can be Logitech-brand or DIY[1, 2], it has a massive plugin catalog that allows e.g.

- airPlay integration: stream to your squeeze-clients via airPlay, stream to your airPlay clients from squeezebox.

- chromeCast integration: stream to chromeCast devices from squeezeBox.

- upNp integration: stream to upNp clients.

The system was originally developed by "SqueezeBox" who also made (awesome) physical devices. SqueezeBox was acquired by Logitech many years ago. Logitech put out one or two devices before giving up, but they are actually playing really nice by continuing to support development on the server (see [0]).

[0]: https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver [1]: https://github.com/ralph-irving/squeezelite [2]: https://www.picoreplayer.org/

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