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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by jeroenhd »

lostmsu wrote: post #39

I tried it, but ended up just using file shares. The biggest issue for me is that it does not automatically recognize many movies by their short names instead linking to some obscure thing with a similar name. For instance, since files can not have colon in the name, and many movies do, it gets confused about the title. Another similar issue is about shows and how it recognizes their folder and file structures. In th…

The Windows colon file limitation is annoying, but I've never had trouble with it. Autodetection always seems to work for me, even if the name gets a little mangled (unless tvdb doesn't know about a particular movie/show/season). Sometimes there's a weird extra (year) behind the title because of the way the folder got named, but the metadata itself still shows up right.

Then again, I do get most of my content through *arr so perhaps that automation already resolves the filename inconsistencies.

As for 5.1 audio, that's almost entirely unsupported by browsers. I think Edge and Safari support Dolby but I'm not sure if you need to feed those a special kind of format or not. Maybe the native applications get around this somehow?

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by pebble »

lost_tourist wrote: post #100
pwpw wrote: post #95

I've been happily using jellyfin for awhile now. Overall it works great. It has a few issues that I would like to see implemented/fixed: - No offline downloading on iPad - The official Apple TV app logs me out of my server every day - Using the native player on the Apple TV app is still experimental and can have issues - No intro skip

I mean isn't intro skip impossible? Is there something buried in the stream that indicates beginning/ending of an intro? I suspect the streaming services do that "manually" and not by AI or other automated means.

I believe Plex does it by finding similar segments across a season.

Edit: they use audio https://support.plex.tv/articles/skip-content/

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by jeroenhd »

yrro wrote: post #17
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.

ExFAT and NTFS are in the Linux kernel already. I don't think they'd need to license them at this point.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

#104

Post by Gareth321 »

pwpw wrote: post #95

I've been happily using jellyfin for awhile now. Overall it works great. It has a few issues that I would like to see implemented/fixed: - No offline downloading on iPad - The official Apple TV app logs me out of my server every day - Using the native player on the Apple TV app is still experimental and can have issues - No intro skip

Also I think there's still no tone mapping, meaning watching HDR content can look washed out on incompatible devices, or those transcoding.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

#105

Post by ncallaway »

johnnykree wrote: post #15

I would love to run this on my Arch Linux PC and stream to my Google Chromecast but I couldn't get it to run... I tried for 2 weeks and gave up...

Do you have a domain, with a valid https cert? Chromecast needs to make a couple requests, and will only do it over https, and requires the cert to be valid.

If you’re running over http, or using a self-signed cert, Chromecast won’t work.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by midasz »

snapplebobapple wrote: post #97
nicoco wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Add prowlarr and bazarr for the full win.

the full win would also include 2 instances of readarr, once for ebooks and one for audio books, whisparr for your 18+ needs, stash for your 18+ needs frontend, and I think audiobookshelf and kavita to play the audiobooks and ebooks respectively. If you're into comics you might also want to throw mylar3 in there and if you have multiple users (aka a spouse and/or offspring) you may want to throw ombi in there too.

Some may prefer Overseerr to Ombi.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by jmondi »

pwpw wrote: post #95

I've been happily using jellyfin for awhile now. Overall it works great. It has a few issues that I would like to see implemented/fixed: - No offline downloading on iPad - The official Apple TV app logs me out of my server every day - Using the native player on the Apple TV app is still experimental and can have issues - No intro skip

Interesting, recently the Android TV app started to do the same thing for me. It logs me out of my server every day.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

#108

Post by drewg123 »

question: How hard is it to get jellyfin to just present me a random video from my library that it cannot scrape metadata for?

This has always been the sticking point to me for software like this that tries to make things "easy". I realize plex has (or had) a way to label folders as containing home videos, etc, but I vaguely recall problems with it.

I'd much rather see the text "foo.mp4" for a video w/o metatada than have the server just hide the video.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

#109

Post by doubled112 »

nyjah wrote: post #99

This github page strikes a pet peeve of mine which is that it has no screenshots of jellyfin running. Why not?

I was going to say that it is because the web client is a separate thing, but that repo doesn’t have any pictures either.

Consider me annoyed too.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by David_SQOX »

Gareth321 wrote: post #104
pwpw wrote: post #95

I've been happily using jellyfin for awhile now. Overall it works great. It has a few issues that I would like to see implemented/fixed: - No offline downloading on iPad - The official Apple TV app logs me out of my server every day - Using the native player on the Apple TV app is still experimental and can have issues - No intro skip

Also I think there's still no tone mapping, meaning watching HDR content can look washed out on incompatible devices, or those transcoding.

That was a show-stopper for me. I have so many 4k UHD files that play beautifully on plex but not so hot on jellyfin. I support jellyfin though, there needs to be competition in this space so plex doesn't run away with the 'ball'.
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