Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

I like traefik

Anyone care to share their experiences with some of the less common Jellyfin frontends? Which ones are most in need of contributions?

I've had a decent experience with the Samsung TV (Tizen) client. It's annoying to not have it on the app store yet and to jump through the developer-mode hoops to get it installed, but to be fair it was a one time setup and I've been happy with it since then. Seen some occasional slightly janky menu navigation, but really it's been far better than I expected.

I tried this but using two servers means you lose or fragment all your watch history. If I have to remember where I am in a series myself, I might as well just use VLC.

I've been using nginx for more than a decade now, before that I used lighttpd. Both work well for the purpose of reverse proxying services like Jellyfin. I do not use Caddy because I prefer to keep certificate management centralised in its own (Proxmox-managed) container. I have about 50 services running in Proxmox-managed containers (some containers run more than a single service, others are service-specific) proxied through a single nginx instance, the setup is reliable and performs well. Since nginx is widely used there is usually a config file available which can be used to base your own installation on. Here's what it looks like in my case:

    # kijkbuis.example.org

    server {
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80;
        server_name kijkbuis.example.org;

            include /etc/nginx/snippets/enforcehttps.conf;
        }

    server {
        listen 443 ssl http2;
        listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
        server_name kijkbuis.example.org;

        ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/kijkbuis.example.org/fullchain.pem;
        ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/kijkbuis.example.org/privkey.pem;

        set $jellyfin 192.168.1.51;
        resolver 192.168.1.1 valid=30;

        add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
        add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
        add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

        # the google-related domains are there to enable chromecast support
        add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src https: data: blob: http://image.tmdb.org; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://www.gstatic.com/cv/js/sender/v1/cast_sender.js https://www.gstatic.com/eureka/clank/108/cast_sender.js https://www.gstatic.com/eureka/clank/107/cast_sender.js https://www.gstatic.com/eureka/clank/cast_sender.js https://www.youtube.com blob:; worker-src 'self' blob:; connect-src 'self'; object-src 'none'; frame-ancestors 'self'";

        location = / {
                return 302 https://$host/web/;
        }

        location / {
                # Proxy main Jellyfin traffic
                proxy_pass http://$jellyfin:8096;
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Protocol $scheme;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $http_host;

                # Disable buffering when the nginx proxy gets very resource heavy upon streaming
                proxy_buffering off;
        }

        # location block for /web - This is purely for aesthetics so /web/#!/ works instead of having to go to /web/index.html/#!/
        location = /web/ {
                # Proxy main Jellyfin traffic
                proxy_pass http://$jellyfin:8096/web/index.html;
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Protocol $scheme;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $http_host;
        }

        location /socket {
                # Proxy Jellyfin Websockets traffic
                proxy_pass http://$jellyfin:8096;
                proxy_http_version 1.1;
                proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
                proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Protocol $scheme;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $http_host;
        }
    }

Having placeholders is part of what I’m talking about when I say lag, and jank is about dropping frames so that things do not appear smoothly animated. Not everyone is as sensitive to jank or they’re ok with it, but if you use something that lacks jank in the animations it feels better even if you don’t know what jank is.

The media detection thing might be related to Infuse and not to Jellyfin itself, since it sounds like everyone else isn’t having this issue, which is good to know.