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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by toomuchtodo »

js2 wrote: post #98
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 use Plex Server + Lifetime pass + Infuse. It is an excellent combination and has none of those issues. I point Infuse at Plex for TV shows to get the intro skip. For movies, I point Infuse at an NFS share since Infuse can handle more media types than Plex. Plex also lets me easily share my movie rips with family members across the country.

What’s the lifetime pass cost?

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by nijave »

WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #22
zeagle wrote: post #8

Cool software. I used it within/in parallel to Kodi to sync a couple devices but ended up removing this layer. I didn't like that you can't outright disable transcoding for content served via their app or in the browser. I serve mostly local client and my headless NAS has poor integrated graphics and runs Linux so this was very brittle. Kodi's jellyfin addon can play without transcoding by default so this seemed reas…

> I didn't like that you can't outright disable transcoding for content served via their app or in the browser. You can outright disable transcoding. That’s a checkbox in the server option. > both this and the native Android app do not handle Dolby vision or passthrough atmos content properly They do out of the box. Never had an issue with either transcoding disabled. If you have properly configured the source conten…

I ran into this with HDR. I have a fork/branch that strips that logic block out and it works great (tldr; video gets transcoded breaking HDR for any transcode reason i.e. audio/subtitle)

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/8743

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by jeroenhd »

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

From what I can raad, the 4GB file limit for SMB seems to come from Samba using SMB 2 compatibility. You should disable SMB 2 for security anyway, but it's possible the SMB client still messes up.

In that case, if you're entering a hostname manually somewhere, try replacing smb:// with cifs://. That should force it to use a modern standard that's capable of 4GB+ files.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by derrida »

jmondi wrote: post #107
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.

Probably apple grifting for some $$$

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by jeroenhd »

GEBIRGE wrote: post #81
jeroenhd wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's really the key point here: Trusting the people you share the server with. Jellyfin is kind of binary in that regard. Once you're authenticated - no matter the privileges - you can reach a lot of places. I've written about this recently, if anyone's interested. Like others have mentioned, you should probably only expose the server to a trusted group of users (ideally not directly on the Internet).

Definitely. I know there are people who share Plex servers with tens or even hundreds of people, and for those types of use cases you'll definitely want to avoid Jellyfin, but that's not what Jellyfin is intended to be used for.

I don't think standard users can change important system settings, but I've always assumed that they can look at stuff like logged in users and the current state of the system.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by lost_tourist »

asylteltine wrote: post #59
bastulos wrote: post #53

Been using Jellyfin daily for over a year now with over 30TB of media. It's been wonderful. It's not perfect like any OSS project, but it's better than every alternative I tried when standing up my media pipeline last year.

It’s not better than Plex though, but it is free

and no ads

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by throwanem »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #111
js2 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use Plex Server + Lifetime pass + Infuse. It is an excellent combination and has none of those issues. I point Infuse at Plex for TV shows to get the intro skip. For movies, I point Infuse at an NFS share since Infuse can handle more media types than Plex. Plex also lets me easily share my movie rips with family members across the country.

What’s the lifetime pass cost?

$120, which seems a lot considering Infuse works with Jellyfin too.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by mmanfrin »

benglish11 wrote: post #83
Timon3 wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know how to navigate Plex anymore. I used to use it roughly 8 years ago, and it was simple - it showed me my media, I could navigate through it, watch it, and nothing more. I tried using it again 2 years ago - and I simply couldn't find my media anymore. I logged in with my account, and the settings showed me that it was connected to my server, but it showed me a bunch of random media that I did not add to my…

Yeah some time ago Plex started adding their own content or pushing you to streaming services, probably in an attempt to be more legitimate. I use Plex currently and I remember this being frustrating. With some configuration you can basically remove those options though. I mainly consume Plex through the Apple TV app and the UX (once configured) is above average.

> probably in an attempt to be more legitimate.

I think you're correct, and this is why I forgive Plex its annoying transgressions.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by jeroenhd »

asylteltine wrote: post #55

I still use Plex. I tried jellyfin for two weeks on my 30+ TB collection but there were so many little issues it wasn’t worth it Most features are actually plugins made by the community. This felt buggy and cheap. It was lacking a lot of stuff like trailer support (no the community plug-in does not count) Also the metadata scanner is a lot worse. The interface is worse. There’s a lot of setup needed for each device b…

I use Jellyfin and I totally agree that Plex is a better user experience.

That said, some of the native clients (like Findroid) are excellent. They still lack in features compared to Plex, but they're very pleasant to use.

Ever since I found out about the fact you need to pay a subscription to use hardware transcoding on your own, self-hosted Plex server, I've always ignored Plex as an option. The license situation has only gotten worse over the years too.

I get that the Plex devs want to earn money, but I'm not paying a subscription to play files that never even need to touch their servers.

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