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Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by theossuary »

walthamstow wrote: post #105
bhaney wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Keep in mind that you don't necessarily need to "migrate" all at once. There's nothing wrong with running both Plex and Jellyfin pointed at the same media library, and using whichever one has the better client for a particular platform.

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.

There is JellyPlexWatch, which will sync the databases between jellyfin and Plex. I've been using both next to each other for a while with that setup to sync watch history. Honestly I haven't been able to move over to Jellyfin after the drama around the integration of skip intro, but I hope things get better.

https://github.com/luigi311/JellyPlex-Watched

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by c-hendricks »

triyambakam wrote: post #33

Well this is very timely and relevant. I usually access jellyfin on my network devices like ` http://homecloud:8096 ` but now that I have been exploring adding other services, remembering the ports is getting tedious. I also am trying to be forward thinking about external access in the future. Looks like I could use some combination of Caddy, Nginx Proxy Manager, Tailscale? What's the simplest setup?

I use traefik to proxy to containers, pihole to provide dns for "*.mydomain.com", and tailscale to avoid opening ports

The end result is a valid HTTPS experience inside the network and outside (as long as tailscale is active on whatever device I'm using). And if I decide to ditch tailscale it's just a matter of mapping ports 80 and 443.

https://github.com/mikew/homelab/tree/public/services/revers...

https://github.com/mikew/homelab/tree/public/services/dns

https://github.com/mikew/homelab/tree/public/services/tailsc...

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by Larrikin »

fastily wrote: post #59
patmorgan23 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being free does not exempt a project from criticism. It's not like they were yelling about how terrible the project team was, just saying the issues they were having when trying to use it.

Agreed, but that’s not the point I’m making here. It’s not like this is some closed-source commercial product where the community can’t do anything about bugs/lack of features. My observation is simple: all of this time people spend complaining could be better spent helping to improve the project instead

Why can't people voice criticism and then work on the projects they want to work on instead of having homework and needing to learn the entire Jellyfin code base?

Nobody is personally insulting the devs as being lazy or incompetent. The devs can listen or not and they should have absolute control on what they implement and when. Its entirely reasonable that things they think are fine are pain points they don't realize exist because they've just gotten used to them. They also might not realize that some "wouldn't that be nice" thing they were thinking about implementing in the far future is actually something a lot of people want in the near term instead. There might also be things they just never even thought of.

The users of the software with criticism also aren't forced to use the software and should not be expected to implement anything they want unless they want to contribute. The project being open source ensures that in the future the project can be continued, if someone wants to continue it.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by crobibero »

ryanmcbride wrote: post #48
loughnane wrote: post #36

Lot's of criticism on here, but I love Jellyfin. I came from Plex a few years ago after their login server had an outage and I was unable to access the media that was on my local computer. Before that I'd been annoyed by them pushing TV shows and since then I've heard about them giving reports on what people have watched. All in all I'm happy. My setup is Jellyfin in a docker container running on a debian machine wit…

Every once in a while I knock around the idea of migrating off Plex and onto Jellyfin. For a long time it was that sharing libraries with friends was a pain, but now literally the only thing stopping me is that they don't have a ps5 app, and that's how one of my friends uses my plex server lol. If they get one, it's all over for plex (in my friend group).

We contacted Sony asking about creating an app. The TLDR of that conversation is they said "Don't call us, we'll call you". Open source never really mattered, they're not interested.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by lostlogin »

muppetman wrote: post #10
lukevp wrote: post #7

Jellyfin is pretty good, and I've been using it in place of Plex for the last few years. However, I feel like there are some underlying limitations that I just can't get past: 1. the UI jank. The thumbnail tiles are slow to load, even on a local network. Searches and filters flicker as you type and take a while to return. Scrolling fast in the web UI gets choppy/laggy. 2. The native app (at least in the case of Apple…

Plex has a lot more polish. However, Plex also tries to shove stuff down your throat. If you want to share your meeting with friends, you need to have a Kodi pass or some bollocks. Jellyfin is 100% free. Certainly it is not as polished though, but I managed to use it with my friend who are not very technically literate, and it works very well for them. Every release improve the polish a little! Edit: New media shows…

> However, Plex also tries to shove stuff down your throat

Unpinning the trash every few months gets tedious. It turns out, I want the stuff I pinned, not anything else.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

thedougd wrote: post #79

I switched from Plex to Jellyfin/Infuse for three reasons: 1) better tone mapping, allowing me to watch HDR movies on SDR without it looking bad. 2) Plex, on my variety of clients, had regular issues with audio out of sync. I’m very sensitive to this and it drove me nuts. I have no issues with Jellyfin. I fiddled with all kinds of platform and Plex settings but couldn’t find a solution that solved it for good. 3) It’…

I still get occasional audio going out of sync, but it's usually solved by stopping and thinking the video.

Doesn't happen very often, but it's usually with older format video files.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by Cyph0n »

SamuelAdams wrote: post #102
Cyph0n wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s an excellent OSS project. One of the few I have donated to. In my experience, the majority of people who complain loudly about Jellyfin are tied up in the Plex ecosystem and cannot fathom leaving it for some reason. I mean, imagine living with ad-supported streaming content being injected into your private instance by default and having to tell your users to opt-out of that. Admittedly, it is hard to leave such…

I tried switching to Jellyfin. But the feature parity between Plex and Jellyfin just isn’t there. This was roughly 6-9 months ago. I have a 5.1 surround sound setup with Dolby atmos and 4k HDR 10 with Nvidia Shield Pro android TVs as clients. I have Blu-ray rips that play completely fine on Plex, but stutter, have no sound, or downscale to 2.0 sound on JellyFin. There are some fixes that involve using a JellyFin serv…

The client story is lacking for sure. But they seem to be prioritizing that now. Regardless, what they’ve achieved as an OSS Emby fork is astonishing imo.

On Apple TV, Infuse bridges the client gap. I personally prefer paying for a third-party client (for now) to paying for a media server that locks transcoding behind a paywall and ties my private server to a remote service. YMMV of course.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by ninth_ant »

thedougd wrote: post #79

I switched from Plex to Jellyfin/Infuse for three reasons: 1) better tone mapping, allowing me to watch HDR movies on SDR without it looking bad. 2) Plex, on my variety of clients, had regular issues with audio out of sync. I’m very sensitive to this and it drove me nuts. I have no issues with Jellyfin. I fiddled with all kinds of platform and Plex settings but couldn’t find a solution that solved it for good. 3) It’…

Jellyfin+Infuse works really well for subtitles as well.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by gpspake »

mattbaker wrote: post #64
triyambakam wrote: post #33

Well this is very timely and relevant. I usually access jellyfin on my network devices like ` http://homecloud:8096 ` but now that I have been exploring adding other services, remembering the ports is getting tedious. I also am trying to be forward thinking about external access in the future. Looks like I could use some combination of Caddy, Nginx Proxy Manager, Tailscale? What's the simplest setup?

I’ve been using caddy, very easy to set up reverse proxies, and it generates a local root CA you can install on your machines at home so you get SSL for free. Nothing you couldn’t also rig with nginx, I just enjoyed the simplicity I’ve got pihole running so that’s my home dns server, I have custom domains with a home-only TLD (I think “.internal” is cleared for use now?). So something like https://plex.homecloud.inte…

Traefik has that same auto ssl with LE that caddy does. That's what originally drew me to caddy - which I still use for stuff - but I just recently started working on something configured for Traefik out of the box and discovered it was pretty much the same experience. Just FYI.
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