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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by KnobbleMcKnees »

footlose_3815 wrote: post #46
KnobbleMcKnees wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can remove all of those with a few clicks.

I don't think being perpetually reactive is the right mentality. First it's esoteric. You need to know which menu it's in, and what the setting is called. And how does this scale? As more of those feature come, and you cannot opt-out of them, even as a paying customer. Plex has a horrible report with me, and though I still use it, I'm tempted to try other apps now.

I removed the screens containing non-local content two years ago, immediately after install, and it's never reappeared since, nor has any newer version of non-local or ad-laden content.

Maybe our use cases are different but there's nothing reactive needed for me.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by lost_tourist »

xattt wrote: post #6
louwrentius wrote: post #5

I’m running Jellyfin because I want to reduce my energy footprint. I’m happy to watch series on my iPad instead of a TV. I also don’t need my disk-based NAS turned on if I put content on an external SSD hooked up to a Raspberry Pi4 with Jellyfin. I had an issue where my Mac or iPad could not stream anything in h265 (not 100% sure about the format) in the browser. The Raspberry Pi would start transcoding which it lack…

Is it common for people to use web apps first when a native client is available?

i do because it's a lot easier to limit what an "app" can do on your system. It's a sandbox of a sort.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by jeroenhd »

FuriouslyAdrift wrote: post #71
ekianjo wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jellyfin is a totally different use case

They are direct competitors in the same space

I disagree. Jellyfin takes on Plex, not Kodi. A normal Jellyfin install doesn't even come with a player, you need to launch a browser on your machine or download a separate client.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by snapplebobapple »

midasz wrote: post #106
snapplebobapple wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Indeed there are probably multiple paths to the full win. I like to use airsonic-advanced to feed music to my legacy sonos systems (can somebody please make an easy to use, pretty opensource alternative to the sonos multiroom software stack that can output to hifiberry's or ideally a cheaper alternative? even better would be an included best at each price level alternative speaker to double sided tape the hifiberry to). I also prefer to use beets and a cron job to convert my whole music collection into decent quality opus files and syncthing to get them onto my phone rather than using a frontend and mobile data to stream the flac files from my house.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by rglullis »

GordonS wrote: post #34
compsciphd wrote: post #16

jellyfin has some nice features that will probably never come to plex, but in the end plex is just so much more pleasant to use. i have both setup against same library and in practice all i barely use jellyfin except for some minor use cases

I tried both a while back, and settled on Plex, as it seemed more fully featured, plus the there's an app for it on my TV, so the UI and UX were better too. What did you find JellyFin had, that Plex didn't?

> What did you find JellyFin had, that Plex didn't?

An Open source License

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by KnobbleMcKnees »

Macha wrote: post #43
KnobbleMcKnees wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can remove all of those with a few clicks.

Sure, but having to keep track of all things the vendor does against my interest and disable them every time they add a new one is a mental burden I'd rather not deal with.

As I said in my other comment, I removed the screens two years ago, post-install, and none have appeared since. This falls significant short of 'mental burden' for me.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by gadders »

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.

Readarr is weird. Turned it off after I started get messages from it saying it was deleting my ebooks. I don't know why it can't just work like Sonarr.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by jeroenhd »

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...

Chromecast works reliably here (served from Debian). DLNA is broken, though, but that's probably a firewall rule.

It took me a while to realize that Chromecast doesn't play from the phone itself, you need a server with a valid HTTPS certificate that's reachable from the Chromecast itself to play content. You can also use plain HTTP, as long as you don't use self-signed certificates. For the routing problem there's no solution, you can't, say, have a phone hooked up to a VPN and play to a Chromecast on the local WiFi.

There's also an issue with putting Jellyfin in a different subdirectory (i.e. videoplayer.local/servers/jellyfin) but for me that still seems to work, luckily.

Also make sure the Chromecast can resolve your domain through its DNS resolver. If you use a local DNS server (i.e. the one built into your router) to resolve hosts in the LAN, you need to block 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 so Chromecast doesn't have a choice but to use your normal DNS server.

Firefox also doesn't seem to like my Chromecast but that's the case for every video I play.

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