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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by Timon3 »

eddythompson80 wrote: post #138
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…

When you’re setting up a new server, it shows you a bunch of default Libraries for their own media. Unselecting them then should remove them from your list. You can also edit your Libraries list later. Managing Libraries is a pretty import part of Plex UI (and Jellyfin for that matter) If you don’t know which library on the list to click on or drag around, maybe you’ll have a hard time in general.

> When you’re setting up a new server, it shows you a bunch of default Libraries for their own media. Unselecting them then should remove them from your list.

It's been a while since I last tried setting it up, but I can't remember anything during the setup talking about external streaming libraries. I tried setting it up in the way I expected it to work based on my previous knowledge.

> If you don’t know which library on the list to click on or drag around, maybe you’ll have a hard time in general.

I didn't see anything in the UI on my TV mentioning different libraries, or giving me the option to switch from the external Plex library to my own. At a certain point these things stop being user problems and become UX problems.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by longitudinal93 »

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

There's a completely acceptable intro skip available as a plugin.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by russelg »

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.

I've had no issues transcoding with tone mapping in Jellyfin, on both an Intel iGPU and a GTX 1660.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by eddythompson80 »

maverwa wrote: post #32
u_boredom wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was my dilemma. Infuse is definitely better. However, if I’m paying to use a proprietary front end, I may as well just buy the software that natively works together. Infuse also does not support multi profiles on Apple TV. Which makes it essentially useless for multi-user devices.

Yeah. Just found out that it doesn’t even play anything from my jellyfin without buying the premium version. It lists all the things, but as soon as I want to play anything it asks for the InApp Purchase. Not sure what’s going on there, but I don’t like it.

> Not sure what’s going on there, but I don’t like it.

Infuse is a very decent _paid_ app. That’s what’s going on. It lets you play with the interface and test its integration with your services/media. But to use it you pay either a subscription or a one time fee. Very reasonable in my opinion.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by quaintdev »

zackify wrote: post #140
https443 wrote: post #50

Have been using Jellyfin on my synology server for the past 2 years. It's a dream, but you do need to name your files/directories per their naming convention: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/ -- https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/

I’ve been using it for a year. I don’t name anything in a special way, and it just works.

Yup running it on RPi with external hard drive. No need to name anything.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by syntaxing »

ufish235 wrote: post #94
https443 wrote: post #50

Have been using Jellyfin on my synology server for the past 2 years. It's a dream, but you do need to name your files/directories per their naming convention: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/ -- https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/

Which model Synology? I am looking into one of the dual/quad core Celeron models because I heard the iGPU is critical for any kind of transcoding.

Not OP, but you pretty much have to run the Celeron ones. I don't think the docker image would work with the Realtek ones (the ones that end in j). I have a DS220+ (J4025 with dual core only). It works ok, you pretty much max out one of the cores running a 4K stream. I would recommend separating the storage and server if you can afford it. The price difference between the quad core (4 bay) and 2 core (has 2 bay) is enough to get a 2 bay + a N95 mini pc that can handle 4 streams of 4K.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by throwanem »

js2 wrote: post #137
throwanem wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I purchased it in 2014. It was $75 then. I also pay yearly for Infuse. It's worth it to me. Jellyfin is not (yet?) equivalent to Plex.

I would be surprised to see anyone arguing for equivalence, although I admit I have not paid close attention to most of the comments in this thread. But Jellyfin's not half bad for free, too, enough so that after seeing it mentioned on HN a year or two ago and spending five minutes to write up a half-assed compose file (and four hours screwing around with systemd's infuriating approach to sshfs automount) so I could try it out, I haven't felt the need to look for more.

Even my most recent ex, who's nearing fifty and has never been especially at home with tech, found nothing objectionable about using it via the iOS native app - with the content of my library, yes, but that's no more fairly blamed on Jellyfin than it would be on Plex.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by kitsunesoba »

Not too long ago I found myself tired of how Plex on my server would periodically break itself and unhappy with how the company was continuing to pivot away from the core product, so I started looking into alternatives.

Jellyfin was the most promising option but unfortunately ended up being unviable for me, because my home server/NAS runs FreeBSD, and by virtue of C#/Mono being a pain to get running on FreeBSD so is Jellyfin. I could work around this with a Linux jail or moving the server over to Linux but I'd really rather not have to do either.

As an side it's a bit odd to me how all of the most complete media server packages heavily rely on either Python or C#, and also a bit frustrating because when they break it not infrequently has something to do with some quirk in either. Would really like to see a media server comparable to Plex written in something less prone to breakage.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by ryandrake »

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…

Another "just share files" user checking in. There are dozens of us!

Old school NFS/SMB has "just worked" for me for decades. It's free, uses almost zero server resources, is easy to add content to (just copy a file), and it isn't going to change out from under you when its developer decides to monetize you.

If you really must have a pretty front-end for your TV or whatever, there's Kodi, which is also old-school, free, runs on everything, and so on. My only gripe with Kodi is the same gripe I have with every other media player system out there: They all seem to insist on grafting their own "library" concept onto your already-existing and perfectly-functioning filesystem. I just added that file to my filesystem. Why do I need to add it again to the in-app "library?"

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by treyg »

PUSH_AX wrote: post #13

For years I just wanted a good user experience playing video files from my MBP to a TV, I spent a lot of money (on NAS, chromecasts etc), used a lot of software with objectively terrible user experiences (Plex I'm looking firmly at you). Finally, I discovered the combination of Jellyfin and Infuse App. It works really well.

Did you try an Apple TV?
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