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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by aquova »

xbmcuser wrote: post #139
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 is a introskip plugin for jellyfin it's in beta and does not work with all clients yet but it very good at intro detecting for most of my shows. Most of the client app developers have added support for the plugin apart for some that say the plugin is not official they will not add the intro skip button until it is officially accepted in jellyfin. https://github.com/ConfusedPolarBear/intro-skipper

I've been using this for a few months now. It works pretty well, although it only works through the web client, not some other ones like Roku. I do hope it gets officially merged at some point.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by yboris »

semi-on-topic: I created Video Hub App that is like YouTube for local files: shows you a gallery with scrub-able (preview on hover) thumbnails. But does not work streaming videos to TV / tablet - only for local consumption. Hope someone finds it useful.

https://videohubapp.com/

MIT Open Source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by entropie »

noveltyaccount wrote: post #134
entropie wrote: post #130

My mother is able to send a telegram bot youtube URLs. She sends links to audiobooks, yt-dlp extracts audio and saves it in an incoming folder and shes able to listen/download it via jellyfin. Works really well.

Is there source code for this?

The bot part is done in node red (and is a relatively simple flow) it just calls a script that ensures no parallel downloads via a little daemon/fifo.

https://gist.github.com/entropie/d265e94136b9777cc6b3190189b...

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by 0ld »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #148

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…

Well, it was recently added to ports, JFYI

https://www.freshports.org/multimedia/jellyfin/

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by kitsunesoba »

0ld wrote: post #154
kitsunesoba wrote: post #148

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…

Well, it was recently added to ports, JFYI https://www.freshports.org/multimedia/jellyfin/

Good to hear, it was a few months ago when I was looking and it was still a mess back then. Will have to take another look.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by atombender »

urbandw311er wrote: post #45
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.

I’d be interested to know what you find terrible about the PLEX UX. I’ve been a happy user for years and have found the user interface to be reasonably intuitive. Perhaps dense in places, but certainly not terrible in my opinion.

I've used Plex for more than a decade, and I've seen it drop in quality over the years as Plex the company has pivoted towards being a streaming service.

Personally, my main beef is that as a client app, the streaming service stuff has bled into the personal library UI in obnoxious ways. For example, the default "tab" is called "Recommended". This shows some kind of algorithm-based feed of stuff they think you want to watch. This tab is the default even for your own private library. Why would it suggest stuff from a library that I curate? It's very strange. In the browser, it remembers your last active tab to some extent, but the native apps (like on AppleTV) does not. When I open the app and go to a folder, I just see recommended stuff. Similarly, if you go to the screen for a TV show in your library, it will show a "Related shows" section. It's my library, I know what is there, I don't want these spammy algorithmic things.

Occasionally I run into other parts of the app, which invariably try to steer me towards using their streaming service. It's just a constant reminder of how it's no longer designed for my purposes.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by js2 »

throwanem wrote: post #147
js2 wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I meant that it's not equivalent for me. Plex has features that I use that Jellyfin does not.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

snapplebobapple wrote: post #58
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/

You can automate that with sonarr/radarr/lidarr. Works like a dream.

I use the full stack and all very grateful for the products.

The remaining annoyances are:

- lack of multi language support

- there is no connection between the systems when you want to remove a movie (you remove it in one place and everything knows about that and acts accordingly)

- I still did not make to fully grasp how and where to say "I do not want this particular release". I think I saw that in radarr but it never is obvious to me where it is.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by GordonS »

rglullis wrote: post #126
GordonS wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I mean, while nice, the parent was talking about features, not the license.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by GordonS »

magicalhippo wrote: post #75
GordonS wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The Jellyfin Android TV app is much faster and more stable the Plex's. For me the Plex app keeps bogging down and crashing several times while I browse my library. That's a huge plus, however sadly Jellyfin doesn't handle subtitles well, and I really dislike the lack of a quick "skip forward" action. So I tend to still use Plex.

Never had any issues with the Plex TV app myself, other than the number of updates being quite annoying at times.
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