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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by amiga386 »

n0zmer wrote: post #162

Jellyfin is still so far behind Plex in media organization and just general reliability and polish. Also, Plexamp is by far the best music player to exist right now.

That's a bold claim. Personally I'm very much liking Finamp (for Jellyfin), it's coming along nicely and it does a great job IMHO, especially its offline mode works robustly. Looking at the feature list of Plexamp, sure, it does have a few more niceties, but it doesn't look like Plexamp is free or open in any way, so I'm never going to run it.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by metadat »

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 always wondered why Jellyfin doesn't have better support for parsing Scene release names, which follow strict naming conventions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_(warez)

https://scenerules.org/t.html?id=2020_X265.nfo

99% coverage is achievable via a few straightforward regexes.

Don't get me wrong though, I really like and appreciate Jellyfin, especially on Apple TV with Swiftfin, it's my daily driver for big screen entertainment and it's amazing, 10e9 times better than Chromecasting from a laptop to GoogleTV, which is just a horrible UX (no pause button on the TV) and also would randomly freeze for 5-30 seconds every few minutes.

Plex was nice too, and works great if you are okay with being at the mercy of a closed system for your media center. Though I sure don't miss those pointless forced UI "downgrade in functionality" updates!

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by DarkCrusader2 »

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…

> However in case others want to go this route for a similar use case I hope I can save you some frustration: both this and the native Android app do not handle Dolby vision or passthrough atmos content properly. I also had odd tearing and av sync issues with some large 4k content that don't happen with maven kodi builds.

I also get audio sync issue with some media types. I am frustrated to the point that I now just copy things on a thumb drive to play on my TV.

Just to understand you setup better, are you using kodi on TV or your server or both?

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by jsf01 »

drewg123 wrote: post #108

question: How hard is it to get jellyfin to just present me a random video from my library that it cannot scrape metadata for? This has always been the sticking point to me for software like this that tries to make things "easy". I realize plex has (or had) a way to label folders as containing home videos, etc, but I vaguely recall problems with it. I'd much rather see the text "foo.mp4" for a video w/o metatada than…

For videos it can’t find metadata for, Jellyfin will either display only the title (if you set the library type to “movies”), or it will extract a random frame from within the video to use as the image (if you set the library type to “home videos”). In both cases, the video isn’t going to be hidden.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by kitsunesoba »

afavour wrote: post #173
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…

> 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# Why? Not trying to be an ass but there isn’t much in a media server that would warrant it all being written in a lower level language. Personally I run Plex in a Docker container and basically don’t worry about it at all.

The language doesn't necessarily have to be lower level, just less finicky about the environment it's running in.

Docker might technically qualify as a fix, but I'd rather that the software be engineered well enough to not need it.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by WickyNilliams »

vezycash wrote: post #179
GranPC wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a demo on their official website: https://demo.jellyfin.org/stable/web/index.html

The demo is passworded and they didn't provide the login details. Edit I don't care about cookies extension removed it. So username is demo. There's no password.

It says on that page the user is "demo" and the password is empty string

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by princevegeta89 »

BeetleB wrote: post #171

Every 6 months or so I give Jellyfin a try, and always come back to Plex. I heavily use Plex DVR. Jellyfin is not even close in that regard. Beyond that, I always find annoying bugs with Jellyfin. The last time I tried it, it couldn't handle Photo libraries well. Also, I need it to work on Roku, and the experience has always been poor. I understand some people have very limited needs (stream files on their PC onto th…

Is the Plex home screen still shoddy as fuck? They suddenly shoved my hosted media into a random sidebar menu and started pushing their "free" content on homepage and also started doing purchases and rentals, so is it just getting close to being another Netflix/Hulu?

Can't comment on Music, but JellyFin on my Dedicated Server has been very stable. It has indexed a large collection of movies and shows, makes decent recommendations, and tracks me well across devices. We use Infuse for iOS, Jellyfin on the Web and Android very frequently and we only very rarely found issues.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by sgtnoodle »

BeetleB wrote: post #171

Every 6 months or so I give Jellyfin a try, and always come back to Plex. I heavily use Plex DVR. Jellyfin is not even close in that regard. Beyond that, I always find annoying bugs with Jellyfin. The last time I tried it, it couldn't handle Photo libraries well. Also, I need it to work on Roku, and the experience has always been poor. I understand some people have very limited needs (stream files on their PC onto th…

I have jellyfin on my Roku, and it seems consistent with the android app and web UI. I'm curious what specific problems you had?

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by rapnie »

yboris wrote: post #152

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

Nice. PS. From "See as filmstrips" on down the images don't load on the landing page, and show only the empty frame and shadow (in Firefox).

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by grep_name »

stuckinhell wrote: post #172
number6 wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it doesn't trick you into an account or subscription

This alone, finally got me and my husband to switch. Jellyfin is FANTASTIC, and I wrote a simple script with ChatGPT to help with tagging and metadata for our home collection.

What does it do exactly? I'm always always looking to improve my jellyfin setup
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