I hate that so many people don't know about Universal Media Server
Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
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Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Really? I assumed you'd just license an sdk similar to creating a game. They only allow certain apps?
Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
#183To anyone considering using Jellyfin - it simply does not work properly for large libraries (1000+ movies/shows) in my experience.
What about it isn't working well for you?
I have ~2000 movies (21TB), 435 shows (22TB), ~26000 songs (1TB); all running on an Intel 4770k w/ 32GB of RAM, a SATA SSD for the Jellyfin database, and a Tesla P4 for transcoding. It works well now and even worked decently before switching to the Tesla P4 for transcoding.
Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
#184Jellyfin 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…
Side question, something I've sometimes wondered - why do people want trailers? I only have things in my collection that I chose to put there, so I already know what they are. Not trying to be snarky, I'm honestly curious.
People making use of autodownloaders or just with very large collections generally aren't going to know everything that's in their library. It's also just easier when you're trying to decide what to watch with a group.
Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
#185Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, I see this quite frequently on r/selfhosted and r/plex.
Where on /r/selfhosted? In the last week, most of the posts are pro-Jellyfin[0][1][2] - nearing anti-plex. https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1ilqh6u/one_yea... https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1ip8twc/jellyfi... https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1iaqqv9/jellyfi...
I have been reading the subreddit for years. I don’t bookmark threads or comments for later review. And I made it clear upfront that this is my personal impression.
Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
#187Fun fact: Jellyfin runs natively on Windows. Combined with something like Cloudflare Tunnel it's probably the easiest way to host a media server without needing to be a Linux admin.
Cloudflare Tunnel only works if you access it via a web browser right? I'd prefer using Tailscale so that I can also access it in their native apps on Android and Android TV.
I haven't tried it with Cloudflare specifically, but I believe you should be able to just put the domain name in as the server address in the mobile and TV apps.
Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
#188I love Jellyfin. I have been using it with Tailscale, MakeMKV, Handbrake, Filebot and some other little utilities:
I have also built two things on top:
A super simple PWA for my kids to use: https://github.com/philips/jellykids?tab=readme-ov-file#jell...
A NFC card based player for my kids to use: https://github.com/philips/homeassistant-nfc-chromecast
It is so nice to just have my content on an API driven thing where I can control the UX my kids experience without a bunch of hassle.
Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
#189I love Jellyfin. I have been using it with Tailscale, MakeMKV, Handbrake, Filebot and some other little utilities: I have also built two things on top: A super simple PWA for my kids to use: https://github.com/philips/jellykids?tab=readme-ov-file#jell... A NFC card based player for my kids to use: https://github.com/philips/homeassistant-nfc-chromecast It is so nice to just have my content on an API driven thing wher…
I remember reading about that card based player a while back - an absolutely wonderful idea! I love it!
Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please don’t take this as criticism of your setup, but why are you trying to stream Blu-ray Disc folders at all? Why not transcode the files?
Firsly, I have multiple tens of terabytes of movies (painful to duplicate), and I watch them with their original menus in Kodi. Secondly, a BDMV can't be turned into a single correct linear representation - for example, the Star Trek TOS discs have the ability to toggle back and forth between original and CG-remastered graphics seamlessly. As another example, I have stereoscopic 3D blu-rays; should the transcode be t…
The "Jellyfin for Kodi" plugin (not Jellycon!) supports a "native path" streaming mode that just directly passes the raw video file to Kodi, avoiding Jellyfin's transcoding entirely. I've never used it with BDMV's, but it does work with other formats Jellyfin can't transcode properly like Dolby Vision.
Also, if you do ever want to remux those discs, mkv does support both those features now (player support is lacking though). You'll want to look for "3D MVC" support, and including 2 video tracks in one mkv is no problem.