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Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by squigz »

xbmcuser wrote: post #125
fastily wrote: post #37

Bemused by the number of people complaining about a free and open source project. A quick review of the git history tells me that it’s maintained by a very small group of people who generously work on this in their free time. Luckily jellyfin does accept PRs, so if you think the project needs improvements, then perhaps folks, you can do something about it

Yes Jellyfin does accept PR's but they don't accept hacks ie workarounds for single issue for a particular device won't be accepted easily. The maintainers feel using hacks and workarounds is not the best way to go for the long term maintenance of the project. One of the reasons skip intro took so long to get into jellyfin and jellyfin clients as they wanted a universal media segment system that can be used for other…

Uh... just to be clear, this is a good thing - particularly for an open-source project maintained by volunteers, who can't (and shouldn't have to) maintain 100 hacks for 200 different devices. There's so many work that comes attached to doing it that way, from having to own the devices, to making sure every hack is updated, to providing support for them

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by inversetelecine »

anon7000 wrote: post #149
thedougd wrote: post #79

I switched from Plex to Jellyfin/Infuse for three reasons: 1) better tone mapping, allowing me to watch HDR movies on SDR without it looking bad. 2) Plex, on my variety of clients, had regular issues with audio out of sync. I’m very sensitive to this and it drove me nuts. I have no issues with Jellyfin. I fiddled with all kinds of platform and Plex settings but couldn’t find a solution that solved it for good. 3) It’…

Infuse is a great client for any Apple device; I like it way more than plex

I love that I dont even need more software like plex or jellyfin. I just expose a smb share and point infuse to it. Usually its a windows server but using truenas atm.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by jrace »

austin-cheney wrote: post #128

I ridiculously love Jellyfin. I have found that if my Jellyfin box is IPv6 and I map a domain to that address, such as free DNS from Cloudflare, then I can access my personal media from anywhere on the internet. What I haven’t found is a way to restrict access to known devices, such as MAC address, so that big companies don’t sue me to death. Yes, I know Jellyfin has a login prompt, but I would prefer better security…

you can whitelist incoming IPs on Jellyfin.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by LiamPowell »

thedougd wrote: post #79

I switched from Plex to Jellyfin/Infuse for three reasons: 1) better tone mapping, allowing me to watch HDR movies on SDR without it looking bad. 2) Plex, on my variety of clients, had regular issues with audio out of sync. I’m very sensitive to this and it drove me nuts. I have no issues with Jellyfin. I fiddled with all kinds of platform and Plex settings but couldn’t find a solution that solved it for good. 3) It’…

> better tone mapping, allowing me to watch HDR movies on SDR without it looking bad.

I've never really understood why it's a desirable feature to have automatic HDR-to-SDR in the first place. No one is making HDR-only content and the official SDR master for every movie and TV show done by a human is always going to beat a fancy LUT.

When performing colour grading you're always deciding what parts of the image need what amount of contrast etc. based on what's important to see in the context of the scene. When grading to HDR you're going to make different choices simply due to the fact that you have a wider dynamic range available. Even putting aside the fact that you're not starting from the same raw inputs that the production studio is working with, automatic tone-mapping is never going to be able to look at a scene in the same way that a human does and decide which parts are important and which parts aren't.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by Larrikin »

Cyph0n wrote: post #186
speff wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>I feel it in my gut despite evidence that I'm wrong

Plex users are all people who are fine self hosting and all the problems with that. Plex lifetime pass holders are invested for 75 dollars. Nobody is entrenched or unwilling to switch if something is better.

Maybe some people also run AdGuard/PiHole on their entire network and block all of the injected ads/tracking that Plex and your employer inject into our lives. We know that companies will always have people doing negative things and try to take the good and fight against the bad.

Maybe you are just overvaluing something that most people don't. Or its a problem only if you just lay down and let advertising invade your home.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by ekianjo »

foobiekr wrote: post #90
loughnane wrote: post #36

Lot's of criticism on here, but I love Jellyfin. I came from Plex a few years ago after their login server had an outage and I was unable to access the media that was on my local computer. Before that I'd been annoyed by them pushing TV shows and since then I've heard about them giving reports on what people have watched. All in all I'm happy. My setup is Jellyfin in a docker container running on a debian machine wit…

I love jellyfin but their web model is just bizarre. Why on earth, when you go to 192.168.whatever:8096 does it ask you what server you want to connect to? Like.. THE ONE SERVING THE PAGE. Just now I decided to connect to Jellyfin over tailscale and it's asking me to add a server; on 100.xxx, which is the jellyfin server which served the UI. And it doesn't seem to want to accept any answer as to what the server URL i…

Because they separate the client from the server. You can connect to any other local instance of jellyfin locally, not just the one that is served at the current address

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by ryandrake »

RickHull wrote: post #6

My media center is a laptop with a broken screen, running Arch Linux and Kodi. Kodi has a web interface that you can stream to. Why might I want to add Jellyfin?

Same here. I never could figure out why I'd want to use anything else. Plex, Jellyfin, Emby, whatever. Nothing beats the simplicity of a couple of terrabytes on a local drive, or if you want to get fancy, a NFS share.

Honestly, Kodi is even a little more heavyweight than I need, but I've been using it since long before the XBMC->Kodi name change and have been happy with it.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by Cyph0n »

Larrikin wrote: post #195
Cyph0n wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>I feel it in my gut despite evidence that I'm wrong Plex users are all people who are fine self hosting and all the problems with that. Plex lifetime pass holders are invested for 75 dollars. Nobody is entrenched or unwilling to switch if something is better. Maybe some people also run AdGuard/PiHole on their entire network and block all of the injected ads/tracking that Plex and your employer inject into our lives.…

Cherrypicked threads from the last week from one of two subreddits I mentioned is now “evidence”? Low bar eh.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by Larrikin »

Cyph0n wrote: post #198
Larrikin wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I feel it in my gut despite evidence that I'm wrong Plex users are all people who are fine self hosting and all the problems with that. Plex lifetime pass holders are invested for 75 dollars. Nobody is entrenched or unwilling to switch if something is better. Maybe some people also run AdGuard/PiHole on their entire network and block all of the injected ads/tracking that Plex and your employer inject into our lives.…

Cherrypicked threads from the last week from one of two subreddits I mentioned is now “evidence”? Low bar eh.

Is it lower than "trust me I saw it" on a fully indexed website with advanced search tools that is also one of the most famous sources of LLM learning.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by stevenwalton »

foobiekr wrote: post #90
loughnane wrote: post #36

Lot's of criticism on here, but I love Jellyfin. I came from Plex a few years ago after their login server had an outage and I was unable to access the media that was on my local computer. Before that I'd been annoyed by them pushing TV shows and since then I've heard about them giving reports on what people have watched. All in all I'm happy. My setup is Jellyfin in a docker container running on a debian machine wit…

I love jellyfin but their web model is just bizarre. Why on earth, when you go to 192.168.whatever:8096 does it ask you what server you want to connect to? Like.. THE ONE SERVING THE PAGE. Just now I decided to connect to Jellyfin over tailscale and it's asking me to add a server; on 100.xxx, which is the jellyfin server which served the UI. And it doesn't seem to want to accept any answer as to what the server URL i…

> Why on earth, when you go to 192.168.whatever:8096 does it ask you what server you want to connect to?

I don't know what the answer is, but I ran into this when I was trying to harden my systemd settings. I'll link my override below and maybe someone can give something more conclusive (and any suggestions to my override or for other services are greatly welcomed. I'm happy to add even ones I don't use). Where I hit this error was when messing with RestrictAddressFamilies, which are network socket addresses. For example, when I restrict AF_PPPOX or AF_UNIX I get that issue. IIRC I also hit that issue when I had moved a file, but I forgot which one (I noticed it got autogenerated again). So I suspect it has to do with access to some file location where it stashes a config file. Fwiw, this works with tailscale just fine.

https://github.com/stevenwalton/.dotfiles/blob/master/skelet...

(docs for RestrictAddressFamilies) https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

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