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Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by chgs »

nativeit wrote: post #131
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 could use TailScale or Zerotier, join all your devices to a private subnet, then use UFW on the Jellyfin server to deny all connections except those from your private subnet. Then all your devices in your Tailscale/Zerotier account can access one another from anywhere. Also works for shared folders in Windows, remote desktop, SSH, etc.. It's easy enough so that most enthusiasts can handle it without being 100% pr…

Or you could just WireGuard to your jelling server direct

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by ramon156 »

Borealid wrote: post #63

Jellyfin's strategy for streaming blu-ray disc folders is to use ffmpeg to concatenate (and usually transcode) them to disc, then stream the result. It doesn't work very well - frequently, the concatenation process is sitting there running long after the client has disconnected. And the devs seem to break it entirely every second release or so, just failing to recognize the BDMV as a playable movie at all.

I know this isn't a solution for everyone, but I just stopped downloading blu-ray altogether. I don't need a bit more quality for 3x the storage size and way more gpu churning.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by chgs »

PessimalDecimal wrote: post #61
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

I use jellyfin and love it. It's quality is actually pretty stunning for FOSS.

It’s disappointing to see this statement, perhaps a sign of the last 15 years.

The highest quality software has always been FOSS, outside of specialised niches.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by defrost »

jillyboel wrote: post #170
theossuary wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is JellyPlexWatch, which will sync the databases between jellyfin and Plex. I've been using both next to each other for a while with that setup to sync watch history. Honestly I haven't been able to move over to Jellyfin after the drama around the integration of skip intro, but I hope things get better. https://github.com/luigi311/JellyPlex-Watched

> the drama around the integration of skip intro what are you referring to?

More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43064585

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by dagi3d »

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…

Depending on your needs, you can also connect to your 192.168.x.y machine while connected to tailscale by advertising that subnet

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by tourist2d »

LiamPowell wrote: post #220
dullcrisp wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine people have multiple screens but don’t want to keep multiple copies of a video?

In this case I would think people would prefer to just have the SDR version which will look good on all displays rather than the HDR version that will look better on a HDR display but will look horrible on a SDR display. It's down to personal preference of course, but I can't imagine someone caring about having HDR videos while simultaneously putting up with the bad results of automatic HDR-to-SDR. Just as an example…

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Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by izacus »

LiamPowell wrote: post #220
dullcrisp wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine people have multiple screens but don’t want to keep multiple copies of a video?

In this case I would think people would prefer to just have the SDR version which will look good on all displays rather than the HDR version that will look better on a HDR display but will look horrible on a SDR display. It's down to personal preference of course, but I can't imagine someone caring about having HDR videos while simultaneously putting up with the bad results of automatic HDR-to-SDR. Just as an example…

Why are you so consistently telling other people what their preferences should be and why?

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by patrickk »

RajT88 wrote: post #12
lukevp wrote: post #7

Jellyfin 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…

You are not wrong. But it is still an amazing piece of software for self hosting. My biggest gripe is the sometimes hilariously strange behavior picking artwork: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/10494 Other weird things I have been able to DIY. I wrote my own auto-updater and Live TV listing grabber.

For live tv listings, there are companion apps like Ersatztv and Tunarr (easier to use than Ersatztv but less features) which feed into the live tv section in Jellyfin. You create 24/7 “tv stations” running whichever collection of local media files you wish to have in a “channel”. It’s great if you plop down and can’t decide what to watch, or want to replicate the look and feel of childhood cartsoon, right down to inserting 90s ads in between episodes.

You can use Ersatztv to create an automatically updated playlist, based on a Trakt or IMDB list. Back in the day, there was/is a a cool addon for Kodi called “PseudoLiveTV” and these apps replicate this functionality.

So you can have an always updated Christopher Nolan collection, Halloween movies, westerns, 24/7 90s cartoons, BBC nature documentaries or whatever.

You can pull any imaginable tv or movie list from Kometa using Ersatztv:

https://kometa.wiki/

See here for one idea: https://youtu.be/Ibaj6NiS8xM?si=eiPhTzZuwGAwa8Id

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