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Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by PessimalDecimal »

chgs wrote: post #224
PessimalDecimal wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I mostly meant that a media hosting/streaming service that is FOSS and has as much fit and finish as Jellyfin, and as many integrations as Jellyfin, feels like a huge accomplishment. This is a space where there is a ton of corporate investment because there's a ton of money to be made. And Jellyfin holds its own against offerings by Google, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, etc. That is incredible to me.

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Post by mmcnl »

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 made the transition the other way around. I tried Emby, then Jellyfin, and finally Plex. Plex is just much better, especially with Plex Pass. The apps are everywhere and they just work (Tizen, iOS, web, etc.). The Jellyfin apps are subpar, poorly translated, buggy, and not available on all platforms (looking at you Tizen). Plex is basically Dropbox in the infamous Dropbox HN comment.

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Post by ryanmcbride »

dbetteridge wrote: post #51
ryanmcbride wrote: post #48

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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).

Ps5 Web browser with a bookmark? But I hear ya, console support tends to lag behind because of the rules and costs of app dev for them

I mean I could also just tell him it's 2025 and there's 700 ways for him to use plex on his tv, but it's also just kind of funny to me so I keep it going.

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Post by crtasm »

mmcnl wrote: post #252
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 made the transition the other way around. I tried Emby, then Jellyfin, and finally Plex. Plex is just much better, especially with Plex Pass. The apps are everywhere and they just work (Tizen, iOS, web, etc.). The Jellyfin apps are subpar, poorly translated, buggy, and not available on all platforms (looking at you Tizen). Plex is basically Dropbox in the infamous Dropbox HN comment.

You could note the price difference too.

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Post by zeagle »

SamuelAdams wrote: post #102
Cyph0n wrote: post #76

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It’s an excellent OSS project. One of the few I have donated to. In my experience, the majority of people who complain loudly about Jellyfin are tied up in the Plex ecosystem and cannot fathom leaving it for some reason. I mean, imagine living with ad-supported streaming content being injected into your private instance by default and having to tell your users to opt-out of that. Admittedly, it is hard to leave such…

I tried switching to Jellyfin. But the feature parity between Plex and Jellyfin just isn’t there. This was roughly 6-9 months ago. I have a 5.1 surround sound setup with Dolby atmos and 4k HDR 10 with Nvidia Shield Pro android TVs as clients. I have Blu-ray rips that play completely fine on Plex, but stutter, have no sound, or downscale to 2.0 sound on JellyFin. There are some fixes that involve using a JellyFin serv…

I’m lucky, I have a tube 2019 running jellyfin into a 5.1.2 setup through my avr and DTS/atmos + HDR10/DV work with jellyfin. I switched from kodi a few years. Do you have Dolby processing and up mix 2.0 turned off in the shield settings? Those cause stutters and some issues for me.

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Post by jfplexembi »

I really want to switch to Jellyfin. Plex has gone off the deep end with all their user hostile garbage.

But Jellyfin is just not good. The clients are all afterthoughts and audio pass-through fails to work on every device I’ve tried it on. 4K HDR studders like mad, when the same video plays perfectly via Plex (no transcoding)

I’m convinced that the people who “love Jellyfin” watch it using their phone or laptop. Where sdr and stereo audio is all they’ve ever known.

I’m rooting for Jellyfin, but they have a long way to go. I wish they’d focus on a unified client experience and stop adding junk to the media server.

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Post by [deleted] »

TheDong wrote: post #240
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…

A lot of people are suggesting VPNs, or putting oauth or such in front of it. Unfortunately, oauth doesn't work since the jellyfin clients (like the android tv client, iOS client, etc) don't understand oauth. Using VPNs is annoying if you want to share it with a friend, or you want to use it on a random third-party device, like a TV in a hotel or something. I think all Jellyfin clients all support appending a path to…

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Post by radicality »

hapticmonkey wrote: post #140
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…

Have you tried Infuse as the playback app on AppleTV? It’s one of the few apps I’m happy to pay the subscription cost for. Well worth it for a well made AP. Not trying to make this sound like an ad. It’s just a legit good app.

I use it too and also pay the subscription. Though I only connect to a local synology SMB share with it. Am I missing out by not running jellyfin and hooking up Infuse to that?

Infuse is generally really good, but I wish it had a way to expose slightly more power user features such as: viewing detailed file info (codecs, resolutions, audio-video bitrates, stream info for all streams), ways to create arbitrary dynamic playlists/folders based on conditions, and viewing current stream debug info (MB/s, cache fill, ram usage, disk usage etc). Any debug info would be helpful when some files seem to kinda work but then crash Infuse. For example some 4k/6k/8k ProRes content at around 800Mb/s. Network/NAS isn’t the issue as it’s hardwired 1Gb/s. So then I don’t even know if some specific variation of ProRes (or every) is just unsupported on the appleTV and it goes into software decoding, or whether the AppleTV is oom-ing, or what exactly is wrong.

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Post by Valord »

triyambakam wrote: post #33

Well this is very timely and relevant. I usually access jellyfin on my network devices like ` http://homecloud:8096 ` but now that I have been exploring adding other services, remembering the ports is getting tedious. I also am trying to be forward thinking about external access in the future. Looks like I could use some combination of Caddy, Nginx Proxy Manager, Tailscale? What's the simplest setup?

The simplest setup is to run jellyfin and tailscale in docker with docker compose utilizing tailscale serve. You will get automatic https and a simple reverse proxy with tailscale serve.

The Kuma example here is decent. Replace kuma image and ports with jellyfin. https://www.elliotblackburn.com/how-to-use-tailscale-serve-w...

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