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Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by BeetleB »

craniumslows wrote: post #157
BeetleB wrote: post #151

Have they made watching OTA broadcasts, with EPG and DVR work as well as Plex? It's what keeps me on Plex.

I use Silicon Dusts HD home run and it works great. Live TV from home while I'm travelling is one of my primary use cases. I subscribe to a TV listing service. The DVR function is good too. My biggest issue was that I had to get a graphics card that could transcode on the fly then TV worked perfectly.

So not on Jellyfin, right?

With the Plex Pass, it was a one time fee (Lifetime Membership), and I've been enjoying it since (6+ years). I use CPU for transcoding.

Well, to be frank, even Plex's DVR could be better (e.g. I tell it to record a certain TV show, but I can't tell it not to record certain episodes, etc). I imagine other services do better on that count.

But my memory was that Jellyfin was terrible at it.

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Post by TomJansen »

yegle wrote: post #34
apitman wrote: post #20

Fun 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 though Cloudflare forbade streaming via their network? Did their ToS change?

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Post by thedougd »

LiamPowell wrote: post #233
izacus wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

As I said already, it's down to personal preference. I just don't imagine that most people care about having the best looking video they can get on one device but don't care on another to the point where they'd sacrifice quality on device A for better quality on device B.

It’s exactly the case. Every room isn’t a home theater. We want the best quality for the home theater and “good enough” for the rest. To my surprise, others do notice the washed out effect of watching HDR content on an SDR TV, or worse the wrong colors when watching DV content on an SDR TV.

Acquiring, storing, and organizing multiple files for the same video is a hassle. Even more hassle is asking others to know which is the right one for that TV.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by yegle »

Sakos wrote: post #245
yegle wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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'm not sure why it wouldn't work with the apps? I have my jellyfin server behind a CF tunnel and I can access it in the Android app by my domain.

Oh I see. I confused Cloudflare Tunnel with Cloudflare Access.

Yes Cloudflare Tunnel can work with Jellyfin apps, but: 1) this exposed your Jellyfin to the world, and you are one vulnerable away to get owned, and 2) like other sibling posts mentioned, this is against their ToS to host streaming service on free plan on their platform.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by vladgur »

inversetelecine wrote: post #192
anon7000 wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Exactly, infuse plays anything thrown at it

what’s even a point of jellyfin/plex if you have access to a player like Infuse on apple devices or Nova on android

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by laleck »

gutomotta wrote: post #253

How do you usually go about acquiring the media? I know there are people that simply download movies via torrent, but what are the legal ways of buying video files of TV shows or movies, specially the more recent ones?

You’re limited to buying Blu rays and ripping to digital. Technically, that might not even be legal in the US because the digital millenium copyright act (DMCA) forbids circumventing DRM.

https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/circumventing-copyright-con...

> In the end, I'm mystified it's still so hard to buy older movies so I can watch them on my networked devices. You'd think Hollywood would've learned from the music industry that if you just let people legally pay for non-DRM media, and make the process easy and convenient (certainly more convenient than sailing the seven seas or ripping discs), people will pay.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/how-i-rip-dvds-and-bl...

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by atombender »

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.

I was a Plex user for the longest time, with PMS on a Linux box and the Plex app on Apple TV and iPhone. However:

* It's always been quite slow and flaky. Library not scanning things, media library not connectable, etc.

* Often very long delay from starting a show until it actually plays. Often very slow scrubbing/skipping.

* The automatic subtitle downloading never works. The manual subtitle downloading never works.

* The UI was getting on my nerves trying to offer "recommendations" — I download my own stuff and don't need an app to try to push my own media through some kind of algorithm that's broken — and constantly promoting the Plex streaming service.

I got fed up and set up Jellyfin with Infuse as the client. Now shows start immediately with no buffering delay, never have any glitchy library issues, and the subtitle downloading just works.

My main issue is that Jellyfin's matching can be quite poor. It often doesn't understand when episodes belong to a show. Also, Infuse's UI is pretty bad and doesn't align at all with how I think media should be accessed.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by kyawzazaw »

fastily wrote: post #59
patmorgan23 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being free does not exempt a project from criticism. It's not like they were yelling about how terrible the project team was, just saying the issues they were having when trying to use it.

Agreed, but that’s not the point I’m making here. It’s not like this is some closed-source commercial product where the community can’t do anything about bugs/lack of features. My observation is simple: all of this time people spend complaining could be better spent helping to improve the project instead

More people are capable of pinpointing pain points during usage than actual implementation of patch fix. That's reasonable, no?

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by TomJansen »

gosub100 wrote: post #82
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?

I just got mine working a few months ago on FreeBSD using cloudflared. I paid for a cloudflare DNS and run cloudflared (in a jail, which is optional). Here is a redacted example of my tunnel.yml file (should work similarly on other OS's) # cat /root/.cloudflared/fbsd0_tunnel.yml tunnel: credentials-file: /root/.cloudflared/ .json ingress: # Example of an HTTP request over a Unix socket: - hostname: service: http://lo…

Aren't you afraid to get banned from Cloudflare for using their DNS for streaming media?
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