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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by deadbunny »

metadat wrote: post #182
https443 wrote: post #50

Have been using Jellyfin on my synology server for the past 2 years. It's a dream, but you do need to name your files/directories per their naming convention: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/ -- https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/

I've always wondered why Jellyfin doesn't have better support for parsing Scene release names, which follow strict naming conventions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_(warez) https://scenerules.org/t.html?id=2020_X265.nfo 99% coverage is achievable via a few straightforward regexes. Don't get me wrong though, I really like and appreciate Jellyfin, especially on Apple TV with Swiftfin, it's my daily driver for…

Jellyfin parses scene naming conventions fine. I have thousands of films and hundreds of TV shows (with thousands of episodes) all in scene name format and I can think of a handful of matching errors on Jellyfish but it's usually due to a commonish film name and a wrong year or something similar.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by LeFantome »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #148

Not too long ago I found myself tired of how Plex on my server would periodically break itself and unhappy with how the company was continuing to pivot away from the core product, so I started looking into alternatives. Jellyfin was the most promising option but unfortunately ended up being unviable for me, because my home server/NAS runs FreeBSD, and by virtue of C#/Mono being a pain to get running on FreeBSD so is…

Pretty sure recent Jellyfin uses dotnet ( actual Microsoft ) and not Mono.

Python, and increasingly dotnet are already packaged for every distribution I have tried recently.

Dotnet is even being ported to Haiku right now.

What is the challenge in getting these setup?

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by FractalParadigm »

beeb wrote: post #269
Drybones wrote: post #262

I switched to Jellyfin from Plex cause of it being open source and having AMD/VA-API transcoding support I’ve enjoyed it a but more cause I feel like I can do more on the server end. I recently started to use Infuse on my Apple TV for it cause turns out that Swiftfin, still in development, doesn’t have a license for Dolby Audio formats. But the development cycle for Jellyfin and the clients looks healthy, unlike Plex…

Unfortunately I had a pretty bad experience with jellyfin when trying to switch from plex. Plex works for me in almost all scenarios, mobile, desktop, chromecast, what have you. And I can play multiple feeds simultaneously from my cheap Nuc server. With Jellyfin I had trouble to get video even playing without stuttering/buffering on my phone when on the same network, let alone on mobile internet. I'll probably give i…

That about lines up with my Jellyfin experience ~18 months ago, although I was coming from (and switched back to) Emby at the time, which Jellyfin was forked from (still evident by all the Emby/MediaBrowser references in folder and file names). Which, IMO, was really interesting, because the codebases were very close to identical for some time yet Emby was orders of magnitude more reliable. I have more and more family accessing my server each month to the point I've almost run out of 'devices' allowed by an Emby 'license,' making Jellyfin a more attractive offering going forward... assuming they've fixed the problems they had at the start.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by kitsunesoba »

LeFantome wrote: post #272
kitsunesoba wrote: post #148

Not too long ago I found myself tired of how Plex on my server would periodically break itself and unhappy with how the company was continuing to pivot away from the core product, so I started looking into alternatives. Jellyfin was the most promising option but unfortunately ended up being unviable for me, because my home server/NAS runs FreeBSD, and by virtue of C#/Mono being a pain to get running on FreeBSD so is…

Pretty sure recent Jellyfin uses dotnet ( actual Microsoft ) and not Mono. Python, and increasingly dotnet are already packaged for every distribution I have tried recently. Dotnet is even being ported to Haiku right now. What is the challenge in getting these setup?

It’s been several months so I forget the exact issue, but at that point whatever the C# runtime was didn’t install cleanly without manually building a specific branch or somesuch, with no official package being available for FreeBSD.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by BeetleB »

horsawlarway wrote: post #63
urbandw311er wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean to be fair it does need to find a way to pay for itself. I paid for a subscription, removed those streaming channels and I don’t think I have been pestered about them in a long time.

It really doesn't though, and that's why I prefer an open source solution like Jellyfin. I'm already paying for everything that incurs costs: it's my hardware, streaming my media, on my local network. The only things left are users & developers donating time and energy to the project - and right now there are enough of us doing that to keep it alive. This is absolutely not something that needs a subscription cost. If…

> This is absolutely not something that needs a subscription cost.

Having a server you can stream from - you're right.

For the other features, you're likely wrong. As in - the open source space hasn't come up with a viable solution. I use Plex for DVR, and beyond the one time fee it works. For DVR you need to get the OTA channel guide, and all the reliable services out there charge a subscription fee - which over time will cost more than the Plex one time fee.

Also, how good is Jellyfin at skipping credits and ads?

As I pointed out in another comment - I'll happily use Jellyfin once it is there. As of now, every time I try it the experience is worse than Plex. So Plex it will be till JF gets there.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by inkahootz »

Cyph0n wrote: post #163
snapplebobapple wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the full win would also include 2 instances of readarr, once for ebooks and one for audio books, whisparr for your 18+ needs, stash for your 18+ needs frontend, and I think audiobookshelf and kavita to play the audiobooks and ebooks respectively. If you're into comics you might also want to throw mylar3 in there and if you have multiple users (aka a spouse and/or offspring) you may want to throw ombi in there too.

Some additional recommendations: - Setup two Radarr instances (normal and 4K) and two Sonarr instances (TV and anime) - Follow the TRaSH guides to improve media quality - Komga to read manga and comics - Readarr Calibre integration to delegate parsing & metadata to Calibre - Jellyseerr or Overseerr instead of Ombi - Unpackerr to catch and handle compressed media - autobrr if you’re looking to build ratio

Why do you recommend Jellyseerr or Overseerr instead of Ombi?

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by GlumWoodpecker »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #275
LeFantome wrote: post #272

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty sure recent Jellyfin uses dotnet ( actual Microsoft ) and not Mono. Python, and increasingly dotnet are already packaged for every distribution I have tried recently. Dotnet is even being ported to Haiku right now. What is the challenge in getting these setup?

It’s been several months so I forget the exact issue, but at that point whatever the C# runtime was didn’t install cleanly without manually building a specific branch or somesuch, with no official package being available for FreeBSD.

Is Docker not an option? As far as I can tell, Docker is available on FreeBSD, and Jellyfin has a Docker image available, I've been using it for a few years at this point (on Linux, though).

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by hamandcheese »

jnsaff2 wrote: post #278

So confusing, there is also Jellyfish [0] which is also a media server written in Elixir. Use case is obv different but close enough that I needed to triple check that I'm not going mad. [0] https://github.com/jellyfish-dev/jellyfish

Jellyfish appears to be a much newer and smaller project.
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