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Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by heavyset_go »

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…

I've interacted with the project and maintainers and agree with their approach.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by RajT88 »

patrickk wrote: post #230
RajT88 wrote: post #12

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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 in…

It's a sign of the times when someone misunderstands what "Live TV" means. lol

So I am literally streaming ATSC channels from my roof antenna with JellyFin. I didn't feel like paying a subscription fee (and anyways - no paid service has exactly the right XMLTV format JellyFin expects), so I wrote a scheduled task which scrapes the listings and ingests them with the REST API.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by lukevp »

spoaceman7777 wrote: post #144
lukevp wrote: post #109

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Having placeholders is part of what I’m talking about when I say lag, and jank is about dropping frames so that things do not appear smoothly animated. Not everyone is as sensitive to jank or they’re ok with it, but if you use something that lacks jank in the animations it feels better even if you don’t know what jank is. The media detection thing might be related to Infuse and not to Jellyfin itself, since it sounds…

What sort of hardware are you using to do transcoding of the content on the source box? You could try adjusting the quality (or type) of the transcoding to potentially improve this. Like, perhaps you are trying to transcode into a format for which your video card doesn't have built-in encoding? (Like, nvenc units on an nvidia chip, if that's what you have.) You could also try setting up directplay, if your stack supp…

I’m talking about the UI of the media browser part, not the video playback. I’m direct playing and the video is perfect.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by shiroiushi »

defrost wrote: post #178
jillyboel wrote: post #170

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

A project to integrate additional "media segments" to identify introductions and end credits for auto-skipping. There was something that worked, going forward the core team decided to focus on a tight stream lined core and decruft 'features'. Discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1dbiw90/skip_in... https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-intro-skipper-project-dead Seems like a temporary (indefinite) suspensio…

This isn't that important a feature most of the time, because you can just press the skip-ahead button and skip the next 30 seconds. You might see some of the intro, but big deal

There is one big exception though: if you're watching Star Trek: Enterprise. The "skip intro" feature is invaluable so you don't have to be subjected to that truly horrific opening song.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by shiroiushi »

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

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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'm a huge FOSS bigot, but even I can admit that FOSS frequently has bad UI design. FOSS is usually great for getting the fundamentals of the software right, making it reliable etc., but software experts usually are not very good at UI design.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by npodbielski »

themk wrote: post #236
tmiku wrote: post #103

Anyone care to share their experiences with some of the less common Jellyfin frontends? Which ones are most in need of contributions? I've had a decent experience with the Samsung TV (Tizen) client. It's annoying to not have it on the app store yet and to jump through the developer-mode hoops to get it installed, but to be fair it was a one time setup and I've been happy with it since then. Seen some occasional sligh…

If you install the DLNA plugin for Jellyfin, you can cast to Samsung TVs. Just use your phone for the UI.

Too bad it works only as native package. Or at least for me I was unable to work with DLNA reliably for around 2-3 years. It was working then it was gradually doing worse and worse till completely stopped. But I am using custom Linux box for my audio setup now so I can just open browser and then control it directly via my phone app. Could be worse :)

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by npodbielski »

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 think they are may be simpler solutions but there is SWAG https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag that have built in config for proxying Jellyfin. It have all the necessary settings for proxy and built-in Letsencrypt client so you do not have configure it yourself. I have a script written that do `docker compose down && docker compose pull && docker compose up -d` that runs every now and then so it keeps itself up to date (SWAG, Jellyfin and others).

Again there are probably easier options to get it running but in my case most of it runs on docker so (in theory since I had no major outages just a few times I migrated hardware) moving/restoring from backup is relatively easy - copy all the files and run `docker compose` in each directory.

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Post by gosub100 »

TomJansen wrote: post #270
gosub100 wrote: post #82

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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?

There was a debate here in the comments a few months ago about whether it's actually forbidden by their ToS. Lots of people said they don't care if you use it for personal streaming and aren't pumping a hundred gigs per day.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by patrickk »

RajT88 wrote: post #272
patrickk wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 in…

It's a sign of the times when someone misunderstands what "Live TV" means. lol So I am literally streaming ATSC channels from my roof antenna with JellyFin. I didn't feel like paying a subscription fee (and anyways - no paid service has exactly the right XMLTV format JellyFin expects), so I wrote a scheduled task which scrapes the listings and ingests them with the REST API.

I didn’t misunderstand what you meant. I just meant you can “hack” the live TV feature of Jellyfin, and use it to create a “live” tv experience from local media.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by [deleted] »

foobiekr wrote: post #211
RiverCrochet wrote: post #98

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> Why on earth, when you go to 192.168.whatever:8096 does it ask you what server you want to connect to? This lets you connect to and play another friend's Jellyfin rather nicely. I think it's also so the HTML and JS that forms the web interface can basically be the app as well. > And it doesn't seem to want to accept any answer as to what the server URL is. Should be " http://192.168.100.xxx:8096 " - make sure your…

If you can connect to a friend's jellyfin, you can also get the UI package delivered from the friend's server. They've sort of conflated three different ideas - one, the non-browser clients are separate and need a way to select multiple servers from a common wrapper app; two, for development purposes separate the server of the UI package from the backend being accessed; three, have a server based application. None of…

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