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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by hamandcheese »

gytisgreitai wrote: post #23
PUSH_AX wrote: post #13

For years I just wanted a good user experience playing video files from my MBP to a TV, I spent a lot of money (on NAS, chromecasts etc), used a lot of software with objectively terrible user experiences (Plex I'm looking firmly at you). Finally, I discovered the combination of Jellyfin and Infuse App. It works really well.

Can you explain more? I am using Infuse with nfs mounted shares and have been pretty happy. Anthing to gain from jellyfin?

The main advantage of Jellyfin is that it can transcode on-the-fly, which is important if you want to share with friends and family that have slower or metered internet.

But the unfortunate flipside is it seems like the best clients (so far) do not support transcoding very well, they want to direct stream.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by maverwa »

eddythompson80 wrote: post #144
maverwa wrote: post #32

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Yeah. Just found out that it doesn’t even play anything from my jellyfin without buying the premium version. It lists all the things, but as soon as I want to play anything it asks for the InApp Purchase. Not sure what’s going on there, but I don’t like it.

> Not sure what’s going on there, but I don’t like it. Infuse is a very decent _paid_ app. That’s what’s going on. It lets you play with the interface and test its integration with your services/media. But to use it you pay either a subscription or a one time fee. Very reasonable in my opinion.

Oh, I have nothing agains paying for the app. I just find it funny that they let me install and configure everything then wont play anything. At first I thought its just needing that for 4k/HDR/HVEC stuff, but it also did not play SD h264 content. And at that point I just do not understand why it comes as a "free app" in the first place. Either let me install & test it for free and demand the pro update later (thats fine for me, if I know it works, I'll pay) or demand pay from the get go.

Now, I am aware that it might just be the selection of codec and resolutions I happened to try are all paid-only. But the way it went, I indeed felt "cheated".

Yes, Infuse may be a very good _paid_ app, but I do not like it the way it tells you that is a _paid_ app.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by colordrops »

n0zmer wrote: post #254
colordrops wrote: post #214

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But Jellyfin is open source and doesn't try to force you to open an account. I'm at the point now where I will always choose open source if the product is "good enough" even if it is not the best. Jellyfin is "good enough" for my needs at least.

I have no problem paying for great software. There is an obvious quality difference between the two and it's completely worth it.

Sure, each person is free to have their own strategy. For me, I've been burned many times when commercial software was abondoned, or changed for the worst for financial reasons, or no longer works on my platform for some reason, or never gets some requested feature implemented, or is full of spy telemetry.

But I am not against commercial software and have no problem with others using it. Just not for me.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by zeagle »

DarkCrusader2 wrote: post #183
zeagle wrote: post #8

Cool software. I used it within/in parallel to Kodi to sync a couple devices but ended up removing this layer. I didn't like that you can't outright disable transcoding for content served via their app or in the browser. I serve mostly local client and my headless NAS has poor integrated graphics and runs Linux so this was very brittle. Kodi's jellyfin addon can play without transcoding by default so this seemed reas…

> However in case others want to go this route for a similar use case I hope I can save you some frustration: both this and the native Android app do not handle Dolby vision or passthrough atmos content properly. I also had odd tearing and av sync issues with some large 4k content that don't happen with maven kodi builds. I also get audio sync issue with some media types. I am frustrated to the point that I now just…

I run Kodi on a 2019 Nvidia shield "tube" model. My media and previously jellyfin is on a NAS that serves the content over nfs to the shield. Shield--Receiver--TV. Look into the maven Kodi build if you have something similar. My sync issues went away using when I stopped using jellyfin and also maybe from removing path substitution when I redid it from scratch. I believe I have fixed output with passthrough in Kodi and upmixed turned off on the shield.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by llanowarelves »

lostmsu wrote: post #227
https443 wrote: post #51

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If you follow their naming conventions it works great: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/ -- https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/ ... but I admit that most people don't want to do that.

Yeah, I don't have time to rename every single one of 100+ episodes.

Also you can argue that the (original) filename itself is part of the metadata. It's useful to have what it was originally called when referencing elsewhere. So where to put this data? in a sidecar file during the rename process or something? We could just use content hash, but then online dashboards to redownload things from vendors, for example, won't necessarily have that there displayed on the page, or when you start downloading it in the browser.

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Post by metadat »

deadbunny wrote: post #271
metadat wrote: post #182

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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.

I agree it works most of the time, but sometimes falls flat on it's face. Especially for TV episodes and even entire seasons.

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Post by asylteltine »

ryandrake wrote: post #149
lostmsu wrote: post #39

I tried it, but ended up just using file shares. The biggest issue for me is that it does not automatically recognize many movies by their short names instead linking to some obscure thing with a similar name. For instance, since files can not have colon in the name, and many movies do, it gets confused about the title. Another similar issue is about shows and how it recognizes their folder and file structures. In th…

Another "just share files" user checking in. There are dozens of us! Old school NFS/SMB has "just worked" for me for decades. It's free, uses almost zero server resources, is easy to add content to (just copy a file), and it isn't going to change out from under you when its developer decides to monetize you. If you really must have a pretty front-end for your TV or whatever, there's Kodi, which is also old-school, fr…

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Post by rashkov »

Cyph0n wrote: post #256
civilitty wrote: post #246

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Jesus christ. Thank you for the Unpackerr recommendation, that was pissing me off, but jesus christ. I’d pay an extra $10/mo for my seedbox to have just a single interface for all of this without having to manage all these independent apps. Trying to debug why sonarr->prowlarr->flaresolvrr don’t work is a nightmare. That reminds me: - flaresolverr: proxy that handles cloudflare bot checks for torrent trackers that ar…

Haha yeah, it can be definitely become a rabbit hole if you have the interest and time :) I think the base setup of Radarr + Sonarr + SABnzbd/qBittorrent + Prowlarr is a huge improvemenet over doing things manually. A lot stuff on top of that is helpful, but the benefit vs. effort ratio diminishes quite quickly. I haven't had to setup Flaresolverr just yet, but might do that soon.

I set up radarr + sonarr after a few years of doing it manually. Really glad I did — adding something from my phone and then having it pop into plex on my tv is delightful.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by jeanofthedead »

PUSH_AX wrote: post #13

For years I just wanted a good user experience playing video files from my MBP to a TV, I spent a lot of money (on NAS, chromecasts etc), used a lot of software with objectively terrible user experiences (Plex I'm looking firmly at you). Finally, I discovered the combination of Jellyfin and Infuse App. It works really well.

My favorite feature of Infuse is how it clears the Metadata cache every single time I launch the app. Takes about 30-45 seconds for it to show all of my media again. Even with plenty of storage space on my ATV4K.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by urbandw311er »

atombender wrote: post #156
urbandw311er wrote: post #45

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I’d be interested to know what you find terrible about the PLEX UX. I’ve been a happy user for years and have found the user interface to be reasonably intuitive. Perhaps dense in places, but certainly not terrible in my opinion.

I've used Plex for more than a decade, and I've seen it drop in quality over the years as Plex the company has pivoted towards being a streaming service. Personally, my main beef is that as a client app, the streaming service stuff has bled into the personal library UI in obnoxious ways. For example, the default "tab" is called "Recommended". This shows some kind of algorithm-based feed of stuff they think you want t…

> Why would it suggest stuff > from a library that I curate?

Mostly to try and help save time, eg to suggest you could resume a couple of recently watched episodes that you haven’t finished yet.

Or that you might want to watch something that was just added to the library in the last few minutes.

In most cases this has proved useful to me and I’ve found it to be a timesaver.

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