Jellyfin: Free software media system

Post by tetris11 » Mon, Jun 19, 2023, 5:59 PM UTC

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I use the full stack and all very grateful for the products. The remaining annoyances are: - lack of multi language support - there is no connection between the systems when you want to remove a movie (you remove it in one place and everything knows about that and acts accordingly) - I still did not make to fully grasp how and where to say "I do not want this particular release". I think I saw that in radarr but it n…

Yeah I was initially surprised when learning about the *arr stack for the first time, as my intuition was very insistently telling me: "I must be gettint it wrong, these ought to be all a single service!!" They all definitely feel like small parts of a single package, don't look like they merit being their own thing. But it's not my thing, so what do I know.

Post by leokennis » Mon, Jun 19, 2023, 7:56 PM UTC

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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.

Post by ufish235 » Mon, Jun 19, 2023, 11:05 PM UTC

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It’ll run through docker surely? A nice docker compose media server is a beautiful thing to behold. I use a Nuc but the Mac mini would be a great server (though costs a lot).

If anyone wants to try this, be wary of transcode acceleration / HW passthru with Docker, esp on M1/M2. In general I’d love it if there was a GUI-less stripped-down MacOS Server edition instead of running the full-fat consumer OS as an always-on server.

Post by crispyambulance » Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 12:06 AM UTC

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> ...am meticulous at making sure the structure and filenames are correct before dumping anything new to the library to the point where I have a complex script to... I am the exact opposite, partly because I feel like it SHOULD BE the responsibility of the media library to maintain associations between the media files and their metadata, regardless of the filename. It seems crazy to me that Plex and other media libra…

I think you can do that, there is an informal standard for xml files which can live alongside the media with metadata info. I'm not sure if Jellyfin can create them directly but it can read them. See for example tinymediamanager https://www.tinymediamanager.org/

Post by joney_baloney » Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 2:01 AM UTC

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Maybe this doesn’t happen to you but: my infuse app on my Apple TV constantly clears the cache because it gets full. This requires it to rescan my library before I have access to my media. Kind of a pain. Server side processing like with jelly fin would prevent this from happening. This is the reason I bounce back and forth between infuse and Plex on my Apple TV.

I have heard/read of people having the same issue but I’ve never experienced this myself thankfully Recently checked the metadata cache which was about 1.9GB which felt a bit bigger than I’d have expected but I’m not sure what a typical value is