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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 dantetheinferno »

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 expose my jellyfin to 80 via nginx. Other services stay not exposed, and only available on my local network. I don't bother with tailscale.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by loughnane »

Mainsail wrote: post #38

What are people using this for? Pirated movies, shows, etc? Genuinely curious.

For movies and TV shows people either rip them off of personal collections and/or download them from the internet.

When combined with `yt-dlp` you can use it to download videos from your favorite channels. This is especially valuable as there's no guarantee the videos will be there for free forever.

It's also a nice place to put family videos and recorded sporting events.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by patmorgan23 »

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

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.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by loughnane »

p1mrx wrote: post #40
Larrikin wrote: post #17

Jellyfin feels like its almost to where Plex was 5 years ago. They are catching up fairly quickly and I think I wouldn't bother with a Plex pass if I was coming in completely fresh. But it is not as good as Plex currently. I have a lifetime pass and there is no reason for me to switch. I personally am fine with Plex adding features, so long as they are not taking anything away. They've had a couple missteps but absol…

Plex uses cloud-based authentication, which means Plex Inc. is holding the keys to your library. I switched to JellyFin because I was not comfortable with that arrangement.

I said it elsewhere, but this was the turning point for me as well.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by dc3k »

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?

im running a pihole so i take advantage of lighttpd that it uses, with the mod_proxy configuration. i can then do something like the following to have a friendly url on my local network

$HTTP["host"] == "jellyfin.dc" { proxy.server = ( "" => ( ( "host" => "192.168.1.99", "port" => "8096" ) ) ) }

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by walthamstow »

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?

If you run a DNS server on your Tailscale or use their Magic DNS you can navigate to http://jellyfin and it'll load.

Personally I don't muck about with any of that and just have a link in my bookmarks bar that takes me to :port" rel="nofollow">http://:port :D

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by ryanmcbride »

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…

Every once in a while I knock around the idea of migrating off Plex and onto Jellyfin. For a long time it was that sharing libraries with friends was a pain, but now literally the only thing stopping me is that they don't have a ps5 app, and that's how one of my friends uses my plex server lol. If they get one, it's all over for plex (in my friend group).

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by bhaney »

calmoo wrote: post #35

To anyone considering using Jellyfin - it simply does not work properly for large libraries (1000+ movies/shows) in my experience.

I use Jellyfin for my 32TB media library of 1600 movies, 70 TV shows (5500 episodes), 500 music albums, and 10,000 books. It works perfectly fine with no issues or slowdowns.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Post by Larrikin »

p1mrx wrote: post #40
Larrikin wrote: post #17

Jellyfin feels like its almost to where Plex was 5 years ago. They are catching up fairly quickly and I think I wouldn't bother with a Plex pass if I was coming in completely fresh. But it is not as good as Plex currently. I have a lifetime pass and there is no reason for me to switch. I personally am fine with Plex adding features, so long as they are not taking anything away. They've had a couple missteps but absol…

Plex uses cloud-based authentication, which means Plex Inc. is holding the keys to your library. I switched to JellyFin because I was not comfortable with that arrangement.

What meaningful keys do they hold to my library if everything is sitting on my hard drive waiting to be switched over the moment something better comes along or Plex makes themselves worse?
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