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What are people using this for? Pirated movies, shows, etc? Genuinely curious.
Legally purchased DVDs and home video collections that have been legally backed up onto hard drives
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What do you mean group series together? If you mean seasons of a show, yes it does. If you mean collections, it has them.
Then I could not figure how to make it work. Plex did that without any effort from my side though
Jellyfin's strategy for streaming blu-ray disc folders is to use ffmpeg to concatenate (and usually transcode) them to disc, then stream the result. It doesn't work very well - frequently, the concatenation process is sitting there running long after the client has disconnected. And the devs seem to break it entirely every second release or so, just failing to recognize the BDMV as a playable movie at all.
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…
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
In my experience, the majority of people who complain loudly about Jellyfin are tied up in the Plex ecosystem and cannot fathom leaving it for some reason.
I mean, imagine living with ad-supported streaming content being injected into your private instance by default and having to tell your users to opt-out of that. Admittedly, it is hard to leave such a slippery slope of an ecosystem, especially as a paying customer.
TY jellyfin maintainers. Been a happy user for years
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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
DNS still needs to specify ports though?
1) better tone mapping, allowing me to watch HDR movies on SDR without it looking bad.
2) Plex, on my variety of clients, had regular issues with audio out of sync. I’m very sensitive to this and it drove me nuts. I have no issues with Jellyfin. I fiddled with all kinds of platform and Plex settings but couldn’t find a solution that solved it for good.
3) It’s easier to access Jellyfin over Tailscale. Plex’s normally clever way of exposing itself to the Internet gets in the way. It’s not impossible though.
Having said all this, Plex has better client UIs by far. They’re well organized, feature rich, and generally bug free. I still run Plex and plan to at least for the DVR functions.
There was a point where I could overlook some of these things but watching media is something that I want to feel slick and personal, and troubleshooting really kills that for me.
Plex + AppleTV for me and my folks has been a rock solid setup for us.
I really appreciate alternatives (especially OSS) like Jellyfin though and take a gander at them ~once a year.