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Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#81
It's not mature enough.

The media server has a misconfigured path to the web server on Ubuntu, so it won't start after installation. I created a symbolic link to the web server folder. The Android client on my Xiaomi Mibox crashes after it comes to the end of every video.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#82

Does anyone know if Jellyfin lets you share an OTA TV connection with friends/family?

I believe it does allow OTA, though when I tried to, Jellyfin seemed to try to transcode the video regardless of what "please don't transcode" settings I had on video transcoding. (And the RPi4 couldn't keep up with transcoding video via software)

Still working on getting that sorted out but in the meantime I've got VLC that I can point at my HDHomerun.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#83

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How much of your use is audio streaming? I'm dying to make my collection remotely accessible after leaving the Plex ecosystem.

Another comment not from GP, but I'd recommend Polaris. It's very light (unlike Airsonic), FOSS all the way, and has a functional web client (again unlike Subsonic). Can't recommend it enough

I would like to look up Polaris but my searching skills seem to be lacking. Might you have a web site for it that you could share?

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#84
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In contrast to most people in this thread, I don't find Jellyfin to be an all-around great experience. Maybe because I run the JF client on a Google Chromecast, and the "Jellyfin for Android TV" app is very unstable. I get roughly one crash a day, mostly when restarting a movie-watching. The UI is okay, but there are a lot of small annoyances (why is there no "restart from beginning" button? Why can't I use the "whee…

> Why can't a folder contain both movies and tv series? While your other points I'd mostly agree with, this one you're swimming against the stream here. It's a pretty standard convention to separate episodic and feature content. There's usually different data sources for each, as well as episodic content being different in structure. It's probably possible to get all of them to live in the one directory, but if you w…

It might get a little bit weird when a TV show also has movies that are correlated to the show plot. Stargate SG-1 had a couple like that, if I recall correctly. It might be nice to display those movies with the show so they can be watched together in the appropriate order.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#85
post #83

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Another comment not from GP, but I'd recommend Polaris. It's very light (unlike Airsonic), FOSS all the way, and has a functional web client (again unlike Subsonic). Can't recommend it enough

I would like to look up Polaris but my searching skills seem to be lacking. Might you have a web site for it that you could share?

had a hard time too but I think it's this https://github.com/agersant/polaris

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#86

I've been a Plex-to-Jellyfin convert for a long while now, and I've nothing bad to say. I switched because Plex kept pushing their streaming services, and the fuzzy feeling I get from running FOSS. Jellyfin used to run on my desktop which has a beefy CPU/GPU, but runs fine on my puny Synology NAS.

I switched to Jellyfin because Plex refuses to just show me the files in my directory. Why can’t you just let me have a directory view? Makes my blood boil just topping it out.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#87

I've been a Plex-to-Jellyfin convert for a long while now, and I've nothing bad to say. I switched because Plex kept pushing their streaming services, and the fuzzy feeling I get from running FOSS. Jellyfin used to run on my desktop which has a beefy CPU/GPU, but runs fine on my puny Synology NAS.

How much of your use is audio streaming? I'm dying to make my collection remotely accessible after leaving the Plex ecosystem.

I tried out Jellyfin for music, but it kept messing up my music tagging. I switched to Navidrome last year. It works with all subsonic clients and has a great web UI.

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#88
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I thought it ran under linuxulation

Sort of. When you dig in you discover it that support isn't that great. There are efforts by the community, but Microsoft is doing nothing to help - in particular they regularly break things with each release, and once they do a stable release the previous release is no longer supported. There are some great efforts, the other comment linked one, but in the end forums are full of users asking for help with something…

You made me go read. Its a shit-show of the complex packaging and build assumptions at source, the horrendous tooling, and the difficulty negotiating the changes. .NEt is up to 5 or 6 and the email/forum threads seem to be talking about 2.x and 3.

I wish things weren't this complex. But then I remember how much I hate autoconf/configure/libtool, and think "hmm maybe it wasn't so bad after all"

Re-implement .NET in RUST?

Re: Jellyfin: Free Software Media System

#89

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In the past I wasn't super thrilled by Jellyfin's audio streaming (nor Plex's tbh). I'm auditioning Subsonic at the moment, but I might give Ampache a go soon (it's apparently having a bit of a revival at the moment).

Also check out funkwhale!

Funkwhale is awesome, but it's also one of those FOSS projects whose website doesn't exactly illustrate what it exactly is or what it's exactly for, so here's a direct link to straightforward answers for both of those questions

https://docs.funkwhale.audio/features.html#scope

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