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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by GEBIRGE »

jeroenhd wrote: post #18
femboy wrote: post #2

Relevant: Collection of potential security issues in Jellyfin[1] 1: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

Many of these don't seem too bad to be honest. A lot of these are information disclosures that require knowing very long tokens. The LDAP addon listing credentials is bad. The rest seems like it shouldn't be a problem for normal (in-home streaming) usage; i.e. users reading each other's last login time shouldn't be a problem if you trust the people you share the server with.

That's really the key point here: Trusting the people you share the server with.

Jellyfin is kind of binary in that regard. Once you're authenticated - no matter the privileges - you can reach a lot of places. I've written about this recently, if anyone's interested.

Like others have mentioned, you should probably only expose the server to a trusted group of users (ideally not directly on the Internet).

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by benglish11 »

Timon3 wrote: post #56
urbandw311er wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 don't know how to navigate Plex anymore. I used to use it roughly 8 years ago, and it was simple - it showed me my media, I could navigate through it, watch it, and nothing more. I tried using it again 2 years ago - and I simply couldn't find my media anymore. I logged in with my account, and the settings showed me that it was connected to my server, but it showed me a bunch of random media that I did not add to my…

Yeah some time ago Plex started adding their own content or pushing you to streaming services, probably in an attempt to be more legitimate. I use Plex currently and I remember this being frustrating. With some configuration you can basically remove those options though. I mainly consume Plex through the Apple TV app and the UX (once configured) is above average.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by JadoJodo »

Timon3 wrote: post #56
urbandw311er wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 don't know how to navigate Plex anymore. I used to use it roughly 8 years ago, and it was simple - it showed me my media, I could navigate through it, watch it, and nothing more. I tried using it again 2 years ago - and I simply couldn't find my media anymore. I logged in with my account, and the settings showed me that it was connected to my server, but it showed me a bunch of random media that I did not add to my…

They show their hosted media first thing now, and hide your media behind some clicks.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by MattPalmer1086 »

asylteltine wrote: post #55

I still use Plex. I tried jellyfin for two weeks on my 30+ TB collection but there were so many little issues it wasn’t worth it Most features are actually plugins made by the community. This felt buggy and cheap. It was lacking a lot of stuff like trailer support (no the community plug-in does not count) Also the metadata scanner is a lot worse. The interface is worse. There’s a lot of setup needed for each device b…

Same here. I'd love to use Jellyfin, but little things just didn't work. Some videos would not play either for some reason. Plex just works though.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by MattPalmer1086 »

louwrentius wrote: post #5

I’m running Jellyfin because I want to reduce my energy footprint. I’m happy to watch series on my iPad instead of a TV. I also don’t need my disk-based NAS turned on if I put content on an external SSD hooked up to a Raspberry Pi4 with Jellyfin. I had an issue where my Mac or iPad could not stream anything in h265 (not 100% sure about the format) in the browser. The Raspberry Pi would start transcoding which it lack…

I have Plex running on a Pi 4, with some USB disks attached that spin down when not needed. Seems to also work fine.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by atourgates »

Timon3 wrote: post #56
urbandw311er wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 don't know how to navigate Plex anymore. I used to use it roughly 8 years ago, and it was simple - it showed me my media, I could navigate through it, watch it, and nothing more. I tried using it again 2 years ago - and I simply couldn't find my media anymore. I logged in with my account, and the settings showed me that it was connected to my server, but it showed me a bunch of random media that I did not add to my…

This is exactly the issue. I’m sure most people who installed Plex did it to stream their own self-hosted media, but now Plex by default shoves in a bunch of streaming BS that they want you to watch, while hiding your own media behind a few clicks.

Plex has always had some minor frustrations, but this is probably enough to make me switch.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by trhr »

JadoJodo wrote: post #84
croutonwagon wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do prowlarr and bazarr do

Bazarr seems to be a subtitle downloader, and Prowlarr an “Index Manager” (though I’m unsure what that means).

Means you can say "Here's my API key for these private trackers" in one spot instead of 8. "Indexer Manager" is probably a better description.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by m3Lith »

I love Jellyfin, though it often struggles with subtitles embedded in the container. They are recognized, but it fails to load them. If I retry it two-three times, it usually manages to do that.

Also, recently discovered it has plugins too, like syncing status with Trakt.

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