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Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

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Post by illegalbyte2 »

QGQBGdeZREunxLe wrote: post #53
zythyx wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What more does Plex need? I would consider myself a power user of Plex and it does everything I need it to do. I would think the only thing I can think of is fully self-hosted login instead of their cloud option, but I'm glad we have that option because I don't want to handle the authentication of my friends and family

* IPTV support (xtream codes etc.) yes proxies exist like Dispatcharr but first class support would be better * Better iOS/tvOS/OSX video playback (just buy Infuse because it can play so many titles the Plex player cannot) * Add full context menus everywhere. Playlists are virtually useless for anything other than playback in order or randomly. Why can't I multi-select items on a playlist and move them to another pla…

Highly recommend Infuse on Apple TV. Since I was running Plex on my NAS it would often be very buggy and slow with buffering. One day I got fed up and tried infuse, pointed it at the same network share, and bam- instant playback that worked consistently, and way better native controls for subtitles etc. I’m sure there are good reasons to use Plex, I did so for years, but honestly streaming has been so much easier since moving off it.

Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

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Post by zamadatix »

ruined wrote: post #47
lamasery wrote: post #10

Forced server transcoding for everything. Ouch. Thought maybe at least mpeg2 or something would play directly.

it's 480p. every box i've used in the last two decades could do that on the fly without breaking a sweat.

The Wii is just barely within the last 2 decades but it does very much struggle with 480p decoding of most anything (and even sweats a decent amount on 240p) as it was pretty low end for even 20 years ago.

Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

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Post by voxic11 »

heavyset_go wrote: post #29
tech234a wrote: post #21

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Can anyone comment on the security of Jellyfin? When I had last looked into it, it seemed like Jellyfin had a somewhat weak security model that made me question switching family members to it from Plex.

Don't expose it to the internet unless you know what you're doing, or put it on a VPS you don't care about. Ideally keep it behind a VPN and give your family members access to it that way, and let local devices on your LAN connect to it without a VPN.

I put mine behind caddy on a long unguessable path prefix. So that acts as a sort of password that you need to know before you can access it at all. So far it's seemed to work great. The advantage to using a path prefix vs like caddy basic auth is that its compatible with all the normal jellyfin clients.

Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

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Post by mystraline »

haunter wrote: post #68
mystraline wrote: post #25

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Intel ARC 380's are ideal at 4k realtime transcoded streams. And theyre cheap as well. You could probably do a sticky round robin reverse proxy with a few backends doing transcode. The biggest issue is bandwidth, but you probably knew that.

Even better is a passive cooled GPU like the Palit 3050 KalmX https://www.palit.com/palit/vgapro.php?id=5147 Too bad they are not producing them anymore

Absolutely not.

Nvidia arbitrarily locks number of encodes between 2 to 5 streams, depending if you're willing to run hacked firmware and drivers.

Multi-encoding on nvidia is a "professional card option" only.

Intel's ARC line has no such arbitrary encode/decode limit. And they are significantly cheaper as well.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/h...

Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

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Post by outime »

shrinks99 wrote: post #7

Noticed that Jellyfin had inched out Plex when sorting by popularity on the TrueNAS app catalogue the other day (45,178 installs vs Plex's 42,225). The existance of this project seems to confirm that the dev ecosystem around it is getting stronger!

When I had to decide between Plex and Jellyfin, I noticed that with Plex it was mandatory to have an account even when self-hosting (!) so I'm not sure whether it's better or worse than Jellyfin, I just didn't bother trying it out because of that.

Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

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Post by chneu »

outime wrote: post #85
shrinks99 wrote: post #7

Noticed that Jellyfin had inched out Plex when sorting by popularity on the TrueNAS app catalogue the other day (45,178 installs vs Plex's 42,225). The existance of this project seems to confirm that the dev ecosystem around it is getting stronger!

When I had to decide between Plex and Jellyfin, I noticed that with Plex it was mandatory to have an account even when self-hosting (!) so I'm not sure whether it's better or worse than Jellyfin, I just didn't bother trying it out because of that.

I was camping without service last year. I wanted to watch some House MD I had downloaded in the plex app before I left. I fire up plex ...it can't connect. Why does it need to connect? Bye Plex. Hello Jellyfin.

Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

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Post by chneu »

zythyx wrote: post #26
tengbretson wrote: post #23

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Plex could reverse this trend in a week if they decided to prioritize work on any feature that their core market actually wanted.

What more does Plex need? I would consider myself a power user of Plex and it does everything I need it to do. I would think the only thing I can think of is fully self-hosted login instead of their cloud option, but I'm glad we have that option because I don't want to handle the authentication of my friends and family

They removed plugins which severely hamstrung their ecosystem. They quickly lost a ton of useful features and started to lock everything into their preferences.

Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

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Post by chneu »

necessary wrote: post #39
zythyx wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What more does Plex need? I would consider myself a power user of Plex and it does everything I need it to do. I would think the only thing I can think of is fully self-hosted login instead of their cloud option, but I'm glad we have that option because I don't want to handle the authentication of my friends and family

Here's an easy one: working downloads on mobile. Plex offline downloads are notoriously buggy.

Plex offline simply does not work. If it does work, it'll stop working when you get service/connectivity. It is wild how bad it is.

Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

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Post by RajT88 »

heavyset_go wrote: post #29
tech234a wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can anyone comment on the security of Jellyfin? When I had last looked into it, it seemed like Jellyfin had a somewhat weak security model that made me question switching family members to it from Plex.

Don't expose it to the internet unless you know what you're doing, or put it on a VPS you don't care about. Ideally keep it behind a VPN and give your family members access to it that way, and let local devices on your LAN connect to it without a VPN.

TLS is a must-have. They don't bother doing any kind of password hashing on login. It's sent in cleartext.

Re: WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii

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Post by chneu »

circularfoyers wrote: post #20
rtpg wrote: post #16

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For hardware acceleration you might be interested in the remote hardware acceleration strategy... https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/transcoding/h... The jellyfin DB itself is unfortunately sqlite instead of being DB agnostic. Maybe you could hack together something such that only one node handles writes and everyone else handles reads... if getting multiple cheap nodes gets your more bandwidth. I have to…

The database changes late last year is laying the grounds for other database engines[1]. [1] https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.11.0/#the-lib...

If Jellyfin ever fixes the mountain of bugs from the "upgrade". They aren't even acknowledging major bugs that make Jellyfin unusable for like 20% of users.

Do not upgrade Jellyfin if you have a sizeable library. Backup first if you do.

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