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Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by trhr »

urbandw311er wrote: post #45
PUSH_AX wrote: post #13

For years I just wanted a good user experience playing video files from my MBP to a TV, I spent a lot of money (on NAS, chromecasts etc), used a lot of software with objectively terrible user experiences (Plex I'm looking firmly at you). Finally, I discovered the combination of Jellyfin and Infuse App. It works really well.

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.

Plex is cluttered, messy, not free, not available on all devices, and harder to run on Kubernetes.

I can watch my Jellyfin shows from a Flatpak local client on my desktop, pause and move to my phone, pause and move to my TV. That's three different operating systems, and at no point do they transcode, because it's not going through a browser.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by heyoni »

trhr wrote: post #89
JadoJodo wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ooooooh.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by politelemon »

nicoco wrote: post #65
snapplebobapple wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can automate that with sonarr/radarr/lidarr. Works like a dream.

Add prowlarr and bazarr for the full win.

Prowlarr is a deitysend. Instead of having to configure indexers in Sonarr, it does the heavy lifting for you. Goes in, configures an indexer, and that's your search setup done.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by ufish235 »

https443 wrote: post #50

Have been using Jellyfin on my synology server for the past 2 years. It's a dream, but you do need to name your files/directories per their naming convention: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/ -- https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/

Which model Synology? I am looking into one of the dual/quad core Celeron models because I heard the iGPU is critical for any kind of transcoding.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by pwpw »

I've been happily using jellyfin for awhile now. Overall it works great. It has a few issues that I would like to see implemented/fixed:

- No offline downloading on iPad

- The official Apple TV app logs me out of my server every day

- Using the native player on the Apple TV app is still experimental and can have issues

- No intro skip

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by Timon3 »

benglish11 wrote: post #83
Timon3 wrote: post #56

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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.

Yeah, there are probably ways to mostly get it back to what it once was. The problem really is that a) these ways weren't obvious to me at the time, and b) I don't trust Plex to keep those ways. Enshittification is sadly a one-way street.

If Plex kept my content frond-and-center and added useful features on top (e.g. Prime Videos additional information while pausing) I could even have seen myself subscribing to their service. But making the software annoying to use for its main purpose ensures I'll never spend a cent on it.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by snapplebobapple »

nicoco wrote: post #65
snapplebobapple wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can automate that with sonarr/radarr/lidarr. Works like a dream.

Add prowlarr and bazarr for the full win.

the full win would also include 2 instances of readarr, once for ebooks and one for audio books, whisparr for your 18+ needs, stash for your 18+ needs frontend, and I think audiobookshelf and kavita to play the audiobooks and ebooks respectively. If you're into comics you might also want to throw mylar3 in there and if you have multiple users (aka a spouse and/or offspring) you may want to throw ombi in there too.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by js2 »

pwpw wrote: post #95

I've been happily using jellyfin for awhile now. Overall it works great. It has a few issues that I would like to see implemented/fixed: - No offline downloading on iPad - The official Apple TV app logs me out of my server every day - Using the native player on the Apple TV app is still experimental and can have issues - No intro skip

I use Plex Server + Lifetime pass + Infuse. It is an excellent combination and has none of those issues. I point Infuse at Plex for TV shows to get the intro skip. For movies, I point Infuse at an NFS share since Infuse can handle more media types than Plex.

Plex also lets me easily share my movie rips with family members across the country.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by lost_tourist »

pwpw wrote: post #95

I've been happily using jellyfin for awhile now. Overall it works great. It has a few issues that I would like to see implemented/fixed: - No offline downloading on iPad - The official Apple TV app logs me out of my server every day - Using the native player on the Apple TV app is still experimental and can have issues - No intro skip

I mean isn't intro skip impossible? Is there something buried in the stream that indicates beginning/ending of an intro? I suspect the streaming services do that "manually" and not by AI or other automated means.
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