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Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

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Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

#91

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.

Please don’t take this as criticism of your setup, but why are you trying to stream Blu-ray Disc folders at all? Why not transcode the files?

Firsly, I have multiple tens of terabytes of movies (painful to duplicate), and I watch them with their original menus in Kodi.

Secondly, a BDMV can't be turned into a single correct linear representation - for example, the Star Trek TOS discs have the ability to toggle back and forth between original and CG-remastered graphics seamlessly. As another example, I have stereoscopic 3D blu-rays; should the transcode be the left eye view, or side-by-side 3D with an ultrawide file?

Finally, transcoding necessarily sacrifices quality. Remuxing wouldn't, but Jellyfin usually refuses to stream remuxed containers and insists on transcoding to attach subtitles (their javascript web player and even app don't seem to handle the subs correctly?).

To sum up, turning a disc folder into a single file requires losing content.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

#92
post #20

Fun fact: Jellyfin runs natively on Windows. Combined with something like Cloudflare Tunnel it's probably the easiest way to host a media server without needing to be a Linux admin.

I was actually surprised to see how much .NET stuff it pulled in on the Linux install. Nothing wrong with that, just hadn't seen it before.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

#93

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…

I love jellyfin but their web model is just bizarre. Why on earth, when you go to 192.168.whatever:8096 does it ask you what server you want to connect to? Like.. THE ONE SERVING THE PAGE. Just now I decided to connect to Jellyfin over tailscale and it's asking me to add a server; on 100.xxx, which is the jellyfin server which served the UI. And it doesn't seem to want to accept any answer as to what the server URL i…

I am pretty sure that's a config option

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

#94
post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love jellyfin but their web model is just bizarre. Why on earth, when you go to 192.168.whatever:8096 does it ask you what server you want to connect to? Like.. THE ONE SERVING THE PAGE. Just now I decided to connect to Jellyfin over tailscale and it's asking me to add a server; on 100.xxx, which is the jellyfin server which served the UI. And it doesn't seem to want to accept any answer as to what the server URL i…

I am pretty sure that's a config option

It may be, but it's also the default behavior and .. really... makes no sense at all.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

#95
As somebody who just got into Real Debrid, what's the best compatible frontend that makes managing the content firehouse easier? I started out with Stremio, which works okay but only lets you add movies/shows to a single Library that can be sorted a few ways, but that's it. Not great scrolling through a single horizontal list of titles.

Ideally, there'd be a program that lets you add programs to playlists (favorite films, to-watch list, anime, documentaries, etc.) and then track the watch status, shuffle-play, show recommendations, display a big grid, etc. There's probably something like that out there but for a newcomer it's just a blizzard of "Sonarr, Radarr, Umbrella, Jellyfin, Plex, Kodi, Stremio, Roku, Seren, Overseer, Syncler," and other nonsense syllables (and seems like most of the guides are dated).

(Nb: I subscribe to Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, etc., just prefer having a unified player that doesn't yank stuff arbitrarily)

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

#96

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…

I love jellyfin but their web model is just bizarre. Why on earth, when you go to 192.168.whatever:8096 does it ask you what server you want to connect to? Like.. THE ONE SERVING THE PAGE. Just now I decided to connect to Jellyfin over tailscale and it's asking me to add a server; on 100.xxx, which is the jellyfin server which served the UI. And it doesn't seem to want to accept any answer as to what the server URL i…

While the most common jellyfin distribution bundles the server and web UI together, the web UI (jellyfin-web) is a separate project from the server (jellyfin) and can be used to connect to multiple backends (which can run on the same or different hosts), which is why that functionality and UI is there. For what its worth, the web client should be autodetecting the server it was bundled with and using it without asking you each time. The only time it didn't do that for me was when my network was misconfigured and some requests were getting swallowed, which confused the client and caused it to fall back to the server-connection UI.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

#97

As somebody who just got into Real Debrid, what's the best compatible frontend that makes managing the content firehouse easier? I started out with Stremio, which works okay but only lets you add movies/shows to a single Library that can be sorted a few ways, but that's it. Not great scrolling through a single horizontal list of titles. Ideally, there'd be a program that lets you add programs to playlists (favorite f…

I've had a setup similar to what you're describing using Kodi with various addons. But it's really precarious and for too much effort. Stremio is treating me well these days.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

#98

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…

I love jellyfin but their web model is just bizarre. Why on earth, when you go to 192.168.whatever:8096 does it ask you what server you want to connect to? Like.. THE ONE SERVING THE PAGE. Just now I decided to connect to Jellyfin over tailscale and it's asking me to add a server; on 100.xxx, which is the jellyfin server which served the UI. And it doesn't seem to want to accept any answer as to what the server URL i…

> Why on earth, when you go to 192.168.whatever:8096 does it ask you what server you want to connect to?

This lets you connect to and play another friend's Jellyfin rather nicely. I think it's also so the HTML and JS that forms the web interface can basically be the app as well.

> And it doesn't seem to want to accept any answer as to what the server URL is.

Should be "http://192.168.100.xxx:8096" - make sure your jellyfin isn't just set to listen on localhost only though.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

#99

I’ve tried a few times to use software like this but nothing for me competes with the simplicity of a shared file folder and VLC.

Jellyfin's "management" of my media catalog strongly drove me away from Jellyfin. It was terrible at dealing with seasons of shows, with dealing with subdirectories. So much frustration.

Casting from my phone also got de-synced & broke a lot. I couldn't find a good way to skip/scrub forwards or backwards a little bit. Sometimes the themeing would break & the app became unusable without restart.

It was really really cool having jellyfin-mpv-shim running on my desktop, and Chromecast elsewhere. But Jellyfin was straight up not working for me, not listing a bunch of my media, not making it navigable, and the Android app's dodginess all ruined things for me. I went back to UPnP/DLNA, whose apps are a little cruder (Gerbera for MediaServer, BubbleUPnP for control, Rygel PlayBin for MediaRenderer), everything basically just works and it's baked into many devices/tv's.

Re: Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

#100

Well this is very timely and relevant. I usually access jellyfin on my network devices like ` http://homecloud:8096 ` but now that I have been exploring adding other services, remembering the ports is getting tedious. I also am trying to be forward thinking about external access in the future. Looks like I could use some combination of Caddy, Nginx Proxy Manager, Tailscale? What's the simplest setup?

I'm able to do it with just Nginx — jellyfin supports being proxied behind a subpath, but some other services might not.
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