Jellyfin: Free software media system

I quite like it has a Plex replacement, it passes the "partner test" AND the "parent test" - they can both install the app and watch what they want (as long as they turn off the android player default, which is a terrible default).

I have it behind a firewall so nothing can access it (it's just for home, or for those who need it, over Wireguard). When i have time, it could be a good experiment for Podman or some other way to run rootless containers/jails.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by David_SQOX » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 10:58 AM UTC

femboy wrote: post #2

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

I've given jellyfin a test-drive a few years ago, it was nice but I ended up back with plex. Thanks for the link (and thanks to those who compiled it!). Enumerating all the potential security issues is important for something that runs 24/7 from the home network. That's a decent sized list, would give me pause on giving JF another test run.

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Post by louwrentius » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 10:59 AM UTC

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 lacks the performance for.

Fortunately the Jellyfin iOS client works perfectly, I’m guessing it uses hardware acceleration of the iPad.

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Post by xattt » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 11:05 AM UTC

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…

Is it common for people to use web apps first when a native client is available?

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Post by tetris11 » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 11:14 AM UTC

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…

My NAS goes into hibernation when its not used, and spins up when Jellyfin asks something of it. Its reasonably efficient IMO

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Post by zeagle » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 11:32 AM UTC

Cool software. I used it within/in parallel to Kodi to sync a couple devices but ended up removing this layer.

I didn't like that you can't outright disable transcoding for content served via their app or in the browser. I serve mostly local client and my headless NAS has poor integrated graphics and runs Linux so this was very brittle. Kodi's jellyfin addon can play without transcoding by default so this seemed reasonable.

However in case others want to go this route for a similar use case I hope I can save you some frustration: both this and the native Android app do not handle Dolby vision or passthrough atmos content properly. I also had odd tearing and av sync issues with some large 4k content that don't happen with maven kodi builds.

After a lot of time trying to figure out it, I stripped it out and my shield has no further issues just using kodi despite being the ill famed 2019 tube model. Hdr10, Dolby vision, atmos pass through you name it just works.

Re: Jellyfin: Free software media system

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Post by Matl » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 11:34 AM UTC

femboy wrote: post #2

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

You should probably never expose a service like that directly, no matter what it is, to the internet, at least have it behind something like Tailscale.

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Post by SahAssar » Sun, Jun 18, 2023, 11:34 AM UTC

xattt wrote: post #6

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…

Is it common for people to use web apps first when a native client is available?

Yes. I refuse to use native apps when the functionality can be as good in a web app. Things like chat, email, watching videos, listening to music, etc.

A lot of the time the "native" app is using electron anyway, so why go through the hassle of installing it when it is just a app-specific browser?