Jellyfin is such an impressive project. especially because the emby dude was kind of a dick and taunted the free software community with "oh you have no idea how much work it is" and then fucking blew his project away. Because turns out 10 people doing something together in the open is better than one guy doing something alone in secret

@Aaron.Thomas

2 жыл бұрын

💯

@Turbojugend27

2 жыл бұрын

Except Emby still blows it out of the water, especially on the client side of things.......

@player-ye3hk

2 жыл бұрын

@@Turbojugend27 Yeah, if I could have the Emby frontend with the Plex backend (Filtering faster, better scanning processes, etc.) that would be sth

@boku-no-pico

Жыл бұрын

@@Turbojugend27 the only reason I don’t use emby is the restriction of clients not users . I can’t control who signs in and I can’t see what devices or have that control.

@scroopynooperz9051

Жыл бұрын

Haha is that what happened to Emby? The dude pissed off a bunch of devs on Reddit and they decided to eat his lunch? xD People never learn from the lessons in history. Never taunt and goad smart, determined people into a d!ck measuring contest lol

I've been wanting to build a small home server for Jellyfin for a while now. Glad to see other people are into is as much as I am! Great work from the Open Source community!

As a hardcore user of Plex, Jellyfin will more than likely be the longterm media server that I use if and when plex ever goes down the drain and goes all in on free tv/movie streaming and abandons their roots. But until then I'll keep riding the plex train until the wheels fall off.

@VikingDudee

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, What kills it for me is the offline viewing, loose internet, it'll work for a day or 2 then its nope can't view your own content! The whole point of me setting up a media server is to have something to watch when the net goes down, and it happens often, country life ya know, So I do have Jellyfin running in a VM on my TrueNAS server just for that reason alone, If Jellyfin gets better or even if they introduce a pay model, I'd have no issues ditching Plex, the way Plex sets things up is a reason I wont support them, its like paying for a giant ad, since ya know it wont default to displaying what you have hosted, just further confuses some people.

I love Jellyfin. I've been using it for a couple years now in a Proxmox container. There are plenty of tutorials for setting up GPU passthrough to the Jellyfin container which honestly is the hardest part of the entire setup. Of course if you're not using virtualization, hardware acceleration practically works out of the box. Same for Intel's iGPU stuff. My only gripe with JF is that I wish their IPTV stuff worked a little better. There is no way to dedupe or manage iptv lists, you have to use something like xTeVe or TVHeadend to get that to work (or use a third party IPTV list editor). There also doesn't appear to be a buffer, so the streams are susceptible to jitter, drops, and freezes. xTeVe, which hasn't been updated in a couple years, helps a lot in this arena, but it also has its problems. But all-in-all, JF is the best media server out there, imo.

Thanks for pointing this out to me. Been using plex for a while and was unhappy about how inflexible it is. With Jellyfish is much easier to build my library how I want it rather than how the software wants it. Most importantly, I can keep my original folder structure and names and still have the software treat the data properly and correctly without having to do everything by hand.

@IntuitiveTech

Жыл бұрын

Yea, I was looking through some old files, and found things like "plex theme" from the days when plex belonged to the user (buyer), and you could modify it's appearance amongst other customizations. All in all, Plex was there when nothing else was, so I'm happy to be using it for these past 10 years. It's inevitable for things to come along and take a fresh approach to a solution, so onward the journey continues.

Thanks for the demo and info. I have setup both plex and jellyfin on a vm with a graphics card. Not sure which one I prefer but at least both options are there. Have a great day

Holy crap. I haven't seen a TekSyndicate video in years. Glad to see you're still kicking. Still great content.

nice bro im in the process to find out what media server to use and seeing jellyfin like its in real use is really helpfull

I too used plex for years. Understood every aspect of the application, even down to the structure of the database. I started using jellyfin because of a pay wall issue and also plugins. I love jellyfin. I love it so much I'm never going back to Plex. This youtuber nails it.

@superguy7044

Жыл бұрын

@@d1ddyp0p I would say media playback should be free. Media should have a cost.but pirates.

@PeterKocic

Жыл бұрын

Interesting - I'm a lifetime Plex Member basically for as long as Plex has lived.... but also think the progress has stagnated and that they are not listening to the community. Going to start checking this out to be honest.

@praetorxyn

Жыл бұрын

@@PeterKocic It's very much worth it. You can stand up a Jellyfin instance alongside Plex and point it at the same media folders Plex is using, it maintains its own metadata database just like Plex does, so it won't mess up any of Plex's stuff. But IMO, Plex basically doesn't care about the "home media server" aspect anymore, they're solely focused on Plex TV, as they just aren't improving the home streaming aspect that got Plex to be the juggernaut it became. Jellyfin loads media faster, has better playback options, etc. Plex's only real advantage is ubiquity, and certain clients being better. Like... any Smart TV will have Plex on it but not necessarily Jellyfin, but if you use a dedicated streaming device like Shield Pro, AppleTV+, FireStick, Rokku, etc, that doesn't matter as Jellyfin is on all of them. But the Plex apps for iOS and Android seem to have better codec support than the Jellyfin ones, although for Jellyfin Infuse on iOS is great (even if it costs like $100 for a lifetime license... I don't have an AppleTV or I might buy it, as I don't like watching stuff from my phone or tablet anyway). But on a device that has full codec support like the Nvidia Shield Pro and with proper settings (e.g., the Jellyfin app on Android TV defaults to using an inferior player, so change it to libvlc which will Direct Play basically anything), Jellyfin runs circles around Plex IMO.

I dont really like the UI of Jellyfin. Plex is more refined (granted they have more time to refine it). I'm sure jellyfin works fine for you and others, but it's not for me, at least not yet.

@praetorxyn

Жыл бұрын

Jellyfin's UI is a lot more customizable than Plex's... which basically isn't customizable at all. Plex's UI looks archaic at this point.

@JustARandomSomething

Жыл бұрын

@@praetorxyn Plex's UI is customisable. But i guess it depends what you mean by customisable. For example with plex, you can change what appears on the home screen, i,e which library's appear and in which order you prefer. You can also add various suggestions of varying types and categories. So i would disagree with the statement that Plex isn't customisable at all. Also I dont know how often you last used Plex, but it is far from archaic. It is very modern and has a lot of great new UI tools

@rickygarza2005

Жыл бұрын

I agree plex ui is beautiful jelly looks like a typical linux ui

@ArizonaJewell

Жыл бұрын

I actually feel the exact opposite, interestingly enough. I recently switched from plex to jellyfin, and IMO plex’s interface is way too cluttered, and Jellyfin is simple and just plain works without all the unnecessary crap all around the UI

@JustARandomSomething

Жыл бұрын

​​@@ArizonaJewell agree plex is clustered after initial install, but it is super super easy to just remove the extra rubbish from your home screen and side bar. Mine only shows my actual content and I don't even see the plex owned stuff and the UI is clean and modern, the Jellyfin UI doesn't look modern

You're great at this sort of content! :)

Sold! Been contemplating jellyfin for a while, but this video made it the obvious choice for my application

Forget about everything, I love your library

I use Jellyfin for educational projects such as books, audiobooks and documentaries I share with my group. I have plex just for movies, music and photos. I love both.

Good timing. I just got a seedbox set up and now it's the perfect place to host a jellyfin server so that I can watch my movies and shows without filling the hard drives on my devices. I was able to get it set up and watched the new Rick and Morty episode streamed from my seedbox to my Roku. Cool stuff 👍

Thanks for the look into Jellyfin and I love your taste in anime, sniped a few 80s sci-fi shows I haven't seen before!

Totally agree with you i previously used Plex then Kodi been using jellyfin now at least 2 years

I'm really new to this been wanting to set up a plex media player on an older computer of mine (8700k/gtx1080) and after seeing this I think I'll switch to jellyfin now as I really like this layout and especially how easy you did it!

@3STYLER

Жыл бұрын

"Older computer" Lol, my actual gaming rig is worse.

@thegamerboy1000

Жыл бұрын

@@3STYLER hahaha your right it's still fairly capable even though I've upgraded them now, but they are both kind of special to me. The 8700k is the first CPU I've delidded with LM and the 1080 was my first GPU when I got into pc gaming.

@VikingDudee

Жыл бұрын

I had jellyfin setup on a Phenom II x3 B75, I had a GTX 1070 in it so if it needed to transcode, the 1070 took that load, worked well, Free version of Plex wouldn't work well on it if it needed to transcode, not enough CPU lol.

You scrolling through the anime movies section literally looks like my current library in Plex. Fantastic taste

I run both on my TrueNAS Scale instance and I'm very happy with Jellyfin, it feels less bloated than Plex, and also lets you configure transcoding settings with more customization. On the client side, it's not supported on every os (Eg. Tizen doesn't have an official client), but if you use Android it works oob.

Great video, thanks for sharing. Could you do a video on the best way to organize TV shows? I tried several ways, but doesnt seem to work. Jellyfin shows me all episodes of all seasons with the exact same name 😂, impossible to find the right episode.

I have been just playing media files through vlc over a local network but windows default transfer protocols are getting worse with each update to the point where even increasing the buffer within vlc still led to stutter (jumbo frames enabled on the hardware side and all that jazz) and a fairly fat (bandwith) & fast local network. Gave this a try after your lastest video on it and its been great, no noticable loss of quality video wise. It will take a while to get it running how i like it, and it does wierd things like episodes of Father Ted (british/irish commedy) is named and displayed as an anime with a completely different name, something to problem solve anyway which is good for getting to know the software... Anyway rambling aside just wanted to say thanks for putting me onto this as i hate using paid for and closed software like plex, cheers dude!

Hi, Jellyfin looks great! i was looking for NAS (Synology) software to organize my music collection, have access from everywhere and share them with some of my band members. Would you recommend this for just a large music collection? We are not interested in the movie or other functionalities, just the music option. Would like to hear your opinion!

Using Plex with the lifetime pass that I got for 50% off two years ago. Can't be happier with it, does everything I want and need.

@francisnorthwood7862

2 жыл бұрын

and it brakes something with every update

@patrikmedia

2 жыл бұрын

@@francisnorthwood7862 Not in my experience, never had an issue in the many years I'm using it.

@patrikmedia

2 жыл бұрын

@dskoul just sharing my experience with Plex over the past 4 years. If you don't care why even bother speaking up?

@patrikmedia

2 жыл бұрын

@dskoul "Dude", it literally compares Jellyfin to Plex in the video title and the video itself starts with Logan talking about Plex in case you haven't even noticed. lol

@jbdragon3295

2 жыл бұрын

@dskoul If you didn't care, why did you reply? Seems like you do care.

Been a while since a Tek Syndicate video came up in a search. Wassup Logan :)

Good video. Simple question: does it DVR TV broadcast via a network tuner such as HD HomeRun?

After spending a day with Jellyfin, its going to be a no from me. Plex does collections wayyyy better and as someone with a massive media library, that's of utmost importance to me. Collections aren't just for grouping together a cinematic universe, but Jellyfin seems to be under that impression. Weirdly inflexible. Kodi+Emby just feels like Plex 10 years ago with far fewer security features.

@Quettesh

Жыл бұрын

Library scans take such a long time in Jellyfin, many times longer than Plex. I like open source SW, but when it is so far behind, I will not sacrifice the ease of use.

@andrebrait

Жыл бұрын

Tbh I'm still a KODI user. If not for the streaming aspect of Plex, I feel KODI does everything better.

@spy9000

Жыл бұрын

I agree entirely. Plex is FAR ahead in terms of look, feel, content matching, apps, and delivery. Jelly is nice, but it ain't there yet.

@Bigheadedwon

Жыл бұрын

@@andrebraitI'm with you there, Kodi is literally 8,000 times better than anything else out there.

@_nom_

Жыл бұрын

Plex can't even play videos reliably.

you had me at Record of Lodoss War. This is a great anime that I thought more people would know.

Wrongly identified movies/shows can be avoided by naming movie/show files correctly. For example the Wicked City file should have been named "Wicked City (1987).mp4". This will then properly identify the movie. This is an issue with Doctor Who shows. anything pre-2005 can be in a folder named Doctor Who, then Series 01, Series 02, etc. But for 2005 and beyond, you need to put those in a folder named "Doctor Who (2005), then each season in it's own season folder named Season 01, Season 02, etc. I use Jellyfin with this naming structure and have no issues. I also use Emby, and use the same naming structure for that as well. Both servers softwares have extensive articles on their forums that explain how folder/file naming works.

Thanks for that video, didn't know about these other repos! How do you download your subtitles by the way? They are not automatically downloaded when playing a media file and you cannot set a scheduled task to download all subtitles because OpenSubtitles only permits 20 download per day.

@shokanto4069

2 жыл бұрын

use subscene

Would you happen to know if theres a metadata renaming thing with jellyfin where it automatically renames the actual file once proper metadata is found (for example: Show.S01E02)?

I'm guessing jellyfin has come a long way since I last tried it but it's just not as widely adopted on the vast range of devices that my family members use like smart TVs and such, when I tried it a while back it had inferior playback but that was a while back. The UI I dunno it's so dated in regards to their apps and after dealing with emby for a while I'm sick of this UI personally. Still a great free option tho and is probably giving emby and run for their money in cases.

Love this thanks for the help man!

8:25 one of my favorite movies. I love Ninja Scroll.

Informative video thanks for sharing, setting this up should I use a VPN?

Super nice - fell out of love with Plex. Will check this out.

With files becoming so much larger over the years, Im finally building a NAS. Im sick of my stuff being across different external drives and having to buy another drive to shove into my tower. Im just waiting until the rest of the parts to come in. Im guessing 44TB is going to cover me with Unraid. I have been looking at media server applications too since the tech has grown quite a bit since I was playing around with kodi 10 yrs ago. I am probably going to do the Jellyfin route since Im not interested in paying a subscription to watch MY own media. I have zero issues with donating or buying a reasonably priced lifetime license (did it with Launchbox and I was happy to do it). Plex has a lifetime option which feels a little to high for me, but the thing that turns me off now is how they treating the paid customers. Jellyfin it is.

@praetorxyn

Жыл бұрын

If I didn't have a Plex license already I wouldn't buy one now. The only real advantage Plex has over Jellyfin is ubiquity. Basically every smart TV or smart TV device (e.g. Fire Stick, Roku, etc) is going to have a Plex app, but for example my LG C8 from 2019 does not have a Jellyfin app (but apparently the newer ones running webOS 6 do, and the older webOS 5 TVs like mine will have a Jellyfin app eventually, according to a July update). But if you have a client with proper Jellyfin support like the Nvidia Shield Pro, AppleTV+, etc. and you set it up properly, Jellyfin runs circles around Plex IMO. On the storage, it's probably a little late after 5 months, but it depends on how much of it gets cut into for redundancy. I run RAID 10 in my NAS for both redundancy and speed, and thus my 48 TB is cut down to about 22 TB usable, but I'm glad I did it as I had my first ever drive failure a month or two ago and was able to replace the drive and rebuild the storage pool with no data loss because of it.

@death-by-ego

Жыл бұрын

@@praetorxyn I'm using UnRaid. Thats a JBOD system. As it stands, I'm using 1 disc for parity right now. I'll probably upgrade the system down the line when its outgrown my modded SAMA IM01 case and I'll put together a rack when I get around to wiring my house. Jellyfin support was fine by me since my TV has access to Jellyfin app.

At the beginning you mentioned download media, and hardware encoding. Where are the details on that?

I'd love to give this a try, but I have Plex setup and working on my TrueNAS server. It's already doing what I need it to. Not to mention I don't feel like setting up a new media server. I don't have a ton of free time, so that's a project I don't care to take on.

how do you solve the issue where it makes a copy of every movie in your library ? Every movie appears twice ?

So how do you get all the shows on Jellyfin or Plex? Do you need all the dvd’s, Blu-Rey, or did you get it all from those files like emulators for video games?🤔

I use Jellyfin but i have a few issues with it. I use the Android app on my Chromebook and cast it to CHromecasts. When i put it on shuffle it always feels like it plays the same bunch of tracks and misses out some others, and if i skip a track it will often just stop playing after the next track for no reason. i run the Jellyfin server on my Ubuntu server. Oh and the Android app does not have gapless playback, so Dark Side of the Moon sounds odd. There are a few apps that do gapless such as Gelli.

2 questions? 1. Do you keep Anime series episodes and related movies in the same folder? 2. I plan on using Docker, can you share the same folders/libraries between different docker containers.

Yeah but can you use gpu hardware transcoding in docker? I can’t seem to find the answer, otherwise I’d switch from Emby and give it a whirl!

So frustrating, I have looked at a LOT of reviews, etc., for Jellyfin, and no one covers how to setup for photos. I have thousands of family photos to share with family, but so far have found no servers to do that well or at all. Can you assist?

How do you set it up for when you're not at home and watch on my phone

This is the easy part for me, what i struggle with is getting my stuff to play well on my tv. The buffering is extremely slow so i constantly have to wait as if i were in 2011 and i don't know what's causing it

Hi, how to access my jellyfin from any device far from home ? Need help with this please

You conviced me and few months later i say thank you. I only have Jellyfin for my Anime collection bc it looks gorgeous compared to Plex dimming artwork and a simple image and description. I don't need regular movies to look awesome before i play them but anime is art before playing it. Should be nice if in the future it will support manga content from digital media like .epub, .pdf, etc and it scrolls pages like an slideshow. You know what? every manga i have i made slideshows and now those manga are videos in my library, yes i prefer to read manga with japanese bgm.

I'm not convinced. I'm a long-time Plex user. My setup is my media is on a NAS and Plex is on a small dedicated used Linux box. Media is served un-transcoded to everything in the house as they are all able to digest it natively. For the few times I serve outside the home my server hardware does include the appropriate CPU to do light transcoding. Some of the actions you were doing in the Jellyfin are trivial in Plex like changing the artwork or fixing a match. A couple of clicks and you're done. My biggest gripe is I have to manually upgrade the version of Plex. It's not easy or automated. But it's only 5 minutes or so. I'm already invested in a lifetime membership in Plex, but I'm sure a free version of a solid media platform is good for a lot of people. Thanks for the video.

@DanAllen1

Жыл бұрын

5 seonds to update Plex in docker! Super easy.

@praetorxyn

Жыл бұрын

Use Docker... I have a cron job that updates Plex every day, but I've recently spun up a Jellyfin instance and haven't looked at Plex since other than to compare it. Jellyfin runs circles around it IMO, and I've been a lifetime Plex pass user for years. Plex just doesn't care about the whole "home media server" thing anymore, only about Plex TV.

What I'm concerned in the first place is the formats supported. I've been searching for a media manager that supports streaming blu-ray iso and SACD iso for too long and there has been no answer surfaced yet.

Just a tip for mismatching. Use sonarr for media management in series folder format till be {Series TitleTheYear} [tvdb-{TvdbId}] episode format {Series Title} - S{season:00}E{episode:00} - {absolute:000} - [{Quality Title} {MediaInfo VideoCodec}] [{MediaInfo AudioCodec}{MediaInfo AudioChannels}] - [{Release.Group}]

@stan464

Жыл бұрын

I do the bottom one for Films but TV Shows tend to be Basic. TV Show\TV Show - S01E01.mkv Films tend to be Movie 2000\Movie - 1080P - 7.1 Atmos - 2000.mkv

so do you have to host your own server in order to use it? i mean obviously you can use someone else’s private server but no one i know uses it. is there no way you can just download the app and use it?

thanks for this interested to see how encoding will work with an older AMD card :) also as good as plex is, I cannot justify paying for it, and normalising volume on plex seems to be an issue I just cannot get around.

@malcolmholmes2596

2 жыл бұрын

Depends how old your talking about. H.264 has been supported since the old HD 7000 series that came out a decade ago. and You'll need at least 300 card for H.265 transcoding. Expect for the current RX 6500XT, it does not have encoding enabled.

I did a first time fresh install today, plus added the animedb, fanart, and open subtitles plugins but for some reason most of my tv shows have been renamed to anime titles, it looks like it tried to match the closest anime titles to the name of the show. Any ideas of what might have happened?

oooh damn the Plugins page is sweet.

How do you install it on Android TV? Is there a Tizen version for Samsung TV?

Does your laptop/PC need to be running?

Looks intuiging, but I purchased a PLEX lifetime pass years back, so no other fees - monthly or otherwise. I use it in/outside the home, via mobile, on my NAS, family has access, etc. - is there any reason to even look at Jellyfin in my case, as it doesn't seem likely...?

I've been researching and trying to understand Jellyfin for the past few months and I just can't seem to figure it out. I have about 300,000 music files on a Seagate terabyte external hard drive that's connected to my dell laptop, I would like to be able to access and play these files on my android phone when I'm away from home. will Jellyfin be able to do this?

Very helpful, thanks

Does it store the metadata in the media files or in a DB somewhere?

Is there any way I can play all my clips in a folder ( short videos I shot in vacation ) one after another (autoplay) without making a playlist? Thanks.

so its been a minute, but I started with Jellyfin on my QNAP nas in a docker container because it's free, and as you said, better looking. That was good enough for me to give it a go. The problem I had, at least at that time, was the Android tv client was not the greatest and I had issues with playback where it would start tv episodes in the middle and I couldn't rewind or something, I can't remember exactly the issue, but I do remember that the client was ugly and unrefined compared to Plex, so i switched over. No hate for Jellyfin, it wasn't quite ready for my use case at the time. Eventually I'll probably try it again, but I've gotten pretty accustom to the nice features a plex pass offers.

@stafvh5783

2 жыл бұрын

Jellyfin on qnap nas in a docker seems to cost 5€, so its not free, or did I look in the wrong place?

@turret_sindrone

2 жыл бұрын

@@stafvh5783 you definitely did. Docker containers don't cost anything. Maybe your looking at a qpkg. Open a terminal and run a docker pull on the image.

@stafvh5783

2 жыл бұрын

@@turret_sindrone tnx

Not related to this video but i was just wondering if you had another web page to use for my laptop because the decrapifire isnt available anymore? Thanks.

So it's like plex but you have to import all of the information yourself? Awesome!

Thanks for this. I've been using Plex since the very early days. I love Plex, but I'm really like Jellyfin too. I like the interface and setup was a breeze. I'll probably run bot Plex and Jellfin.

Is there a way to do this with just an external hd (with all my media) connected by usb to my desktop?

So, why would I choose this over Kodi?

Does Jellyfin have watch together feature?

I've ran into a problem with seasons. All the seasons going above 10 would have repeats of season 1 through 9. I figured out what the problem is. It's the numbering. Season folders being named season 1. That would cause duplicate. But if you name it season 01 The season then would not duplicate. I took the server offline to try it out. I have a way to rename folders in mass if you want to speed up folder renaming.

Which version would you recommend for Synology nas DS418 Play?

Thank you for this extremely informative video. I am in the process of picking a media server to use and currently doing my comparitive research. I have a QNAP TS32PX NAS enclosure and I am trying to find out if it is compatible with all 3 media servers. I know that it is compatible with Plex because QNAP offeres it in their native App Center but don't see JellyFin or Emby. Does anyone know if either JellyFin or Emby is compatible with my model NAS? I have posted the question on the QNAP forum and I am currently waiting for a reply. Thx.......

I got a lifetime membership to Plex very early on and never used anything else but I'm considering trying Jellyfin out as it looks like a solid alternative

@VikingDudee

Жыл бұрын

It definitely is a solid alternative even with its issues, But its also free so ya know, they do take their time to fix things as well, it super easy to have people setup on their TV's, but if they forget their login, you will have to reset their password, and Jellyfin works offline all the time, Plex don't unfortunately. Plex does transcode better/faster as well with less resources. I had to give Jellyfin a break, I was using it for about a year but its sorta buggy and needs rebooted often, so I use Jellyfin as a backup and for offline viewing since my internet isn't the most reliable thing. Plex just works for me, although its also annoying in different ways.

@chriscummings1279

11 ай бұрын

Is that with iptv?

One of my problems with Plex is navigating through it with a remote is kind of slow. Like if I want to navigate to "T" why do I have to go through A to K first. Why not let let me go in reverse A, Z to "T"?

Have u experienced no result found when searching for a sub with opensubstitle?

2:52 I use Jellyfin myself and I think it's amazing, but I would actually suggest the opposite given this scenario. Jellyfin is best used on a local network, and Plex is better for multiple users. Obviously, if you already have a Plex setup for personal use, there's little reason to change unless you absolutely despise the fact you need to use their auth servers or hate their ads (both of which I can't stand). You did mention that downloading files remotely is locked behind a paywall, so maybe that's another reason to switch, but Plex also has a massive advantage with their centralized auth and multitude of clients. An advantage which I hope will disappear as Jellyfin matures and gains wider adoption.

@teksyndicate

2 жыл бұрын

It works great remotely and I even have it mapped to a domain using ddns. Plus you get all the features so I much prefer it for remote connections.

@lyingriotman2220

2 жыл бұрын

@Tek Syndicate Yeah, admittedly I don't access it outside my LAN or have any remote users so I can't exactly comment on performance, though I assume it's fine (when your upload isn't 1.5mbps, lol). My comments on the best usecase (local vs. remote) mostly stem from the fact that Jellyfin's native clients vary wildly in development. Anecdotally, I haven't had many issues with Android TV, but the Roku and Firestick apps are missing many features and crash semi-frequently. The plugin for Kodi is more available and reliable, but the responsiveness and feel of the UI varies per device. As I said in my original comment, I hope that the state of Jellyfin's clients continue to improve because it seems to be the biggest obstacle to potential adopters. In the near future I doubt it'll be much of a contest, but for now it's very much decided on a case-by-case basis.

@teksyndicate

2 жыл бұрын

@@lyingriotman2220 I also prefer it for multiple users because they are easily managed from the admin panel... I can have tons of users... and they can access it from wherever... and they can have different perms and different folder access... and their recently played/resume list is unique. It's really handy for that.

@timramich

2 жыл бұрын

I despise what Plex has become, because of money from the studios, and what it's eventually going to become. I didn't even know that they put personal media libraries behind a paywall now. I was recently setting up Plex clients for a few people, and it's just disgusting. A huge list of streaming services that can be integrated into it. Stupidity. It's already on a black box or smart TV that has those apps, so why add Plex as a layer in between? I found with one client that it was impossible to remove the free Plex content from the side menu. What's the point of me giving people access then if they can just watch it there? I despise their attitude, that people who paid for it aren't customers. If I need support for something I've paid for, I'm at the mercy of their attitude. I loathe their attitude towards file naming. It's geared towards the naming conventions of pirated content, but shhh about any of that. Mockingjay parts 1 and 2, gotta put a year behind those file names, or they WILL be joined into 1 entry. There is a timer, so if I want to fall asleep to a show, and have the sound keep me asleep, it's impossible. People have been asking for an option to disable it for years now, and nothing. Their attitude about transcoding and the formats they choose to use is insanity. No, don't stream AC3, when every device out there can actually play it. Randomly bounce around between AAC, MP3, and OPUS. Don't let me choose the audio format to transcode to. If you have interlaced content and can't directly play it, it turns into 30 progressive frames per second (or 25 for PAL). They don't bob de-interlace it to the full field rate. It's only a matter of time before they pull the plug on personal media altogether.

@Aaron.Thomas

2 жыл бұрын

Wait, what ads?

Is it possible to watch 3D movies through Jellyfin?

I've used the Jellyfin client on Android again and I liked it as a media player. Unfortunately I have not been able to find a qpkg for QNAP.

wondering, is there a pro to using this vs plex if i have the lifetime subscription?

i did what u said but when trying to play movies or tv shows all i det is errirs and wont play can u help me

I see you are a man of culture as well, I have a similar library.

I'm a long time Emby user and contributed early on, so I am grandfathered in, and never have to pay again. Its very dynamic and reminds a lot of Kaleidescape. Metadata gathering is autmoatic and easy. It has faults though. ISOs will not play. When I started my movie collection year ago, I used ISOs so that I got the menus and all of the extras. You have to load a different player that plays ISOs and set it as a player just for specific files. Another major annoyance is that they update the software a couple of times a year and then nothing works correctly for about a week. I will give this a try and see if I like it better.

@melaniezette886

Жыл бұрын

I use emby since media browser and I never had problems with update. I just updated hardware and windows. Though I'm curious and will look at Jellyfin

i use 'the crew' addon along side nextpvr on kodi. can/will i be able to setup jellyfin to push 'the crew' content?

I have some problem with subtitles on jellyfin can you help me out?

Does it play Dolby Atmos?

Ehi, tu for the guide. I Just installed jellyfin via docker on win, but i can point properly on my shared folder located in a synology Nas. Those folder are mapped into file Explorer but i miss how ti set permission in syno.

I could not get MKV working on Plex, and on Jellyfin i could not add a USB SSD to the Pi. Why is it that all those media players are pita to work with.

Can you make a new video about this after 1 year? what about using Jellyfin also for music and books? there is anyway to add internet radio?

So jellyfin is a fork from emby so its essentially all features from emby at a certain point. When they decided to go close source the team split up. I get why you would want to go for jellyfin because of the privacy part. It’s just that maintaining and developing mobile apps that are good and on so many platforms is alot of work and prob not something a team can work on full time for free. These things cost money and take up time and resources. I know the mobile apps for emby sucked compared to plex for a very long time and only got good relativley recently. They might have been at a good point when they broke off and made jellyfin but eventually over time, i have a hard time beliving jellyfin will be better than emby feature wise and especially the mobile experience. If you dont care about good apps on other platforms but only using it in the web browser and the privacy part than jellyfin is good, + it’s free. If you want the best experience and most features choose emby.

@DJSoulbrother

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree, I think he is basically calling it better because it's "Free". I would rather pay folks for their hard work when it works, Emby is easily imo the best we have and is constantly evolving, who knew we needed a simply thing like knowing when what we are watching will finish haha. Emby is doing gods work and it simply works

Please tell... Where is maximum movie overall worldwide... Plex or...in jellyfin

Does this "stream" media or does it play at the original quality? I use FTP + Kodi for years and it works great but this is much more pretty looking.

@teksyndicate

2 жыл бұрын

Either. It plays the original at home... But you can configure it to use ffmpeg and do all kinds of advanced stuff.

Dolby Atmos TrueHD?

Can this be an alternative to Jriver?

jellyfin is soooooooo slow? How do I troubleshoot this? I have plex on the same server working flawlessly.

You can bypass the online account issue in Windows 11 Home. During boot up, and at the connect to a network screen, 1. don't connect to any network, 2. use shift+F10 to bring up a command prompt and type the following: OOBE\BYPASSNRO (must be in caps). This will restart your system and allow you to install using a local account. Once the reboot is complete, you can skip connecting to a network and choose the sign in without a microsoft account option.

Can I be able to play my content remotely with Jellyfin?

Had a workflow 10+ years ago. Didn’t know that so much people still manage their movies like that. I thought that nowadays no one has time for that 😂

I have an ancient nas from 2011-ish that is collecting dust , but contains 2TB disc. Does someone have a clue where I can find a guide to use jellyfin on this relic ? specifically it is a dlink dns-320, any help is much appreciated

I tried installing but once came to server ip, it failed