 Jellyfin is awesome. I pay $0/mo in streaming fees, which never ever increase. Storage is cheap and can also back up my family photos. And I've never lost a show or album due to licensing issues. I acquire as much new media as I want to, and pay nothing if I'm disinterested. Jellyfin is exactly the media future I expected as a kid, and it's glorious. 54 comments
About the only thing I miss is some of the "new" material on streaming services. But, like, am I really missing anything?  @vkc There are some methods (*cough* arrs) to get those, which often become available within an hour of their air time.   @vkc I also enjoy Jellyfin, and I have to say that I agree with everything you said. The one issue I have with it is that the Chromecast integration is not very reliable. I'm partly replying to your message to see if anyone has a suggestion for a replacement (which will also remove one more dependency on Google) @stringlapse @vkc that's probably what I'll go for. What software are you using on the computer? XBMC seems fine? @loke @vkc so what's jellyfin doing? I've got a synology NAS serving up a folder of videos. And I can pull up that folder from webOS on my LG smart TV. Not sure how... I didn't have to futz with much. I had no idea this tech would work this cool when I bought it... but damn it's working great. I don't get cool art and stuff. But I also don't require 3rd party app support. So I think my setup is better? @firebreathingduck @loke @vkc oh no, burned in close captioning is my personal nightmare. Though I don't agree with what you do, I'll defend to the death your right to do it! So from what im seeing, jellyfin is a lot like Plex. On the fly transcoding is such cool tech. I forgot about nebula. I'll have to check it out one of these days.  @vkc You ARE missing things. Great things. Things worth the price of admission, truly. There's a lot of good television on streaming services right now. But, frankly, I'm still considering cancelling all the streaming services and falling back to my home theater server.  This Jellyfin toot is generating a ton of comments and I can't keep up with all of them. Sorry! Perhaps I should start thinking about that inevitable Jellyfin video. @vkc This perfectly summarizes how I feel about having my own media server. I'm going to screen shot it for later 😁 @vkc I have a version of Frozen with this poster and this meme edited into the movie as a suprise for future me, Jellyfin ftw https://youtu.be/eCPjQNwdS9A @vkc I also love the small nice things like auto-loading logos, and even some chapter breaks and intro skips. It just popped in info for some shows and anime that haven't been on air or DVD for years due to rights issues. It makes me happy to get and watch media again. My biggest issue is that for music, it (seemingly) has no mass shuffle/playlist feature, otherwise it would be the ultimate application for media for me.  @vkc I really need to look into Jellyfin. I've been using a Nextcloud server for this because I happen to use it for other things, but it's... not an ideal solution to say the least.
 @vkc I agree. I run it on my PC atm as a Flatpak but I've been thinking of setting up a home server for a long while. @vkc Jellyfin is awesome. Switched from Plex A few years ago when they started acting like dick heads..  @ScottStarkey I have a script in my folder called "so you've decided to self host your media" and it's so far about 45 minutes long and not complete. I'll probably do a video at some point, but I need to figure out some good points in which to break it down into small chunks. Might start with installing Jellyfin server on an old PC and go from there.  @vkc I've been a Plex (and PlexAmp) user for 4 years. Is it worth the effort to switch over? Do you have any videos comparing the two?   I never used PlexAmp, so can't say anything about it, but I switched over this year. It works a charm, on par with plex, at least for me. But the main reasons I switched are: - Plex not working when the internet is down. All my media is on my local network, why do I need internet to watch it: @ainmosni @vkc Thanks for the feedback and your reasoning. Appreciate it! Plex not working when the internet goes down is an annoying pain point. As for the other reasons: you can opt completely out of sharing any history in your account settings (and I encourage my friends to do this). And once you turn off discovery and pin your local media libraries, I never even consider that Plex cares about anything else. For me the final points are more hints that they are going to enshittify more and more over time. Simply said, I don't trust the company anymore. @killyourfm @vkc PlexAmp is irreplaceable. JellyFin as a music listening solution is vastly lacking in that regard (at least for me and last time I’ve checked it). @manmachine @vkc That's helpful, thanks! I happen to love PlexAmp especially for all of its "Sonic" abilities. But I don't mind keeping it (lifetime Plex pass) and switching to Jellyfin for everything else if it's compelling enough. @killyourfm If you're using Plex for your audio, Jellyfin probably isn't full featured enough yet. Jellyfin in particular doesn't have offline play of your audio library. For me that's a dealbreaker as I can't go into airplane mode. (insert iPod snark here) There is a third party Jellyfin audio player called Finamp which is better, but offline play is buggy and album based only. Plex likely outperforms just because it's a more mature ecosystem. No videos yet on it but I'm considering it! @vkc Thanks Veronica, appreciate your reply.  @vkc never heard of it before now. Interesting. So it's kind of like, say, Plex? Just open source and has more features, like photos? I'm looking through their website. Thanks for mentioning   @vkc What are you running the backend on? I've considered Jellyfin before because it has vastly more front ends than Kodi, but Kodi doing client/server in the same app has been super convenient for my streaming boxes. @keen456 Jellyfin works well with Kodi via a plugin! I'm doing it now on a media center PC and it's pretty great, actually. My backend is simple, just Jellyfin on a Debian server. Media is pulled off of my Samba server, so I can easily add new media as I rip it. And because it's on a Samba server backups and access across the network is a breeze.  |
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@vkc Heck yes, Jellyfin is good stuff.