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frigginGlorious ✅

@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?

14 June at 3:49 | Wall-to-wall | Open on freeradical.zone
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firebreathingduck

@frigginglorious @loke @vkc
With my Jellyfin server plus the Nebula open source private cloud (bit of a hassle to set up, but free) and my fast internet connection, we can watch our Jellyfin collection on Roku, iOS, Android, and PCs at home and anywhere else there's fast internet. I can't setup Nebula on ChromeOS so my kids can only watch from Chromebooks at home.

So, pretty cool.

The downside is that in order to have media that plays with high quality and low stuttering on low end devices, you either need a beefy server running Jellyfin to transcode on the fly *or* you have to make sure your content is all in a universal format. I set up a shell script that used ffmpeg to transcode 3 TB of films on a low end desktop over almost a year. Now everything is... MP4 with H264, eac3, and burned in subtitles.

@frigginglorious @loke @vkc
With my Jellyfin server plus the Nebula open source private cloud (bit of a hassle to set up, but free) and my fast internet connection, we can watch our Jellyfin collection on Roku, iOS, Android, and PCs at home and anywhere else there's fast internet. I can't setup Nebula on ChromeOS so my kids can only watch from Chromebooks at home.

14 June at 15:47 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
frigginGlorious ✅

@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.

14 June at 16:32 | Open on freeradical.zone
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