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https://libreelec.tv/ natively supports HDMI-CEC on Raspberry Pi. I run 4 RPi4 on various TV in my setup and some TV remotes require a little key mapping tweaking in Kodi using the KeyMap add-on but they work well.

I had it setup on the RPi4 4GB model before. It works fine. But I suggest you work backwards; what devices will you be playing media on? If there's no transcoding, the Pi is more than enough. So know which devices and which formats your media is in and go from there. e.g. if only playing on an Android TV there should be no transcoding and it'll stream it just fine.

Refer to this table to see what devices and codecs:

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support.html

/u/MrTimscampi and /u/nullsum pretty much summed it up.

Jellyfin is and will always remain free software and free in cost, for everyone. I'm strongly opposed to the "open-core" model of FLOSS as well. We also couldn't change the license if we wanted to since we (a) didn't have original copyright, and (b) have no CLA or other mechanism, by design, to prevent every individual from exercising their rights should there be a kerfuffle about this.

Right now it's just a "trust us" combined with "mechanisms to prevent it", but a long-term goal of mine is to write a formal "Jellyfin Social Contract", similar in scope and function to the Debian Social Contract, as well as a project constitution in order to keep it that way long-term. For now, I have no plans to step down or relinquish project leadership status, so my opinions, some would say extremist, on FLOSS remain a guiding force, and the Debian model is my inspiration and guide for how to build a perpetually free project.

Yes, the clients page on the website points to it as the official client on ios.

> but couldn’t find this app as part of his repositories.

It's on jellyfin repositories, https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-expo

> Is this the official Jellyfin app? Are we still encouraged to use Infuse rather than this?

AFAIK Anthony most of the time the only guy working on ios, and is a slow process because there isn't anyone on the team who really is an expert on swift.

Infuse been around for longer, is a more complete app. You can use any app you want, there isn't an encouraged one. If it works it works.

It seems like your names follow the naming scheme, so it should work. I myself only had this problem with more obscure movies. Hollywood blockbusters were fine. In either case, if the name was wrongly associated, you can go in and reassign it. You have to open the movie on the webpage and then it's somewhere in the options. Unfortunately, this does not work with the Jellyfin App, only with the webpage.

Apologies I've looked around a bit and can't seem to find the setting. I can see an old thread on the emby forum about this: https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/73577-chapter-image-extraction/ but I don't see any advanced settings where I can enable this.

Where should I look for this setting?

I'm afraid this might not help but it seems there is a difference which codecs are supportet in firefox and other browsers (H.264 10bit is not supported in Firefox).

The only other thing that comes to mind is maybe hardware acceleration? Turned on by default in Chrome & Edge but not Firefox.

The thing that seems weird to me is that Firefox and Chrome give you problems but Edge doesn't, because Edge is based on Chromium so I would expect that Chrome & Edge behave similar and Firefox differently?

So either this helps or hopefully someone is so enraged by all the wrong things I said that they post the correct solution :)

Most of the contributors have their own donation pools. We mentioned everybody's in the last release post (See the Patreons and Github Sponsors section near the end of the post. They are also available on their profiles on Github, usually) but we never really advertise it, as it doesn't really feel proper for us to do so.

The OpenCollective fund is pretty well off at this point and is only ever used to pay for infrastructure, tools and such, so the current recommendation if you really want to donate is to find a developer who does work you find important and donate to them instead through either Github Sponsors or Patreon, if they have either of them.

You can find it here (unless my VPS melts and I have to figure out a better place to host it ;-)
It's just one .xcf file, with every title on a separate layer. You'll need to install the Quicksand font.

If they are marked properly as trailers in the filename or if they are put in a trailers directory.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies.html

This should help you with making your JF public facing: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/index.html

Recommend creating a new user and assigning a temp password that your friend can change after first login. It's also a good idea to leave the user accounts hidden from the main login page.

You can support the project as a whole by donating to https://opencollective.com/jellyfin. These funds go towards infrastructure costs, subscriptions, development devices for the team, etc. This goes towards the project as a whole, but on principle we don't take any money from OpenCollective for ourselves.

Some members of the team have set up patreon or github sponsors if you'd like to support somebody more directly. A handful of them are listed on the 10.6 Release Announcement, however several more have set up donation methods since then. I'm not sure if we have an up to date list of who all has donations open or not.

Cloudflare stands in the middle between public traffic and your server, filtering out various kinds of bad traffic including DDoS attacks. Your domain points to their server, which forwards valid traffic on to yours. You can then further limit requests coming into your server to Cloudflare's IP ranges, so that only traffic going through them is considered valid.

You cannot implement the kind of traffic inspection and filtering Cloudflare does. They're very good at it, and they're getting better with every attack they see.

The devs hang out on Matrix (details on the contact page - https://jellyfin.org/contact/) which is a good place to have a chat about big changes and direction of things. But any help is welcome and anyone can dive in and submit PRs on GitHub.

For larger changes it’s probably worth mentioning it on Matrix first (but certainly not a requirement) to check there is nothing in progress that would cause conflicts.

We’re a friendly bunch and happy to chat.

First of all - yuck, sort them in folders. Much more organized

As per documentation, Movie library allows dumping every file in one folder without subfolders, but you have to have folders for TV Shows.

There's a lot of users that go the Cloudflare route, there's a lot of us that self host our own reverse proxy, and there's others that combine the two because they like their own control but want the benefits of Cloudflare. It mostly depends on what method you want to use.

Personally, I run a nginx reverse proxy, but it's on a different server from my Jellyfin instance. This is because I'm bouncing half a dozen different services through it, so it's a dedicated VM instead of shared with one of the services.

You may want to take a look at our docs to see what other popular options are out there for local hosting

Not upset at all. I've just found that saying "we can't" often isn't a satisfactory answer for a lot of people, so I tend to default to longer winded explanations with a lot of the logic behind why we can't do a thing.

OpenCollective is less about paying people and more about reimbursing for expenses. Everything we spend money on as a project is recorded there. For example, looking through this page, you can see lots of monthly expenses for various API services we use or web hosting, but once in a while there's a charge for a client device. Obviously we don't always have access to every device that we need to be able to develop for, so sometimes a team member will purchase a device and get reimbursed for it. As mentioned above, Roku is one of those, I believe there's also been a few androitv devices, there's a recent apple TV purchase, etc.

You need to set up a dynamic DNS provider, like DuckDNS, so you can access your library remotely. You'll also need to set up port forwarding on your router. Ideally you'll also need to set up SSL/a reverse proxy for better security. https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/index.html

I personally store it in an accompanying text file.

So the file is always named "Movie (2021).mkv" with a file "Movie (2021).mkv.txt" that contains all the metadata.

There are also ways to make multiple version of one media item for different qualities, versions, etc. that will ensure metadata is preserved: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies.html#multiple-versions-of-a-movie

Hopefully that helps.

All the chat channels are primarily through Matrix, and are also bridged to IRC (via libera.chat). It's all listed at jellyfin.org/contact. But yes, the "SwiftFin" app is official now as well.

Great response.

A few things to note, to transcode, we use FFMpeg. It will use max resources to convert something asap so if you see your CPU pegged at 100%, that's normal

OP, I tried to make this page as noob friendly as possible, let me know if you have any questions and I can try incorporate them into the docs.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support.html

For anime I've given up on trying to force jellyfin to identify my files using anime plugins and their original naming scheme and instead just hardlink the files to a folder I've called Jellyfin Anime and rename them there using Rename My TV Series 2 per the tvdb naming scheme, then Jellyfin scans them immediatly correcty with the default tvdb plugin. It works everytime and because the files are hardlinked I can continue to seed them in their original folder while the new folder doesn't take up any space and has the "correct" naming.

I followed the link to the app store here and signed up for the Beta with the same Google account I use on my Shield: https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-betas/. After a little while, I could update the Jellyfin in my Shield to Beta through the app store.

It's not well described, but the very fist example in the Jellyfin documentation shows how to do it.

More details on the Kodi wiki, since most media software follows the same convention.

I usually reference the Codec Support page.

My preferred format H264 8-Bit with AAC. My ffmpeg is something like:

ffmpeg -i infile.avi -map 0 -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -vf format=yuv420p -c:a aac outfile.mkv

I use mkv because of the plethora of support tools and, most importantly, easy incorporation of subtitles.

A lossless mp4 to mkv is:

ffmpeg -i foo.mp4 -map 0 -c copy foo.mkv

From there I'll add default subs for my hard of hearing family member.

Reinstalling didn't help since it detected and used an already existing data directory. Uninstall, then delete the data directory -- i.e., by default that'd be C:\Users\yourwindowsusernamehere\AppData\Roaming\jellyfin -- then reinstall.

How are the files and folders setup? Make one folder called Movies. In that folder, make one folder named as the movie, with the movie file inside. Repeat for all the other movies in the same format. Have only ever had one movie not be identified correctly.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies.html

I can comment with more context tonight, but tl;dr is go nuts, we're happy to have lots of clients and choice. If you want any help with the API or figuring things out, drop by the chat (https://jellyfin.org/contact).

The project itself has an Open Collective page (Here) for paying for servers and stuff (though we're already sitting on more than we need for a while, so it's not really necessary).

If you want to support individual developers, a few of us accept financial contributions through GitHub Sponsors and/or Patreon. There's more info at the bottom of the 10.6 release post.

Although, to be clear, we don't do "features on demand". Financial contribution only allows us to spend more time working on Jellyfin, but we won't prioritize your feature requests or issues.

Your guarantee that it stays open source is mainly trust. We're all very angry, still, about what Emby did and all the contributors are very into open source software. Can't really do much more than that, really. Although we don't have a CLA, so everyone that contributes still owns their code and the project would be liable to copyright infringement if it broke the GPL, so that somewhat of a legal guarantee it'll stay open source.

supported with omx according to the jellyfin docs although it doesn’t sound like a smooth experience. i just wanted to try to put into perspective out how overpowered a 5800x is for jellyfin.

Yes, the server needs to be on, always. And JF only collects and catalogs the content metadata in its DB, so yes, the media needs to be retained for you to play it on JF. An alternative would be to use a cloud drive to store the data and mount that as a local drive (using rclone or similar tools) on your server, so that you do have to worry about content eating up space.

We really, really don’t promote it very much:

https://opencollective.com/jellyfin

I think in the main README, it’s listed as the “backers” badge.

The important thing to note - donating doesn’t make anything happen faster or sooner, we’re literally only using it to cover operating costs, which are pretty modest so far.

Infuse has jellyfin backend support. It costs money and is a great client but it lacks some features. I am using a N2+ with coreelec and the kodi plugin as mentioned.

https://jellyfin.org/posts/client-infuse/

All transcoding happens server side, if not with your GPU than your CPU. Clients don't transcode anything.

A primary purpose of transcoding is to decrease the amount of internet bandwidth required to stream something, if full quality has already arrived at the client, why bother changing the quality.

Might help you tune your settings: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/transcoding.html

There is an app called FolderSync that does that. You can setup a source folder to sync and a remote target location and sync options (direction etc.)

After that it's just one push of a button to sync, or you can configure periodic syncing etc.

I use it to regularly backup my photos: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.lite

I've been using (and contributing to) Airsonic for a while now, and I admittedly never really tried Jellyfin.

The main reason I'm using Airsonic is the DSub mobile app. It's just that good. And I actually found this thread looking for info on whether Jellyfin supports the Subsonic API ;)

Aside from this, here are a list of nice things I like in Airsonic:

• Ability to pre-cache starred songs for offline listening in DSub
• A rudimentary "library-wide shuffle with filters" that works, more or less
• Scan/rescan time : right now, Airsonic rescans my 18k songs library in about 1 minute, probably a few minutes for a full scan.
• PostgreSQL, if it needs an external database ; I already run it for other things and I don't want to start maintaining MariaDB.
• Does not modify my collection. I manage it using an external tool!

Airsonic has a number of drawbacks/weird things/bugs, including how it uses a combination of folders and tags to display media files (alleviated by the use of the wonderful beets) and the fact that the search feature is very poor (and it does not work all the time with non-roman characters). And it's Java, which can be quite heavy (right now hovering around 500MB RAM on my server).

If you want to stay within the JF ecosystem and not rely on google stuff, there is remote control functionality built into the server, but not all clients have implemented it. To my knowledge there's two audio clients that could work on a Pi:

• mopidy-jellyfin - Extension for the mopidy server. This is the one I use, perhaps for obvious reasons. I mostly use remote control from the server, but there's also various http frontends and a few apps that can work too.
• jellycli - Third party terminal client written in Go that supports remote control from the server.

For video, I think the only viable option for Pis right now is something like Libreelec with one of our Kodi addons (jellyfin-kodi or jellycon)

If you want to, you can install Sonarr. It can organize your library and show you which episodes you have and don't.

By the way, It's main purpose is to automatically download shows from other sites, but you can not use that.

Just out of curiosity I created library with type «Other» (never tried it before) and put some movies and tv series alongside using naming conventions (https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows.html) Worked just fine.

> The one thing that I would suggest considering for some point down the line is setting up a way to fund development beyond just infrastructure.

Are funds contributed here only for infrastructure?

> isolating each service into it's own system user with no permissions beyond it's own files, and access to nothing but what is required for functioning, should limit how much damage a compromised application is able to do

I cannot emphasize how on the ball this point is. If you're exposing jellyfin to the internet, definitely make sure that you've got restirctions and isolation on it. That also would include not reusing passwords if you can help it.

User isolation is good and the easiest to do, but if you can spare the compute overhead consider running Jellyfin in its own VM (remember unless you've opted into this on windows containers or are running with very specific configs that docker containers aren't vms). That way if a vulnerability in jellyfin or the stack it depends on is ever exploited the attacker has won a small vm with access to some media.

I think your extras need a S00E00 as well. You can check them on the tvdb.

So try to name your extras as your other episodes like "S00E00 - episode titel"

What it also could be, seems you have all your episodes in the same folder. Put every season in a folder like the extras. So you have a folder Extras, Season 01, Season 02,...

Van Helsing season 5 is missing episode information in the TVDB, it's probably related to that. Perhaps at one point ep1 had data that is now removed. And though it is probably fine and unrelated, I'd remove those backticks in the filename for 4x09.

If it is of any help, a buddy of mine who accesses my server was having similar/if not the same pausing issues, and he resolved it by changing his client, rather than the server setup.

Based on the recommendation of another post we found, he tried the Android TV beta, and it resolved the issue for him. He hasn't had any further pausing issues. Now, I know the beta likely comes with it's own problems being in beta after all, but give it a try.

https://jellyfin.org/posts/android-betas/

Brute force is completely useless unless your password is password. Something like Pbhd7VqsM$4MxrB@V&N%7L*d%xg%ik652M^mrtyj will not be brute forced.

Also you can always set up fail2ban - https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/fail2ban.html

I think what you're looking for is this:

openssl pkcs12 -export -out /path/to/jellyfin.pfx -inkey /etc/letsencrypt/live/yourdomain.org/privkey.pem -in /etc/letsencrypt/live/yourdomain.org/cert.pem -passout pass:

It's documented here: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/index.html

A couple things:

I'm not sure how you're naming special features, but jellyfin has support for (and prefers) any extra content be placed in folders inside the movie folder. You can find a list of content types here

As for organization, as above it's recommended that you keep all movies in their own folder. According to the documentation linked above, you can have a mixed library but I don't know what the ramifications are, if any, for metadata. If I were you, I would write a script to take movies of a name, create a folder with that same name, and then move the movies into the new folder.

Your directories look good, but you're adding the wrong folder to the libraries. For Shows library, you should select just the Shows subfolder. For Movies, select just the Movies subfolder. You should not be adding the top-level Media folder to the libraries.

Also, your episodes could use some re-naming work for consistency. https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows.html

As someone else mentioned, the jellyfin docs should, AFAIK, have all of the custom themes that have been posted on this subreddit.

If there's any missing feel free to open a pull request or just let me know.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/css-customization.html#community-links

Why? I think some people have gotten it to run on the Nvidia shield. I would start here: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/installing.html

Your big challenge will be cpu architecture compatibility.

Welcome! New users (and especially contributors) are always welcome. If you want to contribute, first stop should probably be https://jellyfin.org/contribute/. It gives a high level overview of the languages used in the server and some of our official clients, as well as a link to https://translate.jellyfin.org/projects/jellyfin/ for how to contribute translations. Also if you have any UI/UX experience that would definitely be appreciated by some of the frontend folks.

Usually these issues can be solved by renaming the files to a format that Jellyfin understands. Check out this page: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows.html

Are the folders named appropriately: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows.html to add to this, can you provide some screenshots.

I wonder if the meta data isn’t matching up or matching automatically and then you have the same show multiple times as matched and unmatched.

There's no way to backup from vanilla install to docker, the best way is to use migrating tools to backup the watch status.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/migrate-from-emby.html#watched-status-migration

I don't have a tutorial for HAProxy because there's an easier way to do it. Here's how I do it, it's the easiest way possible that keeps you in control, and I wrote this tutorial just a week ago because it's asked so frequently here on this sub: https://caddy.community/t/using-caddy-as-a-reverse-proxy-in-a-home-network/9427?u=matt

See also Jellyfin's Caddy documentation: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/caddy.html

Infuse and MrMC both have native Jellyfin integrations, and support casting: https://jellyfin.org/clients/

Infuse's casting feature is tied to their Pro subscription, but it's well worth it. There's a seven day free trial so you can test drive it.

MrMC has a "Lite" version with no time limit, but it only loads a few items from your library for testing.

Use caddy: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/caddy.html?q=caddy

If you have access to ports 80 and 443 there are just two lines in the config file needed.

Here is a more in depth guide to it for windows: https://old.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/gdwe0s/windows_and_caddy_v2_reverse_proxy_guide/

> The reverse proxy seems like a big lift for a casual user. I know Jellyfin is meant to be community based but surely there's a way to keep it secure without being an IT pro?

That's because people keep recomending traefik or nginx to everyone for some reason. If you're just a random person with no knowledge of these things just use caddy, if you have ports 80 and 443 open it's two lines on the config file and you're good to go

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/caddy.html?q=caddy

source: random guy with no knowledge of these things

I had the same problem on NGINX reverse proxy your not forwarding web socket through your reverse proxy Syncplay relies on web socket if its not forwarded it will not work. Add the line that says proxy_pass "/socket" here's the link to the documentation on it.

Here's what you need to add change for your desired localhost or server ip.

ProxyPass "/socket" "ws://SERVER_IP_ADDRESS:8096/socket"
ProxyPassReverse "/socket" "ws://SERVER_IP_ADDRESS:8096/socket"

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/apache.html?q=proxy

I don't know all of the improvements, but the big one is SyncPlay (synchronizes video playback with other clients, so you can watch something with a friend somewhere and it will be synced) and I think with this release they have started the DB rewrite, so performance fixes.

There is a nightly docker image, you can find instructions here: https://jellyfin.org/downloads/

I think you've made it a little harder than it has to be. All of the Caddy configs here in the Jellyfin docs work, and they're all 1 or 2 lines: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/caddy.html

You need only forward ports 80 and 443 to Caddy. Don't forward port 8096 to Jellyfin unless you want unsecured access directly to your media server.

Then just make sure your A/AAAA records point to your public IP and it will work. (Check any firewalls, etc.)

Not sure if it’s easier or not, but you could put a reverse proxy in front of your current site and then use a sub domain for Jellyfin, like Jellyfin.yourdomain.de and then your other service could be other.yourdomain.de . This would let you have let’s encrypt certs on the front end and use the Jellyfin option for SSL : reverse proxy , that’s how I’m handling mine and all my other web services I want to run on 443, or at least expose via 443. No remembering ports or anything.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/nginx.html , there’s also support for Caddy and stuff depending on how much you like or dislike working with config files and stuff.

As far as mounting though, I can’t answer that.

I'll be a little offtopic, but after years (10+) of using multimedia software I came to a conclusion: if you're an organized person and you want your music to be organized and tagged correctly, go with beets - it takes some time to get used to and to understand it, but once you've learnt it it's magic! I'm keeping my music library in order with it and all the other programs that I want to use the library with can use it read-only. I'm not bothering with Jellyfin or Kodi. I listen my music with mpd and its multiple clients.

Jellyfin, in turn, is better at managing your Movie/Series collection and I let it do just that, although I rarely use its native client on my TV - I use the Jellyfin plugin in Kodi, because for some reason I never got to make Jellyfin not lag the video and I'm used to Kodi after so many years.

We're going to need a *lot* more info here. As /u/Protektor35 says, it's pretty hard for a random server program (even a very poorly configured one which we are not) to take down your *Internet* connection.

You're on Windows so my ability to help specifically is very limited, but:

1. Check your network activity in Task Manager. Is it unusual? When you're not playing back anything, Jellyfin shouldn't be using much or any network.
2. Check pings using a tool like MTR to some external site (e.g. 8.8.8.8). Watch it with Jellyfin off, turn it on, and continue watching. Does anything change?
3. Repeat the same test while doing a large file download or speedtest. Does the ping latency change? Does the download speed change?
4. Do you have Jellyfin exposed to the Internet with a port forward or anything of that sort? If so, do you notice any strange clients in the Admin Dashboard? Anything in the logs? If you have a remote user, they may be hogging all your upstream bandwidth; try setting a user bandwidth limit for them.
5. You mentioned talking to your ISP and them saying "the signal looks fine today", but that it wasn't when they were doing work. It's very possible that there *is* a problem with their physical plant and it's just a coincidence that Jellyfin was on/off when it was. #2 and #3 will help verify that.
6. You mention 10.6.4 doesn't have the problems, which thickens the plot. If you *upgrade* the 10.6.4 instance to 10.7.5, do they come back?

Hope this helps.

Why even reply if you don't know anything ? It literally brings nothing, and you're wrong.

The feature is planned (pretty sure it's ready) for jellyfin 10.6 and stuff like https://www.jelly-party.com/ already exists.

That just sounds so awesome. Being a long haul driver has always been one of those jobs that I half wished I had and half am so happy I don't. I enjoy driving, am not picky about where I sleep, and would happily spend most of my off time (assuming you do some kind of shift rotation that includes awake downtime) reading a book or consuming movies and TV.

But I always think it's gotta be rough to be away from any family you may have so often, and I figure you guys probably put up with all kinds of BS that I couldn't even imagine.

Navidrome is pretty flexible. Any "subsonic" or "airsonic" client will work, but I happen to prefer submuxic, which annoyingly is also one of the only ones that costs money. The others were close, but I had one nitpick or another about each of them. YMMV. You can also stream it right from the web interface..

But what might be of interest to you is you can set it to hit one IP for your server when you are on a particular wifi connection and another when you are not. I have a domain name that points to the navidrome server in my basement, and the client on my phone is set to hit it by domain name when I'm not home, but by LAN IP when I am. It probably doesn't really gain me much - I could just hit the domain name all the time and I don't think it would matter. But with your constraints it might offer some flexibility that's useful for you. Supposedly you can damn near run the server on a raspberry pi, so it's not very resource intensive.

Anyway, not really trying to sell you on it, but as a recent convert I want to spread the word where I can. :-)

The Vero box (running OSMC / Kodi) is a really nice solution I'd recommend. It does come with its own remote, but if your TV supports pass-through it should allow you to use your main tv remote instead if you'd rather a simpler setup? Having just run OSMC on a Pi previously myself, I'd highly recommend the Vero as a serious step up and actually really good value for money imo.

As it's also just Kodi another nice option is to use the Kore app (assuming you're on Android) to control.

For music Airsonic would probably be a better bet, it's a bit more suited to the task of maintaining and providing access to a large database of music. It's compatible with the official Subsonic Android app, which has been solid for years.

Did you check https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/configuration.html#server-paths? On Linux it is under /var/cache/jellyfin, there are subfolders for the different cached data.

Also running jellyfin behind nginx, nearly as the docs describe (https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/nginx.html) without any issues.

The short answer is that we don't need/want it to make money off of this.

The entire point of it is because the community (and us) wants merch. Our primary funds are available on OpenCollective and as you can see, we're doing fairly well there. There's no reason for us to use teespring or increase our margins on redbubble just to have it sit there without a real use. If there ever comes a time when we need to change how we raise funds, we can revist it. But for now community donations are more than keeping us online, and that's all we need.

I had this problem with another apps, take a look here:

https://winaero.com/blog/enable-the-access-to-network-drives-from-elevated-apps-running-as-administrator/

I use an app called Rename My TV Series. Uses TVDB and works great. Be sure to load the series with the little search bar on the left before adding the actual files.

Just flash the OSMC image to a cf card and put it in a pi 3+ pr better and you will be getting a set top like experience fully compatible with kodi.

If you want to do 4K streaming though (and the Pi4 doesn't currently handle that well) consider getting a dedicated OSMC Vero 4K+ box.

I avoid folders of mixed type. I create a folder called Movies and set the agent there to only scan moviedb. Then I create a folder called TV and set the agent there to only scan tvdb. Would this work for you?

I am not fully understanding the issues you are facing but you can go to both moviedb.com and thetvdb.com to see what data it has, and also join/contribute to fix any issues - that's what I did. Be sure to read each sites "contribution bible"

>JF will not download trailers or actor images and I want them stored next to media.

The other media managers store the actor thumbs next to the media. (I've used them all at one point or another and recommend TMM). But, JF will not populate the actors portraits in the detail screen with the downloaded Actor portraits - Plex has no issue using the .actor folder though. Strange

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows.html

└── Series (2018) ├── Episode S01E01.mkv ├── Episode S01E02.mkv └── Episode S02E03.mkv

You can have the show like this and then use a tool like Namechanger if you're on mac to correctly name those images the same name as the episode all at once.

Then put them in the Metadata folder for that show

If the audio codec is unsupported or incompatible (such as playing a 5.1 channel stream on a stereo device), the audio codec must be transcoded. This is not nearly as intensive as video transcoding.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support.html

Not sure if this answers your question.

There's two things to consider here:

• Check what is happening during playback
• Use a client with increased compatibility

First, while watching something in the browser, click the little gear icon in the play controls and click on "Playback Data". It will show you stats about what's going on, like if something is being transcoded, and the reason why.

Second, avoid the issue by using something with more compatibility. Almost all popular video formats today have really poor support in browsers. Unless you absolutely have to watch in a browser, I would always recommend Jellyfin Media Player for a computer. It has a whole ton of decoding support built in with mpv as the player, so you get smooth playback almost anywhere.

Its pretty easy to do this. Jellyfin has documentation on setting up fail2ban.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/fail2ban.html?q=fail2ban

I would recommend the use of traefik or caddy as a reverse proxy instead of nginx as the other two solutions are more automated, and make HTTPS setup very painless, in addition to making it easier to add another application to proxy to.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/kodi.html

I either merged them manually in the webui or it was automatic via naming scheme, I can't recall.

It looks like it shows multiple entries in the kodi interface, then when you select one it asks you which version to play. Kodi also has a client-side merge option but I don't know if it works.

The music library isn't quite as fully featured as the movie or tv systems, but I use it nearly every day with no issues.

Clients: there are three clients receiving active development: those being the official Jellyfin app, Gelli, and Finamp. The first one is essentially a wrapper for the web interface, so you've got all the standard features. It doesn't do offline playback, however. For that, you'll want Gelli or Finamp. I personally use Finamp and recommend it. The developer has been very active recently fixing bugs and adding new features.

Re auto playlists: I don't know

Re: adding & tagging music. I add music by uploading it to the library folder. You can find out how to structure your library here. I use the first example: artist and album folders. Jellyfin reads song metadata from id3 tags that you can edit with mp3tag, musicbrainz Picard or some other app. You can edit metadata in jellyfin, but I believe that only saves the metadata within jellyfin's own database, so any edits you make won't export with the file and they may be rewritten on a library scan (this has been my experience. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong). When I add music, I add metadata with Picard and let jellyfin pull album and artist art.

Re: system requirements, if you're just playing music, then a pi3 with nginx should be fine. I'm not sure how difficult it is to transcode music, however.

If you're using the web interface, there's two options I can suggest:

• Set the layout to TV.

This gets you more flexible navigation options and things are larger. To do this, click the user profile icon at the top right, and choose "Display". Then, change the layout to "TV". After you save this change, you'll need to reload the webpage for it to work.

• Use Jellyfin Media Player, and set that layout to TV

Jellyfin Media Player (JMP) is a desktop app that uses the web interface (just like the web browser), but includes MPV for better codec support. This means it can usually play most items without any kind of transcoding. You can set this interface to be in the TV layout, with the same steps as above. That will ensure that you can get a good TV experience that is hassle free.

Edit: The TV layout enables navigating with arrow keys etc, and JMP will also respond to Windows playback controls (play/pause, etc). That's why I'm recommending this :-)

Used this guide of the Jellyfin wiki. I have some heatsinks and a small fan and I don't go over 70°C

Yep, on the server.

There are settings within Jellyfin in the admin dashboard that you'll need to review and potentially change to take advantage of hardware acceleration capabilities of the GPU for transcoding. Unless something has changed since I started using Jellyfin, this is not automatic and requires configuration that matches the hardware and system config.

If you go to Admin > Dashboard > Playback, it should drop you into the Transcoding tab. Under hardware acceleration, if it's set to None, then its definitely using software decoding/encoding. If it is set to something else, then you may need to review your server logs to see if something is failing.

More information can be found here:

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration.html

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/css-customization.html

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Hopefully some of the above can help you with customization. Very neat stuff the community of jellyfin has done when it comes to customizing with css files.

Unfortunately Jellyfin only recognizes subtitle files if they are named exactly like described in the docs. It would be great to have an option to add all subtitles to a movie that are in the same folder, regardless of the filename.

I have no idea about libreelec. But what worked for me on the jellyfin docker was adding the devices in my case(--device /dev/dri/renderD128) to the docker container. And in my case the video group (--group-add=(#groupid)), most systems according to jellyfin docs the render group. Sometimes it can happen cause of misconfig that you need to chmod the /dev/dri directory. For most configs its described very detailed over the jelly docs. https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration.html

Just add a picture to the user account, disable easy pin code, and make sure you don’t have manual login forced…. I think

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/users/adding-managing-users.html#profile

Jellyfin will treat it as one combined episode. It can't tell where the second episode actually starts in a file.

A file name like: SeriesName - S01EO1-E02.mp4

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows.html

I think the sub folder is the problem here. Have you looked at the recommended way keeping multiple quality versions? This applies to episodes too and is how I keep all my media.

Actually, I just noticed something, you didn't uncomment the server listening on port 443. Also, you should only need one of those not three. I'd keep the bottom one, it appears to be the most complete.

You can just use the first config on this page: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/nginx.html

Of course uncomment the stuff after you get a cert.

It's a big topic; I don't have anything off-hand. But LDAP is pretty much built for exactly this sort of thing - managing authentication of many dozens of users. For context, Microsoft ActiveDirectory is LDAP, as is OpenLDAP on Linux, etc.

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The plugin info is here: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/plugins/index.html#ldap

While not exactly what you want it could probably be tweaked to look very similar. Makes it look a lot better anyways. Scroll down to "Stylized episode previews"

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/css-customization.html

Short answer: you really can't.

Longer answer: The way music was implemented in the distant past is ... not good. It's heavily tied to folder structure, for insane reasons. It's very much expecting this. It does read ID3 tags, but especially when using a music library type folder structure seems to take priority. As a side effect of how deeply tied it is to the database and scanning code and how poorly the library database was implemented, it's not an easy fix. I've heard rumors that using a music video or another library type might respect folder view better, but I haven't verified this.

You followed these docs? https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/kodi.html

If you don't install our addon repository, it's not going to appear in a search to be installable. You could install the addon directly as a zip file, but that's not ideal as you don't get automatic updates.

I literally used the one from this page:

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networking/caddy.html

But after trying it out with radarr and sonarr, it seems jellyfin if the issue, not caddy. I have no idea why, because my base url is the same as the one in the caddyfile.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/css-customization.html

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You can see more here, the hide cast & crew is available on here :P. I could add the refinement Css you were seeking though

According to https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/installing.html - this is normal behavior.

I'd recommend you to look for some hacky way to hide a running script since i wouldnt expect any kind of silent parameter that hides this window.

I'm not sure what all those instructions are for, you shouldn't need to build anything from source.

If you're choosing Quick Sync in the Jellyfin playback menu on Ubuntu, you need to install the non-free intel media driver. You can select VAAPI if you are using the free drivers. All the steps are laid out in the jellyfin docs, and as it says, make sure the running user has access to the /dev/dri devices.