I am currently running Jellyfin with a single 10TB disk. I would love to move to a dedicated NAS, but that is so expensive.
It’s not cheap but building a nas from scratch is loads cheaper. Looking up NAS killer 6 on serverbuilds.net have some great guides and support
That looks nice, but I am not getting anything close to the listed prices. I don’t see the board for under 400 Euro, the PSU is off by a factor of 10 and so on. Overall I don’t think I can build the PC for less than the 573 Euro a Synology DS923+ would cost me. The only upside of the custom build would be that I can attach more than 4 disks.
I agree. There are a bunch of DIY server options with linux. You should go that route to save money.
I don’t see anything that would be cheaper than a DS923 from Synology, which costs 570 plus the drives. The cheapest I see still costs me 1200 Euro for everything.
Nah, you need to build a PC or pickup a older server. I went with Synology and it ended up close to $1k with drives 😭
Just use Stremio
+1
But with torrentio
Not to be disrespectful but you can skip to 5:32 if you don’t need to justify piracy to yourself.
Those aren’t pirated copies, those are… lawfully encoded… 4k bluray rips… I made myself… to back up the uh, lawful copies I purchased at MSRP! That’s right!
Purchased at MSRP at the Disney Store! Nothing else counts.
And that’s where I will continue to, uh, purchase all of my Disney™️ physical media for years to come…
1990 Mall lifestyle.
Back when bathrooms had free condoms and cologne instead of heroin syringe buckets.
But at least we’re progressing as a society?
I, uhh, keep the original media safe in a storage locker!
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/watch?v=4VkY1vTpCJY&list=WL&index=80
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
me being simple man, just searching ‘what i want’ + streaming keyword
Jellyfin is almost perfect for me, I just need to find out why it decides to randomly transcode when it needs to do nothing when serving client.
There are tons of reasons why Jellyfin may decide to transcode. In my experience browsers and players usually have the right video decoder support, but high efficiency audio codecs seem to trigger transcoding. It’s also possibly the specific video profile (colour depth, HDR, whatever) isn’t supported by the client even if the more common profiles are.
In some circumstances, enabling embedded subtitles can force a transcode. Using Bazarr to download separate subtitles helps prevent weird transcodes for some of the videos I’ve gathered on my server.
Yeah, why is it doing that?
Especially when I’m using the Jellyfin Android TV client. The quality goes from ok to complete shit.
Does it not like mkv files?
Disable video transcoding for the account your client connects with. Then check the log to see why it needs to transcod it the video fails. Could be the bitrate limit. I’m not having issues and using the same client.
Checked on the dashboard as per the other comment.
It’s subtitles. I’m probably going to try Kodi as a client, see how that goes. Shame, because I quite like the Jellyfin client UI, it just doesn’t work with some files.
I think the subedit program can convert subtitles… I forget :(
It’s strange because Jellyfin claims to be able to extract and convert subtitles on the fly, and even has an option to disable that, but for some reason it’s choosing not to do it. There doesn’t seem to be a definitive list of what does and doesn’t work. You just play things and hope it doesn’t trigger the transcoding dance.
Kodi’s player does work (to an extremely impressive level, including DVD rips I made years ago), but I’m really not keen on the UI, dating as it does from before Android TV was a thing. All the buttons seem configured just differently enough from everybody else that simple things like checking how long a video has left, to backing out so you can finish watching tomorrow are borderline infuriating. I did get a keybinding editor for it, to make it so pressing back stops the video, but knowing all the functions is something that takes more knowledge of it than I have. I’ll probably get it configured eventually, but it’s annoying to start with.
The Jellyfin UI on the other hand is great. I love the detail on each film, all the cast and blurb and all that. It’s just the player is Exoplayer, and every limitation in that is now Jellyfin’s limit too. There does seem to be an option to swap it, but what with? I’m not sure what Kodi uses internally. Maybe it’s their own thing.
Any recommendation on a NAS to take advantage of this software? The current one i have is a nightmare to get running it and will just look into another
I use open media vault with jellyfin in a docker.
The new AOOSTAR R1 is awesome! Set up a Proxmox instance on it with Opnsense, Jellyfin, and PiHole VMs, plus some simple SAMBA shares on another Debian VM.
That face shows struggle and waste of time. At least use Plex to valorare your time
Plex which completely destroys it’s database all the time?
Look up the repair tools, it’s common.
Jellyfin has been rock solid.
Running Jellyfin is a breeze walk in the cake park.
I switched from Plex years ago and never looked back.
True, only shitty thing i did was buying lifetime and using it for only two years until i finally dumped it, it corrupted the database 3 times and it isn’t able to be repaired with any tool i’ve found.
Recreating and rescanning for intro-outro detection literally took a day each time, fuck this.
There are so many databases hosted on that machine that i can eliminate hardware fault at that point.
Running Jellyfin has been a really flawless for over a year and intro-outro dectection + auto-skip is also available there, i’m only missing the advertisements of Plex, not in a good way though
It’s been more than 10 years using it never had an issue nor had I waste time configuring anything.
I replaced all my movies from x264 to x265 versions. Went to play a movie and it said it couldn’t transcode the file. Looked into it and you have to pay to do hardware transcoding - my own fault for not testing a x265 file first haha.
Installed Jellyfin where transcoding using your own hardware is free and I haven’t looked back.
My Jellyfin server keeps getting pinged by EMOTET malware lately. Everyone here should be aware if you expose the Jellyfin port to the internet it will get data exfiltration attempts. Use strong passwords.
This is the biggest downfall of Emby/Jellyfin IMO. It’s a tradeoff from being reliant on Plex’s authentication servers, but requires a lot of technical knowledge to setup correctly (rather than just port forwarding and relying on a strong password).
Plex was how last pass got hacked. https://www.howtogeek.com/147554/lastpass-data-breach-shows-why-plex-updates-are-important/
You still need to do stuff even if it is plex.
The employee who got hacked was both using an insecure password (the exploit needs access to an admin account) and his Plex install was 2.5 years out of date.
Sure was! You need to be on top of paid and free and open source software from a security stand point. There’s no shortcut no matter what you think you’re paying for. Your threat model might be better when the service automates a Web proxy for you, but that’s only one facet. You trade problems but should never feel like you can “set and forget”. Sometimes it’s better for you to do it yourself because there’s no lying about responsibilities that way.
Why not use a reverse proxy to keep everything on port 443 behind your own domain or duckdns? /gen
I do this already and also am inside an encrypted Cloudflare tunnel… Still getting EMOTET warnings from my IDS.
Can you link a good resource for me to set this up myself ? To many similar but different guides and my ADD makes it impossible to reach the goal.
Look up Caddy V2 probably the most dead simple reverse proxy I’ve seen and they have solid documentation
Tailscale works nicely as well
Don’t expose anything directly to the Internet except a VPN with strong auth.
Get a reverse proxy and strong passwords if you share with your loved ones.
There’s wireshark for Android. Put your public key on the phone and you’re almost done.
You’re thinking of WireGuard. WireGuard is a packet capture software.
Use it behind a VPN
How can you see that?
https://kbin.social/m/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/t/618979/-/comment/3514808
That link doesn’t work :/
Jellyfin is awesome but…
There are still problems. The mobile app recently got loads better but still has some pretty major issues with subtitles, showing that subtitles either are barely tested, or the dev simply doesn’t have the resources required or finished the app in a better way. Right now you cannot watch two episodes of a show in a row over Chromecast with subtitles without the last subtitles of the previous show frozen in screen and the new subtitles being display above those. Gotta disconnect Chromecast, shutdown the app, restart everything. This is super annoying but still light-years better than the previous mobiel app that would basically require a reinstall after each episode.
There are many other issues too, scrubbing is much better again, but still problematic and tents to freeze, requiring restarting everything.
Jellyfin is awesome but I can’t really let my wife use it, as she doesn’t have the computer patience that I have.
I don’t have this issue with Jellyfin on my Chromecast at all.
Sometimes it’ll not “remember” which sub track I had selected when going to the next episode and I have to re-select it, or occasionally it won’t properly burn in the subtitles and I have to back out and restart the episode, but I never get them “stuck” like that.
I’d recommend trying to change the default player, the player is actually where I find most of the issues arise with subtitles. Jellyfin ships with LibVLC and ExoPlayer on Chromecast, but only uses one by default. I have it set to ask me which player to use for each show, since the subtitles for some of my shows work in one player but not the other.
Also are you using the Chromecast app for Jellyfin or are you casting to the Chromecast through the Jellyfin mobile app? (Not sure if the latter is possible, but I can see that causing weird behavior)
Interesting! Thanks, did not know that.
I’m casting using the mobile app, is there another way to cast, even?
My biggest issue with Jellyfin is the downloads. I hate not being able to downscale or compress files. Its really the main reason I still leave Plex up in conjunction to it. Though I hope to be able to get rid of Plex entirely in the future, Jellyfin just needs more time.
Agreed and inknownit needs more time but it’s frustrating that I can’t yet sit down with family and watch something because it’s so unreliable
I’m sticking with Plex for now too. Although there are some grating, persistent issues in basic use, it usually just works.
Swear the UI gets laggier on the TV by the day, Jellyfin was jarring to me how snappy it was in comparison.
Made the switch from Plex to jellyfin last week. Runs so much smoother, far fewer issues, my NAS isn’t lighting itself on fire, and I don’t have unwanted features being shoved down my throat every time I open the client app. A few small UI things I don’t like, but Plex had just fucked up the exact same UI element on me anyway.
I think it’s finally time I get around to setting up a second sonarr instance to customize for anime.
I’ve been running Plex on a Pi 3 and now Pi 4 along with multiple other containers with no real problems. I don’t transcode obviously but have no issues with performance.
I also installed Jellyfin last week to run side by side but ended up uninstalling as even when idle the memory usage went through the roof.
I had jellyfin and 20+ more containers on rpi4 4GB and didnt have that problem.
There isn’t a problem. It just consumed more memory than I’d have liked.
I’ve just powered on the container and the system went from 1.75G to 2.47G consumed. This is when it’s idle.
I’ve just stopped the Plex container and memory usage is now 2.40G. Plex is definitely more lightweight in comparison.
Had you installed the native programs or everything on docker?
Almost everything in docker. Pihole and wireguard bare metal
Did you give up any Plex features you miss? I’ve been running a Plex server for years without serious issues, but I’m tired of seeing my CPUs getting hammered so bad when it doesn’t seem justifiable.
Nothing much that I can think of. Everything works just about as well as before. If I need/want to change a cover or other image manually, the jellyfin system is kind of trash, where the Plex system works really well. But that’s a fairly minor complaint, to be fair. My only other issue is the way the unwatched episode badge works. Plex had just changed theirs on me and made it worse. And jellyfin is even more useless than that. But those are the only things I can even think to complain about.
Well this is really strange. I kept trying to use jellyfin but it felt like a hammer in search of fingers, what with being unable to disable transcoding and the apps being unable to play basically anything. So my server was on fire. And two days ago I decided to try plex, and everything just works tm, I disabled transcoding, it’s like magic. Just wish it wasn’t trying to make me get a subscription so bad, but for me the experience was completely opposite
I haven’t seen a specific way to explicitly disable transcoding, like I did on Plex. If I try to play a video in the browser, it obviously needs to transcode my hevc videos, and the CPU in my NAS gets demolished(though it does technically allow the video to play). But as long as I use a player that is capable of direct-play (so the desktop app, or the Android app), it will direct-play automatically, without transcoding. Hasn’t been a problem so far. I plan to upgrade my NAS at some point, and the new build will be more than capable of transcoding.
I used both of them for a long time. Plex(amp) for music because it just works for streaming my collection everywhere I go and has a good UI. My own personal Spotify… And Jellyfin for everything else.
Now I built a new homelab server with a beefier AMD and proxmox, and decided to just switch to Plex for all my content. It has a better UI to my taste at least, but it also has these weird glitches sometimes where the video playback stutters if watching 4k material (where Jellyfin just worked).
I don’t know really. For music Plex is definitely worth the subscription price, but these weird playback issues put me to consider alternatives for video content.
I just added jellyfin to my nas and deleted it again. It doesn’t work without transcoding and the replies to people asking for the option are idiotic to say the least. Sometimes opensource software can be proper crap, what can you do. And plex is obviously faster, a lot faster. Maybe because it’s not wasting resources on transcoding haha
Wtf is all this Disney plus shit? I kept seeing it searching for a VPN.
Is Disney actually making shows people watch?
To each their own I guess… At least everyones ripping it instead of paying for it.
How the fuck have you managed to both misunderstand and know so little about Disney+ with the multiple shows that have been major hits? I’m gonna take a guess and say you’re trolling. The multuple star wars and marvel shows that have been talked about absolutely everywhere, it would be incredibly hard to miss any of that.
Lmao because I don’t whip my dick out and jerk off to shitty Hollywood.
Jesus Christ your post is so privileged and disregarding of the majority of humanity.
Do you really think everybody partakes and watches that stuff? That pretty fucked up. Arguably most people on earth don’t give a single fuck about star wars or marvel or any of that bullshit marketed entertainment. Some people just fuck with actual art.
You know that type of shit that’s not planned out for monetary purposes… Art…
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.
The birth of a new copy pasta 👀
For instance I hunt criminals… Way more useful to society than watching Disney plus
You’re so hardcore. I wish I was like you. /s
No, you don’t hunt criminals. You pretend to do it, on some random social media network called lemmy.
I myself also don’t like Marvel, most of Star Wars and the other stuff Disney is pumping out. But what I like even less are people on the internet pretending that they are worth more than others because they watched some crime footage on YouTube.
Why don’t you get back to topic, which incidentally is Jellyfin and not the content on Disney+? Do you really have nothing of worth to add?
Don’t feed the troll!
I knew this dumb fuck would say he didn’t have time to watch Disney plus, in a piracy community where people download things to spend their time.
Also he hunts criminals, that’s why he’s here partaking in this piracy community.
What a dumbass.
He hunts criminals in the same way Qanon hunts pedos.
Disney plus has a decent bit of solid content. By saying this you don’t sound edgy and cool like you think you do, you sound dated. It’s okay to accept that Disney makes decent content, they have enough money to. It’s also okay to not like their content. But pretending you’re an ancient ass ostrich with your head in the sand is just cringe.
Why do people think people/me are trying to sound edgy because they don’t understand Disney stuff, lol. Is that what this world has come to…? That’s what people stand for these days…? Disney?
Man the world’s fucked up these days if you think Disney is a part of everyone’s life… That’s really fucked up on a human scale.
Why not stand up for something real… Like people getting hurt…? So sick of seeing privileged people not realizing there’s literally an entire world outside of their pop lifestyle.
Originality…
Nobody here gives a fuck about your whataboutism, go troll somewhere else.
If you don’t understand the cultural impact that Disney has then you probably have been living under a rock.
Here in Canada Disney+ also has a bunch of Hulu content, NatGeo and other stuff all rolled into one. It is a pretty amazing deal for only ca$12/month
I guess it’s for kids and maybe die-hard marvel fans but yeah, most content is either shit, ancient or both lol
Not at all, I’m far from a die-hard marvel fan and I’ve really enjoyed several of the recent marvel shows. And the multiple star wars shows are the best star wars things since the original trilogy. Lots of stuff other than that too.
I have a hard time believing anyone has sene ir heard of any of that so little like you guys have, I’ve never had Disney+ (I only download) and use adblockers etc and don’t have any friends that are marvel/Disney fanatics and I still don’t have to do anything to be aware of most of the stuff they release.
I’m aware of it, I just think the content is terrible. Excluding Loki season 1 and Andor, I guess. But even with those two I’m just so fed up with their franchises, I don’t think I’m gonna watch more of it.
My roommate and I enjoyed Andor, Loki, and some of the other Star Wars stuff
But yeah their selection is pretty limited, which is why we cancelled our subscription awhile ago
I loved the second season of Loki 🤩
Andor was excellent. I was burnt out on Star Wars but buddy insisted. It’s well worth the watch.
Everything else meh
Straight up IMO Andor is the best Star Wars show to come out on Disney plus
The other Star Wars shows that came out on steaming are pretty meh
Mando was pretty damn good season 1 but quickly turned meh
Star Wars Visions is worth the watch IMO as some cool Star Wars content but it’s pretty different than the other Star Wars shows which makes it better
Andor might be one of the best pieces of star wars media (movies/shows specifically) to ever come out tbh
not gonna lie, i enjoyed Loki… not much tbh… but it was nice to watch while nothing else to do. And i could only enjoy it because i pirated it. Watching it, knowing i paid for it… would’ve made me angry
The first season was fine, this last season was a waste of time. Each episode amounts to nothing and there is sooo much repetition that I was thrown back to Heroes season 2 during the NBC writers strikes.
I don’t know if S2 of Loki was the way it is because it was trying to change Kang or because it was trying to be impressive. As of now, it seems like the latter.
All that said, S2 of Loki was “technically fine”, the acting was decent-good, the visuals weren’t terrible for 90-95% of it, good soundtrack. It was just the premise and how it was written that fell flat for my friend and I, and we’re both just kind of bewildered by the positive reception to it. Like, is the bar that low for people? Were we expecting too much? Is Disney just astroturfing? maybe a little of all 3. But holy heck, compared to other shows like Gen V and Invincible coming out each week we are so hype and sad about those episodes ending and we watch Loki and go… “that was it? ok…”
I did like the ending, though. Pretty much the only part of the show that wasn’t sci-fi technobabble and actually amounted to something and a smidge of character development. Even still, it was only okay I guess.
YouTube thumbnails are cancer
It’s one of the best ways to avoid stupid shit.
Why the hell i hadn’t heard of it before? Will check it out later
Dearrow is a work of a genius. Speaking of Ajay, SponsorBlock is great too.
I moved from Plex to Jellyfin because of this video.
