• millie@slrpnk.netEnglish
    122·
    10 hours ago

    What exactly is the point of a Jellyfin server? Wouldn’t it be easier to just like, open the files? Why would that require a server?

    • jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      40 minutes ago

      because it is convenient to access the movies from a smartphone or laptop from anywhere in the house without dealing with the headaches of windows file explorer shitting itself upon seeing a folder with 3000 files in it

    • Bombastion@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      18·
      7 hours ago

      In addition to the UI others have mentioned, I host mine behind a VPN so all my friends can use it over the Internet, too. It gets a decent amount of traffic every week.

      • all4one@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        33 minutes ago

        Are you just giving them a shared login or do you set them all up individually?

    • glinncor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      10 hours ago

      You get a cute little user interface to browse through your movies and shows with little posters and information. You also don’t have to use a flash drive and move stuff over if you want to watch from your PlayStation or other device. just a browser is enough.

    • basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      12·
      9 hours ago

      If I can just add to what @glinncor@lemmy.world said:

      I personally have one so that I don’t have to mess around with plugging in any hdmi cables and moving my laptop from where it’s docked, I can flick on the server and then it can just be accessed on any tv in the house by anyone.

  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    20·
    13 hours ago

    setting up a small jellyfin server for my family instead of getting 32402398423948 subs to shitty streaming companies was the best thing i did

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      91·
      13 hours ago

      Shucking drives? What part of JBOD did you not understand. Half of them don’t even fit in the case, they are just piled up on top of each other.

  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    14·
    16 hours ago

    How’s the barrier to entry for Jellyfin? I just got done investing in Plex when they started changing their payment model

    • Markus29@feddit.nlEnglish
      8·
      10 hours ago

      Dockstarter with jellyfin + sonarr + radarr + qbittorrent + swag is your friend. I actually found jellyfin easier to setup. Don’t have to worry to much that streams are getting transcoded. Setting swag up was some effort though.

        • CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          6·
          8 hours ago

          All of the *arr apps are for automatic media downloading and organization.

          You want all the new seasons of a show? Just mark that as a ‘monitored’ show in sonarr. When new episodes are released, sonarr uses your torrent indexer to get the torrent or magnet link and sends that to your torrent downloader. Once the download completes, it renames the file with metadata and puts it into the spot where jellyfin/plex is expecting the file to be.

          It’s an automation stack for media piracy.

          SpaceInvaderOne has a bunch of tutorials on how to set things up if you want to dive into the full self-hosting ocean.

          • seadoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 hours ago

            Very cool, thanks for the explanation!

            Maybe this is just me but using a torrent through a CLI is something I have not explored at all, I just transfer files back and forth. Seems very useful

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
      16·
      16 hours ago

      Harder than plex to set up, but not difficult.

      If you want to watch outside the network then you’ll need to port forward.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        91·
        14 hours ago

        You really shouldn’t port forward Jellyfin. Hell, you really shouldn’t port forward anything. A domain is like a dollar per month. Use a reverse proxy with some sort of login gate like Authentik or Authelia.

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          10 hours ago

          If you’re only using it for yourself then there are a lot worse things that people do (like downloading apps for websites, using untrusted VPNs, or even just using the web)

          Reverse proxy is more advanced and I think someone who needs it wouldn’t be worried about ease of use.

        • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialEnglish
          2·
          13 hours ago

          Just use a tunneling service like tailscale. Easy as fug to set up, and only people who know your credentials can poke about in your server.

          If you remember to disconnect machines other than the server from the VPN when not using them and don’t share out the server too much, you don’t even have to spend money.

          • Stez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            12 hours ago

            You don’t even need to remember to disconnect machines you can have a 100 different clients(is that the right word?) on a tailnet. Honestly it’s so sick and amazing it’s free

            • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.socialEnglish
              1·
              11 hours ago

              afaik (and I might be super wrong) you can have up to 100 machines IN the network, but only 3 connected at any given time in the free plan.

              But yes, it’s sick and amazing either way.

              • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                3·
                10 hours ago

                Nope, free allows for up to 3 users and 100 connected devices. And if you run it on your router, the entire network only counts as one device. So for instance, you and two of your friends could all join the same tailnet. Their business model is basically the same as WinRAR’s; give it to individual users for free, to get people on board. Then charge corporations to use it at scale, since the individual users already know how to use it.

                The only reason I don’t personally use it is because my work WiFi blocks outgoing WireGuard connections. And that’s Tailscale’s biggest weakness in my experience; They tout themselves as a zero-config VPN, but that means you’re not able to config things if you need to. If I were able to flip over to OpenVPN or IKEv2/IPSec instead of WireGuard, I’d be fine. But Tailscale doesn’t have the ability to do that, because it would require configuration.

      • three@lemmy.zipEnglish
        7·
        14 hours ago

        So if you want to watch outside you’re home network, the solution is to blow a hole through your firewall and just raw dog the internet through it? Air out your delicious little jelly hole for the world to see?

        I wonder how we teach the kids about VPNs? Clearly their favorite brainrot youchubers/twitchies/tiktogglers nordvpn ads aren’t getting through…

      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        51·
        16 hours ago

        Is there a time investment for scanning and importing my library? That’s where Plex got me, so much stuff to sort and edit metadata after getting started

        • Cevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          6·
          16 hours ago

          If your library has sensible file names it’ll do it all for you. If you can export .nfo files from Plex (I don’t know, never used Plex), Jellyfin will scan those too. Just add the library to Jellyfin and forget all about it for an hour or two.

    • Bldck@beehaw.orgEnglish
      51·
      16 hours ago

      Jellyfin is great if you are only streaming content locally. If you have people outside your network trying to stream, it is more cumbersome to set up than Plex

  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    14 hours ago

    My QNAP NAS is rapidly approaching 20 years old, I just dump media onto it and then use Infuse as the front end on my Apple TVs.

    It does the trick for the time being, but I do want to spin up a HexOS system with a set of 3x16TB drives to eventually replace it.