Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

Hey all, I'm using jellyfin on a Shield and skipping forward or back requires extra button presses I'd rather not have.

Is there a way to have a simple 'single click jumps forward' button rather than being locked into using the seek bar?

Is there a way to set a movie extra to repeat endlessly? There's a fireplace feature that can cycle on the DVD but I'm not sure how to make it do that in Jellyfin. I have it in there as an extra.

Hello Jellyfin Community,

I’m on the lookout for an application compatible with Android TV that can aggregate content from multiple Jellyfin servers. I understand that on Apple TV, Infuse has the capability to provide such an integrated media library from various Jellyfin servers. I'm interested in finding a similar solution for Android TV.

Use Case: I’d like a unified interface to browse and play media from all connected Jellyfin servers on my Android TV, similar to the experience Infuse offers on Apple TV.

Questions:

Is there an existing Android TV app with the ability to aggregate Jellyfin server content in one interface? Are there any known workarounds, third-party apps, or development efforts underway to create such functionality for Android TV? Any insights or recommendations from the community would be highly appreciated.

Thank you!

New point release! Jellyfin 10.8.13 is available.

This release fixes two security bugs, one very serious, so please update your server as soon as you can.

See the forum post for more details:

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-new-server-web-hotfix-release-10-8-13

EDIT 2023-11-29

FYI Due to a regression in our Jellyfin FFmpeg (https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/10654), we've pushed a new combined Docker image at version 10.8.13-1. All the server and web code is identical, it just has the updated jellyfin-ffmpeg package included. latest has been updated to match.

EDIT 2023-12-01

For anyone using the macOS .DMG (installer), we missed bundling ffprobe in the package.

A new build has been uploaded to our download page. Look for jellyfin_10.8.13-1.dmg.

I have Jellyfin with some movies in it, with each having a 720p and a 1080p version. Here is my folder structure for "Movie 1":

Movie 1 (2000)

• Movie 1 (2000) - 720p.mkv
• Movie 1 (2000) - 1080p.mkv

I also have a subtitle file in the VTT file format, and it will only import if the name includes the quality prefix. The subtitles will only then show for the version at the same quality as the movie.

Is there a way to use a subtitle file and have it's filename without the resolution prefix? I have tried "Movie 1 (2000).vtt", but it doesn't import automatically.

(NOTE: I know that I can go into the web interface and add the subtitles through there, but I want everything nicely organized, and I want to add movies through the files ONLY, without touching the interface)

Hey all,

Got a soundbar that supports HDMI ARC or optical audio. Optical audio requires I control with its remote but I’d rather only use the TV remote but all of my videos are encoded AAC which HDMI ARC doesn’t support. Is there a way to do a device specific custom profile to transcode audio to DTS for example?

Hi!

I've been using Jellyfin for probably a year or so, switching from Plex, and I've found it to be a clear upgrade in most regards. One regard where I find it a bit lacking though is the 'complete couch experience' - when sitting down on the couch to watch something, what I'd like to do is to have an app to select which media to play back, and then play the media back on my Chromecast.

Currently, this workflow is nominally supported using the Jellyfin client for Android, but it's far from ideal - the Now Playing-screen only occasionally shows up, and it frequently desyncs and becomes unusable after only a short amount of time, making controlling the playback an impossibility.

Does anyone have an alternative workflow that would better suit my needs?

Beautiful stats for Jellyfin. I just set it up in docker compose yesterday. Love it!

So I'm back with Netflix and Amazon. I'm kind of done with jellyfin at this point. I've been recommending it to everyone and honestly I'm not sure that I still would.

Jellyfin as a product simply doesn't work. There, I said it.

For a media system I'd hope for the basics to be able to play a movie or show with subtitles, selecting audio channels, and scrubbing and it to remember where I was left. I wouldn't even need posters and all that, I'd get my own subtitles, etc.

I have multiple TVs, but let's go with the old one with a chrome cast. I use my Android phone to cast a show episode. Scrubbing sometimes works. it works better than before because before it would just break everything to the point of the app requiring a reinstall. At least that's fixed now but scrubbing still is SLOW, 10 seconds ahead takes 20-30 seconds to do. Worse though, it borks up subtitles by leaving the subtitles that were there when you started scrubbing, and places the new ones on top of that. The only way out is to exit casting completely, kill the app, restart all from scratch. Obviously JF doesn't continue where I stopped (seriously, requests on that timeframe were made, it can't be that hard to register that, can it?) and so I need to scrub again which, you know, borks up subtitles. So I'll start just from the beginning, I can rewatch the same 5 minutes twice but it annoys the hell out of my wife.

Then, subtitles is a mess. The above, but also switching subtitles will cause similar issues. Don't touch anything when having subtitles!

Then: it's slow. It's godunholy slow. I have a 16 core and Rhyzen 5 cpu, 64gb men @3200mhz, 1tb M2 Samsung Evo 989 pro, and ~60tb over 3 exos drives. An AMD rx7800 XT finishes up the config. It's not the best of the best, but my system, u believe, ranks in the higher ranks of jellyfin installations

Jellyfin cannot play a movie or show without stuttering at least a few times, flat out freezing for minutes during shows, especially in the second episode for that day... If I run transmission in parallel, it just freezes up so much that it's undoable.

Logs don't indicate any major issue, I saw a freeze and had all logs on tail and literally saw no messages whatsoever during that freeze. System utilization was near zero.

Wife isnt tolerating jellyfin anymore and now I have Netflix and Amazon accounts again.

I understand it's open source software, you do what you can, but right now it simply isn't a system that is for the general public. It can be used by nerds like me who have the patience to deal with all the issues.

Edit: Really? 17 downvotes? I'm trying to tell you that the thing doesn't work and that I've spent plenty of time trying to fix it, reading docs, posting questions, nothing has fixed anything so far but can't have people talk about that, or what's wrong?

I'm working on learning about servers and such but it's a lot to take in. I'm looking to get a 5tb hard drive and install it into a network attached storage tower. What else would be needed to make this work? Links provided are what I'm thinking

QNAP TS-233-US 2 Bay Affordable Desktop NAS with ARM Cortex-A55 Quad-core Processor and 2 GB DDR4 RAM (Diskless) https://a.co/d/725WsHM

Seagate Portable 5TB External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC, Mac, PS4, & Xbox - 1-Year Rescue Service (STGX5000400), Black https://a.co/d/fClqYLT

I know this works if I have, for example:

movies/
    - movie1 - 1080p.mkv
    - movie1 - 2160p.mkv

but what if I have:

movies/
    - movie1 - 1080p.mkv
movies2/
    - movie1 - 2160p.mkv

Because I'm out of space on the driver under "movies". Do I need to have them in the same parent folder?

I setup a dedicated account called family that is only used for the TV. I don't think there is a better option at the moment.

I have a collection of German documentaries and ideally I'd like to make them available via Jellyfin.
Is there a plugin to index those? Hell, is there even an index database for that type of thing?

I find myself trying to stream a heavy movie, on a local network but it transcodes it due to the original file exceeding maximum bitrate. I've checked the settings but the only one which seem to control this is set at 0 which is unlimited (i guess). Is there any way to bypass this limit if so? The overall bitrate of the movie in question is 65Mb/s Thanks.

I have a HDhomerun and when I use it with kodi the TV guide is pulled from the hdhomerun api. Is it possible to make jellyfin do the same?

I've got a 3TB external drive that has files dating back to ~2001, and it's chock-full of DVDrips from my library. It was initially formatted for an AppleTV/iTunes movie/show library, but now that I no longer use Apple products, I'm trying to migrate to Jellyfin. an example would be like the file I included, as it has the "bonus" stuff.

VLC is able to detect and play it, however as this is intended to be watched remotely, I would love to be able to have it detect the extras, chapters, and etc as all one file. I have ~300 movies like this, so deleting+reacquiring would be a massive pain..... :V

I set up jellyfin with docker and it's working fine with local files. I wanted to add some additional media files so I mounted a directory using sshfs. The directory is present with the media files and it is bound to a volume in Docker. But jellyfin doesn't add the files. It doesn't find the subdirectories or the media files. Am I doing something wrong ?

Joshua Boniface says:

We're pleased to announce a new hotfix release for the Jellyfin server and web client, 10.8.12!

This release brings in a few bugfixes since 10.8.11, including fixes for broken playlists ( 🙌 ), VAAPI UMD/KMD, and others; please see the full changelog for details! Note that this release does NOT include an update to SkiaSharp to fix their recent CVEs, as the updated version of the library segfaults Jellyfin on any API access. We are continuing to investigate options there but did not want to block these other bugfixes on that.

10.8.12 should be a seamless upgrade for anyone running 10.8.11 (I just tested it myself), but of course if you notice any problems please open a thread in the Troubleshooting forum for assistance!

The release on GitHub, including changelog, is at: link

Binaries are available in all the usual places: Docker Hub, Our Official OS Repos, and Our Main Repository Page.

Happy watching!

Development on the plugin seems to have stopped two months ago and the repo has been archived. Unfortunately that means that downloading from GH-actions (as advised in the documentation) is impossible, because the download has expired.

Any workarounds (short of using docker)?

I've been wanting to ditch Plex for a long time now, but there are a number of things in my way.

One of the main ones is the fact that I don't know if it's possible to migrate data such as what has and has not been watched. Just my anime collection alone is comprised of a little under 450 series, with many thousands of episodes. Not to mention sizable collection of regular cartoons, tv shows, etc. Keeping track of what I have already watched was the main motivator of finally moving to a media server 5 or so years ago, rather than continuing to just watch everything in VLC like I had been doing for many years before that.

So yeah, first question is whether or not there is a way to migrate all of that data. And any other data that can be migrated. There are more than a few titles, posters, etc that I had to set manually because the information scaped by Plex was wrong. I'd rather not have to do it all over again.

Next would be a question about subtitle/audio track management. With Plex, I can use PastaTool to batch set the audio track and subtitle for a single episode, a whole season, or an entire series, all at once. As you might guess, anime is my primary media consumption on Plex. So just changing some "default language" setting just isn't good enough. The audio track language/title is often either unamed or named inconsistently, so it often never works. And for subtitles, you have the same issue, except you have to also include the fact that there can, and usually is, two or more English subtitles for dialogue, signs(on-screen text), commentary, etc. It's far more enjoyable to take 30 seconds to batch change an entire series to the correct audio and subtitles for spending your day off watching 40 episodes of a show, than it is to have to manually change them every 20 minutes when the next episode starts. Is there a way/tool to do this on jellyfin?

The other main concern is transcoding. I watch on a desktop with a TV as a monitor. Not on Mobile/Android, not on some trash smart tv. So with Plex, I can only use their desktop app on Windows, because it is the only one that will direct-play videos without any transcoding. Plex in the browser refuses to play videos without transcoding, and I vaguely remember trying to access Plex libraries from other stuff(maybe Kodi), which would also not play without transcoding. My NAS hardware does not remotely have the power to transcode video. And quite frankly, it shouldn't have to. It's 2023. Every device I own is more than capable of playing every format, codec, etc that I could possibly need. And I don't stream outside of my local network, so data rates are really not a concern either. So basically, what are my options for direct-play with jellyfin, if any?

And the easy question. Every time the Internet goes down for many hours, which with Comcast is apparently a constant occurrence, Plex decides that I don't get to watch my own media, on my own server, on my own network, in my own home. When my Internet shits the bed, will I be able to keep watching my stuff, or will jellyfin throw a hissy fit and refuse to work, like Plex does.

And any other tips and tricks for migrating from Plex to jellyfin without having to do countless hours of manually configuring/editing my massive library, would be helpful. I'd really like to make the move. Aside from the issues I mentioned, there is also the fact that they keep shoving unwanted features down my throat, and making absolutely terrible UI changes with no way to change it back.

I have enabled TMDb Box Sets Plugin and it creates collections automatically well. But the problem is that artwork isn't downloaded. When I go to a given collection -> Edit images -> Search, no image is found.

Movies artwork is working perfectly, I can also go to edit images and search and get more results.

Do you have any idea what the problem is?

I am going to soon start over with my homeserver that has jellyfin running on it and I'd like to take over all user accounts on there plus their collected data, like watched episodes, into the new installation. Its a linux system, no docker, next system is going to be the same basically.

Via searches I found a few solutions online, some on reddit, some other places so it seems possible. Just asking here as well since no one has asked before, seeing this is a quite new channel, but also because all solutions I found go back a few years and I wondered if there is anything more recent I may have missed in my search.

Some solutions were heavily hands on looking up data in sql tables, if there is anything more user friendly it would be great.

Hi. Has anyone succesfully integrated one (or more) Teufel Raumfeld speakers into Jellyfin? Maybe even integrated that into Homeassistant? I bought an older Raumfeld device an the app + DLNA are driving me crazy.

Hi, All --

I've been using Jellyfin on and off for the last month or so, trying to migrate away from Plex. Jellyfin's server, web, and mobile applications have all been great, and aside from some small quibbles and quality of life things that Plex does, I have no complaints. It's never been a hassle to work with or use.

Except for the Android TV app. I have two Shield TVs (2019 tubes) and while Jellyfin has been outperforming Plex in terms of playback/transcoding, the app itself is insanely frustrating from an accessibility/usability standpoint. There are some quirks I can live with and accept as it's still a young application in active development. But a few critical problems make it an absolute nightmare for everyone in the house.

The two big issues are: no text titles on the movie/tv series library screens and auto-play next episode frequently replays the episode we started from. Another big irritation is when it auto-skips an intro, the audio is desynced, but that's a plugin and something I can disable, and we can survive without it.

Can anyone recommend an alternative app for Android TV that works well with Jellyfin and maintains watched/next up status? So far, all I have found is Kodi, but I've had bad experiences with it in the (distant) past, and recent anecdotal evidence implies it could bring its own set of problems.

Thanks!

I am in love with my Jellyfin server (running in a Docker container) - it feels so nice to take back control over my media consumption again, after more than a decade in the land of streaming. So much, that I want to share this with my family.

So I was thinking of setting up a reverse proxy (Nginx Proxy Manager is what I have used before) and expose my Jellyfin-instance through that. However, I've seen several people be skeptical about this solution, instead opting for access through a VPN (I don't think that would be a good solution for some of my family members).

What are the potential pitfalls of setting it up this way, that makes people skeptical? Where could I go wrong, and what dangers would I expose myself to? As I understand it, this would only expose one port to the internet, direct all that traffic to the Nginx Proxy Manager, which then forwards traffic to specific ports internally on my home network, which sounds safe in my mind. Is it misconfiguration of the proxy manager I should be wary of? Or some exploits in the proxy manager?