The Free Software Media System | Jellyfin
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The volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached.
  • wickEnglish
    8·
    5 months ago

    Not any less buggy than Plex, just buggy in different ways.

    • NOP@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      I haven’t tried to set up music yet, but getting a lot of false lookups on tv episodes even after renaming to the generally agreed file naming format. Still playing with the setup so may get better. Linked it to my kodi on rpi4.

  • MicroplasticbrainEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    Is it possible to make something like a tv channel that randomly selects a video from one of a few folders?

    • Canuck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      If you use Kodi as your Jellyfish front end, yes you can do this with the PseudoLiveTV add-on.

    • 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      kodi’s pseudotv does this well and you can use jellyfin as a backend

      but I’m also curious if there’s a more direct way to do this with jellyfin

      • MicroplasticbrainEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Yea I was hoping Jellyfin could handle it but maybe these are separate concerns. Thanks for the reply

    • Redderik@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      I’ve found the best solution for that is spinning up an ErsatzTV docker instance and add the Live TV channel to Jellyfin. You can customize what gets played to the Live TV channel and I had used it to run a “kids TV” channel at home. The only drawback is I had to shut it down because the transcoding for it was brutal (on a server with no video card). It will convert everything to a standard stream format, and none of my video files would just get served as is.

      • MicroplasticbrainEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Thanks for the reply dude, I’ll google your suggestions and take a look. Cheers

  • Spark Man@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Been using Jellyfin for a couple years now and it’s been a blast. So satisfying to be able to keep my entire music library in one place and play it from anywhere. Sonixd is what I use for listening on desktop, and Finamp is what I use on mobile.