Jellyfin

“I almost exclusively use Jellyfin for TV and generally the only media that breaks from weird metadata tagging is asian stuff like Animes.”

“It's pretty easy and straight forward, the login UI is similar to netflix where you can have profiles per user”

“it is actually easy to setup and if you put in some real thinking into it, it becomes both secure and easy to pass around”

“Jellyfin and (just as importantly -- at least for me) the distribution (Fedora) I use have been very good at patching/releasing updates”

“JF is the only mainstream media server solution that's continuously improved without any signs of enshittification”

“Performance was also a big issue for me the last time I tried running Jellyfin on the same hardware as my Plex server.”

“all reported security bugs have been fixed promptly, and they're proactively sweeping through the full set of APIs they inherited”

“doing performance improvements and adding comic book support before making the product secure enough to expose to the internet is wild prioritization”

“Jellyfin's Android clients seem to be fine. Android TV and smartphone at least. Have been fine for at least five years.”

“Jellyfin works great for me. My only gripe is logging around library scanning being pretty difficult to interpret.”

“if Jellyfin could nail the library sharing then they would definitely be a much bigger alternative to Plex users on the fence”

“This will reduce the switching workload, and you can run both services at the same time whilst trying out Jellyfin.”

“Jellyfin is great project and good software when is working, unfortunately for me it doesn't works very well.”

“Jellyfin recently added automatic overlaying of DVDSUB server-side which drastically slows down seeking on Roku”

“this is the big thing for me, being able to just install the client on your TV and not worry about it is great”

“there is absolutely no way to audit what's going on other than realizing that some show has two files per episodes”

“I have literally have had no issues with mine including setting up nvidia hw transcoding on a debian NAS”

“It wasn’t as straightforward as Plex’s visual, flipping covers over as the metadata loads in for each movie, providing a clear queue and sense of progress.”

“Jellyfin is a great product. I've been using llm + Tailscale + Jellyfin to manage my media box and I couldn't be more happy.”

“The thing I'm not OK with about Jellyfin is that the common answer for remote access involves setting up a reverse proxy or a VPN”

“Jellyfin continues to be a noticeable downgrade from Plex, but it is chugging along to being as good.”

“In order to transition to Jellyfin I would have to rename thousands of files to comply to its specific requirements”

“I love it mostly as well so far, the only sticking point on both my TVs is constantly having to re-enter my server IP address.”

“Jellyfin is the best in class, but the bar is in hell. It can't be run in any kind of a high availability configuration”

“which imo works just as well and seems to not fall into the whole pay us to stream your media business practice yet”

“One command line and I have a brand new Jellyfin LXC with much bigger storage, and working like nothing happened”

“It makes pirating as easy as Netflix, except you don't have to worry about "on which platform is this available?"”

“It enforces an artist-album-track structure of media, so if you don't like that structure you'll be fighting Jellyfin more than using it.”

“with something like Jellyfin you get multi-platform apps (including tvOS and android tv etc), tracking of progress within a movie or tv series, play next etc.”

“The UX of self hosted solutions like for example Jellyfin or other open source can (surprisingly!) be better than the paid solutions.”

“both are trivial to setup and will run on basically any hardware you can imagine wanting to use for this”

“If Jellyfin was a comparable product (in user experience and ease of use for my extended family's platforms) I'd switch tomorrow.”

“Ended up being good for Jellyfin because I can have the GPU handle transcoding and tonemapping of 4K HDR movies.”

“I recently spun up Jellyfin in a container about 1-2 years after my last setup and was impressed with the polish.”

“Today I can have ~8 people streaming from my Jellyfin instance which is a server that consumes about 35W”

“The ui is surprisingly good and polished (especially for the users who don't have to manage the library)”

“a more advanced media server (jellyfin) that can do stuff like transcode FLAC to opus on the fly for mobile clients”

“With 10.11 the Jellyfin team finally managed to clean up that mess so they can move forward with a clean implementation.”

“SQLite has been a source of most Jellyfin problems, and Jellyfin has more problems than the rest of the ~ 150 containers I run regularly.”

“It works like a dream, but there are some very strange circumstances that can cause the database to become locked”