#jellyfin

[ffmpegofficial]

hey just a tip. if you want a streaming service-like set up for your ("legally acquired") media, DON'T use jellyfin to host it. And ESPECIALLY don't use it with kodi to have more power to theme and change the feel of it. I would hate it if you did that. That would be terrible. Wink Wonk.

[netscapenavigator-official]

I literally download most of my ambient music these days. Ever since YouTube decided to start running ads on channels, whether they consent or not, it's become increasingly difficult to find ad-free ambient music.

And, like, it's not the fault of the creators. They're faced with two shitty options:

A: Have ads run on their channel and keep a portion of the proceeds.

B: Have ads run on their channel and Google keeps 100% of it.

So, like, I get it. I get why they have to chose to turn ads on, these days. But my smart TV doesn't have an ad-blocker, and it's where I like to play most of my music from since my TV's sound system is the best one I have.

So I usually use terminal apps like yt-dlp to download my ambient music. I then just play it over my Jellyfin server to replicate an ad-free YouTube experience. This is really the only tolerable way I can listen to ambient music, these days. Nothing is a bigger buzzkill than listening to calming, ambient music only to be interrupted by the loudest, brain-rotting ad you've ever heard.

[usagikisuu]

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[redlettermediathings]

[its-eliza]

I've truly gone full esoteric wizardgirl on this one: I'm learning to set up an iptv service that plays my downloaded shows at scheduled times with advertisements and channel bumpers/idents....

I have reinvented cable but with piracy

[juh-wasnt-deactivated19691231]

woo, big wins today!

+ set up dns ad blocking finally, things are amazing already

+ migrated from plex to jellyfin

+ fixed multiple issues with nat and firewall setup

+ added a srv record for minecraft: now you can just connect to jtreed.org !

+ set up ddns with cloudflare, or at least i think i did, it’s kinda hard to verify

- did not get work done

- removed herobrine

[amalgamasreal]

So in this world of rising streaming costs and license holders unilaterally deciding to pull content from streaming channels I figured I'd compile a few guides for people who want to cut those cords. As a rhetorical exorcise I'm going to list out some guides on how someone might want to create their own local media streaming service and how to automate management and supply of content to it. ALL RHETORICAL

I'm not going to explain how to build a media server, people who go that extensive won't need these guides, but if you have the cash, and don't want to build your own server you can always buy a higher end NAS from synology or QNAP that runs docker engine and you should be good.

Please make sure to follow the instructions for each individual guide in order depending on your choices. RHETORICALLY.

First you install Docker:

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2023/02/docker-compose-synology-nas-install-and-configuration/

Then you install your download clients:

Newsgroups (you'll also need an account with a hosting service like Newshosting or Giganews as well as access to an indexer): https://drfrankenstein.co.uk/2021/07/30/setting-up-nzbget-in-docker-on-a-synology-nas/

Torrents (with this you'll need access to either public or private trackers): https://drfrankenstein.co.uk/2021/09/13/deluge-in-docker-on-a-synology-nas/

Then you install Jackett (this'll auto-manage all of your torrent trackers and create feeds for Sonarr and Radarr):

https://www.smarthomebeginner.com/install-jackett-using-docker/

Then you install Sonarr:

https://drfrankenstein.co.uk/2021/05/03/setting-up-sonarr-in-docker-on-a-synology-nas/

Then you install Radarr:

https://drfrankenstein.co.uk/2021/07/30/setting-up-radarr-in-docker-on-a-synology-nas/

Then you install Plex or Jellyfin:

Plex: https://drfrankenstein.co.uk/2021/12/06/plex-in-docker-on-a-synology-nas/

Jellyfin: https://drfrankenstein.co.uk/2022/09/03/jellyfin-in-docker-on-a-synology-nas-no-hardware-transcoding/

Then you install Overseerr or Jellyseerr:

Overseerr: https://drfrankenstein.co.uk/2022/03/19/overseerr-in-docker-on-a-synology-nas/

Jellyseerr (only use if you picked Jellyfin): https://drfrankenstein.co.uk/2022/09/04/jellyseerr-in-docker-on-a-synology-nas/

[byz-was-here]

Fun fact.

You could pay out the nose to 8~12 streaming services

Or

You could buy a bunch of used PC parts on eBay, slap a free os like truenas or open media vault on it, and then run something like jellyfin or Plex on top of that and you have your own in-home streaming service that costs you an extra buck fifty on your power bill.

[raspbian-official]

I would like to get my collection of *ahem* legally acquired movies from Point A to Point B using any of the four consoles I have plugged into my TV, with subtitles, without making a Plex account and the answer to this problem seems to be "fuck you"??? The PS3 at least gets points for DLNA support, but then I can't have any subtitles :( this is why us single-board OS girlies are the best but sadly my RPi is broken :( :( @jellyfin-official you're the only one who can save me please release a homebrew PS3 client

[praxidyke]

I love jellyfin so much these recommendations rule

[gavingwhiz]

I got fed up with how much modern streaming sucks and built my own damn service at home with nothing more than my Christmas bonus and stubbornness (and dozens of helpful posts by better nerds online).

[netscapenavigator-official]

I saw a post about how good WEBP was, and I thought to myself, "maybe I've been unfair. I should give it a chance," so I translated all the hundreds of photos and GIFs on my Jellyfin server to WEBP to see what would happen. Here are the results:

PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, etc: 2.12 GB

JPEG & GIF: 1.45 GB

WEBP: 1.28 GB

WEBP & GIF: 1.22 GB

For some reason, Shutter Encoder seems to break Animated WEBP files. Not only did it double their size, but it also prevented macOS or Firefox from playing them correctly, so I went back to GIF. It ended up saving more space, anyway

In the end, however, I'm actually really surprised. Using WEBP allows me to preserve a lot of my photos in Lossless compression, all while taking up less space than my current, total JPEG, 100% Lossy setup. WEBP, especially for data storage and server management, actually seems to make a lot of sense, and I'm probably gonna end up using it for the files on my Jellyfin server from now on.

[mirqmarq428]

No idea what I did but jellyfin is working now. Had to sign back in on everything but it's good

[frauleinfunf]

i'm pissing myself at the tags jellyfin automatically generated for my files of the 1934 version of les miserables

[stxalq]

i don't know what magic Node and VLC are on. but you can totally just npx http-server -o . and then stream 2k over the local wifi