2023-12-31, 01:42 AM
jellyfin-media-player and jellyfin-server are mutually exclusive things. They have no direct relation to each other.
Assuming you are trying to create a jellyfin server, and not just connect to an existing one:
1. Install jellyfin-server, jellyfin-web, and jellyfin-ffmpeg
2. Start the jellyfin process. Haven't done this on arch, but it should be something like
3. Connect to the server. This would be the ip address of your device you've installed the server to. Open a web browser and go to
4. You should be guided through the installation wizard from here.
Now if you already have a jellyfin server running somewhere and you want to install a client to this device, you would install jellyfin-media-player and then configure it to point to your existing server. Without a server already running somewhere the client is useless. This is also not strictly required, as your web browser will act as a client. jellyfin-media-player is basically the same interface as the web client, but it has better codec support and will be less likely to require transcoding for some media. This may or may not be a factor for you once you get things working.
Assuming you are trying to create a jellyfin server, and not just connect to an existing one:
1. Install jellyfin-server, jellyfin-web, and jellyfin-ffmpeg
2. Start the jellyfin process. Haven't done this on arch, but it should be something like
systemctl start jellyfin. If you want to do it automatically on system boot, you'd also need to do systemctl enable jellyfin.3. Connect to the server. This would be the ip address of your device you've installed the server to. Open a web browser and go to
http://your-ip-address:80964. You should be guided through the installation wizard from here.
Now if you already have a jellyfin server running somewhere and you want to install a client to this device, you would install jellyfin-media-player and then configure it to point to your existing server. Without a server already running somewhere the client is useless. This is also not strictly required, as your web browser will act as a client. jellyfin-media-player is basically the same interface as the web client, but it has better codec support and will be less likely to require transcoding for some media. This may or may not be a factor for you once you get things working.
