2023-07-23, 08:51 AM
Hi all. I'm Chris.
First off, got to say, Jellyfin has absolutely changed the way I (and my users) view content online. It is, hands down, the best solution available.
Congratulations to everyone involved, what a superb triumph.
I've been running Jellyfin for about three months now. Installed on my Windows 10 box that primarily feeds my TV in the living room.
6TB storage, Nvidia card.
Hardware encoding enabled, custom branding (logos/name/favicon etc), custom css, live TV, book reader etc etc.
Plugins include bookshelf, subtitles, playback reporting and the movie/TV DB's.
I have 10 users, myself family and friends.
They are a mix of TV's, mobile devices and cast devices.
I try to encourage users to play content through vlc if possible (trading off the transcoding is such a great feature).
I get saved content primarily from torrent(day).
For live TV, I have subscribed to a service that pumps out all globally available channels m3u style. I have set up the TV guide and given access for digital recordings (however, no one has used it yet, can't comment).
I'm currently at just over 500 Movies, 84 TV shows (over 3200 Episodes of various series) and over 50 books. Live TV has every channel on the planet available ( £10 a month, absolutely worth every penny).
My server is used daily by multiple users.
Never misses a beat. Always spot on.
Notifications of additions and requests are handled on a WhatsApp group.
I've set my two boys as admins, they both have vnc access to the server if I'm not available.
(I appreciate the 'not reinventing the wheel' stance on adding social media style functionality to Jellyfin, but it would make life easier on the request front. Yes, raddar and sonar, but I'm not keen).
Personally, I have chromecast's on each TV.
The mobile app is rock hard. Just love it.
Even on the fixed tablet in the car, it's brilliant (some trickery to set up - android auto by default will not play video, although there is a way around it. Was well worth it). I'm a big fan of subtitles, the .org plugin is so good.
Overall, yes, it's cost me somewhat in new hardware (gpu/ssd's), but I consider that well worth the investment. I could not be happier.
I really appreciate you all for your time and investment in this project. Every single user has commented on the quality and availability. It's just superb.
Yes, I'm definitely a fan.
First off, got to say, Jellyfin has absolutely changed the way I (and my users) view content online. It is, hands down, the best solution available.
Congratulations to everyone involved, what a superb triumph.
I've been running Jellyfin for about three months now. Installed on my Windows 10 box that primarily feeds my TV in the living room.
6TB storage, Nvidia card.
Hardware encoding enabled, custom branding (logos/name/favicon etc), custom css, live TV, book reader etc etc.
Plugins include bookshelf, subtitles, playback reporting and the movie/TV DB's.
I have 10 users, myself family and friends.
They are a mix of TV's, mobile devices and cast devices.
I try to encourage users to play content through vlc if possible (trading off the transcoding is such a great feature).
I get saved content primarily from torrent(day).
For live TV, I have subscribed to a service that pumps out all globally available channels m3u style. I have set up the TV guide and given access for digital recordings (however, no one has used it yet, can't comment).
I'm currently at just over 500 Movies, 84 TV shows (over 3200 Episodes of various series) and over 50 books. Live TV has every channel on the planet available ( £10 a month, absolutely worth every penny).
My server is used daily by multiple users.
Never misses a beat. Always spot on.
Notifications of additions and requests are handled on a WhatsApp group.
I've set my two boys as admins, they both have vnc access to the server if I'm not available.
(I appreciate the 'not reinventing the wheel' stance on adding social media style functionality to Jellyfin, but it would make life easier on the request front. Yes, raddar and sonar, but I'm not keen).
Personally, I have chromecast's on each TV.
The mobile app is rock hard. Just love it.
Even on the fixed tablet in the car, it's brilliant (some trickery to set up - android auto by default will not play video, although there is a way around it. Was well worth it). I'm a big fan of subtitles, the .org plugin is so good.
Overall, yes, it's cost me somewhat in new hardware (gpu/ssd's), but I consider that well worth the investment. I could not be happier.
I really appreciate you all for your time and investment in this project. Every single user has commented on the quality and availability. It's just superb.
Yes, I'm definitely a fan.
