8 hours ago
I thought I'd add my tuppence worth here.
I have been using, on and off, Jellyfin for a few years. Previously it was Emby then Plex but those I eventually dropped. You can imagine the reasons for that. My collection serves my children, other family and friends and is normally available 24/7 less the short time for a scripted backup once per week.
My main system currently runs on a properly configured N100 mini PC running under linux with attached 4x20TB drives. It also hosts an ancient but serviceable Subsonic server for audio. If it ain't broke....? My backup server is an i9 mini PC running under Windows 11 Pro with an attached DAS. The systems rsync every few days via a script and Tailscale. The latter is Windows as, at my age, long retired and having been in IT (what used to be called data processing and networking) for forty odd years, I could croak it at any time and none of my family or associates have the slightest knowledge of linux or that black screen thing. Mind you, they're not so hot with Windows either and they wonder why I have used, for years, a MacBook for daily personal use.
Jellyfin has provided me with few problems, in part with regards to the linux box, as it is run bare metal assisted by various Cloudflare bits.That one updated itself overnight when 10.11.1 was released. I didn't even notice the upgrade for more than a day even although it was constantly being used from three countries. No problems, at all, except per library scanning seems a bit problematic and my LG OLED TV pops with 'out of memory' warnings although the cheap bedroom TCL has yet to throw a wobbler. The LG thing matters little as I normally use an Nvidia Shield Pro box which has carried on regardless. No doubt these foibles will be rectified in time. After all, it is version .1.
I thank all of the developers who give their time to the Jellyfin project and the contributors who are willing to share their experiences but there seems to be an annoying number of detractors who fail to consider that this is not a commercial project, some even have the gall to compare with Plex where there is, it fact, little to no comparison. If you want to be spied on, your info harvested, blinded by all sorts of nonsense and, dare I say, pay through the teeth, on you go, Plex is your boy.
I get the feeling that many have played around with all sorts of containers, even containers within containers and containers within VMs. That being the case, it's a 'workshop' fool around system not one for production and hence more than liable to exhibit problems for literally endless reasons including the clear fact that some commentators obviously have little system knowledge but have elected to go for the most obtuse configurations and wonder why it inevitably goes pop if it ever works at all.
People have to learn so they firstly make mistakes and ask for guidance but it seems that many refuse to read the notes, writeups, articles, etc before delving in. They seem to demand 100% success first time. Where's the fun in that? One learns from failure, seldom from success.
A good example of those last two paragraphs is struggling to use Jellyfin within a container within Proxmox and then screaming that they can't get hardware acceleration to work on their seven(teen?) year old system with 2G RAM (and maybe a 5.25 inch floppy!). Maybe like the one angry user with some esoteric, unaccredited and not recommended version of linux with Jellyfin, in a container within Docker in a VM under Proxmox and more than obviously with little to no knowledge of using the command line, moaning that wireless doesn't work, the CPU burning at 100%, video stuttering and probably black smoke everywhere and blaming it all on Jellyfin. Likewise those who complain that it just won't go on their ten year old Raspberry Pi and wonder why. Not that they have done any reading.
If you want a media system, follow the rule of KISS. It always works ....eventually and on the way, you've picked up a few experiences whereby you can assist others. If you prefer some hybrid monster, well done but that's all of your eggs in one creaking basket.
I have been using, on and off, Jellyfin for a few years. Previously it was Emby then Plex but those I eventually dropped. You can imagine the reasons for that. My collection serves my children, other family and friends and is normally available 24/7 less the short time for a scripted backup once per week.
My main system currently runs on a properly configured N100 mini PC running under linux with attached 4x20TB drives. It also hosts an ancient but serviceable Subsonic server for audio. If it ain't broke....? My backup server is an i9 mini PC running under Windows 11 Pro with an attached DAS. The systems rsync every few days via a script and Tailscale. The latter is Windows as, at my age, long retired and having been in IT (what used to be called data processing and networking) for forty odd years, I could croak it at any time and none of my family or associates have the slightest knowledge of linux or that black screen thing. Mind you, they're not so hot with Windows either and they wonder why I have used, for years, a MacBook for daily personal use.
Jellyfin has provided me with few problems, in part with regards to the linux box, as it is run bare metal assisted by various Cloudflare bits.That one updated itself overnight when 10.11.1 was released. I didn't even notice the upgrade for more than a day even although it was constantly being used from three countries. No problems, at all, except per library scanning seems a bit problematic and my LG OLED TV pops with 'out of memory' warnings although the cheap bedroom TCL has yet to throw a wobbler. The LG thing matters little as I normally use an Nvidia Shield Pro box which has carried on regardless. No doubt these foibles will be rectified in time. After all, it is version .1.
I thank all of the developers who give their time to the Jellyfin project and the contributors who are willing to share their experiences but there seems to be an annoying number of detractors who fail to consider that this is not a commercial project, some even have the gall to compare with Plex where there is, it fact, little to no comparison. If you want to be spied on, your info harvested, blinded by all sorts of nonsense and, dare I say, pay through the teeth, on you go, Plex is your boy.
I get the feeling that many have played around with all sorts of containers, even containers within containers and containers within VMs. That being the case, it's a 'workshop' fool around system not one for production and hence more than liable to exhibit problems for literally endless reasons including the clear fact that some commentators obviously have little system knowledge but have elected to go for the most obtuse configurations and wonder why it inevitably goes pop if it ever works at all.
People have to learn so they firstly make mistakes and ask for guidance but it seems that many refuse to read the notes, writeups, articles, etc before delving in. They seem to demand 100% success first time. Where's the fun in that? One learns from failure, seldom from success.
A good example of those last two paragraphs is struggling to use Jellyfin within a container within Proxmox and then screaming that they can't get hardware acceleration to work on their seven(teen?) year old system with 2G RAM (and maybe a 5.25 inch floppy!). Maybe like the one angry user with some esoteric, unaccredited and not recommended version of linux with Jellyfin, in a container within Docker in a VM under Proxmox and more than obviously with little to no knowledge of using the command line, moaning that wireless doesn't work, the CPU burning at 100%, video stuttering and probably black smoke everywhere and blaming it all on Jellyfin. Likewise those who complain that it just won't go on their ten year old Raspberry Pi and wonder why. Not that they have done any reading.
If you want a media system, follow the rule of KISS. It always works ....eventually and on the way, you've picked up a few experiences whereby you can assist others. If you prefer some hybrid monster, well done but that's all of your eggs in one creaking basket.
