Blurrred posters if they are not scrapped posters

[ZombieHunter]

I have the images (poster, banner, clearart...) in the movies directories on the file server.

If I edit images of a movie and upload them, they are blurred if the server is off.
This does not happen with images that are scrapped.

Does Jellyfin not upload the images to the Jellyfin machine where its running?

If not, how can I solve this?
I don't want the file server running all the time but still want to browse Jellyfin.

[Efficient_Good_5784]

Jellyfin needs to always be running. The location where you store your images and media also needs to be running and accessible by Jellyfin when you use Jellyfin.

Jellyfin is a media server. It will not work right if parts of it are turned off. It can't server you content if it's off.

[ZombieHunter]

Sure Jellyfin is running.

But why is there a difference between scrapped and uploaded images?
And why does the backend say "Upload Image" if the images are not uploaded to the Jellyfin server?

[paulc]

After you manually add or change images, you need to go to the movie, series, episode or library that you added the changes in and "Refresh Media" using "Scan for new and updated files," most likely. Images also need to follow the naming scheme.

[ZombieHunter]

After you manually add or change images, you need to go to the movie, series, episode or library that you added the changes in and "Refresh Media" using "Scan for new and updated files," most likely. Images also need to follow the naming scheme.

How does this change the behavior?
I mean that's what I always do.

Again: If the movie/file server is down the images are blurred.

So Jellyfin (running on another computer and using "Upload Image") does not upload the images do its own directories?
But scrapping images from the web does?

[TheDreadPirate]

I just did a test. If I set my library to save artwork to the media directories and I "upload" an image, it will replace that image in the media directory.

Code:

chris@rat-trap:/media/storage2/testMovies/Princess Mononoke$ ll
total 3604620
drwxrws--- 2 chris    jellyfin       4096 Nov 15 10:49  ./
drwxrws--- 4 chris    jellyfin       4096 Nov  8 15:19  ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 jellyfin jellyfin     427032 Nov 15 10:49  backdrop.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jellyfin jellyfin     705684 Nov 15 10:49  folder.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jellyfin jellyfin    1099708 Nov 15 10:49  landscape.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jellyfin jellyfin      82500 Nov 15 10:49  logo.png
-rw-rw---- 1 chris    jellyfin 3688791275 Nov  7 17:25 'Princess Mononoke.mkv'

I upload a new image and replace "primary" aka folder.jpg

Code:

chris@rat-trap:/media/storage2/testMovies/Princess Mononoke$ ll
total 3604540
drwxrws--- 2 chris    jellyfin       4096 Nov 15 10:49  ./
drwxrws--- 4 chris    jellyfin       4096 Nov  8 15:19  ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 jellyfin jellyfin     427032 Nov 15 10:49  backdrop.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jellyfin jellyfin     625228 Nov 15 10:50  folder.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jellyfin jellyfin    1099708 Nov 15 10:49  landscape.jpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 jellyfin jellyfin      82500 Nov 15 10:49  logo.png
-rw-rw---- 1 chris    jellyfin 3688791275 Nov  7 17:25 'Princess Mononoke.mkv'

Jellyfin will always serve images directly from the media directory if they are present and named properly. It will not make a copy and store them in the Jellyfin data directory.

[TheDreadPirate]

One thing you could try is setting up a reverse proxy like Nginx, if you haven't done this already, and configuring image caching in Nginx.

I just tested this out. Accessed the test movie, set directory permissions to deny access to Jellyfin, refresh and confirmed Jellyfin can't read the images, I still get images.

I then switched off Nginx caching and it stopped serving the images Jellyfin no longer had access to.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/networ...che-images