Emby to Jellyfin. Fantastic!

[ajgreeny]

I have been registered on this forum for several years, having tried Jellyfin on my Xubuntu desktop just after Emby moved to closed-source.
Unfortunately jellyfin didn't offer an easily installable client app for my LG Smart TV as it had too old a version of WebOS (4) so I was "forced" back to Emby which I had also tried and which did have a client app for my TV, the TV being my main need of a media server.

However there is now an app for my TV, released fairly recently this year, so I have now moved from Emby to Jellyfin and I'm loving it.

No nagging to subscribe to Emby-Premiere any more and ño lack of some things that were unavailable  in Emby  without Premiere. It's not totally perfect, probably due to my media file naming, going back many years but there's too many thousands of files to attempt renaming them so I just accept those problems

Thank you so much to the server and app devs who have done such an amazing job putting this all together.

[ajgreeny]

Sorry folks but I spoke a bit too soon!

Jellyfin server on Xubuntu 24.04 works great to show all video files in my libraries and plays music with no problems at all.

However, photographs in jpg format will not play at all on my LG TV WebOS client jellyfin app and unfortunately photo display is essential for me. I have searched these forums and there seems to no easy or simple way to overcome this basic problem for me.
Surely photo display shouldn't be a bigger problem than videos.

I have installed the dlna plugin to see if that helps but the TV is in use for other things at the moment so I can't test it yet, though it certainly works in VLC UP&P so I'm hopeful even though it requires a completely different sequence of keys on the TV Remote.

I will update this when I have a chance to test everything but would appreciate any other thoughts on why photo display is such a problem; Emby showed these same photos with no problem.

[TheDreadPirate]

Are they JPEG XL? Unfortunately the library that jellyfin uses for its image support is lacking (a problem with the upstream package).

A lot of increasingly common formats aren't supported. AVIF, JPEG XL, etc.

Even formats it does support, like Sony RAW (ARW) for me, doesn't work most of the time.

If you need something like Jellyfin, but for photos, you should check out Immich.

https://immich.app/
https://github.com/immich-app/immich

[ajgreeny]

I don't think they are JPEG XL but will check tomorrow if I can figure out how to do that.
Many of the photos are from 2008; was JPEG XL even around back then and they all show in the jellyfin display on my browser (Firefox 125) without a problem so perhaps its jellyfin's problem with my version of LG WebOS.

Do you know whether the Linux command
file /path/to/file.jpg
tell me if they're JPEG XL?

[TheDreadPirate]

It should. It does for my plain jpegs. JPEG XL often have a .jxl extension for differentiation, but I'm not sure that is a hard requirement.

Looks JPEG XL was standardized in 2017 so your pictures are almost certainly NOT JPEG XL. Just Jellyfin not working right with photos.

Again, IMO you should check out Immich for a self-hosts photo gallery.