The Introductions thread

[OSG]

Hello, 

    I'm OSG. I"m currently running Jellyfin within docker on a ubuntu machine. I currently am cautiously running all my movies on an 8TB external HDD (getting ready to upgrade to a raid setup). I use Jellyfin solely for movie playback. I am looking to eventually proxy my setup so I can access away from my home network but as of right now, it's been working for me without that. I feel my setup is pretty basic and I still have a lot to learn in regard to troubleshooting jellyfin however when the service is working, it's been great. I'm glad to be apart of the forum as I've always enjoyed chatting with others with similar interest.

[FactoriedMyAuth]

Howdy, Shwalamazula here. I am really new to this. The most I ever used for media hosting was just a folder with a bunch of old .avi files, using MetaX to put metadata in the files so they would show up as fancy titles on network shares. I stopped accessing those files years ago, because they were low quality, took too much work to get them to stream to the TV, and streaming services filled the gap.

Up until about a year ago, I had a handful of 4ks and Blu-Rays. I was leaning toward starting a physical media library because of Disney. Paramount kicked me into gear when they dropped Star Trek: Prodigy (Sony didn't help with their recent dropping of purchased titles either). My buddy outgrew his DS220+ and asked me if I wanted it, since he knew I was building my own library. That kicked off a new hyper-fixation hobby and now I am here. I read up on the most popular media-hosting solutions and this seemed like a good fit for me.

I started with the DS220+ with 2x 8TB drives in SHA (so 8TB with full drive redundancy). I had Jellyfin hosted from the 220+ in a container. That worked well, since it had QuickSync. I quickly outgrew that (my Trek files are nearly 4TB in total), so I upgraded the drives to 20TB. That lasted me 3 months.

Now I am running a DS1522+ with 3x 20TB (18TB usable) drives in SHA (35TB usable with 1 disk failure protection). Because the chipset on the 1522+ doesn't have hardware acceleration, the NAS is not hosting anymore. I have my main computer temporarily hosting with the Windows app (just for simplicity). I picked up a Beelink EQ12 (Intel N100) to be the main host. I am still trying to figure out the best way to set that up and will be crawling thru the self-host pages to see what others have done. I am using Jellyfin for local hosting of movies and tv shows. I have my flack collection in there as well (just to see how it handles audio). I tried adding my e-books too, but that was a bit clunky and only an experiment.

So, yeah ... super fun journey so far.

[PerAsperaAdAstra]

Hello,
I have something more than 10 computer at home (I'm a bit of a freak, and my family is the same) and I'm always trying to steamline everything to have the best experience.
I used/use Jellyfin in some scenario (mostly for fun), both the docker and the standalone version.
Right now my main Jellyfin is a small Asrock H110TM-ITX with modified firmware (done to support an "unofficial" low power Intel coffee lake CPU with 6 cores and 12 threads) able to eat up anything up to h265 (no AV1 there at the moment, but h266 is right around the corner so it's better to wait) in a CTM build, ubuntu server (headless).
Right now I'm waiting for two clients I'm willing to try (both taken from eBay), one is an Wyse 3040 (Atom low power) that I'll thinker a bit (and is going to move from jellyfin straight to an audio player: volumio using jellyfin as backend) and the other is a beefier Intel NUC 6i3syk who's going to stay as a full media player (kodi front end, I'll have some fun using some random remote with LIRC).

I was also searching for a way to use jellyfin on a Playstation 3 for the sake of putting to good use an old (but glorious) Sony 32" CRT (WIDE!) TV, unfortnuately the Raspberry Pi + PI2SCART experience is underwhelming - better results could be obtained with a standard CRT monitor (those are great for old school 4:3 SDTV contents).

Not much else to say.

[ratpie]

i just wanted to say thank you to the entire team.
  before the last client update, i was switching back and forth between kodi and jellyfin. today i deleted kodi and am exclusively using the new client. it just works better. no drop outs, no buffer overruns, streams better, less bs hoops to jump through, WAY MORE SUPPORT for debian.



Operating System: MX Linux 23
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.1.0-13-amd64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 23.2 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics
System Version: Version 1.0

[vazz269]

Hi guys I'm new ish to this but I'm full of ideas for add ons et for example a way setup the server could keep shoes etc. Unfortunately I I lack the ability do this.]

[Jamie Chapman]

Hi everyone, I'm Jamie. New to the forum, been running JF for just over a year. Awesome platform, and kudos to the devs for the hard work. We really appreciate it. 

Hopefully I'll be of some help in the forums. I don't dev, but I've been a sys admin for about 25 years, and am becoming more familiar with Jellyfin's under the hood goodies as I go, since I love to tinker (good, or bad? good, so long as I don't break it. but then, that's often how we learn!!  )

[virginia]

Hi guys, I am new to the forum. I run jellyfin on windows. I only access it from within my home so far.

[Mahnogard]

Can I just say how refreshing it is that you chose to close a subreddit to move to a forum instead of the other way around? Don't get me wrong, I like Reddit and spend too much time there, but it's not the same. This is better for this kinda stuff.

Hi! I'm Christa, or Mahnogard (which is Dragonham backward). I first used Jellyfin back... when I first heard about it. I don't know which RC it was. Those were the days of the Pandy, it all runs together. I used Emby before it was Emby, all the way back to the WMC days. I've also used just about every media server option out there, both with and without live tv. XBMC then Kodi, Plex, MediaPortal, MythTV/Mythbuntu (which I blame for making me dislike Linux), GB/NextPVR, Next... Am I forgetting any? If it existed on Win or Linux, I tried it out. 

Currently, Jellyfin is running on a Win 10 Lenovo IdeaCentre 510A with 6GB RAM, a Ryzen 3 something (I am not getting up to go look) and AMD integrated graphics of some sort (again, I am not getting up). I inherited the computer and didn't know what to do with it until last weekend when I finally decided I needed to set a server back up after two years without it. The previous server was running on one of those little ThinkCentre SFF computers.

My collection is not at all demanding. I think there are maybe 8 Bluray rips in the entire video collection, everything else is SD. I don't hoard, I curate things I love, and my tastes tend to run old for the most part. I don't think anyone is going to remaster Adam-12 into HD anytime soon. My audio collection is somewhere around 18k music mp3s plus a couple thousand old time radio mp3s. (I'm still trying to figure out how to best present the latter in a way that makes me happy so they aren't actually on the server yet. Experiments in creative tagging. Suggestions welcome.)

My birthday is this month and I bought myself the Gunsmoke Anniversary box set, which will arrive in a few days. I will be ripping DVDs for months.   (I'm still using an iomega SuperSlim external DVD drive that I bought in 2010. It is the most rock solid DVD drive ever. It's a legend.) I can't wait to see it on my server.

[ebkalderon]

Definitely agree with @Mahnogard on this one. Haven't been on an active MyBB forum in ages, and wow, this sure is a blast from the past!

Hi, everyone! I'm Eyal, or ebkalderon on GitHub. I've been following Jellyfin's development progress on GitHub and formerly Reddit for a year or two now, and I thought I'd finally open an account on the forum to participate in discussions and not just lurk. I have a pretty modest setup at the moment: I have Jellyfin installed on an old Dell XPS 13 9360 laptop running Arch Linux, with my media library stored on a 2TB Samsung T7 Touch SSD (with periodic rsync backups saved to another identical external SSD kept off-site). I have Caddy set up as a reverse proxy and TLS certificate management service for Jellyfin, so I can access my media outside the house. I'm looking to scale this crude setup into a well-managed homelab over the next few years.

I primarily use Jellyfin to self-host my legally acquired music library (plenty of lossless CD rips along with MP3/FLAC files individually purchased over the years from Google Music, Bandcamp, 7Digital, and iTunes) along with a few movies and TV shows ripped from my budding Blu-Ray collection. These BD-ROM rips are re-encoded with Handbrake to save space. I also have a collection of downloaded YouTube videos, primarily technical tutorials and educational content, which I try to organize as another library separate from "Movies" and "TV Shows". I would like to get into archiving a podcast or two at some point, whenever Jellyfin gets better support for that type of media (resuming listening from the last known playback position, better metadata parsing, chapter navigation, etc).

The past few releases of Jellyfin have been really exciting to me, especially 10.9.X. I'm also particularly excited for other planned features to land (the media segments API, the upcoming UI/UX redesign spearheaded by Erik, "offline mode" with synced watch progress, music player improvements, and so on). In the meantime, I'll be busy ripping my content library using my combo optical drive (Archgon MD-8107S-U3YC-UHD) and uploading it to Jellyfin over SMB.

Thanks to everyone for tirelessly building, designing, and promoting Jellyfin! You folks are the reason the software is as fun to use as it is. Hope to see you all around on the forum and Matrix from time to time.

[Fate]

Hi
I'm fate the probably most hated person on this forum. (Especially by the mod team) :P

I'm one of these Archlinux users that have too much freetime and trying to to helpful on these forums.

I run jellyfin on Proxmox powered my an Intel J5005.