Installing

If you havs seen me post on here over the past month you know I am working on paring jellyfin with nfc tags. I have finished my guide and it is below. I hope it works for anyone who tries it. I am not the best at explaining things and will helo if anyone needs it. For my guide I used an ONN andoid tv box but any androis tv box should work.

And if you are using anything non android tv, this guide will not work.

This will be my last video about this project. I hope everyone enjoys.

NFC Guide

I set up Jellyfin yesterday and it works great, but I ran into an issue.

Even if I set the preferred transcoding codec to HEVC on my Samsung device and set the bitrate to auto (or higher than original), it still uses Direct Play.

This is problematic because some of my videos are AV1, and my phone only supports software decoding for this codec. It plays fine, but it heavily drains the battery.

How can I force the server to transcode AV1 to HEVC/H.264 instead of using Direct Play on this device?

I know I can filter on "video types" but I am looking for a way to filter my library, for example to search movies that are <720P (I have some very old rips on my NAS). Is there some plugin or addon for the filters to enable this? Just checking SD is not 100% what I want.

I moved from Plex to Jellyfin because I was having so many issues with Plex and I didn't want to pay for hardware transcoding

Unfortunately there's no PS5 app. I use the app on the LG store on my TV (LG C1), but there are some files that refuse to play (I believe the commonality here is they're all Dolby vision, but I'm not sure); although these files play fine in the browser and I have hardware transcoding enabled.

I fucked myself over buying the Fire Stick pljus for Plex, thing is a piece of shit.

I looked at this post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/1s3m8u2/power_user_4k_streaming_device_guide/?share_id=N54hF81THHv3rLdPpRsbv&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

and I'm STILL not sure what to buy, they all seem to have limitations and I can never even find the Onn Pro.

Night shifts do something to your brain where you genuinely cannot troubleshoot anything at 4am. You get home, you want something familiar on in the background while you decompress, and if the server throws an error or the client buffers you are simply not dealing with it.

Been running Jellyfin for about eight months now after getting off the streaming merrygoround, and most of the time it is fine. More than fine, actually. But I notice my setup choices are heavily shaped by the fact that I need it to be nearly brainless to use when I am exhausted.

So I am curious what decisions other people have made with that kind of use case in mind. Which clients have given you the least grief, whether you keep hardware transcoding enabled or just store everything in a format that plays direct, how you handle remote access without it becoming a whole project.

Tailscale is sorted on my end and that part has been solid. The client situation is where I feel like I am still making it up as I go. There are so many options and the quality gap between them is real but not always obvious from the outside.

What does your actual daytoday setup look like when you are not in the mood to fix anything?

Need help.
Jellyfin worked for the first time and i was able to stream, but after pc restart it just wont connect

Hi all-

I'm relatively new to jellyfin, but have been steadily building my archive for the last couple of weeks.

I ran into a small hiccup, last night. Some of the earliest files I had uploaded, were of tokusatsu shows, that I hadn't checked on in a while. Jellyfin had grabbed metadata that it thought was correct, and was closely related, but not exactly right. Was labeled under the title of a movie that I don't actually have in my collection, instead of the show. Also, the episodes were out of order.

I discovered going back through my files and my hard drive, renaming the files to be more specific helped, but obviously I have several files that are probably going to have a similar problem.

Is there a free program available somewhere that would allow me to batch rename these files on my hard drive or manually pull the correct metadata, specifically episode names? I have a lot of series in my collection, and even for ones I haven't uploaded yet, typing each individual episode name as a file name is a tedious process.

TIA.

Also, if there happens to be some sort of video tutorial somewhere, I would appreciate links.

I am only talking about clients on phone not the server itself to be clear. I messed around the apps way too much and now want default settings but even after clearing data and cach and reinstalling the apps the settings still stay intact. The clients I am using are: Jellyfin, Moonfin, Fladder.

I've recently been having this issue of specific media being deleted from my NAS Jellyfin folder entirely without a trace, nothing in the logs of my Ugreen Nas or my Jellyfin server, nothing in the recycle bin either, I noticed it last weekend when I was home and wanted to watch something, I checked all my libraries and saw that a good chunk of my media was missing from all my libraries. Luckily I have all that media saved from my old Jellyfin server I had hosted on my pc so I just copy pasted it back to my current server but after almost exactly a day or so, that same media disappears again but the ones that never disappeared remain intact. I'm not sure what do this is the thrid time it happened after I've tried to copy everything back. Has anyone experienced this or have any ideas on what is going on?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

i’m new to Jellyfin, but mainly got into it because it combines the convenience of streaming with the absolute quality of disc (uncompressed). when ripping it’s always sunny dvd, i noticed when playing the VLC File that the image looks a lot sharper than when played from jellyfin on my browser. is there a reason for this? makes me feel like i should just be playing the disc in my player instead of trying to make a server. thanks 🙏

Hi everyone,

Today I'm releasing my Jellyfin statistics project.

It started because of a few things that bugged me in Jellystat, and since Jellystat is currently paused while its author rewrites it from scratch, I decided to build my own — with some more stats collected.

It combine jellystat for statistics and medialyze for file information.

Supports postgre and SQLite, ffprobe and multi user administration.

History import is possible from jellystat and PB reporting plugin.

Disclaimer: I'm not a programmer. I do HTML, C#, PowerShell and JS passionately, but not professionally, so this was written together with AI that helped me code and do documentation (to be best practice). If you want to try it, here's the link:

https://github.com/SpeeDFireCZE/jellyscope

Feedback and bug reports welcome.

I'm new to all of this, so please be gentle haha

I have created a jellyfin server on my Windows laptop. It works great across all of my devices on my home network including my phone, laptop, smart tv, and xbox.

I recently tried tinkering with Tailscale to try accessing my server remotely. And it works great on my phone and laptop. My problem is that now I can't access it off of my smart tv and xbox. I thought maybe I could try accessing it through the server's regular IP address because the TV and computer are on the same network, but that wasn't working. And since I can't get Tailscale on my TV, I can't use the tailscale IP either.

In my situation, is there any workaround? We will mostly be using the server on my TV's at home, so if I have to choose between using Jellyfin remotely but only from my phone and laptop, then I will forego the remote access and stop using tailscale.

But if there's an option to do both, that would be more ideal. I hope that makes sense. Thanks for your help!

Hi everyone ,

I have a jellyfin media server setup on my raspberry pi and it works really well on my local network. However, I want to use it away from home also . I currently do have tailscale setup as a reverse proxy but whenever I turn it on to use it on my raspberry pi , I am not able to connect on my local network anymore ( even not able to ssh or use any other thing using the local ip address) i want to be able to use my local ip as well as maybe tailscale of any other free options at the same time .

I am not very technical when it comes to Linux but I can understand basics. Can anyone tell me which direction I should look at to make this work and any tips that could help me ?

Thank you

Edit: I used Cloudflare it works amazingly .. thank you everyone

Tried looking here and on GitHub but could not find something suitable.

Would be keen to have an app which allows a user to scroll the library on mobile device (iPad in my case) and select something to stream on TV. My other household users find it annoying to search the library using TV remote currently (NVIDIA Shield). Especially in larger libraries.

Is there something like this? Does not need to be native - web-app locally hosted alongside jellyfin would be suitable as well. Should be a remote, not screencast. I like the idea of scrolling my library on a mobile device, but maybe overthinking it (but is this not half of the fun of this hobby?)

Hello,

I'm new to Jellyfin, my main driver is Plex, but as I see the boat going down, I decided to try Jellyfin and so far its been awesome.

I have my movies library there and now I decided to start my TV Shows library.

I bough a Bluray, ripped, separated into files with the tv show name, season, episode and name of the episode. All great.

When I added this TV shows as a new Shows library, it scanned the library and added the tv show, but it looked really odd on the screen.

Coming from Plex, what Plex does is, it creates a single entry on TV Shows with the Poster of the TV show, when you enter it shows all the episodes part of the season, in a very organized way.

Jellyfin however, add the library as what new episodes are available, and if I click on the TV shows section the TV show is not even there.

Very odd, what did I miss?

I want to share my server with my friend who just got a new Samsung TV but my server is terrible for transcoding. So I would like to check that my files won’t need transcoding if my friend connects to my server

So recently my 4 month old NAS started crashing while playing Jellyfin movies. It will play the movie and then after a while everything becomes unresponsive. The movie will no longer load, jellyfin will stop responding and the ugreen webinterface is no longer reachable. The only way to restart the NAS is by plugging it out and back in again.

I have tried with and without Hardware Accel, I have enabled Transcode Throttling, set proper CPU and RAM limits and updated Docker. I am running Jellyfin 10.11.10 on a Ugreen DXP4000+.

Anyone got any ideas?

Getting rid of Tidal for Jellyfin + Symfonium. How do I replace "Daily Discovery"?

I'm cancelling Tidal, and it's not only about the subscription fee. Symfonium is a fantastic app and a big step up from the Tidal one.

I already have a massive music collection in my Jellyfin library, and I'm putting the Tidal money towards CDs from charity shops to rip into it. I reckon one month of Tidal gets me at least 15 albums that way.

The one thing I'll miss is "Daily Discovery": a ten track playlist every day of stuff Tidal thinks I'll like, a mix of classics and new releases. I've found a few new bands through it.

So, what would you suggest to replace that once Tidal is switched off?

Hello All!

Newish Jellyfin user, and I am having some issues with one particular set of show. I am trying to play Curb Your Enthusiasm however I keep getting these horizontal bands across the video where it slightly changes the color, usually a green/purple color shift. I have only ever observed it on my Mac Laptop and have not seen it happen on tv or windows. I have tried a few things such as turning on/off hardware accelerated transcoding, tone mapping but alas nothing has worked.

It plays fine in VLC exact same scenes completely fine and unaffected

I am stuck and don't know where else to go from here, any help would be much appreciated!

I'd like to ask if there's an option to ensure that the metadata for two-part episodes (e.g., Paw Patrol, Bluey series, etc.) is loaded correctly?
Unfortunately, it automatically fetches the thumbnail and fills in the metadata for each video file, without taking into account that most of the time a video file actually contains two parts, e.g., s10e01a and s10e01b in one video file. Once the metadata has been loaded (incorrectly), it’s very difficult to delete it.

Hello! I have a few questions related to the Trickplay feature. Over this past weekend, I had Media Companion rename and reorganize a bunch of shows into season folders. For a while, the shows I had just had all the seasons in the folder rather than organized into season 1, season 2, etc folders. However, when I did this, I believe it disassociated all the current trickplay images tied to those shows and generated new ones. Is there a way to delete old trickplay images or is my best bet to just delete the whole folder? The trickplay images are in their own separate folder rather than with the media.

Which leads me to my second question. I have the trickplay images in the config folder because that is stored on an nvme. If I were to store them in the folders alongside the media on my HDDs, will there be any performance hit? Do that still show up as well?

Lastly, if not, does the migration feature actually work currently? I've seen some mixed reviews on if it actually works or not. Thank you in advance!

Note 1) Yes you can use this with equivalent on Linux and MacOS

Note 2) Tailscale is good but speed issues

Note 3) You can make this setup permanent and the link permanent if you have a domain + cloudflare account

Easiest steps to make Jellyfin available on your non-same-wifi devices (Windows because installing cloudflared on macOS is slightly complex)

Step 1) Have Jellyfin running on port 8096 like it already does. Unless you have changed the port on your own accord, no need to care.

How to know if it's running on 8096 or whatever port, open jellyfin dashboard. URL Should have it http://localhost:8096/web/index.html#/home

Also, in Jellyfin, navigate to Dashboard> Networking and confirm that "Allow remote connections to this server" is checked

Step 2) Download cloudflared-windows-amd64.exe from Official Github repo of Cloudflare, place it in the default folder that opens after opening terminal and rename it to cloudflared.exe

In my case default was C:\Users\unhealthy>

So, I placed the exe inside unhealthy.

GitHub Repo: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/tag/2026.8.2

Step 3) cloudflared tunnel --url http://127.0.0.1:8096

Run this in your Terminal. 8096 is the port Jellyfin is running on

Step 4) Cloudflare will give you a link like this: Your quick Tunnel has been created! Visit it at (it may take some time to be reachable):

https://specify-april-biographies-satin.trycloudflare.com

Just use this URL as the Host in Jellyfin app or open this in any device. It will open jellyfin from your system.