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Perhaps the most important thing about Jellyfin is that it's open source. I really wish the project received a little bit more love.

gadders 4y ago
I like Jellyfin, but I need the Samsung client to be finished first. At least it looks like it has been started: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-tizen https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-tizen
- seanw444 4y ago
  The build steps were a nightmare. That's mostly the fault of Samsung, but it was still very off-putting. Unless I was doing something wrong. It took me a couple full nights after work to finally get it done and on the TV, trying to set up Samsung's developer tools on multiple different machines. I dread having to do it again.
  - gadders 4y ago
    Does it work OK? Was it worth the effort?
    - seanw444 4y ago
      Yeah it's been working perfectly for me ever since I set it up last fall (maybe it was winter, can't remember). At least half a year. I'd say it's worth the effort, but the process still sucks. One of the things I remember making it real difficult was that the UI of Samsung's dev tools app assumes you have the default light theme in GTK (or whatever widget toolkit they're using), and since I had a different dark theme, I couldn't see any of the icons. So then I switched to one of my devices that were running Ubuntu 20.04 with Gnome, where the app would not launch due to something about "pixbuf". Side note - I'd had that particular error so many times in Ubuntu with various apps that it's the sole reason I eventually learned Arch (and tiling window managers), and haven't looked back since. I finally managed to get it to launch and work correctly on Xubuntu running on my girlfriend's very, very old laptop that takes about 8 minutes to boot to full speed. So save yourself the headache, and run the Samsung dev tools app on an unmolested Linux installation, with no special theming, that is not vanilla Ubuntu.
      - gadders 4y ago
        I would if I had one. I'm windows-only currently. I guess I could spin up a VM but then I have networking issues... Thanks for the feedback.
        seanw444 4y ago
        Oh, in that case, I'm sure Samsung has it available for Windows, and it will probably work even better than the Linux version does (considering there aren't dozens of Windows distributions, and dozens of window managers, and a half-dozen popular GUI toolkits to account for).
shaunpud 4y ago
Has an app for the fire stick too which works really well
encryptluks2 4y ago
They have done a great job, but ultimately I believe a tool like Go or Rust would work much better and the XML metadata format while standard is not very good. Would be nice to see YAML or even JSON. Kodi is my go to for the most part, but I will have to say Jellyfin is definitely more polished. It downloaded the transparent logo for the movie I was watching and displayed it so nicely when I started a movie. I remember Plex offering music themes when you were browsing a collection.. I wonder if Jellyfin does something similar already.
wallmountedtv 4y ago
I also want to bring into light that Jellyfin is not very secure either [1], its sadly not in a great place to replace Plex still. 1: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415 https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415
- nicoco 4y ago
  Most of these issues require a malicious user, right? I think none of them really are a problem for a friends-and-family instance (as long as they don't get their creds stolen obv). For a single-user usage, none of these really are issues, are they?
  - unixhero 4y ago
    Driveby scans happen all the time. Mass scan take 15 minutes to scan the entire internet, for instance.
  - cipherboy 4y ago
    The middle of the list had a media disclosure without any auth via the image API. That would mean running a publicly accessible instance would be ill advised if you can about the privacy of what you host. Plex on the other hand somewhat encourages publicly accessible instances, so you can listen/watch while not at home. (The caveat being, certain plugins disclose media to Plex but arguably that's a first or second party not some rando on the internet scraping stuff)
  - deadbunny 4y ago
    As long as you're not opening JF up to the internet none of these are a real issue, so you're fine with a single person/house/network with trusted users.
- nijave 4y ago
  To be fair to the Jellyfin team, it seems they inherited a lot of tech debt from Emby which they've spent the last 2 years chipping away at. It might not be in a great place now, but I'm not sure that's necessarily a reflection of the product
geerlingguy 4y ago
I've been running it for the past year and besides the occasional odd bug with media discovery, it's run great for me and my family for all our movies and TV a shows.
JeremyNT 4y ago
Yes, it's shocking to me how many people are (apparently) willing to trust a closed source / SaaS product like Plex for this kind of thing. Jellyfin may not be perfect but surely it's good enough for most use cases.

gadders 4y ago

I like Jellyfin, but I need the Samsung client to be finished first. At least it looks like it has been started: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-tizen https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-tizen

seanw444 4y ago
The build steps were a nightmare. That's mostly the fault of Samsung, but it was still very off-putting. Unless I was doing something wrong. It took me a couple full nights after work to finally get it done and on the TV, trying to set up Samsung's developer tools on multiple different machines. I dread having to do it again.
- gadders 4y ago
  Does it work OK? Was it worth the effort?
  - seanw444 4y ago
    Yeah it's been working perfectly for me ever since I set it up last fall (maybe it was winter, can't remember). At least half a year. I'd say it's worth the effort, but the process still sucks. One of the things I remember making it real difficult was that the UI of Samsung's dev tools app assumes you have the default light theme in GTK (or whatever widget toolkit they're using), and since I had a different dark theme, I couldn't see any of the icons. So then I switched to one of my devices that were running Ubuntu 20.04 with Gnome, where the app would not launch due to something about "pixbuf". Side note - I'd had that particular error so many times in Ubuntu with various apps that it's the sole reason I eventually learned Arch (and tiling window managers), and haven't looked back since. I finally managed to get it to launch and work correctly on Xubuntu running on my girlfriend's very, very old laptop that takes about 8 minutes to boot to full speed. So save yourself the headache, and run the Samsung dev tools app on an unmolested Linux installation, with no special theming, that is not vanilla Ubuntu.
    - gadders 4y ago
      I would if I had one. I'm windows-only currently. I guess I could spin up a VM but then I have networking issues... Thanks for the feedback.
      - seanw444 4y ago
        Oh, in that case, I'm sure Samsung has it available for Windows, and it will probably work even better than the Linux version does (considering there aren't dozens of Windows distributions, and dozens of window managers, and a half-dozen popular GUI toolkits to account for).

shaunpud 4y ago

Has an app for the fire stick too which works really well

encryptluks2 4y ago

They have done a great job, but ultimately I believe a tool like Go or Rust would work much better and the XML metadata format while standard is not very good. Would be nice to see YAML or even JSON. Kodi is my go to for the most part, but I will have to say Jellyfin is definitely more polished. It downloaded the transparent logo for the movie I was watching and displayed it so nicely when I started a movie. I remember Plex offering music themes when you were browsing a collection.. I wonder if Jellyfin does something similar already.

wallmountedtv 4y ago

I also want to bring into light that Jellyfin is not very secure either [1], its sadly not in a great place to replace Plex still. 1: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415 https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

nicoco 4y ago
Most of these issues require a malicious user, right? I think none of them really are a problem for a friends-and-family instance (as long as they don't get their creds stolen obv). For a single-user usage, none of these really are issues, are they?
- unixhero 4y ago
  Driveby scans happen all the time. Mass scan take 15 minutes to scan the entire internet, for instance.
- cipherboy 4y ago
  The middle of the list had a media disclosure without any auth via the image API. That would mean running a publicly accessible instance would be ill advised if you can about the privacy of what you host. Plex on the other hand somewhat encourages publicly accessible instances, so you can listen/watch while not at home. (The caveat being, certain plugins disclose media to Plex but arguably that's a first or second party not some rando on the internet scraping stuff)
- deadbunny 4y ago
  As long as you're not opening JF up to the internet none of these are a real issue, so you're fine with a single person/house/network with trusted users.
nijave 4y ago
To be fair to the Jellyfin team, it seems they inherited a lot of tech debt from Emby which they've spent the last 2 years chipping away at. It might not be in a great place now, but I'm not sure that's necessarily a reflection of the product

geerlingguy 4y ago

I've been running it for the past year and besides the occasional odd bug with media discovery, it's run great for me and my family for all our movies and TV a shows.

JeremyNT 4y ago

Yes, it's shocking to me how many people are (apparently) willing to trust a closed source / SaaS product like Plex for this kind of thing. Jellyfin may not be perfect but surely it's good enough for most use cases.