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Jellyfin is nice but I could never understand how to setup when all I wanted was to watch videos from server for example. So I used copyparty[0] and used VLC a
by Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago
Jellyfin is nice but I could never understand how to setup when all I wanted was to watch videos from server for example.
So I used copyparty[0] and used VLC and set a username and password.
I recommend copyparty if you just want something quick and easy actually. Just try it out on cheap VPS and just run it and forget it.
https://github.com/9001/copyparty https://github.com/9001/copyparty
- Forgeties79 7mo agoThe big thing is being able to stream outside of my home network. Running stuff locally is easy enough with basically any system luckily
- Imustaskforhelp 7mo agoYes but you can actually have Copyparty run as a server similar to Jellyfin and have the same thing too? Am I missing something that I am not looking at? But won't jellyfin have the same issue, I think that plex has servers that you can connect from outside but the GP wanted to move to jellyfin and I was talking about that. And, you can even have plex like thing by just having Cloudflare Tunnels/Tailscale + Copyparty too.
- RiverCrochet 7mo agoJellyfin isn't a simple viewer over a filesystem, you have to make a library and give it folders to ingest. It enforces an artist-album-track structure of media, so if you don't like that structure you'll be fighting Jellyfin more than using it.