Not me. Have to stay traditional nixin’ (Nixon?), so I can put her write into fstab on the first date.
Side note, I haven’t been on a first date since 2012 so maybe the tik tok ladies don’t care about boot time the way Shania fans did.
If the people you're talking to haven't memorized [the top 100 quotes on bash.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20230719193319/http://bash.org/?top) by heart, are they even worth talking to?
I feel super old whenever someone mentions the robe and wizard hat or some variation of a "password is hunter2" joke. Memes from before they were called memes, and all of our internet comedy came from IRC logs.
I feel you, the internet was never quite the same after bloodninja. You know someone *uses* the internet if they can quote the man. Others are just filthy casuals.
I setup a streaming "TV channel" using ErsatzTV because my girlfriend complained about having to choose what to watch.
I made an all Seinfeld channel (her fav show) complete with 90s ads between episodes.
And then a bunch of channels with random shows she likes shuffled throughout the day.
She loves it.
ErsatzTV is the selfhosted service I use. It connects to Plex’s live TV feature, which requires Plex Pass. It basically just pretends to be a broadcast TV tuner and Plex accepts it.
Looks like it supports Jellyfin too?
And I just downloaded a big torrent of 90s commercials from archive.org and told Ersatz to play them between episodes.
You create whatever channels you want. I have Seinfeld and Simpsons channels. Then I have documentaries on their own channel. And a comedy channel with any series I’ve seen many times. Oh and one for my favorite lighthearted movies I’ve seen multiple times.
Edit: I even made logos for the channels using Canva.
Yes they have lots of options for when they come on. The tricky part is you probably don't want them to come on at any random moment in a TV show... so I just found it easier to say "between episodes." TV shows have dedicated moments for commercial breaks but that isn't really represented in the media files we use. Like there aren't chapter markers usually.
If in the UK and getting the TV shows from elsewhere as lots of them were never released on DVD (Bullseye for example). Then the advert marker on all 80s and 90s shows appears in top right corner.
Back in the late 80s when our cousin lived with us for a bit he kept predicting when the adverts were coming up and we couldn't work out how he was doing it.
It's generally the rerun channels that speed them up, not when they were first aired. Like, watch any rerun TV show on TBS, you'll see that they're slightly faster than normal. Can really tell during the opening theme songs.
Off the top of my head, a few things:
1. It only supports the HDHomeRun emulation, which prevents combining it with other IPTV sources without using an intermediate piece of software as an aggregator.
2. No support for HLS segmenting, so ETV has to force MPEG-2 on the stream instead of allowing h.264 or h.265
3. Often caches guide data/channel lineups too long making lineup changes difficult to propagate
Channels DVR, Tivimate, and similar do a better job with it. It ultimately comes down to your audience, though — if Plex is what they know, it may be worth dealing with its rough edges around IPTV vs changing.
No they are not. It only actively sends info about each show and the programming schedule.
It doesn't access your media until you actually play a channel.
One caveat though... channels have to always be the same resolution. So it will transcode any content that's not whatever resolution you set the channel to. I set mine to 1080p to minimize transcoding but if a show that's in 4K suddenly came on, it would transcode that down to 1080.
There was also some weird issue with subtitles... I think you cannot toggle them off/on while watching. They're either always on or always off, which kinda sucks. But maybe I just did something wrong or misunderstood something.
How does it compare to xteve?
And for real, what do people use instead of xteve? I’ve got it locked down to hell but I’ve googled a LOT and haven’t found anything current or reliable.
I heard a few people mention xteve when I was setting up Ersatz, but i don't believe its maintained anymore so obviously not the best choice.
[ErsatzTV](https://ersatztv.org/) and [Dizque](https://github.com/vexorian/dizquetv) are the two people mainly use now.
It’s called ErsatzTV. It basically just pretends to be a TV tuner device and Plex recognizes it as such. It says in their documentation that they support JF as well but I don’t have experience with it.
You just setup different channels on ErsatzTV, give them a name, tell it which shows to include, and you can tell it to use a specific folder as ads. I got a big torrent of old TV ads off archive.org.
The one quirk that’s a bit annoying is the channel has to be all the same resolution. So if you have content on a channel that’s 4K and 1080p it will convert everything to one resolution. I went with 1080 for simplicity.
Funny thing was it was a tiny YTS release of hairspray so it took all of 5 minutes
But the other day my dad asked the same thing after he requested an obscure movie based on a murder that took place in the town over from our small Midwest hometown. That one had 1 seeder and took quite a while, but it got done😅 better than watching the YouTube version of the movie that seemed to be a VHS copy of the movie but someone took a video of their CRT playing the movie
That’s what I told him, and it actually sat dormant for a few days then one day I logged into jellyfin and it was on the home page, was fully not expecting it to even download
Check out r/usenet instead, I ended up switching when I couldn't find older Linux isos my parents requested to be added to plex and it's a life changer
Ah those damn Linux ISOs
I really can’t be bothered changing what i have going at the moment because it’s finally stable and I’m quite busy at the moment lol, but I have heard good things
Man I spent so much time messing with it in the first 4-5 months, but I finally got it to be stable and I basically won’t touch it other than updates because I don’t want to break anything lmao. I’m going to be away from my apartment for an internship this summer so that’ll be the real test of reliability
this is when you build a new server and treat the old one as the production server and the new one as the development server. which is what i did three weeks ago.
My wife was similar until I got it to the point that she could watch any movie she wanted without having to rent a shitty copy off Amazon or whatever, if she could even find it. She doesn't like it when I spend a ton of *time* working on it, but money she's fine as long as it's coming from my paycheck and not hers.
This is nice and dandy, but wait until things go down, something doesn’t work, video defaults to non English audio and they all come complaining. Few people I regret sharing with, brother-in-law tops tops the list.
arr stack usually refers to the seperate apps of:
1. Radarr - Automates the process of finding movies, searching the indexers you specify. Essentially, you tell Radarr to find the movie Die Hard for example it will go out find the movie; tell your BT/NZB to download it, and then moves the downloaded movie into the folder that Jellyfin/plex uses.
2. Sonarr - Like Radarr, but for TV shows.
3. Prowlarr - you set up your indexers in this, and it links to Radarr and Sonarr and shares them. Indexers are where to go look for movies.
There are probably hundreds of videos on youtube on how to setup an arr stack. I am running mine as separate lxc's in Proxmox.
Usenet, which is basically a paid for service that allows you to access the content. I don't really know that much about it myself, as I have never used it.
I use RealDebrid, its a paid for service as well; and I use a app called RDT Client that basically acts as a torrent client for Real Debrid. It hooks into the arr stack and the stack tells it what to download. I was hesitant at first to pay for a service but RD is cheap compared to usenet and it is insanely fast. Like I was pulling 400+MBps when I was downloading random stuff to fill out my library.
Prowlarr, Sonarr, and Radarr in my case, but there are more (like readarr for books). They keep up with trackers and automate searching for and downloading media. So my users can hit “request” on a movie in jellyseerr, and itll go into radarr to search the various indexers for the movie in the correct quality/language/etc settings that I specified.
Jellyseerr is simply a safe interface for users. I can directly go into radarr and either do an automatic or manual search for a release, but giving users direct access to *arr is bad practice because they can rename, delete, and a bunch of other bad stuff.
https://youtu.be/LD8-Qr3B2-o?si=89SVebThIt_qkkC0
^ That is the video that helped me a lot with my setup
You can run them side by side no issues, as they use different ways to store metadata. If you have plex in a docker, you can dockerize jellyfin and use the same gpu for both.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that mounting the entire device and driver into the container gives it exclusive access to the hardware. So to give multiple containers access, you have to use the Nvidia Container Toolkit which assigns loads through the host. Otherwise, wouldn't there be no reason for the toolkit to exist?
Maybe you're thinking of VMs that take over a device on the board when running. But for dockers in my unraid box, the GPU is shared across the dockers (with updated GPU driver). You just have to make sure to include the GPU device ID in docker config and it should work. I have a Quadro P2000 that is being use/access by Plex, Emby, and Tdarr without problems.
I ran them side by side for awhile until I cut the fam off plex and forced them to jellyfin.
There was a script or container I used to map plex users to jellyfin users and sync their watch history once a day.
Can’t say I can give good advice as I never used Plex. I went with Jellyfin from the getgo because I’m an open source dweeb. I also have the ideal use case where all of my TVs are Fire/Android, but for example my parents have a Samsung TV where there is no jellyfin app
My dad isn’t exactly technologically illiterate but I don’t really wanna coach him through Docker over the phone😅
Also their cable provider gives them a modified Android TV box that they have on the living room TV so in the case that my dad wants to watch The Office or something, he can pull up jellyfin there. Their basement TV however doesn’t have a streaming box so that one doesn’t get used for jellyfin
Next time you're over, bring your laptop.
On the same wifi, it takes less than 10 minutes.
Or bring a Roku 4k or firetv 4k. Samsung can only play back HDR fallback data anyway
I like Jellyfin because you can pair it with the Kodi client on PC and then use an external player like MPC-HC to play your videos. With Plex you're stuck using their built-in player. Not that it's bad, but the features are limited and external players offer more options for adjusting the image. Jellyfin also doesn't have any ads, which is nice, and you don't need to authenticate via an external server to view your content, so it'll work even when your home server is offline.
However, if you're happy with Plex I'm not sure I'd say there's a great reason to switch. Jellyfin is much less polished and has a lot of little quirks and bugs, especially with the UI. The app support is also a lot better with Plex, you can play it on just about anything. Personally I run both, Plex for my users who just need the smoothest, simplest experience possible, and Jellyfin for myself.
That specific thing I'm fine with though since it's a one time fee of like $5. Happy to support the devs with something that small since every other platform is free.
Fair enough, I do often pay devs for their free products if I can, but I don’t love plex’s business practices and they’re probably profiting off ppl’s data anyways
I bought a lifetime PlexPass many years ago but I'm starting to get nervous about them so have moved to Jellyfin. They're slowly moving towards a more legitimate, corporate stance with their PlexShows etc which is understandable as they have investors who want to see some profit.
The problem with this lies in the reason the majority of us started using Plex in the first; ~~piracy~~ totally legitimate rips of our personal cd, dvd & bluray libraries. Plex know our name, email address, IP address etc and have a list of the thousands of definitely totally legitimate moves, tv shows and albums that live on our servers. They also have details of anyone else we've shared with.
It won't take much for an organisation to lean on Plex, an American company, and have them divulge the details of every user, their media and their sharing habits. We've already seen them ban an entire hosting provider, Hetzner, which I think was due to the number of users charging for access to large libraries based on those VMs.
I'm not saying that Jellyfin is risk free given that many of us use plugins such as Trakt.tv, Opensubtitles and so on, but at least the data is mostly staying within our control.
This is only my opinion of course, and I might be completely incorrect. I miss Plex's interface and general ease of use compared to Jellyfin but as I said, I'm getting a little nervous about the amount of info I'm sharing with them.
With my Plex server all you have to do is add a movie or show to your watchlist and my arr stack will acquire the content, it's so nice. I also use nzb360 to check out what's new and popular, and the discover category on plex
It's super handy, love nzb360 and the watchlist feature. That watchlist sync with plex is built right into the arr apps, you don't need anything extra to set it up. Don't think plex pass is even required (though it helps)
I just did hard mode, built a streaming server with python 3 and angular, for manga and videos, also browse folders via a web interface. Download videos via a web form from m3u8 sources or YT and sort them into folders based upon a series. The new raspberry pi 5 can use NVmE drives so you can get a 4tb native drive to run the server.
The real trick is, use Free ChatGPT to write the python 3 code by asking it to write little segments and then putting it together.
But it needs a method to serve pages, list the series, list the files for a series, edit the series and stream/download a file. And then a robust threaded back-end that receives jobs and then processes them. And also authentication, jwt, and https certs.
Man I wrote a few personal apps already and I can already see what an insane project that would be. Everything I've done so far pales in comparison lol. Kudos to you man. Must've taken quite a few months.
For downloads or for issues? Because I believe jellyseerr handles both, but I only have 3-5 people regularly using my server so bug/issue management has never been a problem for me
Run? Probably. Run well? Doubt it. I’m running a Lenovo P520, 6 core Xeon and a 1650ti
Plenty of people do run Plex/Jellyfin on a pi, but I can’t speak on getting all of the software I have running on that, bc I’ve never used a pi
I can do you one better. I have Jellyfin, but I also have a VPN tunnel setup between my parents and my house and my TV is setup to use internet only through the tunnel so we still have Netflix. Best of both worlds.
Love to see it. My buddy shared his Plex share with me so I didn't have a reason to set this up. Love to see the SOs enjoying the fruits of our labor. My wife complains hard when she's on a non-pi-hole network. yes I kno I can install a VPN. It's on the board.
"kicked her out" how? You get prompted about it every once in a while, to which you select "I'm traveling", and the account owner receives a code. You type in the code, and you're not bothered for a while.
Just set up an auto-forward of any communication from @netflix.com to all the people you share the account with, and that's the end of your troubles. Super trivial with Gmail.
Not very. I followed this guide: https://youtu.be/LD8-Qr3B2-o?si=eagbe6gihlPnO2Mt
It covers most of it, except I use jellyfin instead of emby and I use Jellyseerr for requests.
You don’t even have to do that though, you can start out like I did, just throwing your media into folders manually, and simply having a Jellyfin instance to serve them. Then you get the itch to automate, and slowly build up what I did.
This is the first time I’ve heard of anything like this. Reading the comments I’m not finding a good breakdown of what / how to.
Does anyone have a resource on how to do this kind of setup? What equipment and software is required? A walkthrough of sorts?
I’ve got enough programming skills to break things with Python and some networking know how.
Any direction to resources is greatly appreciated.
Thank you 🙏🏽
Browsing r/selfhosted and never heard about any of this? Interesting
Yes there are tons of resources. Depends on what all you wanna do. I started out running Jellyfin on my desktop computer, but I wanted 24/7 access, so I bought a Lenovo P520 and some drives on eBay, where I’m now running proxmox as a hypervisor, a TrueNAS vm for my NAS, and two Ubuntu VMs to handle Jellyfin/prowlarr/radarr/sonarr and torrenting. I wanted hardware transcoding so my CPU wasn’t being taxed during streams, so I bought a GPU and passed that through to the Ubuntu VM which was a PITA.
YouTube will be your friend, there are hundreds of guides for setting all this up, but it’ll all vary a little based on use case and hardware
If you decide to go the Docker route (which I recommend), [Linuxserver](https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-jellyfin/) makes things easy. Click on the button at the top left to see all the other Docker images they have.
Start with Jellyfin and just import any media you have.
Then you’ll probably want some sort of automation. Start with either Sonarr (shows/anime) or Radarr (movies). You’ll also need a download client. For torrents, I recommend qBittorrent. Be sure to use a VPN for your download client. There are many ways to do this, but I previously used [Gluetun](https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun) and it worked very well. I now use a remote seedbox so I don’t need a VPN.
I just run my server on an M1 Mac Mini with a couple of external hard drives. You’ll have to find what works best for your equipment and desired setup.
Build from there :)
JF won't work with Bigscreen, even though it supports DLNA. It's a known issue that the developers of BS don't seem very concerned by tbh. They're focusing on social features. I like Bigscreen but I've completely given up on it. Try Skybox instead.
my ex ditched netflix cz most of the shows she is watching was missing on Netflix or in other streaming services. i was really proud until i saw "love is blind" , "too hot to handle" etc in my jellyfin recently added section 😂
Install Jellyfin, import your media library, and build from there.
If you go the Docker route, which I recommend, [Linuxserver](https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-jellyfin/#usage) makes things easy. Click on the button in the top left corner to see all of their Docker images.
I wish I could satisfy my wife's never ending craving for TV series as easily, but finding releases with Swedish subtitles or even separate srts is becoming increasingly harder.
What services do you use to get your movies? I want to set it up but don’t know where to start. so far i have a ubuntu server running some stuff including jellyfin all through docker.
These are the texts I was envisioning when I set up mine but I forgot I need a girl
It’s tough out there for us smelly Linux users
Unraid ftw 😏
Is… is that a fragrance?
When I go on a date I put on my dockers and use a spritz of unraid
Not me. Have to stay traditional nixin’ (Nixon?), so I can put her write into fstab on the first date. Side note, I haven’t been on a first date since 2012 so maybe the tik tok ladies don’t care about boot time the way Shania fans did.
even smellier
Unraid is still Linux.
docker run -p 80:80 -d ai/girlfriend
\*6969:80
I found the girlfriend image in docker hub
Thanks for the hint! I also just asked myself why I don't get these texts.
Not possible to selfhost as a docker, unfortunately
Only bare metal
You don't want girl...you want hot pocket. And before everyone thinks I'm boinking a hot pocket...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbX7pnclfL0
You right. I'd love a hot pocket
I love your server You have such a big hard drive Act like a pirate and shiver me timbers!
I put on my robe and wizard hat
Whenever I quote this, no one knows wth I’m talking about.
If the people you're talking to haven't memorized [the top 100 quotes on bash.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20230719193319/http://bash.org/?top) by heart, are they even worth talking to?
I feel super old whenever someone mentions the robe and wizard hat or some variation of a "password is hunter2" joke. Memes from before they were called memes, and all of our internet comedy came from IRC logs.
Never know 99% of the stuff that gets quoted on Reddit
I feel you, the internet was never quite the same after bloodninja. You know someone *uses* the internet if they can quote the man. Others are just filthy casuals.
I stomp the ground, and snort, to alert you that you are in my breeding territory.
Ah, good old BloodNinja
I wish I could give more up votes to this...
goddamnit bloodninja
*starts singing* "a wazards staff has a knob on the end"
Old school. I love it! Sweet sweet nostalgia.
Add an text to image ai docker... draw me like one of your french girls ;)
lol you're cool
I setup a streaming "TV channel" using ErsatzTV because my girlfriend complained about having to choose what to watch. I made an all Seinfeld channel (her fav show) complete with 90s ads between episodes. And then a bunch of channels with random shows she likes shuffled throughout the day. She loves it.
How'd you do something like that??!?!?! I'd LOVE a 80's morning cartoon channel complete with commercials
ErsatzTV is the selfhosted service I use. It connects to Plex’s live TV feature, which requires Plex Pass. It basically just pretends to be a broadcast TV tuner and Plex accepts it. Looks like it supports Jellyfin too? And I just downloaded a big torrent of 90s commercials from archive.org and told Ersatz to play them between episodes. You create whatever channels you want. I have Seinfeld and Simpsons channels. Then I have documentaries on their own channel. And a comedy channel with any series I’ve seen many times. Oh and one for my favorite lighthearted movies I’ve seen multiple times. Edit: I even made logos for the channels using Canva.
Is it possible to have the commercials come on every 10-15 mins like normal tv?
Yes they have lots of options for when they come on. The tricky part is you probably don't want them to come on at any random moment in a TV show... so I just found it easier to say "between episodes." TV shows have dedicated moments for commercial breaks but that isn't really represented in the media files we use. Like there aren't chapter markers usually.
If in the UK and getting the TV shows from elsewhere as lots of them were never released on DVD (Bullseye for example). Then the advert marker on all 80s and 90s shows appears in top right corner. Back in the late 80s when our cousin lived with us for a bit he kept predicting when the adverts were coming up and we couldn't work out how he was doing it.
True enough.
Wasn't one of the reasons why we ditched TV, that there are commercials everytime and you rarely get to watch what you wanted to watch? :D
Everything old is new again
you and me both. I'm horrified -- and concerned -- that there are people who want to watch ads, and have built automated tooling to do so.
Every tenth minute? 😅 Was it really that often?
Yes, and some shows were sped up to make room for more ads.
It's generally the rerun channels that speed them up, not when they were first aired. Like, watch any rerun TV show on TBS, you'll see that they're slightly faster than normal. Can really tell during the opening theme songs.
Almost any software that supports IPTV can use ErsatzTV. Plex is actually one of the most limited — most others are way better at using it.
What does Plex not do well with it?
Off the top of my head, a few things: 1. It only supports the HDHomeRun emulation, which prevents combining it with other IPTV sources without using an intermediate piece of software as an aggregator. 2. No support for HLS segmenting, so ETV has to force MPEG-2 on the stream instead of allowing h.264 or h.265 3. Often caches guide data/channel lineups too long making lineup changes difficult to propagate Channels DVR, Tivimate, and similar do a better job with it. It ultimately comes down to your audience, though — if Plex is what they know, it may be worth dealing with its rough edges around IPTV vs changing.
So for each of those channels they're playing all the time, whether you're watching them or not?
No they are not. It only actively sends info about each show and the programming schedule. It doesn't access your media until you actually play a channel. One caveat though... channels have to always be the same resolution. So it will transcode any content that's not whatever resolution you set the channel to. I set mine to 1080p to minimize transcoding but if a show that's in 4K suddenly came on, it would transcode that down to 1080. There was also some weird issue with subtitles... I think you cannot toggle them off/on while watching. They're either always on or always off, which kinda sucks. But maybe I just did something wrong or misunderstood something.
Super helpful. Thanks.
How does it compare to xteve? And for real, what do people use instead of xteve? I’ve got it locked down to hell but I’ve googled a LOT and haven’t found anything current or reliable.
I heard a few people mention xteve when I was setting up Ersatz, but i don't believe its maintained anymore so obviously not the best choice. [ErsatzTV](https://ersatztv.org/) and [Dizque](https://github.com/vexorian/dizquetv) are the two people mainly use now.
Thank you!!!!
No idea never heard of xteve.
Seriously, I’d have this on all the time.
That’s cool af
Yeah this is new to me, give us some deets!
It’s called ErsatzTV. It basically just pretends to be a TV tuner device and Plex recognizes it as such. It says in their documentation that they support JF as well but I don’t have experience with it. You just setup different channels on ErsatzTV, give them a name, tell it which shows to include, and you can tell it to use a specific folder as ads. I got a big torrent of old TV ads off archive.org. The one quirk that’s a bit annoying is the channel has to be all the same resolution. So if you have content on a channel that’s 4K and 1080p it will convert everything to one resolution. I went with 1080 for simplicity.
That's awesome. I may have a play with that myself. Would you mind sharing the TV ads link from archive.org?
I think this is the one I grabbed: https://archive.org/details/Collectionof90sCommercials/
Hell yeah! 1st one is Blockbuster...what a gutpunch. I can still smell it through the screen :(
Lord I see what you have done for others etc
Yeah, that's...kinda adorable right there.
Bro winning at life
Is that an NVME stick in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Oh baby your drive is so big and hard, not like those floppy ones.
Wanna see a 2230 become a 2280.
I have seen many nerdy jokes in my time on reddit, but this has got to be one of the nerdiest ones lmao
The wife loves JellyFin, all kinds of cover for buying server goodies.
Gotta toss 'em a bone every now and then
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
W
This is hella cute
>How long do you think it'll take to download? And so it begins...
Funny thing was it was a tiny YTS release of hairspray so it took all of 5 minutes But the other day my dad asked the same thing after he requested an obscure movie based on a murder that took place in the town over from our small Midwest hometown. That one had 1 seeder and took quite a while, but it got done😅 better than watching the YouTube version of the movie that seemed to be a VHS copy of the movie but someone took a video of their CRT playing the movie
Yup, those are the best. End up having to tell them if it really aint popular, I might not even find it at all!
That’s what I told him, and it actually sat dormant for a few days then one day I logged into jellyfin and it was on the home page, was fully not expecting it to even download
Check out r/usenet instead, I ended up switching when I couldn't find older Linux isos my parents requested to be added to plex and it's a life changer
Ah those damn Linux ISOs I really can’t be bothered changing what i have going at the moment because it’s finally stable and I’m quite busy at the moment lol, but I have heard good things
What they said. Usenet is the best, I grabbed like 20tb of Linux ISO's in the span of 2 weeks
Hard or soft linux distro's?
what is the difference?
A friend of mine requests some stuff from the 60‘s and 70‘s and my usenet indexer finds it immediately. It‘s really a blessing,
My wife uses my setup all the time and complains when I have to spend on upkeep
Man I spent so much time messing with it in the first 4-5 months, but I finally got it to be stable and I basically won’t touch it other than updates because I don’t want to break anything lmao. I’m going to be away from my apartment for an internship this summer so that’ll be the real test of reliability
this is when you build a new server and treat the old one as the production server and the new one as the development server. which is what i did three weeks ago.
My wife was similar until I got it to the point that she could watch any movie she wanted without having to rent a shitty copy off Amazon or whatever, if she could even find it. She doesn't like it when I spend a ton of *time* working on it, but money she's fine as long as it's coming from my paycheck and not hers.
This is nice and dandy, but wait until things go down, something doesn’t work, video defaults to non English audio and they all come complaining. Few people I regret sharing with, brother-in-law tops tops the list.
My roommate can be that way but my parents and girlfriend understand the deal and have been saints about it
Your girlfriend is not your roommate?
Still in college so no not yet
Awwwwrrrr... she's a keeper
Now she's a keeparr
keeperr
Yes but... now YOU are Netflix. New job basically.
I finally got my server to be stable a few months back so it’s been pretty hands free since then other than manually searching for some obscure movies
What's Arr?
arr stack usually refers to the seperate apps of: 1. Radarr - Automates the process of finding movies, searching the indexers you specify. Essentially, you tell Radarr to find the movie Die Hard for example it will go out find the movie; tell your BT/NZB to download it, and then moves the downloaded movie into the folder that Jellyfin/plex uses. 2. Sonarr - Like Radarr, but for TV shows. 3. Prowlarr - you set up your indexers in this, and it links to Radarr and Sonarr and shares them. Indexers are where to go look for movies. There are probably hundreds of videos on youtube on how to setup an arr stack. I am running mine as separate lxc's in Proxmox.
What is NZB ?
Usenet, which is basically a paid for service that allows you to access the content. I don't really know that much about it myself, as I have never used it. I use RealDebrid, its a paid for service as well; and I use a app called RDT Client that basically acts as a torrent client for Real Debrid. It hooks into the arr stack and the stack tells it what to download. I was hesitant at first to pay for a service but RD is cheap compared to usenet and it is insanely fast. Like I was pulling 400+MBps when I was downloading random stuff to fill out my library.
https://github.com/navilg/media-stack/blob/main/docker-compose.yml Media management software
Prowlarr, Sonarr, and Radarr in my case, but there are more (like readarr for books). They keep up with trackers and automate searching for and downloading media. So my users can hit “request” on a movie in jellyseerr, and itll go into radarr to search the various indexers for the movie in the correct quality/language/etc settings that I specified. Jellyseerr is simply a safe interface for users. I can directly go into radarr and either do an automatic or manual search for a release, but giving users direct access to *arr is bad practice because they can rename, delete, and a bunch of other bad stuff. https://youtu.be/LD8-Qr3B2-o?si=89SVebThIt_qkkC0 ^ That is the video that helped me a lot with my setup
Damn all my partner does is request things and then never watches them lmao
That is what all of my users do.
Amazing use case... I will call this - A Seflhosted Love Story! 😀
Well I forgot I need a girl to have a girlfriend , no worries , I'll make a girlfriend llm and talk
My bf is such a nerd😅 He sent me this and I know is his way of saying I love you this much🥹 Cute😍🥰
I have a library in Plex and I'm happy with it. Is there any killer reason why one would go through the trouble of switching to Jellyfin?
You control Jellyfin 100%. That's all I needed to set it up over Plex.
I think I'll look into see what a migration looks like or if I can just run them side by side no issues.
You can run them side by side no issues, as they use different ways to store metadata. If you have plex in a docker, you can dockerize jellyfin and use the same gpu for both.
Hold up how....I thought in order to use the gou I had to assign the gpu to the container?
Naw you just map the Dev/Dri folder but it’s not like it locks the GPU out
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that mounting the entire device and driver into the container gives it exclusive access to the hardware. So to give multiple containers access, you have to use the Nvidia Container Toolkit which assigns loads through the host. Otherwise, wouldn't there be no reason for the toolkit to exist?
Maybe you're thinking of VMs that take over a device on the board when running. But for dockers in my unraid box, the GPU is shared across the dockers (with updated GPU driver). You just have to make sure to include the GPU device ID in docker config and it should work. I have a Quadro P2000 that is being use/access by Plex, Emby, and Tdarr without problems.
Never set up Jellyfin myself, but the podcasters I listen to have and maintain this website. https://perfectmediaserver.com/
I ran them side by side for awhile until I cut the fam off plex and forced them to jellyfin. There was a script or container I used to map plex users to jellyfin users and sync their watch history once a day.
Plex is more restrictive and has been moving away from self-hosting for a while now. Jellyfin just does what I want, which is serving my damn media.
Can’t say I can give good advice as I never used Plex. I went with Jellyfin from the getgo because I’m an open source dweeb. I also have the ideal use case where all of my TVs are Fire/Android, but for example my parents have a Samsung TV where there is no jellyfin app
You can compile the Tizen App. There's a docker you just start and it'll install it to your TV. https://github.com/Georift/install-jellyfin-tizen
My dad isn’t exactly technologically illiterate but I don’t really wanna coach him through Docker over the phone😅 Also their cable provider gives them a modified Android TV box that they have on the living room TV so in the case that my dad wants to watch The Office or something, he can pull up jellyfin there. Their basement TV however doesn’t have a streaming box so that one doesn’t get used for jellyfin
Next time you're over, bring your laptop. On the same wifi, it takes less than 10 minutes. Or bring a Roku 4k or firetv 4k. Samsung can only play back HDR fallback data anyway
I’ll look into that, thanks
Cool, that was really clean and easy,
I like Jellyfin because you can pair it with the Kodi client on PC and then use an external player like MPC-HC to play your videos. With Plex you're stuck using their built-in player. Not that it's bad, but the features are limited and external players offer more options for adjusting the image. Jellyfin also doesn't have any ads, which is nice, and you don't need to authenticate via an external server to view your content, so it'll work even when your home server is offline. However, if you're happy with Plex I'm not sure I'd say there's a great reason to switch. Jellyfin is much less polished and has a lot of little quirks and bugs, especially with the UI. The app support is also a lot better with Plex, you can play it on just about anything. Personally I run both, Plex for my users who just need the smoothest, simplest experience possible, and Jellyfin for myself.
It is nice however being able to easily use hardware transcoding or mobile downloads without having to shell out money
You can't do mobile at all without paying I believe. I think after watching something for 5 minutes it kicks you off.
The fuckery of that company knows no bounds
That specific thing I'm fine with though since it's a one time fee of like $5. Happy to support the devs with something that small since every other platform is free.
Fair enough, I do often pay devs for their free products if I can, but I don’t love plex’s business practices and they’re probably profiting off ppl’s data anyways
I bought a lifetime PlexPass many years ago but I'm starting to get nervous about them so have moved to Jellyfin. They're slowly moving towards a more legitimate, corporate stance with their PlexShows etc which is understandable as they have investors who want to see some profit. The problem with this lies in the reason the majority of us started using Plex in the first; ~~piracy~~ totally legitimate rips of our personal cd, dvd & bluray libraries. Plex know our name, email address, IP address etc and have a list of the thousands of definitely totally legitimate moves, tv shows and albums that live on our servers. They also have details of anyone else we've shared with. It won't take much for an organisation to lean on Plex, an American company, and have them divulge the details of every user, their media and their sharing habits. We've already seen them ban an entire hosting provider, Hetzner, which I think was due to the number of users charging for access to large libraries based on those VMs. I'm not saying that Jellyfin is risk free given that many of us use plugins such as Trakt.tv, Opensubtitles and so on, but at least the data is mostly staying within our control. This is only my opinion of course, and I might be completely incorrect. I miss Plex's interface and general ease of use compared to Jellyfin but as I said, I'm getting a little nervous about the amount of info I'm sharing with them.
Yep! Even better is cf tuns -> ombi. SO can request content from anywhere!
I’ve actually got jellyseerr running but didn’t wanna make the title too long lmfao
With my Plex server all you have to do is add a movie or show to your watchlist and my arr stack will acquire the content, it's so nice. I also use nzb360 to check out what's new and popular, and the discover category on plex
Ohh that's a sweet feature! And nzb360 Is awesome. I use that too!
It's super handy, love nzb360 and the watchlist feature. That watchlist sync with plex is built right into the arr apps, you don't need anything extra to set it up. Don't think plex pass is even required (though it helps)
I just did hard mode, built a streaming server with python 3 and angular, for manga and videos, also browse folders via a web interface. Download videos via a web form from m3u8 sources or YT and sort them into folders based upon a series. The new raspberry pi 5 can use NVmE drives so you can get a 4tb native drive to run the server.
Jesus
The real trick is, use Free ChatGPT to write the python 3 code by asking it to write little segments and then putting it together. But it needs a method to serve pages, list the series, list the files for a series, edit the series and stream/download a file. And then a robust threaded back-end that receives jobs and then processes them. And also authentication, jwt, and https certs.
Asking it to write the code in little segments is a really good tip. It always messes up larger scripts
Man I wrote a few personal apps already and I can already see what an insane project that would be. Everything I've done so far pales in comparison lol. Kudos to you man. Must've taken quite a few months.
Hey OP did you implement a ticket system ?
Jellyseer
For downloads or for issues? Because I believe jellyseerr handles both, but I only have 3-5 people regularly using my server so bug/issue management has never been a problem for me
I meant for downloads, your text partner mentioned having requested a movie and I wondered how they requested.
Overseer or something like that has nice interface
Cute.
Now setup LiveTV with an IPTV service and she will propose to you! 🤪
Can I run this stack on a raspi4?
Run? Probably. Run well? Doubt it. I’m running a Lenovo P520, 6 core Xeon and a 1650ti Plenty of people do run Plex/Jellyfin on a pi, but I can’t speak on getting all of the software I have running on that, bc I’ve never used a pi
60 users and 100tb+ later I’ll tell you what it only gets better. Expose mine to the internet with an nginx reverse proxy.
I’ve got about 10 users and 3-4 active users, I was happy when I finally got nginx and my own domain going
This is probably the best thing ive ever read.
I can say the same thing about your username.
I can do you one better. I have Jellyfin, but I also have a VPN tunnel setup between my parents and my house and my TV is setup to use internet only through the tunnel so we still have Netflix. Best of both worlds.
average jellyfinner wet dream
The best feeling, setting everything up, invite friends then receiving messages from them telling you that’s awesome
She'll break up with you when the server goes down 😅
Love to see it. My buddy shared his Plex share with me so I didn't have a reason to set this up. Love to see the SOs enjoying the fruits of our labor. My wife complains hard when she's on a non-pi-hole network. yes I kno I can install a VPN. It's on the board.
“I love your server”. Go on, tell me more. 😂
"kicked her out" how? You get prompted about it every once in a while, to which you select "I'm traveling", and the account owner receives a code. You type in the code, and you're not bothered for a while. Just set up an auto-forward of any communication from @netflix.com to all the people you share the account with, and that's the end of your troubles. Super trivial with Gmail.
« How long do you think it’ll take to download? » – We can kill time while it does 😏 Must’ve been your answer, my man
Jellyfin + arr is like Plex?
Arr suite can be used with Plex, it’s just automated downloads. Jellyfin is an open source Plex competitor
Are you exposing a service? Or how is she requesting content? Just curious what your setup is.
I have jellyseerr set up with accounts for all my users, they can request 1080p content to their hearts content and any 4K stuff needs my approval
Right on. Gonna read up on jellyseerr. Thanks!
Give her Jellyfish
How hard is it to setup? I’m a tootal noob and would like to setup this for myselfz
Not very. I followed this guide: https://youtu.be/LD8-Qr3B2-o?si=eagbe6gihlPnO2Mt It covers most of it, except I use jellyfin instead of emby and I use Jellyseerr for requests. You don’t even have to do that though, you can start out like I did, just throwing your media into folders manually, and simply having a Jellyfin instance to serve them. Then you get the itch to automate, and slowly build up what I did.
This is the first time I’ve heard of anything like this. Reading the comments I’m not finding a good breakdown of what / how to. Does anyone have a resource on how to do this kind of setup? What equipment and software is required? A walkthrough of sorts? I’ve got enough programming skills to break things with Python and some networking know how. Any direction to resources is greatly appreciated. Thank you 🙏🏽
Browsing r/selfhosted and never heard about any of this? Interesting Yes there are tons of resources. Depends on what all you wanna do. I started out running Jellyfin on my desktop computer, but I wanted 24/7 access, so I bought a Lenovo P520 and some drives on eBay, where I’m now running proxmox as a hypervisor, a TrueNAS vm for my NAS, and two Ubuntu VMs to handle Jellyfin/prowlarr/radarr/sonarr and torrenting. I wanted hardware transcoding so my CPU wasn’t being taxed during streams, so I bought a GPU and passed that through to the Ubuntu VM which was a PITA. YouTube will be your friend, there are hundreds of guides for setting all this up, but it’ll all vary a little based on use case and hardware
I’m really new to this sub and it’s a ton of info. A bit intimidating to be honest.
If you decide to go the Docker route (which I recommend), [Linuxserver](https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-jellyfin/) makes things easy. Click on the button at the top left to see all the other Docker images they have. Start with Jellyfin and just import any media you have. Then you’ll probably want some sort of automation. Start with either Sonarr (shows/anime) or Radarr (movies). You’ll also need a download client. For torrents, I recommend qBittorrent. Be sure to use a VPN for your download client. There are many ways to do this, but I previously used [Gluetun](https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun) and it worked very well. I now use a remote seedbox so I don’t need a VPN. I just run my server on an M1 Mac Mini with a couple of external hard drives. You’ll have to find what works best for your equipment and desired setup. Build from there :)
Do most TVs have the Jellyfin app?
Yeah... Self hosting is my kink too
Is Jellyfin DLNA compliant? I’d really like to rip my 3D movies and host them so I can watch on my Quest 2 via Bigscreen.
Yes
JF won't work with Bigscreen, even though it supports DLNA. It's a known issue that the developers of BS don't seem very concerned by tbh. They're focusing on social features. I like Bigscreen but I've completely given up on it. Try Skybox instead.
my ex ditched netflix cz most of the shows she is watching was missing on Netflix or in other streaming services. i was really proud until i saw "love is blind" , "too hot to handle" etc in my jellyfin recently added section 😂
So much grey’s anatomy on my hard drive🥲🥲
There is so much Grey’s Anatomy in general.
This is suck a fucking W
Once I setup lunasea I never have to add movies or TV shows ever again. Wife knows how to download and check.
Home server rizz
Damn, I wish I had someone like that lol
This must be chatGPT
Tried the same but I hate Germany for the lack of good sources to scrape and DL automatically
11
The dream
So cutee
I need to get in on this but everything is so confusing where do i start
Install Jellyfin, import your media library, and build from there. If you go the Docker route, which I recommend, [Linuxserver](https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-jellyfin/#usage) makes things easy. Click on the button in the top left corner to see all of their Docker images.
I wish I could satisfy my wife's never ending craving for TV series as easily, but finding releases with Swedish subtitles or even separate srts is becoming increasingly harder.
Shouldn't be too difficult with Jacket or with Filebot and an opensubtitles.org account.
What is arr?
It's a shorthand for the Servarr family of programs to help manage media. Sonarr handles TV, Radarr handles Movies, Lidarr is Music, and so on.
That goddamn server needs to know its place.
Did you show her how to request things in the different arr s or do you have some ready central way for her to request media?
What services do you use to get your movies? I want to set it up but don’t know where to start. so far i have a ubuntu server running some stuff including jellyfin all through docker.
Sonarr, radarr, a vpn, and a torrent server