Selfhosted@lemmy.worldbyGatesMcBalmer@lemmy.world
1 day

Latest success Jellyfin rocks!

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Hey Hosters!

Just wanted to share that I got Jellyfin installed and set up on my Windows 2022 Server, and it’s working great! I didn’t even know there was a version for WIndows. How do you like that?

I know this is probably “the usual” for everyone here, but I’m genuinely excited that I managed to get it all running smoothly.

After getting the server up, I went through the basics (users/permissions, library paths, and making sure everything was reachable on the network) and it all just worked. The interface is super clean, playback is nice and responsive, and it feels like I’ve been missing out on this until now.

Huge thanks to the Jellyfin team and the community! This project is awesome!! If anyone is stuck, please don’t give up. keep poking at the configuration and it’ll pay off. Now I just need to spend some time organizing my libraries!

Happy Hosting!

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    • inanimate_carbon_rod@lemmy.zipEnglish
      16 hours

      Congrats on your successful install! It feels good to take control of your media, doesn’t it? I found it a great project for growing my confidence in deploying my own services. Happy hosting!

      • comrade_twisty@feddit.orgEnglish
        1 day

        You used it for what?!? Why the heck would you let your kids watch cartoons in school?

        • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
          1 day

          cuz my kids are awesome, and most of the schools sucked. its cool, they were consistently the best performers.

          they earned being treated like they might some day be adults.

          • Bananskal@nord.pubEnglish
            1 day

            Didn’t you want them to hang out with their friends instead of watching cartoons during the day? Or maybe make friends?

            • delcake@lemmy.zipEnglish
              22 hours

              I wouldn’t discount how having that access to cartoons probably made them more friends on its own.

              School may have been a long time ago for some of us, but I don’t think buddying up with the kids who could get you access to things has ever fallen out of style.

            • Aneb@lemmy.worldEnglish
              22 hours

              Kids sucks. Once y’all grow up a little they start to mellow out. Especially when you’re old enough for weed

    • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      19 hours

      I’m always going to say Windows is too heavy to be placed in a server environment, simply wasn’t designed for it, but congrats nonetheless.

    • Suzune@ani.socialEnglish
      1 day

      Personally, I think that installing it on a bare metal Windows Server system is quite an achievement.

      I have it installed using docker compose on Linux. So my setup is rather unspectacular.

      • offspec@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 day

        Hey you can always set up GPU rendering and like a tmpfs transcoding cache volume if you want your compose to look a little more complicated

    • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 day

      Windows can run docker, so there’s versions of most things that will run on windows.

    • JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1 day

      Asking out of curiosity: is there a specific reason you’re running Windows on your server? I used to do the same on my home servers because that’s what we used to have at work, and I wanted to learn and test some stuff. But it was a difficult road, to put it mildly. Simple things, like getting Docker autostart on boot seemed almost impossible. At some point I just gave up and switched to Linux.

      • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
        19 hours

        Just when you think you’ve got all the arrs you need, you find another that could benefit your stack.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 day

      I know this is probably “the usual” for everyone here, but I’m genuinely excited that I managed to get it all running smoothly.

      Heh! Don’t let anyone dampen your enthusiasm. It feels great when I am toiling away at something and finally all the pieces click together. I might have to walk away a few times and put the project on hold, but I keep whacking away at it. When it does work, it’s always a childish joy that comes over me and always gets a fist-pump.

      What equipment are you running that Windows Server on?

      • GatesMcBalmer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 day

        Right now its a Thinkpad T480 with 64G ram and 1tb ssd. If it turns out we use Jellyfin enough I plan to get something more powerful for it.

        • curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          1 day

          Honestly thats already plenty - 8th gen intel igpu is pretty solid, about the only reason to change from that is going to be native AV1 (enc/dec added at meteor lake, tiger lake for dec only).

          My setup is basically the same chip thats in my t480, but in a lenovo tiny. Family and friends make use of it, and it doesn’t break a sweat with 6 streams going.

    • BartyDeCanter@piefed.socialEnglish
      1 day

      Congratulations! I’ve been using Jellyfin for several years now and the quality has consistently improved. It’s a great tool.

    • comrademiao@piefed.socialEnglish
      1 day

      My journey began with windows, Jellyfin, and qbit. Nice you have done the same! Only reason I switched to Linux is because I wanted servers and hated unraid

        • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
          1 day

          Wouldn’t Kodi be better suited then? Jellyfin’s strength is its ability to transcode

          • psycotica0@lemmy.caEnglish
            19 hours

            For me Jellyfin’s strength is that it can keep track of my wife’s place in her shows independent from mine, and also that the metadata and watched state and progress is synced between phone, tablet, and TV.

          • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
            19 hours

            I mean, I’d still prefer Jellyfin as its a server (we actually use Kodi for playing the content).

            Even within the house, you could stream to multiple different devices. If you use something like Findroid you could download stuff for playing offline on your phone, no external access needed.

            • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
              15 hours

              Well, I do use Jellyfin for in-home streaming as my TV has issue with HDR content tinting, and Jellyfin fixes that on-the-fly, but it’s certainly more complex setup than pointing Kodi at a network share

              • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
                13 hours

                Oh for sure Kodi would be easier, I was just clarifying that there are reasons to pick Jellyfin over Kodi even if it’s only ever internal to your network.

          • GatesMcBalmer@lemmy.worldEnglish
            23 hours

            Wait I don’t have a reverse proxy because I don’t need one. I just installed the jellyfin for windows version and then you just connect to it.

            • Aneb@lemmy.worldEnglish
              22 hours

              Did you set up up the arr suite too? They run the background services for tracking and pulling titles, and qbittorrent downloads the files. They are all docker images and should be able to run on Win. I like Caddy as my reverse proxy, super simple to point router port 80 & 443 to the server ports for Https.

      • Mereo@piefed.caEnglish
        1 day

        Caddy runs on Windows so someone could use it for reverse proxy.

      • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
        1 day

        Well, you can just run a reverse proxy container with docker

    • vinylll04@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1 day

      You have breached the start of an arrStack. A beginning of a rabbit hole

    • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1 day

      Jellyfin is great for single-file movies, but sadly can’t play DVDs properly, unless you rip the movie out into a single file first. I hope they add proper DVD/BlueRay support with menues etc at some point. Because where do you get legal movies and shows other than on DVD or BlueRay?

      • dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1 day

        This isn’t really the usecase, you’d be better off just playing it with VLC from a BD/DVD drive with the menu plugins. Netflix won’t have DVD menus either. Ripping is necessary for this to make your physical copies accessible via Jellyfin. May want to check ARM (Automatic Ripping Machine) to streamline the process. Legally, this is perfectly fine in most jurisdictions, because you are creating a backup of your purchased property.

      • _Nemo_@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1 day

        unless you rip the movie out into a single file first

        I don’t see the problem with that. It’s what I’ve done with every single disk I own. Why would I bother with badly-written menus, pointless extra content and tons of ads and copyright warnings I need to sit through before I can watch what I paid for?

      • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 day

        Even with all the right hardware and community-recommended open source software, there are still plenty of unique hostile choices made in BluRay publishing that means playing my stuff in realtime from the disc before ripping has about a 75% success rate. Many of them scramble playlists and bend the standard to make it unplayable without using their official license.

        And that’s if you know where to get the legally grey key files to decrypt them in the first place.

        DVDs should be possible in this day and age though.