>/g/ tells me to get plex or jellyfin for managing my library>have to spend more time organizing folders, filenames and metadata than watching movies>and they compress your video files without telling youI dragged an HDMI cable through my walls from my pc to my tv because that was easierDo people actually put up with this?
>>108638958>have to spend more time organizing folders, filenames and metadata than watching moviesThat's on you for not organizing shit sooner. Specially with movies it's piss easy just to use Moviename (year).mp4>and they compress your video files without telling youI take you mean the OPTION to stream at lower bandwidth?
>>108638990Why should I have to delete all the useful info like release team and image quality, just because some guy can't write a simple filename parser?
>>108639029What's so useful about the release team? Image quality seems even more irrelevant, just get the highest your screens/projectors can handle and forget about it
>do shit because /g/ told you to without thinking even for a moment is it a good idea
>>108638958Plex barely makes you sort anything compared to Jellyfin. Not like it's hard on Jellyfin or anything, I just noticed that Plex is way less picky about folder structures and file names.
>>108638958I hate jellyfin because with plex I can throw all my anime and movies in one folder and just do folder view because really that's all I want is to play my media on my tv. I don't need some stupid zoomer organization with pretty pictures like it's netflix or whatever. jellyfin doesn't let me do that.
>>108639065Plex doesn't want you to use that feature either. It's really well hidden, but at least it lets you do it
Isn't Plex practically useless these days like it doesn't even let you stream with decent quality outside of your network?
>>108639086If the server host has a plex pass, no.
>>108639029You don’t, you’re clearly an idiot or a troll.
>not making jellyfin use mpvngmi
>>108639188But you used to be able to do that for free. What's the cost for Plex exactly?I provide the media, I provide the server, I provide the connection, I can register a certificate myself if needed.
>>108638958>I have a bunch of disorganized media files and it's sooo hard to use them waaaaaaa
>>108640282Just set up your own VPN, then you can stream at full quality for free.
>>108640308I have Wireguard running on my router and on all my devices, but the main selling point PLEX has over Jellyfin is that it has a client for everything from TVs to consoles and I don't think most of those have an option to use a VPN.
>>108638958...why would you have to spend time organizing? It does it automatically unless your shit is named fucking horribly, in which case that's on you regardless.
>>108640330I guess that's true, personally i mostly use plex on my console at home and when i'm other places it's generally my laptop so i haven't encountered that issue.
>>108638958one consistent thing I've noticed about zoomers is no matter how good or bad they are with technology all of them absolutely despise the notion of having to organize any of it. It completely explains why even a masters class or new hire cannot understand how to find a pdf or why any of them don't understand how file directories work. Anything that requires organization just makes them shit their pants. I guess because the way they use technology is you type in search and the file or video or song turns up. Also why they don't have any bookmarks but have 1000 tabs open on their phones. Chromebooks have also played a massive part in this. Actually, all of this is Google's fault.
>>108640334>unless your shit is named fucking horriblyAnd it would have to be HORRIBLE, because even these folders i have get detected properly in Plex
>>108638958>>/g/ tells me to get plex or jellyfin for managing my libraryokay>>have to spend more time organizing folders, filenames and metadata than watching moviesthat's good, and they can automate that. Well plex can do it a lot better than Jellyfin. Jellyfin's media management is pretty trash, that's why people use *arr or shokofin for it instead >>and they compress your video files without telling youDo you mean transcoding? You control that. Well you can on Jellyfin, plex demands you pay them money for you to use your own hardware
>>108640334i've had this happen on navidrome and jellyfin because i download from public trackers (which also means i can't even seed back because it modifies the data)
>>108640349Zoomers bought into the apple "it just werks" mentallity with iphones so none of them actually know how to do anything and their phone or tablet was doing every basic task behind the scenes for them. You put them on a proper desktop environment and they go full retard mode. It's actually wild how apt the zoomer/boomer description is when it comes to them using PCs. Meanwhile Gen X and Millennials grew up with terminals and DOS etc. and had to fix their own issues and figure shit out with no sources but their own will to make something happen. Zoomers will never know the fear of breaking the family computer after school and having until like 5:30 or whatever to make sure it's fixed and working right otherwise your ass is gonna get beaten raw. Instead they just throw tantrums break their phone screen and mom and dad buy a new one because you can't hit your kids anymore.
>>108640364Yeah, exactly. Usually the worst I have to do is fix the retards episode or subfolder organization and that's just because they did it wrong. Or I add a new movie and it has a weird "www. ------" shit in front of the file name so I have to click match and 1 other button and boom movie matched wow so hard.
>>108640282They're just being jews. Like the other anon said, use a VPN or Jellyfin. I bought a lifetime pass so I just stick with Plex. It's also easier than Jellyfin is for my parents.
>>108638958>/g/ bait post with the normal "why did /g/ lie to me">doesn't cite where that happened.>can't even choose which program he's baiting with, are you using plex or jellyfin?
>>108640419Yeah I know, like I said I've set up a VPN and I use Jellyfin, I've configured it for my parents to use. What happened with PLEX vindicated my opinion that I should never rely on paid/freemium services as they can change their mind at any time.FOSS is better in the long run even if it's more of a hassle to set up or lacks feature parity.
>>108639029so write it yourself, one of those is open sourcerelease team I guess if that's something you actually care about, using file names for image quality is retarded, and both pull that from the actual video metadata rather than trusting whatever is in a name
>>108638958literally just have an ai do this for you. you are decades behind and should probably kill yourself
>>108640693>have AI running on your system changing files>anons actually do thisLmfao
>>108638958Why aren't you using the arr apps?They auto download and rename for you
>>108638958You should look into CopyParty. If all you want to do is share your media anywhere with pretty much anyone on pretty much any hardware, this will do the trick. It's only one tiny small Python file. The demo video is over 15 mins long but it's that fucking awesome and has that many features...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15_-hgsX2V0https://github.com/9001/copyparty
>>108640765smells like malware
>>108640780You smell like a streetshitting JEET!
>>108640391this
>>108638958jellyfin just works across the internet
>>108640765>PythonDropped
>>108640852exactly what a malware spreader would say
>>108639086Nooo goy, you have to pay us to be able to watch your own videos on your network!
>>108638958Yeah I don't recommend jellyfin. It is a pain in the ass to set up and hard to backup if you wipe your PC.
>>108639029you don't have to delete any of that information. it sounds like you have no idea what you're doing.
>>108638990ur doing way too much. folder movie name (year) is all you need
>>108638958>>have to spend more time organizing folders, filenames and metadata than watching moviesget radarr and sonarr>>and they compress your video files without telling youthis isn't true unless you pick a quality option lower than original
>>108638958When I switched to jellyfin recently I learned that jellyfin is a lot more sensitive to naming of files/folders than plex was so I just had Claude write me a few simple python scripts and everything just werked after I ran them.
emby and jellyfin are really dumb when it comes to anime, it doesn't parse showname - 01.mkv for shit unless you rename them to showname - s01e01.mkv or such but aside from that I dunno.
>>108639029That should live in the metadata, not the file name.
>>108639029I can't believe there's actually people out there who like>[Release Group]Show_Name(Season #)(resolution)[video codex, audio codex] (ENG, ITA, FRE, etc.)_complete_series.mkv
>>108639065Import as "home photos and videos"
>>108638958>they compress your video files without telling youkek no they dont
>>108638958jellyfin + arrstack + infuse masterrace
>>108642784redpill me on infuse. It looks like freemium cuck shit. I have full apple stack and host on a debian thinkpad
>>108641824I mean, my naming scheme comes from before Jellyfin-times and it takes pretty much no effort to rename a movie. Plus I only have like 200-300, so not exactly the type who downloads multiple a month when the naming process would take much time.>>108642829NTA but unlike most other iOS clients it tends to work more reliable and have a more consistent UI, although recently Moonfin was released and shit is pretty nice too. Just wish they could figure out how to handle audio since I want one app for everything.
I only ever wanted it for remote streaming, but plex requires a subscription and jellyfin makes you manually expose a port on your firewall like it’s 1996Then I realized, I can just download the movie to my phoneThe most realistic usecase I guess is if you have multiple rooms where you wanna watch movies, an actual server and you only have laptops and tvs in your house. Having plex on your work laptop is easier to explain than having qbuttorrent
>>108638958organizing metadata? what?I don't organize shit on my plex, I just dump everything into folders per show, I have radarr do my anime downloads. The scanners do the rest
>>108642940>holding a 6" screen in front of your face for two hoursdo people reallyjust wait til you get home
>>108642940>jellyfin makes you manually expose a port on your firewall like it’s 1996just use tailscale
>>108642982just use wireguard
>>108642993still gotta open a port for wireguard
>>108642978For 50 years people watched tv on shitty blurry crts with pan-n-scan, but now that we have 1080p phones then ooh la la we are all cinephiles. >>108642982>>108642993Those still do the same as just opening a port, no?
>he's scared of opening a port
>>108643015But like, just from the "having to hold it" side, it sounds terrible. Then again, given movies today seem to be made for casual consumption while you're doing something else… perhaps you're doing it right.
Why use plex in 2026 when Stremio exists?
>>108643015you can connect to your home network without port forwarding with tailscale. It actually uses wireguard, but has some extra stuff to get you connected
>>108642829it's the best video player for the apple tv. direct plays anything you throw at it. though it's still limited by the atv4k's hardware when it comes to audio passthrough and dv profile 7
>>108643066What does Stremio do better than plex?
>>108643424Doesn't take space. Why are you hoarding files?
>>108643430>internet glitches out>no buffering or issues to interrupt my kinosit was nice to have loads of hoarded media when Helene knocked out the internet for a few days
>>108638958>overseerr as a catalog>sonarr & radarr for managing download and folders>just appears in PlexAll deployed as self updating containers.Yeah I wonder.
>>108643448Fair. Stremio works for local files, too though.
>>108642215I love that shit I can't believe there's people that like >one piece 1103.mkv
>>108642940This is why I paid plex a year ago.Jellyfin is a meme when you start talking about sharing with people, dealing with accounts, firewall, jails...I just allow Cloudflare IPs on my IPS/FW and let 443 out for Traefik.
>>108643430>Doesn't take spaceYou know you can just delete the files if you don't want to keep them.
>>108643478>Jellyfin is a meme when you start talking about sharing with people, dealing with accounts, firewall, jails...What does Plex do better than Jellyfin in that regard?
>>108643555why go through that extra step? My cache clears itself automatically.But to be fair I have extremely good internet.
>>108643561Well, if you don't want the extra step, you can treat the download folder like a cache and set it up to delete the files after X amount of days.
>>108643558work
>>108643478putting jellyfin behind nginx is about as straightforward as it gets
>>108643409>audio passthrough and dv profile 7are we still cucked to the am6b in that regard?
>>108642262I'll give that a shot just in case plex decides to continue its descent into monetization and locking down basic features, thanks.
>>108639086>Isn't Plex practically useless these daysPretty much. Subtitle support has fallen off a cliff. Meanwhile, it works perfectly in Jellyfin.
>>108640330>It has a client for everything from TVs to consolesJellyfin also has clients.
>>108642898I like Streamyfin. It has a nice design and is FOSS
>>108640330Tether those to your phone or buy a travel router.
>>108642898>>108647344I use Finamp for music. Though it seems to be a bit inactive recently.
>>108640330Doesn't Jellyfin also have clients for everything that matters?
>>108646067>>108647545>>108647937There's no PS5 native app for example, there's no app for Vidaa OS which I have on my TV, probably the same for the other obscure bullshit operating systems they put on TVs (that have no reason to exist). I know that I *could* just carry around a Fire stick or something similar, but that's besides the point.Plex is normie tier and available for absolutely everything, that's its biggest strength and they know it. But like every other non-free solution, the company behind it can and will change its mind eventually making the service paid, or more expensive or worse or all of the above.
>>108647921Streamyfin has a music player too, so I recommend checking it out. Manet too, but it's not FOSS.
>>108648002>Vidaa OSHave you looked up if there's a jailbreak and/or homebrew apps for it? LG's WebOS has one, Samsung's Tizen too.
>>108638958if you setup sonarr and radarr it downloads and renames it automatically.
>>108638958>have to spend more time organizing folders, filenames and metadata than watching moviesYou are supposed to use the components sonarr, radarr, prowlarr and seerr They make it so easy its literally like using Netflix, you search for the show / movie, press request and they find it from a torrent site you've added to scrape, it gets the torrent, ads it to your client, downloads it, makes a symlink so you can keep the same file in the torrent AND have Jellyfin pick up the correct metadata and then it ads it to JellyfinThere's even another thing that gets all available subtitles better than Jellyfin can natively but I haven't set that up yet So easy to use once its setup a retard could do it
>>108648202>There's even another thing that gets all available subtitles better than Jellyfin can natively but I haven't set that up yetbazarr?
>>108648217yeah that's itI originally wanted something like Stash DB where I could just chuck my tv and films into a folder and it would get the metadata from something like a phash database but apparently nothing like that exists for tv and films (except for Shoko server for anime)However with seerr I have to say this setup is nicer
>re-setup jellyfin on a new nas i made>try to play an x265 encoded movie in my browser to confirm it works>choppy as fuck>wtf.jpg>fuck around with bitrate>if I force it transcode (selecting sub 2 Mbps) it's not choppy>direct play another non-x265 movie at 20 Mbps>not choppy>wtf2.jpgso I guess I learned firefox fucking sucks at x265 and can't handle av1 either (which refuses to even direct play unless i disable av1 in about:config). oh well this is more of a firefox one than a jellyfin one, which seems to work great otherwise. setting up gpu forwarding in proxmox was a bit tedious but it paid off, jellyfin itself is smooth as butter and has no buffering anymore
>>108639029just shove the entire torrent into a folder named Moviename (Year) and it just werks 99.99% of the time
>>108638958I realised exactly the same thing. Next time I'll just download my fucking files from my server and that's it.
>>108648279Are you using the Intel QSV CPU transcoder or a dedicated GPU?I bought a B580 which is way overkill and its fucking insaneEven handles the silly dolby vision rips on non DV devices / clients (they used to show up green and I had to re-download them in another format)
>>108648310I got an rtx 3060 for this pretty cheap about a year ago so I'm using that. It is probably way overkill for what I need
skill issue
>>108640765only thing I don't like about this is I have to use a fucking shitty browser on my phone when i want to do shit. Wish there was an app for this.
>>108639029You can write a Python script to convert it if you aren't retarded (looks like you are though).
>>108639029Just symlink your shit from the original folder into a new one that follows the expected naming convention.
>>108638958Why is Jellyfin so horribly laggy compared to Plex? Basic UI functionality takes at least twice as long on an average traversal from the Home screen to a random movie in the library. Jellyfin also completely shits the bed if I go to my music and sort by song title rather than Artist or Album, yet Plex lazy loads everything immediately and is buttery smooth. Jellyfin took the dumbshit route of having separate pages for your media instead of infinite scroll and I hate it.
>>108648415This is only recently an issue. I'm not sure what they did but I remember from the jellyfin update threads they had fucked up the database or something. They are supposedly working on fixing it but its been at least two updates since then and its still laggy as fucking HELL loading the interface actually pisses me off.
>>108638990>it's piss easy just to (insert a rename method)or just have actual good pirate sources. I have never needed to change a file name in my life
>ITT: skill issueI remember when I thought that making a plex server was too complicated/not for me. then I learned how to actually do it
>>108640543Jellyfin didn't even exist during Plex's glory years and was unusable for a long time after it did exist. People who say "durr just use Jellyfin" are exclusively retarded zoomers who jumped on the media streaming bandwagon in the past 5 years.
>>108638958But Sonarr/Radarr organizes everything, and Plex/Jellyfin grabs all the metadata...
>>108648445you can use sonarr or radarr to automatically change file names. I don't see how difficult this is >>108648478
>>108640391>because you can't hit your kids anymore.
>>108648663You think hitting kids was a black thing? Weird, how is someone that's never there and left before the child was born even able to hit them?
>>108648432a retard vibecoded a database rewrite and now they can't unfuck it.I refuse to update to the latest major version because last time I tried it my shit was unusable
>>108648915so many times have updates fucked my shit up. Only real reason I update so much is due to shit just not working right in the first place hoping for a fix to come in. Stuff like DV used to not work nor the GPU drives for ff mpeg were outdated or some shit on the build I was using.
>>108643464Let me know what you find anon i agree with you
>>108640364>Shit dude, you live like that?
>>108648161>StreamyfinHow good is the offline listening experience?Is it practical to select a bunch of albums and have them available for offline listening?Is the music player first-class or an afterthought? It seems to me the app is focused on video streaming.
>>108651384I was already using Manet for music, so I don't know. From what I've tested: you navigate to your Music library and it seems to be like any other music player to me. It's missing some sorting and filtering functionality because you're probably expected to use the search bar. It doesn't have lyrics in the player.
>>108638958bait thread
I haven't organized a single file since getting radarr and Plex
H-Wait a minute, I have an HDMI cable!
Odd question maybe, but stash (which is for porn) uses some sort of video hash (PHash) to figure out what the video is.Why did this never catch on with the *arrs and Jellyfin?
>>108652471Doesn't that need some considerable processing power?Are you perhaps talking about the same mechanism in which MusicBrainz Picard ids musics? The AcoustID thing.
>>108652471why would *arr be downloading something if it doesn't know what it is?
>>108648002>There's no PS5 native appStop streaming movies and TV shows from your game console. Are you a child?> there's no app for Vidaa OS which I have on my TVWell, yeah, because no one uses third-world garbage. Get a TV that doesn't come pre-installed with spyware. The answer is an Nvidia Shield.
>>108653021Nice bait, here's your (You).
>>108639065>>108642262>Import as "home photos and videos"I've tried that in the past with a porn folder. It still forcibly looks up its database and now my DP moaning compillation shows a picture of a random Indian series.O love Jellyfin but it should just let me browse preserving file structure.
>>108638958>>have to spend more time organizing folders, filenames and metadata than watching moviesi don't understand, i've been running an arr stack with plex for years and i've never had to manually edit any metadata or do anything, everything just appears in plex automatically with the right metadata as it shouldwhat are you trying to achieve exactly?
>>108638958>have to spend more time organizing folders, filenames and metadata than watching moviesyoure retarded if you do this manually
>make samba share>connect to it from device>???>profit
>have plex server>make sure it's online>??????>profit
>>108638958>I dragged an HDMI cable through my walls from my pc to my tv because that was easierJust use a minipc connected to a file share over wifi then you retard.
>>108639029Pretty much why I gave up on these.I'm seeding about 300GB of anime, and the program instead of organizing things inside it by parsing name, IT LITERALLY RENAMES FILES AND BREAKS EVERYTHING.It's the stupidest piece of software I've ever used.You can vibecode a parser and better lib manager in less than 10minutes with Claude, and that's what I did, just few kb of code, and works, unlike Jellyfin/Plex.
>>108638958>download movie/tv show onto a simple usb>plug into tv and watch once>delete immediately afterI think it's genuinely retarded to hoard movies and shows. You've watched it already why bother watching it again? There's so much to see nowadays it's just a waste of time.
I want to share my music library with a normal person and ideally through a web browser.I tried using a fork of Airsonic-advanced but the media library in their webui seems fucked.I'm considering moving over to gonic for the server and maybe airsonic-refix for the web frontend?But I considered Jellyfin too.Any suggestions or alternatives?I mainly just want to be able to host a server, send someone a link, and they get a music player that can shuffle 1 of 2 different directories.What's best for this?
>>108657949https://www.navidrome.org/or just set up an FTP server and let them DL your files
>>108638958Haven't fucked around with that stuff in years, but it was cool when I had the whole thing automated, from the download, to fetching subtitles, to organizing and tagging, to pre-encoding to the desired formats.
>>108658050Thanks.I forgot to include that one but it was on the "consider" list.Since you posted it I'll assume its good and try that one first.Context:I already have a public HTTP server exposing the directories, but I specifically want a non-tech autistic girl friend of mine to be able to click a link and be able to shuffle a specific folder.I tried getting her to download a zip but she doesn't have the space so I'm trying to come up with something.
