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  • V [email protected]

    What are you using to watch jellyfin on iOS?

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    Can also use the web client

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      And Plexamp.

      And a decent AppleTV app.

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      There's plugins that can replace Plexamp

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      • V [email protected]

        What are you using to watch jellyfin on iOS?

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        https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

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          not OP, but this has reared its ugly face once or twice with my friends.

          i have been running into another issue, though it may be a firefox issue: playing some filetypes fail to play on web browser but work fine on jellyfin app (i believe my settings are correct for hardware decode on server where it can)

          i still have to put some time into figuring it out tho (havent really done my research yet)

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          https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/

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            How do you keep all your virtual machines up-to-date? Or are those containers?

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            Unattended-upgrades or dnf-automatic

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              after almost 15yrs my plex server is no more. jellyfin behind nginx with authentik is running very nicely.

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              Anyone have experience hosting a server for non-technical parents? Plex is just so plug and play and they have clients for even the shittiest old smart TVs.

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                not OP, but this has reared its ugly face once or twice with my friends.

                i have been running into another issue, though it may be a firefox issue: playing some filetypes fail to play on web browser but work fine on jellyfin app (i believe my settings are correct for hardware decode on server where it can)

                i still have to put some time into figuring it out tho (havent really done my research yet)

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                I've actually had the opposite issue where it runs fine on my web browser but does not play on my TV.

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                • candyman337@lemmy.worldC [email protected]

                  There's plugins that can replace Plexamp

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                  So it does the Sonic adventure on mobile in a free app? And has offline storage? And has a station creator?

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                  • teamassimilation@infosec.pubT [email protected]

                    I find Jellyfin’s subtitle search much better than Plex’s. Bonus for leaving a subtitle file right along with your file, instead of buried somewhere else so you can’t easily edit it.

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                    Get Bazarr so you never have to worry about subtitle searching again.

                    https://www.bazarr.media/

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                      after almost 15yrs my plex server is no more. jellyfin behind nginx with authentik is running very nicely.

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                      I've heard jellyfin has a lot of security issues, which I don't know if that's accurate or not. But the BIGGEST issue is lack of a proper tvOS app. I really don't feel like using Infuse or some other app just to use my library. Year after year I hear about people switching and yet, the gap is simply still there.

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                      • M [email protected]

                        I've heard jellyfin has a lot of security issues, which I don't know if that's accurate or not. But the BIGGEST issue is lack of a proper tvOS app. I really don't feel like using Infuse or some other app just to use my library. Year after year I hear about people switching and yet, the gap is simply still there.

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                        I am also not up to date on Jellyfin security issues but the biggest one I care about is that its clients don’t support OIDC. There’s a neat plugin for OIDC, but without client support it only works with the web client and I’m not a fan of leaving login pages open to the internet.

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                          Anyone have experience hosting a server for non-technical parents? Plex is just so plug and play and they have clients for even the shittiest old smart TVs.

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                          Honestly, the easiest thing to do is put it on a mesh VPN like Tailscale and connect their streaming device to your tailnet. If they’re non technical parents then if their TV OS doesn’t support Tailscale, you can pick up a Walmart brand ONN streaming box for <$50 which supports for Tailscale and Jellyfin.

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                            I've heard jellyfin has a lot of security issues, which I don't know if that's accurate or not. But the BIGGEST issue is lack of a proper tvOS app. I really don't feel like using Infuse or some other app just to use my library. Year after year I hear about people switching and yet, the gap is simply still there.

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                            Op already said they were behind authentik

                            There also absolutely are apps for tv oses like Android, I use one daily.

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                              i have a lifetime plex pass, but I'd consider moving to jellyfin when their closed-captioning support reaches parity with plex. i regularly spin up a jellyfin container to try it out, but i still run into issues. And jellyfin's android apps are mediocre (in particular android auto support), especially for music compared to plexamp

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                              For android auto, I use symfonium as it can hook into my jf library

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                              • V [email protected]

                                What are you using to watch jellyfin on iOS?

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                                In order of personal preference:

                                1. Jellyfin Mobile
                                2. Infuse
                                3. Streamyfin
                                4. Swiftfin

                                Maybe just try them all out and find the one that fits you best. You could also use more than one (which is what I do).

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                                • M [email protected]

                                  i ended up doing both. ldap for the apps. oidc for web based users and the apps that support the quick connect feature. the local user account system works fine too, and ldap would be enough. i just wanted an excuse to play round with sso systems, and it was fun figuring out how to connect all my servers.

                                  authenik has a good docs site for both it's docker container and connecting it to jellyfin. Authelia looked interesting too.

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                                  Thanks! Don't know how I missed the Authentik docs for this.

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                                    I've heard jellyfin has a lot of security issues, which I don't know if that's accurate or not. But the BIGGEST issue is lack of a proper tvOS app. I really don't feel like using Infuse or some other app just to use my library. Year after year I hear about people switching and yet, the gap is simply still there.

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                                    https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin is available for tvOS. works great for me with one bug. since i have homepods connected to one of my apple tv's as it's speakers. i had to change the setting to use the native video player instead of vlc to avoid and audio delay bug. that cost me the auto play next episode function. i though not auto playing the next episode would annoy me, but it's turned out to not be a issue at all. but infuse doesn't include that bug if you want both homepod tv speakers and auto play next episode with jellyfin. as for security, since jellyfin is more modifiable it has a lot more room for misconfiguration for sure. plex had plenty of it's own security issues, we just only heard about them when some security blogger discovered it.

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                                      Op already said they were behind authentik

                                      There also absolutely are apps for tv oses like Android, I use one daily.

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                                      I think they meant Apple's "tvOS" - which powers the Apple TV set top box.

                                      There's no client for it, if I had to take a guess it's likely due to the costs of doing so.

                                      Edit: Whoops, it appears I'm a bit out of date on this.

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                                        I am also not up to date on Jellyfin security issues but the biggest one I care about is that its clients don’t support OIDC. There’s a neat plugin for OIDC, but without client support it only works with the web client and I’m not a fan of leaving login pages open to the internet.

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                                        if you use the oidc connection and apps that support quick connect you can do it. you basically end up doing things like the plex link process that got implemented when they forced everyone into their authentication service. i almost went that route but opted to leave the password auth from ldap in. its the kind of log in process most people are used too and i've got a few elderly users. i disabled password reset in authentik though and everyone gets a 3 word 24 char minimum password.

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                                        • russjr08@bitforged.spaceR [email protected]

                                          I think they meant Apple's "tvOS" - which powers the Apple TV set top box.

                                          There's no client for it, if I had to take a guess it's likely due to the costs of doing so.

                                          Edit: Whoops, it appears I'm a bit out of date on this.

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                                          https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin i've got 5 apple tv users, two android tv and one webostv

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