so i tried jellyfin - /g/ (#105954356) [Archived: 132 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:04:51 AM No.105954356
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What the fuck is the point of this if I have to keep the server running on my PC just to use it on my Android device? Seriously, what's the logic? I set up Jellyfin thinking I could just access my movie library remotely, not babysit a server every time I want to watch something. If my PC has to be on 24/7 for this to work, how is that any better than just copying the files directly to my phone? This defeats the whole idea of convenience. Why even call it a media server if it canโ€™t serve anything unless I'm constantly managing it myself?
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:07:19 AM No.105954370
Because your PC is able to contain hard drives with many TBs of storage. You can also run complicated automation and library management software to download the things you want as soon as they become available. Personally I like doing things the old fashioned way. I copy movies and shows to USB drives and watch them on my TV with Kodi. But I have Jellyfin set up to download shows my mom likes watching so she can remotely stream them.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:07:21 AM No.105954371
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>>105954356 (OP)
Did you think the media just existed in the eather when you set up Jellyfin? Are you retarded?
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:07:45 AM No.105954373
>>105954356 (OP)
are you fucking retarded? servers are that: dedicated computer that runs software that you access on demand. availability of internet and personal computing was a mistake.
kill yourself, zoomer
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:08:47 AM No.105954380
>>105954356 (OP)
>how is that any better than just copying the files directly to my phone?
the question that ended /g/
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:09:20 AM No.105954383
>>105954380
Not really. There are different reasons to do either thing.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:09:45 AM No.105954387
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>>105954356 (OP)
holy based.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:10:41 AM No.105954395
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>>105954387
More like holy retarded
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:18:39 AM No.105954426
Some non retarded considerations rooted in reality. If your end goal is to watch shit on your phone, lmao embarrassing, Jellyfin probably isn't the best choice unless you're always going to be doing it in the range of wifi or a strong LTE/5G signal with unmetered data. A legit use case would be if you are hoarding a bunch of high quality large ass files, say bluray remuxes, and have a GPU in your rig. Jellyfin can use the GPU to transcode it to something more manageable for streaming. The alternative is manually transcoding files like that and copying them to your phone over USB, which takes more time and effort than letting sonarr/radarr manage your library and jellyfin do automatic transcoding.

tl;dr automate all the boring tedious shit
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:20:59 AM No.105954445
>>105954356 (OP)
This is like complaining you have to breathe to continue living.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:24:59 AM No.105954462
How do I integrate potplayer with jellyfin ? Jellyfin's default player is kinda shitty, I want my movies to open directly in potplayer. Copying and pasting links everytime from jellyfin to potplayer is kinda tiring
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:25:02 AM No.105954463
>>105954356 (OP)
Not sure if bait or genuinely retarded.
>If my PC has to be on 24/7
Electronics need electricity to operate.
Maybe you can set up a system where someone sends you USB sticks with things you want to watch over the mail or through flying pigeons.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:30:14 AM No.105954484
>>105954462
Just use VLC as the default video player. Solved all the stupid extension/code issues.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:31:06 AM No.105954492
>>105954484
can you do that on an android tv box ?
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:45:26 AM No.105954556
>>105954356 (OP)
>This defeats the whole idea of convenience.
you just outed yourself as a zoomer lol
the whole point of this is for you to be able to watch the stuff you have downloaded because at any point, streaming services can nuke content off thier platform or just refuse you access to their servers
if you want convenience, then just fork over the cash and keep consooming
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:46:53 AM No.105954561
>>105954356 (OP)
>Why even call it a media server if it canโ€™t serve anything unless I'm constantly managing it myself?
What do you think the word "server" means, you complete and utter retard?
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:47:54 AM No.105954570
>>105954380
My server has 16TB of storage. My phone has 256GB. Any other question?
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:49:32 AM No.105954581
>>105954356 (OP)
I'm really curious how else you thought it was going to work
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:53:17 AM No.105954608
>>105954581
Perhaps what he actually wanted was a subscription to Google Drive
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:56:03 AM No.105954624
>>105954426
Might be better to lurk instead of posting if you're going to be so wrong about everything.

>Jellyfin probably isn't the best choice unless you're always going to be doing it in the range of wifi or a strong LTE/5G signal with unmetered data.
Wrong. I can stream 4k shit on my phone, in my car in the middle of bumfuck nowhere without issues. Having a dedicated server just for yourself, in your house 20 miles away instead of in a data center serving 150000 other zoomies 1000 miles away means you're in a completely different league performance wise.

>A legit use case would be if you are hoarding a bunch of high quality large ass files, say bluray remuxes, and have a GPU in your rig. Jellyfin can use the GPU to transcode it to something more manageable for streaming.
Any use case that involves storing media and streaming it remotely is legit and what Jellyfin was designed for. You also don't ever need on-the-fly transcoding. Either download media that's compatible with your devices for playback, or set up something like Tdarr to transcode right when you download files instead of when you're trying to watch stuff. Avoiding the need for on-the-fly transcoding eliminates any and all performance concerns. I serve 5-6 people from a Jellyfin instance running on a base Mac Mini M1 and have never had the slightest issue with performance.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:01:17 AM No.105954646
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>>105954624
>base Mac Mini M1
Lmao of course the iToddler would be really confident yet retarded. Of course you aren't going to do any transcoding on that overpriced Fischer Price toy. "Avoiding performance concerns" is less of an issue to worry about when you have a real computer. Expecting mobile networks to be good enough for 4K streaming everywhere is both wishful thinking and dumb as hell. Unless you're only downloading bitstarved slop from yts like pic related.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:04:25 AM No.105954662
>>105954624
>You also don't ever need on-the-fly transcoding
I'm not going to store five formats of the same movie when my quicksync CPU can easily transcode them and make them playable on any device.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:06:39 AM No.105954672
>>105954662
Why would you need multiple copies of anything? Just store HEVC video with AAC or Dolby Digital audio, that's guaranteed to play on basically anything except a toaster.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:07:55 AM No.105954681
>>105954662
Personally I don't serve any users from my server that need transcoding so I have it disabled. It's a xeon so quicksync is not an option. I serve 1080p H264 files with reasonable bitrates to sidestep any compatibility issues.

>>105954672
>HEVC
Garbage. Unless it's 4K/HDR content. Or anime.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:09:02 AM No.105954686
>>105954681
>Unless it's 4K/HDR content. Or anime.
Well you should only have 4k media, and HDR whenever possible, so that's perfect!
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:10:23 AM No.105954698
>>105954356 (OP)
You donโ€™t run it on your PC, you run it on your homeserver.
If you donโ€™t have one, leave /g/ now and donโ€™t come back until you have one.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:11:24 AM No.105954702
>>105954380
>the question that ended /g/
Your phone has 60 TB storage?
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:11:39 AM No.105954704
>>105954356 (OP)
the point is to have a place where you put all your hdd's, you have a big library of stuff and you can access it from anything else at any time instantly without needing to copy around files ahead of time
really, the main reason i use it is simply because it can keep track of what has been watched with multiple users, like i can open it up, and immediately see "oh, there's a new episode of <something>" and i can click on it to watch it (i have other programs set up to automatically find and download new episodes)

if you're on you're own, you might not see the benefit, but when multiple users are involved, it's great. my roommates can just turn on their tv and go watch whatever without needing to copy shit to a flash drive or something
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:11:45 AM No.105954705
>>105954686
I don't have any 4K HDR TVs nor do I assume the users I am serving do. 1080p is good enough most of the time. There are some cases where the 4K version of a movie is the only good version, but there are even more cases where the 4K version is a botched piece of shit. It's enough of a headache trying to choose which versions I want in 1080p.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:12:55 AM No.105954713
>>105954462
i use jellyfin-mpv-shim to have videos open in mpv from the web interface. maybe there's something similar for pot player? i'm not familiar with that
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:15:34 AM No.105954729
>>105954356 (OP)
Just stream torrents with something like peerflix. Or do you need your movies downloaded to watch them repeatedly and waste your life like a good goy?
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:33:36 AM No.105954825
>>105954356 (OP)
i personally dont need it but I set it up for my boomer parents โ€” it automatically downloads trash tv for my mom and random imdb movies and series with rating >6.5 for my pops. the server is at my house but I configured their devices to access it via tailscale. they tell me how great it is every time i visit.

i dont know what the hell OP is blabbering about
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:36:11 AM No.105954839
>>105954825
It translates piracy into a normie friendly Netflix like experience. I don't need it either but it's fun to dick around with the configuration and my mom appreciates it.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 11:18:46 AM No.105955065
>>105954825
kill yourself llm poster
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 11:31:41 AM No.105955120
>>105954356 (OP)
Use Plex if you want a hassle free experience that just works with a clean interface. Use Jellyfin if you like resolving weird media scanning issues and dont mind slow resolution of problems and a messy interface
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 11:37:44 AM No.105955146
Use Jellyfin is you're a fan of freedom and don't mind working a little for it
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 11:51:39 AM No.105955231
>>105955120
Nah, I'd rather keep using it and have 0 issues then have to pay for premium features on PleX that are free on Jellyfin.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 11:54:19 AM No.105955247
>>105955120
Also use Plex if you don't mind transcoding being force enabled for bullshit reasons or having to click through a menu from the front page to reach a shared library
I think I recall having random issues with subtitles as well
Also DTS audio breaks video playback on my LG tv, probably related to transcoding and containers
These issues haven't been fixed in years and probably never will be
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 12:30:49 PM No.105955451
Just use one of the many websites that allow you to watch films and TV shows on your phone you fucking nerd. That solves all problems you have with jellyfin.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:14:39 PM No.105956108
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>>105955451
>watching films and tv shows on your phone
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:16:22 PM No.105956119
>>105954356 (OP)
>What the fuck is the point of this if I have to keep the server running on my PC just to use it on my Android device?
zoomers are retarded
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:21:06 PM No.105956160
>>105956119
i honestly don't don't how he thought it would work
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:21:11 PM No.105956162
>>105954370
>But I have Jellyfin set up to download shows
How do you download shows using jellyfin?
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:26:25 PM No.105956197
Anyone willing to provide their Absolute Retards' Guide to Setting Up A Remote Jellyfin Server with step by step instructions that don't make leaping and sweeping jumps to conclusions.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:26:49 PM No.105956199
>>105956162
you don't dummy
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:26:53 PM No.105956201
>>105956162
I misspoke in a retarded way there, my bad. Jellyfin doesn't download anything. I use Sonarr and Autobrr together to download and manage the library. Sonarr makes hard links to the files in my downloads directory so Jellyfin sees them and imports them to the library automatically.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:29:12 PM No.105956212
bro really went okay I installed jellyfin, now what
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:30:33 PM No.105956223
>>105956197
I followed this guide and I'm an absolute retard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuRWqzfX1ik
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:31:27 PM No.105956228
>>105956197
I highly suggest you get help from a LLM. The help it gives you is only going to be as good as your plan, so I think rather than expecting a guide here you should explain what you want to do. First things first make sure you can actually open a port and aren't behind CGNAT. Second figure out a good dynamic DNS service to use. Some are pretty gay and do things like send you emails to make you log in after so many days. So find a good one or figure out a way to automatically update dynamic IP changes to a domain you purchased. Then comes your source of content. Are you on private trackers? Do you use Usenet? Or are you going to be using public trackers? If you use public trackers you may need to think about how you're going to deal with the VPN setup for your torrent client, depending on what country you live in. Then comes Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, Jackett, maybe even Autobrr. Research each one and decide what you want to use to automate searches, downloads, all that good shit.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:31:47 PM No.105956235
>>105956197
>remote
anon, if you're asking this, don't do this, because you'll only hurt yourself and or get cyber-aids. install tailscale on whatever it is you install jellyfin on, and use that to access your stuff when you leave your gooncave.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:31:50 PM No.105956236
>>105954492
I want you share my content remotely, how do I do this author getting too complicated with ask the docker bullshit?
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:34:43 PM No.105956259
>>105956235
>if you don't know how to do X, don't try to learn how to do X, because learning how to do X will only make you hurt yourself
Your mother should have swallowed you. You stupid girly mouthed faggot. This is how you make yield feel important? Pathetic homo
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:34:54 PM No.105956262
>>105956108
I have a few shows on my phone for when I'm out camping or travelling but in reality barely use it. But my point is all the issues he is having with jellyfin can be solved using one of the thousands of sites that have pretty much every modern TV show and film on them. No work needed.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:36:36 PM No.105956279
>>105956259
minor spelling mistake, i win. reply if seething mad
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:39:10 PM No.105956293
>>105956223
Thank you anon. It's real people on the video too. Not YouTube corpo slop. Thanks again.
>>105956228
Yeah this is the complicated shit o was talking about. I need step by step instructions. The video provided by that one anon seems sufficient, so far.
>>105956279
>im winning in my own imaginary game!!!
Girly mouthed faggot confirmed
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 2:52:09 PM No.105956391
>>105956236
by using tailscale if you are too retarded
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:01:10 PM No.105956456
>>105954356 (OP)
You install it on your home server. What, did you expect this "media server" to run on magic pixie dust and to serve your movies to your phone from the the great aetheric veil beyond reality?
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:05:29 PM No.105956492
>>105954371
>mfw the photons have physically left my house and are on their way to their destination
>delete the original file
>destination receives it no problem
ether truly is mystical
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:10:13 PM No.105956530
Only thing I dislike about jellyfin is it doesns't work well with senpwai. It seems to expect you to have a master folder for the anime, and then folders for the seasosn under it. senpwai doesn't do that, and its important to leave things alone so senpwai can track what it has and has not downloaded. The effect in jellyfin is that despite the shows being clearly labled with the seasons, it thinks everything is season 1 and fucks up the metadata too. Very annoying.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:12:20 PM No.105956542
>>105954356 (OP)
extremely smoothbrained take, stopped reading a few sentences in
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:13:19 PM No.105956553
>>105956530
>senpwai
wtf is that
>Download any anime from Animepahe or Gogoanime.
oh god no, ew, keep it
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:14:12 PM No.105956563
>>105954356 (OP)
zoomers are a different breed
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:14:20 PM No.105956564
>>105954356 (OP)
>Why even call it a media server if it canโ€™t serve anything unless I'm constantly managing it myself?

Is this nigga serious
why call it a phone if I have to make phone calls myself
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:18:29 PM No.105956592
>>105956391
I'm extremely retarded so I'll look into it
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:23:14 PM No.105956631
>>105956564
Bro, that's what happens when they're trying their best to come off as cool and edgy, like this fucking faggot >>105956235
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:28:26 PM No.105956663
>>105954356 (OP)
This is top tier bait holy shit.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:31:12 PM No.105956688
OP can't be a zoomer. zoomers don't even know how file systems work.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:32:19 PM No.105956696
>>105956631
confirmed seething mad. raging, even
Replies: >>105956750
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:39:29 PM No.105956750
>>105956235
It is literally faggot attempts to look cool
"I'm so cool, I call it a
>"lappy"
instead of laptop. You use
>Winblows
bro?
You use
>Loonix?
See what I did there?
>LOONix.
I'm the coolest cyber dude online right now. I'm so knowledgeable because I substitute words and names and switch letters around.
You don't want you get
>"cyber-aids"
dude.
>"Gooncave"
bruh. I'm so FUCKING cool!
Oh shit how cool am I?! I called it
>GraphMEME
Get it??? Hurrr durr durr durrr so funny and kewl geek humor."
>>105956696
You faggots seek out opportunities to do this gay shit. Mad? It's hilarious how corny and lame you pathetic no-hand-eye-coordination-having faggots are. The only reason you posted that is so you could type
>"cyber-aids"

You're lame nigga
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:52:02 PM No.105956846
>>105956750
anon's cringe-detector is working at optimum levels
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:55:04 PM No.105956875
>>105956750
this guy is really really mad IRL
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:56:49 PM No.105956893
>>105956391
is tailscale private and secure? is it opensource?
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:58:11 PM No.105956903
>>105956893
you need to create an account with Tailscale. I wouldn't do that. they're obviously monitoring traffic and so on.
Replies: >>105956909 >>105956916 >>105956924
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:59:16 PM No.105956909
>>105956903
Monitoring p2p traffic between instances not routed through their network.

Please at least watch a 3 minute jewtube video explaining how things work before posting
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 3:59:58 PM No.105956916
>>105956903
>>105956909
Yeah, I'm not interested in creating a google account just to sign into some service. I want to host everything myself.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:00:49 PM No.105956924
>>105956903
>they're obviously monitoring traffic and so on.
extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs, anon
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:01:05 PM No.105956929
>>105956909
>not routed through their network
so what's the purpose of using tailscale?
Replies: >>105957606
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:02:35 PM No.105956939
HOW TO INSTAL THE ANROID SAAR
HOW TO INSTAL THE ANROID SAAR
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itt: anons struggling with the concept of 'server' and 'virtual private network'
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:02:46 PM No.105956941
>>105956924
it's a fucking VPN dipshit. of couse they monitor traffic
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:04:43 PM No.105956957
>>105956941
>of couse they
so, no proofs then. you're just going online and telling lies. for shame
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:05:57 PM No.105956967
why do I need a google email account just to login to these faggot services?
Replies: >>105957012
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:07:08 PM No.105956975
Bilbo-Baggins-in-Fellowship-Of-The-Ring
Bilbo-Baggins-in-Fellowship-Of-The-Ring
md5: b011d354a4006bf840a37afa13926bec๐Ÿ”
It's about independence and utility. You already knew that but decided to make this shit thread.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:07:11 PM No.105956976
>>105956957
yeah you're right. there's no proof they do or don't. so this is why they should be avoided like "cyber-aids"
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:07:59 PM No.105956982
>>105956916
Then you need a publicly accessible IPv4 and don't need tailscalse.

>>105956924
They can't monitor traffic that's not routed through them.

>>105956939
Even worse, they don't understand what tailscale is.

>>105956941
Tailscale is a VPN like a torrent is FTP Server. Watch 3 minutes of youtube to understand how they are brokering p2p connections between peers without routing them through their network and when you know what NAT Traversal is come back and apologize.
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Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:11:37 PM No.105957012
>>105956967
because that way google handle the authentication etc, so all the faggot services have to deal with is an internal userid like AD632159F9BEEF169F8
Replies: >>105957040
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:12:38 PM No.105957027
>>105956982
no, that's incorrect
Replies: >>105957047
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:14:01 PM No.105957040
TailscaleMarketing
TailscaleMarketing
md5: dbdd9c819de39b3725c950a73987b8d8๐Ÿ”
>>105957012
>>105956982
I think I understand. thanks for taking the time for explaining.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:14:47 PM No.105957047
>>105957027
What is not correct? And before you answer, realize that i do understand what NAT Traversal is. I even know how to use BGP to setup routes, so unless you took like networking 101 in college, you should propably stfu and learn first.
Replies: >>105957086
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:15:36 PM No.105957054
>Why the fuck does my server have to be running and connected to the internet in order to access it?
I can't believe I share a board with you retards.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:17:58 PM No.105957086
>>105957047
watch 8 minutes of youtube to find out
Replies: >>105957096
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:19:15 PM No.105957096
>>105957086
I'm willing to learn, please link a video you think proofs me wrong.
Replies: >>105957122
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:19:22 PM No.105957098
>>105954356 (OP)
>I set up Jellyfin thinking I could just access my movie library remotely, not babysit a server every time I want to watch something. If my PC has to be on 24/7 for this to work, how is that any better than just copying the files directly to my phone?
Anon did you think this was just magic or something?
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:21:10 PM No.105957110
>>105954356 (OP)
depends on your use case. if you have unlimited money for 90 terabyte phone storage i guess it wouldn't be very important to you.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:22:23 PM No.105957118
>>105954686
>you should only have 4k media, and HDR whenever possible
HDR is crap 99% of the time
t. actually have an OLED TV and still don't think HDR movies look better
Replies: >>105957167
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:22:38 PM No.105957120
90860a4f4e58ff50d84381b72e9f5ab998c21bc4
90860a4f4e58ff50d84381b72e9f5ab998c21bc4
md5: 6fff407e149ae153d75c792ebc27662f๐Ÿ”
>>105956235
>like give cloudflare access to your home network bro.
>why? cause like, some guy on youtube said i should be scared
Okay who is ready to line up to be my serfs. you aren't people anymore.
Replies: >>105957130
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:22:38 PM No.105957122
>>105957096
no, i will not spoonfeed you
Replies: >>105957173
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:23:39 PM No.105957130
>>105957120
weird, i don't remember saying any of that. you should read posts and reply to what people actually say online, rather than just imagining what they said and replying that that instead.
Replies: >>105957227
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:28:30 PM No.105957164
>why does a server have to be running in order to serve a client
op are u fucking retarded or what? please get a basic understanding of computer before posting here.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:29:18 PM No.105957167
>>105957118
>better color and more contrast is bad actually, please believe me
Replies: >>105959408
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:30:09 PM No.105957173
>>105957122
Oh I'm sorry I wasn't aware I'm talking to a Nigger. In that case, you are correct Jamal, they are logging everything, give it back.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:36:24 PM No.105957227
>>105957130
>I'm a fucking idiot
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 4:53:48 PM No.105957342
>>105954356 (OP)
you are retarded
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 5:10:24 PM No.105957461
>>105954624
>Wrong. I can stream 4k shit on my phone, in my car in the middle of bumfuck nowhere without issues.
How did you accomplish this? I can only use the damn thing in my own home.
Replies: >>105957594 >>105959517 >>105961849 >>105962895
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 5:13:04 PM No.105957475
>>105954356 (OP)
anon doesn't know what a server is.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 5:14:02 PM No.105957480
>>105956893
the frontend is, but the backend isn't. there's a foss backend called headscale, but for personal usage you may as well just use wireguard by itself
Replies: >>105957527
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 5:20:12 PM No.105957527
>>105957480
thanks anon. I don't want to rely on any "service" and have to login into anything. I want to host everything myself
Replies: >>105962664
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 5:28:40 PM No.105957594
>>105957461
I have symmetrical 2Gbps up/down fibre at home. Otherwise nothing special, all my media is stored on a RAID-Z1 of 4 mechanical hard drives in a QNAP TR-004 which has a pig-disgusting USB 3.2 connector to my server, so I'm definitely not establishing world records in terms of IO performance, I think the max read speed is around 200Mbps or so. My 4K stuff is usually around 10-12 Mbps so that still gives me enough bandwidth for a few concurrent streams if needed.
Replies: >>105957632 >>105958483
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 5:29:55 PM No.105957606
>>105956929
Brokering P2P VPN Connections by providing a publicly accessible Coordination Server for initiating NAT-to-NAT connections using UDP Holepunching.
Replies: >>105963686
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 5:32:14 PM No.105957632
>>105957594
>My 4K stuff is usually around 10-12 Mbps
After checking, more like 20-25 Mbps, but that doesn't change the rest of my points.
Replies: >>105958483
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 5:44:28 PM No.105957716
this thread is making me realize how cool and important a jellyfin docker is, let alone docker itself
Replies: >>105968830
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 5:55:02 PM No.105957805
>install Jellyfin
>Create 2 libraries, Movies and Shows
>put files in folder
>scan library folders
>everything just appears and works
>Wireguard VPN to my home network whenever Iโ€™m away to access it securely.
not seeing the issue
Replies: >>105957832
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 5:58:12 PM No.105957832
>>105957805
my issue is the last part and how to do it without signing up and all that bullshit.
Replies: >>105957873 >>105957913
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 6:02:20 PM No.105957870
Minidlna is less autism desu. I don't understand the point of these faggy viewers.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 6:02:48 PM No.105957873
>>105957832
Retarded Zoomer, do you even have a public ip adress at home?
Replies: >>105957884
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 6:04:19 PM No.105957884
>>105957873
not a zoomer, but very retarded. yes, I do and it's dynamic. I'm running a Netgear R7000 running Fresh Tomato and it's connected to my PC that's running Jellyfin and MullvadVPN
Replies: >>105957896
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 6:05:27 PM No.105957896
>>105957884
Linux Mint
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 6:06:53 PM No.105957913
1750160714181054
1750160714181054
md5: 234306bc76b2cad4aad7d028a7789df7๐Ÿ”
>>105957832
>without signing up
what?
you just configure it locally on your router and connect using your WireGuard app from your other device
there is no signing up to anything involved
Replies: >>105957942 >>105957975
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 6:09:14 PM No.105957942
>>105957913
Okay, I know that's what I have to do, but, HOW to do it is where I'm stuck. I need a step-by-step tut for a retard. I simply don't know where to start and how do I protect the port from nafarious actors after I expose it to the internet?
Replies: >>105958980 >>105961849
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 6:13:21 PM No.105957975
WireGuardFreshTomato
WireGuardFreshTomato
md5: e0e0c7c6f555a3e6007c50509e4ebe89๐Ÿ”
>>105957913
wht do I do now?
Replies: >>105958440
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 6:22:29 PM No.105958023
>>105954356 (OP)
Run it on a Jetson Nano or a Raspberry pi, a low sound, low power, low profile device you can leave connected to the network all the time.

Nigger.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 6:28:08 PM No.105958065
will you guys please help a retard out? please?
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 6:30:32 PM No.105958092
Running cloud storage and video streaming has been super fun to figure out and use. Movie streaming is probably the worst value subscription services today too, which helps justify the setup costs.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 6:39:41 PM No.105958169
Jellyfin is pretty good at finding the metadata for movies, but for shows it sucks and grabs the wrong metadata unless you meticulously name each file how jellyfin likes to read it.

If you are too lazy to rename every episode in a series, just change the content type of the folder from TV shows to Home movies or something so it doesn't bother grabbing any metadata for it.

And in your Movies folder, make a seperate folder formatted Name (year) and download the torrent directly into that because some torrented files have weird usernames that make it hard to figure out metadata
Replies: >>105958320 >>105963695
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 6:57:36 PM No.105958320
1751879530169057
1751879530169057
md5: 8c4d95b8f61551d0216fc5117388c4a2๐Ÿ”
>>105958169
getting metadata for shows works flawlessly if you follow the most logical way of managing the folders eg: /shows/tv show title/season1
you cant just throw seasons and episodes randomly in the general folder
Replies: >>105958524
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 7:02:25 PM No.105958346
>Zoomer think servers around the world turn on instantly the moment he want to hear spotify, watch youtube or stream a movie
Replies: >>105959278
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 7:12:56 PM No.105958440
>>105957975
on my router it just gives me a QR code
i suppose on yours youโ€™d need to export the user configuration to a config file then import it on your device.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 7:16:36 PM No.105958483
>>105957594
>>105957632
Still well and truly beyond me. Getting enough cavernous storage for a RAID is beyond me (all of the core parts are ancient 2010 stuff) and backing up such gigantic drives is impossible unless I'm missing something. Also, I was referring to using it outside of your home network, but it seems Tailscale can do the job.
Replies: >>105964581
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 7:20:32 PM No.105958524
>>105954356 (OP)
>>105954462
>>105958320

Plex doesn't have this problem.
Replies: >>105958537
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 7:21:45 PM No.105958537
1752322001056144
1752322001056144
md5: eec94a827e775efe1f7f3d6279b0daad๐Ÿ”
>>105958524
by retards
for retards
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 8:11:58 PM No.105958980
>>105957942
Expose what to the internet? The server you didn't want to run 24/7?
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 8:46:35 PM No.105959278
>>105958346
>what is Wake on Magic Packet
Replies: >>105959346
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 8:52:14 PM No.105959346
>>105959278
If OP knew what that was he wouldn't be making this stupid thread complaining
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 8:56:54 PM No.105959408
>>105957167
>better color and more contrast
I have tried several movies and I ALWAYS end up preferring the SDR versions.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:09:11 PM No.105959517
>>105957461
NTA but you can set up a reverse proxy with Caddy and a dynamic DNS such as DuckDNS to access programs like Jellyfin running on your home PC from outside, I found it easier though to just use a personal VPN service like Tailscale or ZeroTier to connect to my home PC from my phone and then bind Jellyfin to my PC's Tailscale generated IP so it only accepts incoming connections through Tailscale which allows only devices I've manually given permission (i.e. my phone) to get in
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:39:08 PM No.105959778
>>105954356 (OP)
You are a retard
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 9:41:26 PM No.105959799
>>105954356 (OP)
>"Why do I have to keep a server running in order to provide the services it is serving?"
>/g/ - Technology
I swear to God this board is so goddamn retarded it's unreal.
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:07:25 PM No.105960011
I just got one question

What is so inconvenient about leaving a computer on all the time

what do you ever have to turn it off for
Replies: >>105961356
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:08:16 PM No.105960020
>>105954356 (OP)
absolute retard
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:14:56 PM No.105960071
>setup server software
>turn off server
>expect to be able to fetch server media
your either ahead of your time or a retard
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 10:56:32 PM No.105960371
how come it just works when i use netflix then? checkmate atheists
Anonymous
7/19/2025, 11:32:56 PM No.105960647
Nobody can help a retard out?
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 12:25:18 AM No.105961077
1752709428133886
1752709428133886
md5: 11c20f55355209da207e6d0a4f63c8b7๐Ÿ”
>>105954356 (OP)
Congratulations!

Across ALL of /g/, I OFFICIALLY declare you the most retarded ape currently on the board!

You had tough competition but honestly? They were only tough to regular retards, not a certified champ like you!
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 12:52:27 AM No.105961356
>>105960011
Energy is not free retard
Replies: >>105961399
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 12:56:58 AM No.105961399
>>105961356
oh, so poverty
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 12:58:20 AM No.105961411
>>105954356 (OP)
Unless you're a woman I cannot understand how you can't get excited by the concept of
>building/buying a NAS
>building out your own self hosted capability
>Radarr, Sonarr, Overseerr/Jellyseerr, every other Arr app
>being able to do everything else FOSS
I have a Plex server with all of the above and my friends and family fucking love it
Replies: >>105961511 >>105966561
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 1:08:36 AM No.105961511
>>105961411
This, I get a boner thinking about the tens of thousands of dollars Iโ€™m siphoning away from shitflix
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 1:21:28 AM No.105961587
>>105954356 (OP)
>why can't my PC serve its files when it's off guys??
the state of tech literacy
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 1:55:34 AM No.105961849
>>105957942
>>105957461
There's so many ways to do it. Just look up Jellyfin remote access. If you don't want to rely on a 3rd party then it's obviously going to be more complicated and you're probably in over your head. I personally just used a Cloudflare tunnel and called it a day but literally anything on this list will work.

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 1:56:04 AM No.105961859
1649319134421
1649319134421
md5: 69a206120782bf50eb8ea24f6b67dc35๐Ÿ”
>>105954356 (OP)
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 3:37:03 AM No.105962664
>>105957527
yea, tailscale is basically an externally managed wireguard vpn. i'm sure it makes things easier if you have a larger network, but for just a few machines you own wireguard is not hard to set up
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 4:08:15 AM No.105962895
>>105957461
For me I just put Wireguard on a raspberry pi with duckdns to update the IP every 5 minutes.
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 4:24:41 AM No.105963038
>>105954356 (OP)
Wow buddy. you fucked in life. You should on a helmet as well as a seatbelt when you get in a car, and dont eat your crayons.
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 4:34:50 AM No.105963119
>>105954356 (OP)
Masterful bait, have another (You).
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 5:19:39 AM No.105963458
1728180167685827
1728180167685827
md5: 44197d5d4c818286606e9c6dbcab58a5๐Ÿ”
>leaving a tiny ass app running on your PC 24/7
THE ABSOLUTE HORROR
>install jellyfin
>install caddy reverse proxy
>sign up for free Asus DDNS service on my router
>securely connect through https from anywhere
its just that fucking easy
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 5:43:00 AM No.105963633
>>105954624
Yeah, I was on vacation earlier this month. I was up somewhere in the mountains of NC with the shittiest signal. Connected to my server via tailscale to download a few movies with my home's bandwidth, then watched them while posted up in my car via Jellyfin. Was able to immediately transcode them down on the fly when the signal got worse by limiting bitrate. Couldn't have downloaded any movies on a whim with the shitty mountain signal. Offloaded everything to my server that's ready to do shit whenever I need it.
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 5:48:20 AM No.105963686
>>105957606
And if people are really that butthurt about Tailscale having the coordination server, they can run Headscale as their own coordination server if they want to remove that 'threat vector'
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 5:49:43 AM No.105963695
>>105958169
Sonarr handles this for me
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 5:50:02 AM No.105963696
1748726344427
1748726344427
md5: 84dbe697304d7778c55b623915235192๐Ÿ”
>>105954356 (OP)
My van has a DVD player so I just burn DVDs to watch in it
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 5:50:22 AM No.105963698
>>105954426
Jellyfin isn't particularly worse than streaming services over cellular data. It doesn't just pass 4k video and 7.1 audio to a phone. I can stream my home library over hotel wifi while traveling.
>and have a gpu
Who doesn't? Every shitty Intel onboard chip from the last decade can transcode bdmux. What level of poverty are we operating on here?
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 8:43:09 AM No.105964581
>>105958483
Ah, well if you mean the technical setup to enable remote access, then I have a fixed IP from my ISP, a cheap domain name that I set up in Cloudflare's DNS console, and I have an Nginx instance running in Docker on my server, serving as a gateway to my services.
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 8:50:55 AM No.105964622
It's only useful if you're setting it up for people who are technologically retarded or unwilling. I just copy what I want to watch from my storage hard drives to a small 2"5 HDD and plug it in whatever I want to watch on, or network copy if it's a tablet/phone.
>oh but then I won't be able to randomly access that movie I didn't watch in years and randomly thought of in the middle of the day
Sure buddy, and I'm sure I can wait a couple of hours before copying it.
Replies: >>105964714
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 9:06:25 AM No.105964714
>>105964622
>It's only useful if you're setting it up for people who are technologically retarded or unwilling.
Wrong. It certainly isn't absolutely necessary, but it is a nice convenience even if you're tech savvy. The main benefit is having a central repository of your media files that doesn't *require* you to copy files around to watch them on various devices. I stream from my phone, laptop, TV and when I'm done watching a thing, I delete it from whichever client I'm using and it deletes the relevant files from the server itself, keeping the state of my library up to date for all clients. It also provides a nice interface to browse my shit and keeps track of what has been watched or not, which is a nice quality of life feature when you're dealing with a large library. Basically the whole point is to provide a Netflix-like experience except not relying on globohomo. It's nothing that you couldn't live for, but it's nice to have.
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 9:09:10 AM No.105964730
>>105956201
Can you do a quick how to on that? Would love that so my parents can stop paying for acorn and britbox
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 9:12:01 AM No.105964747
>>105954356 (OP)
Youโ€™re stupid and should feel shame
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 9:13:20 AM No.105964754
Screenshot_20250719_235257_Brave
Screenshot_20250719_235257_Brave
md5: 520c0aaa2153410a6722140afae9c9b2๐Ÿ”
Jellyfin runs on my openwrt router so I don't have to leave my PC on to access my media library.

Put the files on the phone. Infact jellyfin's UI has a download button to put it on your phone for when you leave home, so your PC doesn't need to stay on while you're gone.
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 1:30:36 PM No.105966280
lol
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 2:04:31 PM No.105966561
>>105961411
>>building/buying a NAS
>>building out your own self hosted capability
>>Radarr, Sonarr, Overseerr/Jellyseerr, every other Arr app
>>being able to do everything else FOSS
this guy fucks
this shit if you are into tech is so much fun, picking the hardware setting up the software getting it all up and running, expanding your services, upgrading storage building arrays all of it. For the most part your only limits are your imagination and your wallet.
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 3:46:48 PM No.105967348
>>105954356 (OP)

Leave.
Replies: >>105967615
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 4:21:31 PM No.105967615
>>105967348
i'm genuinely interested to know what op expected. i can't get into the headspace of a tech illiterate anymore
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 6:46:40 PM No.105968830
>>105957716
Fedora native packages work fine. No reason to use Docker. Even if your distro sucks it runs fine in podman.
Anonymous
7/20/2025, 7:11:12 PM No.105969029
>>105956197
Dude you really need to learn to ask AI these questions, this is exactly the use case for it even if you hate it or whatever