i tried to get into the whole media server thing but I just can't.
gave it a real chance and intended to make a permanent switch but it was just a bad experience.
it auto re-arranges my folders in its UI, tries to be "smart" and organizes it all by tv show and season. it often gets it wrong.
disabling it does not turn it off 100%.
it often pulls down wrong or stupid graphics from the db.
again, disabling it does not turn it off 100%.
also, with my 48 mb/s upload connection i can barely stream a BD remux. And I am NOT going to enable transcoding. That is incredibly wasteful. I might as well just download compressed rips.
just went back to mpv using a text file to keep track of my current episode. much better.
>disabling it does not turn it off 100%.
cant be anything other than user issue
>it often pulls down wrong or stupid graphics from the db.
you have setting where you pick from where you want it to pull things and in what order if nothing is found, i assume thats whats happening, the first thing in line is not available
>with my 48 mb/s upload connection i can barely stream a BD remux
what matters here is live transcoding that might be happening depending on the format of the media and the format that the device you are sending media can accept, alongside the transcoding settings that you are using
if your gpu doesnt support AV1 for example, guess what, you wont be transcoding shit live on your slow cpu to your phone
>just went back to mpv using a text file to keep track of my current episode
the point of a media server is primarily to make it easy for anyone, mostly friends and family, to access your media easily, once you set everything up properly, no shit its going to be easier for you to double click a file on your desktop to watch a movie on your PC
>the point of a media server is primarily to make it easy for anyone, mostly friends and family, to access your media easily, once you set everything up properly
this use case doesn't apply to me.
what I've settled on is downloading media locally and then accessing them through smb on my htpc, using mpv as the video player. it just werks.
yeah this exactly it's perfect
smb, sftp, nfs, whatever you want
even for personal use jellyseer automatically downloads media like future shows or movies when they become available in that quality for jellyfin, seems like the best solution when everything is 100% automated AND you have a UI that can be used to access everything anywhere, phone TV or friends PC
Why would you use Jellyseer as a single user? All it does is handle requests for new series. Just add them to Sonarr directly.
Wtf is Jellyseer and where do I get it from?
>Jellyseer
judging from the name I guess it's a fork of overseerr
>Wtf is a search engine and where do I get it from?
You should try a high-end OLED TV for a change. It's even better. I run jellyfin on my Linux server computer that's equipped with a i7 6700K and a GTX 980 and I stream lossless and remux releases seamlessly. I did recently run into Linux crashing, though, but it could be due to the fact that I'm downloading to the disk that is being read from. Perhaps someone would be able to shed some light on this.
>if your gpu doesnt support AV1
It's primarily CPU-bound and CPU-intensive.
>
>Should we create media server general? hsg talks hardware & virtualization and sucks.
Yes .
Take the time to fix all your shit. It's honestly worth it.
you know what makes a great media server? plain old linux desktop of your choice plugged into a tv. You got your file manager, web browser, any media player you want, ssh/sftp connection to your NAS, or just skip the NAS and load your TV computer up with files.
The only real downside is you have to use a keyboard of some sort to control it. Or your phone if you want to go that route.
>the only downside is that using it for its purpose is shit
Pretty major downside
works on my television
>using mpv/linux in 2023
This just outs yourself as a poor that doesn't own a Dolby Vision capable TV. I used to have several custom HTPCs and replaced them all with AndroidTV sticks/boxes since Linux and Windows has no DV support. Even as a single user a media server is still the best way in 2023.
>Dolby Vision
why do i need this to watch 30 year old animes
Because even 30 year old anime are getting HDR remasters now
yeah, and they suck?
how ironic that you called out GitS. it is known that the best rip of that is some hdtv rip from years ago. all the physical media is piss filtered including the uhd release.
The old BD was worse but the new master is better and doesn't kill detail without all the terrible macroblocking the HDTV rip had.
it would take a lot to convince me there are any good 4k releases of old school anime.
japan is really doubling down on DNR usage.
DNR usage has actually gone down. It used to be so much worse. Remember QTEC masters?
still don't know of any good ones on 4k
>that one autism rip of DBZ that's actually two Dragon Box sources combined to get the best colour/black level quality, has the original broadcast audio and is 3GB per episode at 480p to retain the obscene amount of film grain detail
Bless those dedicated souls.
you're talking about the SoM rip which is an excellent release. They just released Color Corrected if you haven't seen it yet.
but the picrel from before is actually a screenshot of the raw Level Sets (why it's 1080p and not 480).
Oh shit the colour corrected version's out? I don't have the drive space to be willing to dedicate 1TB to a single show, but when I expand my storage in the future that's totally going in the library.
yeah, it's out just for DB.
DBZ is coming next year.
Is the SoM rip actually better than that French CC one?
the french release is an AI upscale. it has some well tuned sharpening that looks (imo) indistinguishable from a film rescan with grain intact. the results are very good.
the SoM CC is preserved at the original resolution without any AI or upscale trickery.
take your pick, i prefer the latter for being a bit more genuine.
what are you people smoking? this looks hideous
just fyi, the judgement release goes through a bunch of test versions. attached is a screenshot from the beta v3. probably not much different but including it for reference.
anyway, this is a digital scene that is presumably left unedited from the original master. the goodness of the hdtv rip is the unfiltered film based scenes that retain grain and natural sharpness.
the uhd does smooth out the colors here, but at the expense of bad filtering on the film-based scenes.
pick your poison.
It looks like she has acne it looks so bad
it's called film anon
There's grain and then there's an ugly af macroblocking mess attempting to be grain like that image. That beta needs work because it's way oversharpened.
pretty sure judgement is avoiding piss filters like sharpening. he is actually trying to reduce the macroblocking to a tasteful degree. The v2 he released awhile ago had too much DNR.
Well if that's closer to source then it just even more telling how bad the source is.
yeah
GitS is a bad example of old-school anime sovl because the mastering was ruined by all that mid 90s digital tech.
Yeah, the amount of macroblocking and the weirdly blown out colors just kills it for me. I think the 25th anv version looks better compared to this, especially in later scenes. But I do appreciate the work done on these subtitles, however, they're much better than what comes with a lot of the other versions. I ripped them out in case anyone else wants them.
https://files.catbox.moe/8jt5it.ass
The anime community is truly dead. The encoder autists from 15 years ago would have released a color corrected version of the UHD and FHD BDs.
Bigger HDDs made their work meaningless. If people care they just download the full BD now and use mpv postprocessing. The others only watch CR encode crap. The only autists left only work on Dragon ball.
you have no depth of knowledge on this topic.
>GitS is a unique case.
>UHDs are often discarded because they are badly filtered encodes, often times not even film rescans.
>The "color correction" of 15 years ago were blanket filters that could be applied to a whole series. Very different from the shot-for-shot color correction done by groups like SoM.
My guy, EG did a frame by frame color correction of an NGE episode in 2016 when the BDs came out.
The best CC of NGE currently is Sephirotic. But that will be superceded by the SoM CC that also combines noise artifacts from about a dozen regional encodes.
The screen i posted is from the raw US BD, which was just released last year so it wasn't used as a source in any CC. It's the best version until SoM releases theirs.
agree with this. I stopped using my htpc because of that on my OLED.
HDR is dead
All that Dolby licensing is a scam. All you need is:
>video channel
>audio channel
It just works
t. yify
Kodi is great for a HTPC. Could even have Jellyfin for the backend like I do. Best of both imo
Plex works way better.
>proprietary spyware that you have to pay for to use your own hardware like to transcode media after you authenticate on their own locked down servers before watching media that is on your local storage device
no thanks
You get the benefit of not having to configure anything for remote streaming. Just click a button and it just works, which I will gladly pay for.
>they can spy on me and I have to wait for their servers approval to watch my own media on my own hardware but I dont want to spend 5minutes to configure software on my PC (yes, i am an underage 15yold saying this on a technology board btw how did you know? and thats a good thing!)
goycattle of the maximum level
You don't have to pay for Plex, you dumb neets
You do if you want basic functionality unlocked.
No, you don't. Plex Media Server is free and only a fool would use the Plex client to watch.
>cant respond to what was said
>acts as if transcoding doesnt exist either
wew lad
The good features cost money.
tried plex, seemed the worst to me tbh.
i had the best results with emby. Didn't keep trying to transcode everything, unlike jellyfin no matter how much i tried to disable it. but then my emby trial ran out and i couldn't use it on my firestick anymore. I didn't have enough time to decide if it was worth paying for, so it was back to mpv for me.
If you don't need to transcode then stop trying to use solutions that offer transcoding as a core feature
that is exactly what i did.
it appears i have no use for a media server.
simple as.
If transcoding is your main issue just use Kodi rather than the Jellyfin client. Kodi does direct play by default, so it doesn't transcode regardless of your settings. Whether Jellyfin decides to transcode or not depends exclusively on the client you are using: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/clients/codec-support/
There is a setting that disables transcoding for the whole user. If you set that and it wasn't working then there must be a bug
No it doesn't
Plex is really only better of the box if you pay for the pass and it's really plexamp + tidal that makes it worth it IMO. For movies and TV jellyfin works just as well with a couple of plugins and nice theme. I run both as containers and jellyfin is more efficient with scanning and generating.
>plexamp + tidal
Who the fuck uses plex for music?
It's the best music solution period. You can listen to your own library and plus tidal side by side and have your existing local library incorporated into a discovery algorithm.
Plex works fine for me with no payment. I don't even know what transcoding is. I put the video file in the right folder and it shows up on my tv in perfect quality and even lets me load subtitles right there if I need them. It just werks.
>I don't even know what transcoding is
This is a tech board. Why enter into a technology focused forum and involve yourself in a discussion about a particular technology if you don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about? Just to waste your own time trolling?
if you just want to set something up and have it play. yeah it does.
it does work better. it just works. jellyfin requires some fiddling and their are some retarded bullshtit hat you have to deal with. For instance I still can't get a few shows to start due to most likely subtitle issues and some tv shows wont run at all most likely due to subtitles.
Let the client pick the best player to use and what the other anon said about jellyfin clients being shit unless its android or desktop its prob gonna be shit.
>Troubleshoot my ineptitude, the thread
No I'm not helping you. If you want help ask nicely in
you can have a folder view in jellyfin, just need to fiddle with the settings.
your shitty ass internet connection is not jellyfin's fault.
Took me like 10 minutes to set up and fill with all my media.
When your retarted as fuck I could see it taking a little longer.
The only time I had jellyfin issues was when I archived a youtube channel with 3k videos and rescanning for new media would freeze the whole instance. A simple .ignore file fixed it.
>just went back to mpv using a text file to keep track of my current episode. much better.
You are not the target audience for media servers. Media servers are for multiple users to access the same data from multiple devices simultaneously. If mpv+text file was an option the whole time then you're retarded for complicating a simple problem.
What db?
shokofin
>organizes it all by tv show and season. it often gets it wrong.
this is because tv seasons can sometimes vary wildly from database to database. You just have to pick one and deal with it. So if you're pulling metadata from tvdb then you have to organize all your shows by that and live with it.
>it auto re-arranges my folders in its UI, tries to be "smart" and organizes it all by tv show and season. it often gets it wrong.
Try this :
>In order to help with identifying a series, Jellyfin can make use of media provider identifiers. This can be specified in your show's folder name, for example: Series (2018) [tmdbid-65567] or Series (2018) [tvdbid-65567]
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/
>try this
>rename every file
i have seen this before. just rename every file bro so that we stop messing up your folder structure bro. no thanks. that's autism; autism built into the system. file explorer works fine.
You don't put your entire raw media library in there. Use symlinks with whatever naming scheme the server wants and you're fine.
>Use symlinks with whatever naming scheme the server wants and you're fine.
And how do you automate this? Symlinks is even more work than straight renaming.
>OP is a dumbass with media files that have the wrong metadata and blame jellyfin for it
>I used poor people software and got a poor people experience
Good enough for an open sourced and free nice piece of software.
I switched from plex to jellyfin. Its worked perfectly and better then plex. Only a few minor issues with jellyfin that I didnt have with plex but the positives of it allowing me more options to customize.
My only complaint about Jellyfin vs Plex is how much better the app support for Plex is. Not something Jellyfin can do much about though since some like Sony are total asshats about it
Part of LULZ just cannot comprehend the use case of a media server. If you are one dude, watching media on one device, then yeah you don't need a media server. If you have multiple devices you watch from (a desktop, a laptop, and a TV or TVs) that is when a media server starts to become viable, and obviously once you start to scale out to other users.
I use Jellyfin and it's just simple to install the Jellyfin app on a cheap consumer device like a Firestick or Roku, and slap one of those in each TV. I host the jellyfin instance as a deployment on my Kubernetes cluster that runs in my basement. I can then centralize my media storage and access it from my laptop, from my TV in my office, from my desktop in bedroom, or my nice TV in my living room, I can even access it remotely via jellyfin.anonisnt.retarded for when I'm travelling. With a 10Gbps link at home and an old GPU for hardware transcoding the experience is great.
Sorry you either got filtered by the minimal barrier to entry or have such a boring and narrow life that you don't have a usecase where sitting down to make it work once wasn't worth while.
>Sorry you either got filtered by the minimal barrier to entry or have such a boring and narrow life that you don't have a usecase where sitting down to make it work once wasn't worth while.
so far the only viable use case i've seen for a media server is making media accessible to women.
this doesn't apply to the (biological) women in my life. my (biological) sister just torrents herself. no she is not ugly, she is married and majored in comp sci and actually knows how to use a computer.
Not only do many not understand the use case for media server, they don't understand the difference between media server and media player.
I used it as a porn serve it works great
The modern apps that are painless to use have bad UX and the less modern apps are too hard to setup
i saw this post before
at least you tried OP
i don't let jellyfin handle media management
especially for music
my god is it terrible at music
Yeah, media servers are a bait for the most part. It IS useful in the sense of helping you consume your library anywhere, but the setup required to reach the sweet spot is just too autistic for me. I had a pretty good Jellyfin instance setup for anime, with my torrent client pulling up new shows as their air and all that shit, required virtually zero intervention, but one day it broke in the middle of the night and it took me hours to fix it because I had it setup for so long that I didn't even remember how that frankenstein setup worked anymore.
It doesn't identify the right movie for me sometimes and even when I tell it manually which movie it is it doesn't change how it displays the title and images.
But overall it works well enough.
Plays my music. Plays my movies. Plays my japanese animes.
I like it a lot. I'll miss it when it all burns.
>bad experience.
What are you talking about?
If you're not willing to change your file and folder structure to accomodate it, let alone enable transcoding for bandwidth limited situations, it'll never work for you and it's simply not made for your use case.
t. just went through the autism of migrating my anime library to Jellyfin.
Getting Bakemonogatari to display the way I want was a massive ballache but other than that it was a straightforward, but very long winded process it took me like two weeks.
are those non-anime db sites helpful or you just too retarded to remove them?
tvdb and tmdb have plenty of anime info on them, they're what I used to scrape almost all the episode data. The only issue is they use the gay ass localised titles for everything which I had to go through and manually change back because I hate that shit.
>title is bake, not monogatari series
>no kizu
shhiggy
I stuck Kizu under movies in its own collection and me calling it Bake in the list is just my own shitty preference.
It kept on misidentifying one of my old TV show rips as some Korean Drama bullshit, it's over.
Media servers are 100% pointless. I just setup a SMB fileshare on my local network and I can browse and play media everywhere from file browsers.
For you
>gave it a real chance and intended to make a permanent switch but it was just a bad experience
translation: I'm a complete retard who can't figure it out
Can't you just have Sonarr or Shoko manage your media instead of Jellyfin?
i download old shows with qbittorrent. i'm also very particular with the release i watch.
i don't watch seasonals so no use for an auto downloader.
>it auto re-arranges my folders in its UI, tries to be "smart" and organizes it all by tv show and season. it often gets it wrong.
>disabling it does not turn it off 100%.
>it often pulls down wrong or stupid graphics from the db.
yeah that shit is annoying I've had to go through and assign imdb_id's before and then it orders episodes as separate series
the best way i found is to use links instead of the actual files so you have full control of directory names while continuing to seed
I wish someone would fix this or develop a system where imdb_id's are within filenames or metadata so it is 100% accurate detection
same
>mount samba share
>double click on file
>write to watched.txt
what else do you need?
I guess would be nice to automate that last part
What db should I use for TV? I tried tvdb and most of the season posters look like they were slapped together in mspaint.
you can re-order the priority list for images since it's separate from the metadata list.
Critically acclaimed retard.
I seriously got filtered by mkv using this shit. Installed on my pc, add in the hevc mkvs directory, start and config jellyfin on android and pc, all went well.
>tries to play one of them
>can't play
>its because they used the shitty html5 player
>sure use exoplayer
>source error, played fine on mpv pc btw
>fuck it, vlc it is
>can't even fire up vlc
>bite the kodi pill
>literally do not respond as I spam tap the files
What gives? I just want to watch some shitty bibiri on my bed.
Jellyfin clients are dogshit. Exoplayer subtitle rendering is awful, not to mention all the issues with bitstreaming dts-ma. Kodi + jellycon is the only usable choice. But kodi on mobile is also dogshit. To be fair, there are a grand total of 0 good mobile media players, so you're basically fucked.
mpv-shim on pc with external config, mpv-android on android
/setforlife/
Use a Docker container, it'd prevent Jellyfin from crashing the entire OS.
Kinda redundant since you can set up -arr to autosnatch (https://trash-guides.info/) stuff for you. But i totally get you.
Should we create media server general? hsg talks hardware & virtualization and sucks.
mpv-android sucks. For mobile, kodi is actually better.
sephirotic's release is inferior to EG's image quality-wise.
>sephirotic's release is inferior to EG's image quality-wise.
prove it
Higher bit-rate, 10bit encoding avoids banding.
I only named sephirotic in terms of CC quality.
My fav is the US BD remux. It's the newest source with the least amount of macro-blocking. No need to re-encode in 10-bit if you just go with the raw bd.
EG is ancient, man. It's not 2015 anymore. Storage is cheap. This is the age of remuxes and bloated encodes.
What is CC, US BD, EG?
>Color Corrected
>US region Bluray release
>EG is a release group, like Sephirotic
>Should we create media server general? hsg talks hardware & virtualization and sucks.
Yes.
The reddit for it sucks and I def think there is enough talk about them for it
jellyfin-media-player and Findroid are all you need
Oh well I've been using jellyfin daily for years and I like it. You dont have to. But it's simply great, and it's your fault if you cant use it efficiently.
And yea I have like five PCs and 4 phones and 3 TVs etc (with my wife's kids). Also I watch jellyfin while I travel so I really enjoy to just simply continue where I left off. And I just stream music to my car and where ever else with this. But you dont have to like it, its a free country.
set your library folder as "music video folder" or something like that.
it will just let you browse the folders properly.
Maybe it's just how Sonarr and Radarr organize stuff but it works well for me. Gets the correct info and metadata, no issues. For how they should be organized: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/
ThePornDB.bundle doesn't tag JAV fsm. Am i the only one?
Can sonarr be set up so all files it renames are copied as hardlinks? The docs imply this only applies to actively seeding torrents.
Bro just plugin your PC to your TV, media servers are literally useless.
Did and done
Retard
works fine on my computer & tv
There's an option right in the setup menu to not make it re-arrange folders or store metadata with the media files. You just can't read nigga
Holy fuck the state of Jellyfin freetards
imagine being filtered by Jellyfin, holy fuck. Is that what its like living with a double digit iq?
Its filename convention still confusing and if possible I want to keep the original filename as it is tbh.
Just use a website like 123movies or something. It does all the heavy lifting for you. Only set up a media server once the sites start getting banned easier.
I think the majority of this is you being retarded
>spend hours making the perfect home media setup
>realise it's all goyslop and there's nothing I want to watch
>goyslop
fr fr no cap on god
this anon gets it, even when I watch series/media that I somewhat enjoy, I still realize how the story is specially crafted for the mentally retarded with offenses to logic and common sense non stop
fuck modern films
Evangelion like Dragonball Z will never have a perfect release. Well for Evangelion it's literally impossible since they lost the master for episode 16. DBZ is just down to greed.
There won't be a prefect version of any old anime because they can't scan the raw film and encode it unfiltered to BD without a ton of macro blocking. And then they add even worse filtering to UHDs. It's over for film enthusiasts.
I just want to watch my anime on my new TV. Jellyfin allows me to it in 20min setup time. It works. I don't evem use the scraper stuff. It's convenient.
jellyfin is extremely useful and easy to use. I do find that scannding new media in a new setup puts a lot of stress on the CPU. IDK why anyone would be for software that's inferior than jellyfin
so much effort to do what... watch motionpicture?
am i the only one who never watches anything other than occasional youtube vids? i can't imagine ever actually unironically sitting down to watch a tv series or a movie. there are so many more interesting things to do than that.
>unironically
homosexual speak
I would hate movies too if all I watched was bollywood slop
>i can't imagine ever actually unironically sitting down to watch a tv series or a movie
Weird
i was like that my whole life until i was introduced to anime during covid.
then everything changed.