Jellyfin is free open source software that lets you create your own streaming services at home. It's a libre alternative to closed platforms like Plex and Emby.

Jellyfin works with locally stored video/audio files, internet radio/TV and broadcast TV. You can find out more at:

🌱 https://jellyfin.org

You can follow their official account at:

🌱 @jellyfin

#SelfHosting #MediaServer #FOSS #Plex #Emby #Alternatives #Streaming

I’ve been building a blog focused on Jellyfin not just news, but practical guides, performance tips, and real ways to understand what’s happening on your server.

From viewing stats and user activity to plugins, automation (*arr stack), and mobile monitoring with JellyWatch.

If you run a Jellyfin server and want to go deeper:

https://jellywatch.app/blog

#jellyfin #selfhosting #homelab #indiedev #buildinpublic #opensource #mediaserver #sysadmin

I did it!! I’m a Linux user!

https://www.arnan.me/im-a-sensible-linux-user-now

#linux #server #ubuntu #samba #jellyfin #ffmpeg #bash #webserver #mediaserver

Norri is written in Go, which we picked over Python and Rust.

Goroutines handle scanning, metadata fetching, and API serving concurrently with low overhead. That's what you want in a media server.

Python's GIL gets in the way on CPU-bound work. Rust was tempting but the dev speed trade-off wasn't worth it for this. Single binary, small Docker image, fast startup.

Not the most exciting language. Gets the job done though.

#Norri #golang #selfhosted #mediaserver

I have no idea how I missed that, but my #Plex was transcoding streams on the CPU, even though I was sure all streams were hardware-transcoded.

I was just wondering why the CPU fan speed was skyrocketing...

Turns out I forgot to pass through the GPU to the #Proxmox #LXC with Plex.

Now my server is processing transcoded streams much more quietly.

#homelab #mediaserver

About three years ago, I decided to make my own home media server. This meant buying tons of physical DVDs so I owned them, and ripping them so I had them available on my Jellyfin (media) server.

The most difficult part of the process for me is ripping TV shows. It requires a lot of time and attention to figuring out episodes are which since they're often in random order on the disc.

This week I started using an AI agent to do that work, and the results have been pretty great!

Now I'm able to rip episodes more quickly and easily- essentially as fast as my computer can pull the media down from the DVD drive.

It's a "small change" that has helped me rip 3 compete series box sets in a week!

#jellyfin #MediaServer #SelfHosted