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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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[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 63 points 9 hours ago

Welcome to the jelly. ONE OF US. ONE OF US.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 33 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

i love jellyfin i just wish there was a nicer way to highlight collections so you could make themed weekly or monthly collections of movies and shows that also still show up in the regular folders.... almost like netflix.

[–] Drathro@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 hours ago

I'm probably mistaken, but I think there might actually be a plugin for this? I haven't looked into it myself but I swear I scrolled past a plugin listing similar functionality at some point. Or I could be hallucinating. Or it could even exist but no longer work on the current version of the app. Who knows!?

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago

That is coming, I saw a PR for that. Just need to be patient.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

I've been using jellyfin for years.

My best recommendation is DELAY UPDATES and back up before you update.

I have a history of updates breaking everything so you should be careful about them.

All software recommends backing up before an update, but for jellyfin the shit is real, you really want to back up.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

laughs in immich

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I've been using jelly since just after the emby fork and never had an update issue on docker. Automatic snapshots every 5 mins (amount other backup tools) and means I don't need to everything much if it does.

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[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 26 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I'm also 90% done migrating to jellyfin. I've had the instance running for 6 months now, the cultural change to watch jellyfin is complete, except for my wife's iPad.

Heck, I should just retire Plex. That will force the change.

These are the thoughts of a cold and calloused sysadmin. Didn't get the email about the change? Too bad.

[–] meh@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 9 hours ago

yeah it took me about 6 months with jellyfin to feel like i was ready to finally kill plex. the thing that finally did it was getting an email from plex asking if i'd like to check out whats streaming on hbomax.

[–] virku@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

What are you using to watch jellyfin on iOS?

[–] DownByLaw@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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).

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 4 points 7 hours ago

Can also use the web client

[–] macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 6 hours ago (7 children)

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.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] meh@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 hours ago

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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[–] cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

To be fair there is a tvOS app in development but progress is slow because the whole project is maintained by a small handful of volunteers. They’ve put out a call for help and the maintainers post updates here

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve heard jellyfin has a lot of security issues

The biggest known stuff I saw on their GitHub is that a number of the exposed service URLs under the hood don't require auth. So, it's open-source with known requirements, you can tell easily from the outside that it's running, and you can cause it to activate a LOT of packages without logging in. That's a zero-day in any package that can be passed a payload away from disaster.

AS far as TVOS, I'm kinda surprised swiftfin doesn't service you.

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[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

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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[–] meh@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 hours ago

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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[–] The_Zen_Cow_Says_Mu@infosec.pub 11 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

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

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 9 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] puppycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

my only issue is how user friendly it isn't compared to Plex.

i genuinely want to leave Plex (especially the more and more they enshittify) but I just could not figure out how to set up jellyfin. i use Linux every day, and know I'm at least a tiny bit more tech smart than your average PC user, but I can't imagine trying to explain to my family how to set jellyfin up.

[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Host Jellyfin either by running their easy setup script or by hosting it on docker, in order for it to be publicly accessible you will need to either port forward and give people your external IP or you need to have your own website. It's very easy with a docker container to get it running locally, you literally just spin it up, the same as Plex.

[–] CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The only thing that plex has over jellyfin at the moment (in my opinion) is the simple sign on and user options that allow users to have their own usernames and not have to know anything about reverse-proxying a domain for jellyfin access. It's that little bit of back-end that you have to set up that's the problem for the 'normie' users that a lot of plex admins cater to. That, and there's some holes in where the jellyfin app is available.

[–] meh@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 hours ago

plex is still definitely easier to get started on. i don't begrudge anyone still going that route, i had a lifetime plexpass the last 8yrs i think. jellyfin is a great option if you either already know how to set things up and want full control. Or you're looking for an opportunity to learn more about reverse proxy, dns and authentication/access systems. plex is still i nice gateway drug.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

And Plexamp.

And a decent AppleTV app.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

Long ago I ran a Windows Media Center PC in the living room and used the hell out of it. When WMC finally went EOL, I look for alternatives and found Plex. I never got around to setting up a Plex box, and now I see it too is ready for the scrap heap. I think this is what getting old is. You plan on doing something and never get around to it. Time passes much faster up here in age.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Unrelated but why a full VM for Linux stuff, lxc is much more efficient

[–] meh@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

honestly every explanation probably just ends at 'this is what i learned on and it works'. same way i religiously use nano and try to do everything in bash first. or how a couple coworkers can't stop explaining their vim workflow and defending python unprompted like it's a trauma response for them. my current homelab is also running a r9 with 64gb ram and 30tb storage. if i were paying for remote hosting, still using salvaged hardware or being paid, i'd invest time learning newer processes. but containers haven't caught my interested and this set up takes basically no effort on my part to maintain, so i can focus my limited free time elsewhere.

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[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 hours ago

I have been running in parallel both jelly and plex and jelly is good.

[–] Vigge93@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

How did you set up Jellyfin with Authentik? Are you using SSO or is it only through LDAP?

[–] meh@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

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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[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Did plex do something again

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

And my god, it's amazing how each UI iteration gets worse. How is that even possible? My shits never been so buried in menus.

[–] Kronusdark@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

How is the Jellyfin software situation looking? Last time I checked it was pretty meh compared to plex. if I recall correctly the best app was Infuse and it was a monthly sub. Are there better options these days? I mostly watch plex on my TV through Android or Apple TV.

[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Jellyfin is a lot better than it used to be, to get feature parity with Plex you will probably need to install some plugins but I literally searched "best Jellyfin plugins reddit" and the list in the first thread I found was all I needed. The webOS, Android, and Roku apps are very good, I'm not sure what the situation is on Apple TV but I think they have an app

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[–] navi@lemmy.tespia.org 3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

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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[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

This is probably the wrong post to ask this question, so sorry in advance.

I have a dual boot Linux + Windows. Jellyfin runs wonderfully on muy Linux partition with docker-compose. Anybody knows how can I clone it in my Windows partition, such that configs, metada and accounts remain the same? I've failed to do this, and only the media volume remaines identical on both OS.

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[–] jhdeval@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

There are a few things about jellyfin that I don't like compared to Plex. First I can't skip the intro of a show drives me nuts. The second one is it has newly added but not newly released. Other then that it has been really good.

[–] meh@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

https://github.com/intro-skipper/intro-skipper
*edit it's such a common complain this got posted twice at the same time :)

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