Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System

I have jellyfin, qbittorrent, radarr, sonarr, prowlarr. I end up with copies of things I download in two places, media folder, and then in a radarr or sonarr subfolder. Radarr and sonarr are configured to have their own dirs. Jellyfin has media libraries for movies and shows pointing to those same subdirs. But qbittorrent has a default save dir of the media dir.

If I delete something in jellyfin, it gets deleted only from the subfolder, not the media folder.

I thought that radarr and sonarr would tell qbittorrent where to download to... and it would be their subdirs. So what is making the copy in media? And is there some reason I should have these extra copies?

I used to have a jellyfin server on an old desktop but now my only spare computer is a raspberry pi. It should be able to install the app but would a raspberry pi 3b+ actually be able to run a jellyfin server at a usable level? I'll probably mainly use it for CD rips, so it shouldn't be super demanding but the raspberry pi isn't super powerful either. What do y'all think?

I've modified the normal Jellyfin theme so that the accent color can be changed.

The idea was to put some orange in the UI during halloween, and I got carried away. It is now completely configurable with a single variable and allows for easy seasonal changes, so I've decided to share it.

Here is the result:

I generally dislike custom themes, so my goal was to change as little as possible. Indeed, if used with a hue of 195, the theme should be exactly the same as the default one.

What do you think?

I use Jellyfin for my music collection, and sometimes the album artist and artist fields for the same artist will be populated slightly differently. For instance, I have one case where there are three different ways using &, 'and' and +. I have removed these from my library, updating them with manually with MusicBrainz Picard to use the same spelling, and reuploaded them to my server. However, it uses the old metadata still.

Is there a way to efficiently reset metadata for only certain albums so that these three instances are merged and I can access all three albums from the same album artist?

EDIT: So I managed to get this working now. What worked in the end (unsure if all steps are necessary) was to remove all the files from the server, run a rescan, delete all the albums (they would still be in Jellyfin with a blurred album cover), rescan again, and now the artists would be gone. When I added the albums again, the new metadata would be used.

I'd like to set the theme to a "browser default", so that it changes when I change between the dark and light mode on firefox.

Hey!

I have been working on a smart playlist plugin for Jellyfin. It's not much and I'm definitely no c# developer, but it's starting to take shape and a first usable prototype is ready.

You basically can generate playlists by specifying a Lisp-like filter expression, which gets called on a per-item basis.

The documentation is really bare-bones as of now, so if you want to try it and get stuck just reach out.

I also added a mirror to the repository here: codeberg.org/redxef/jellyfin-smart-playlist

So my plan based on reading was to get a mini pc and a nas. But then I realized... what is the best way to connect them. So I started doing more reading. And I confused myself.

So a NAS has it's own CPU and such, and other computers can talk directly to it over the network. But if I am using a mini pc to run the server, then I assume I would want a really fast direct connection to the storage. So it seems like I would want the NAS to be on the network as well as directly connected to the mini PC. And of course the mini pc would need to be on the network as well. Stuff I saw about connecting them directly seemed to pretty much use the Ethernet ports and a crossover cable. So that would mean that both devices would have to have two Ethernet ports, right?

And the bonus question is, would it just be better for the NAS to really be a dumb DAS for the mini pc instead?

Edit to summarize: For having two devices, the consensus is that LAN is good enough (just make sure you have a decent switch between them). A few like doing it all on one device for a variety of reasons.

I just upgraded it to 10.10.0 but the web still shows older version.

Everytime I use Jellyfin I have to add a filter to see only not watched movies, is it possible to save the filters based on users?

Edit: I'm using the web GUI

Hi, I have a situation where I have a tv show in two different languages. One is original the other is dubbed. The dubbed episodes are cut differently than the original, so muxing the audio tracks together and use the original video track in an mkv file is impossible.

Is there a way to switch not only between the audio tracks in jellyfin but to also switch the video track with the audio? Like, I create an mkv file with both video and audio tracks. When I then switch the audio language in jellyfin it should also load the corresponding video track from the mkv file.

For example, VLC player can switch between the different video tracks.

Hey everyone! Remember my post about @beets , the awesome music library organizer? https://ruhr.social/@guerda/113119535458922962

I just published the first version of my #BeetsStatistics - a small and fast web page giving you insights into your music library. It's not polished but it works, so feel free to check it out and I'm happy to hear your feedback!

https://github.com/guerda/beets-statistics

#LookWhatIMade #FreeSoftware

@jellyfin @selfhost

One day, I tossed some MAXIMUM THE HORMONE, all caps because it's... how it is, into my Music folder, which just happened to have the Japanese text identifying the band.

Well Jellyfin took it in and labeled it as it does with the Japanese text. I changed it to MTH, thinking the albums would follow suit and... Albums gone.

I head back to the home screen, the albums are there, attributed to the Japanese name. I check the band name, listed under the japanese name, and there's no albums.

Then I moved everything, deleted all of the content from Jellyfin, changed the names to the English names BEFORE importing, imported it again, aaaaaaand, Japanese text.

throws NES controller

Do I have to dive into the metadata directly?

Is there a way to turn off incremental search? Either Web UI or apps: search seems to send a search instruction to server for every new letter added to the search box. I'ld much rather type a few letters (I usually sort of know what I'm looking for) and then click send or whatever to fetch results only for that. Would improve performance a lot for me

I have been trying for a long time to get hardware acceleration to work on Jellyfin via Docker and have gotten as far as getting nvidia-smi to successfully run -- which it wasn't previously.

System Specs:

Host OS: EndeavourOS
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
RAM: 32GB
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1660 TI

nvidia-smi

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 560.35.03              Driver Version: 560.35.03      CUDA Version: 12.6     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti     On  |   00000000:26:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   51C    P3             25W /  140W |     810MiB /   6144MiB |     23%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

Video Info:

Video
Title: 4K HEVC HDR
Codec: HEVC
AVC: No
Profile: Main 10
Level: 153
Resolution: 3840x2160
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Anamorphic: No
Interlaced: No
Framerate: 23.976025
Bitrate: 15750 kbps
Bit depth: 10 bit
Video range: HDR
Video range type: DOVIWithHDR10
DV title: DV Profile 8.1 (HDR10)
DV version major: 1
DV version minor: 0
DV profile: 8
DV level: 6
DV rpu preset flag: 1
DV el preset flag: 0
DV bl preset flag: 1
DV bl signal compatibility id: 1
Color space: bt2020nc
Color transfer: smpte2084
Color primaries: bt2020
Pixel format: yuv420p10le
Ref frames: 1

Jellyfin Logs:

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/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg -analyzeduration 200M -probesize 1G -init_hw_device cuda=cu:0 -filter_hw_device cu -hwaccel cuda -hwaccel_output_format cuda -hwaccel_flags +unsafe_output -threads 1 -noautorotate -i file:"/media/tv/Only Murders in the Building (2021)/Season 4/Only Murders in the Building - S04E06 - Blow-Up 4K.mkv" -noautoscale -map_metadata -1 -map_chapters -1 -threads 0 -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map -0:s -codec:v:0 av1_nvenc -preset p1 -b:v 15750961 -maxrate 15750961 -bufsize 31501922 -g:v:0 72 -keyint_min:v:0 72 -vf "setparams=color_primaries=bt2020:color_trc=smpte2084:colorspace=bt2020nc,tonemap_cuda=format=yuv420p:p=bt709:t=bt709:m=bt709:tonemap=bt2390:peak=100:desat=0" -codec:a:0 libfdk_aac -ac 2 -ab 256000 -af "volume=2" -copyts -avoid_negative_ts disabled -max_muxing_queue_size 2048 -f hls -max_delay 5000000 -hls_time 3 -hls_segment_type fmp4 -hls_fmp4_init_filename "2a9aeb83dbe04b036badfe08147b7b67-1.mp4" -start_number 0 -hls_segment_filename "/config/cache/transcodes/2a9aeb83dbe04b036badfe08147b7b67%d.mp4" -hls_playlist_type vod -hls_list_size 0 -y "/config/cache/transcodes/2a9aeb83dbe04b036badfe08147b7b67.m3u8"


ffmpeg version 6.0.1-Jellyfin Copyright (c) 2000-2023 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 13 (Ubuntu 13.2.0-23ubuntu4)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg --target-os=linux --extra-version=Jellyfin --disable-doc --disable-ffplay --disable-ptx-compression --disable-static --disable-libxcb --disable-sdl2 --disable-xlib --enable-lto --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-shared --enable-gmp --enable-gnutls --enable-chromaprint --enable-opencl --enable-libdrm --enable-libxml2 --enable-libass --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libbluray --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libdav1d --enable-libsvtav1 --enable-libwebp --enable-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libzvbi --enable-libzimg --enable-libfdk-aac --arch=amd64 --enable-libshaderc --enable-libplacebo --enable-vulkan --enable-vaapi --enable-amf --enable-libvpl --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuda --enable-cuda-llvm --enable-cuvid --enable-nvdec --enable-nvenc
  libavutil      58.  2.100 / 58.  2.100
  libavcodec     60.  3.100 / 60.  3.100
  libavformat    60.  3.100 / 60.  3.100
  libavdevice    60.  1.100 / 60.  1.100
  libavfilter     9.  3.100 /  9.  3.100
  libswscale      7.  1.100 /  7.  1.100
  libswresample   4. 10.100 /  4. 10.100
  libpostproc    57.  1.100 / 57.  1.100
Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'file:/media/tv/Only Murders in the Building (2021)/Season 4/Only Murders in the Building - S04E06 - Blow-Up 4K.mkv':
  Metadata:
    encoder         : libebml v1.4.5 + libmatroska v1.7.1
  Duration: 00:33:38.08, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 15750 kb/s
  Stream #0:0: Video: hevc (Main 10), yuv420p10le(tv, bt2020nc/bt2020/smpte2084), 3840x2160 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn (default)
    Metadata:
      BPS             : 15493265
      DURATION        : 00:33:37.975000000
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 48383
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 3908127921
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v84.0 ('Sleeper') 64-bit
      _STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
    Side data:
      DOVI configuration record: version: 1.0, profile: 8, level: 6, rpu flag: 1, el flag: 0, bl flag: 1, compatibility id: 1
  Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: eac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 256 kb/s (default)
    Metadata:
      BPS             : 256000
      DURATION        : 00:33:38.080000000
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 63065
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 64578560
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v84.0 ('Sleeper') 64-bit
      _STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
  Stream #0:2(eng): Subtitle: subrip
    Metadata:
      title           : English [SDH]
      BPS             : 122
      DURATION        : 00:33:32.972000000
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 746
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 30903
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v84.0 ('Sleeper') 64-bit
      _STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
  Stream #0:3(spa): Subtitle: subrip
    Metadata:
      title           : Spanish [SDH]
      BPS             : 130
      DURATION        : 00:33:32.972000000
      NUMBER_OF_FRAMES: 752
      NUMBER_OF_BYTES : 32900
      _STATISTICS_WRITING_APP: mkvmerge v84.0 ('Sleeper') 64-bit
      _STATISTICS_TAGS: BPS DURATION NUMBER_OF_FRAMES NUMBER_OF_BYTES
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (hevc (native) -> av1 (av1_nvenc))
  Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (eac3 (native) -> aac (libfdk_aac))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
[av1_nvenc @ 0x604c49805800] Codec not supported
[av1_nvenc @ 0x604c49805800] Provided device doesn't support required NVENC features
[vost#0:0/av1_nvenc @ 0x604c49805500] Error initializing output stream: Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height
[libfdk_aac @ 0x604c49806600] 2 frames left in the queue on closing
Conversion failed!

I seem to get this error on any video I try to transcode (at least through my browser):

[av1_nvenc @ 0x604c49805800] Codec not supported
[av1_nvenc @ 0x604c49805800] Provided device doesn't support required NVENC features
[vost#0:0/av1_nvenc @ 0x604c49805500] Error initializing output stream: Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height
[libfdk_aac @ 0x604c49806600] 2 frames left in the queue on closing
Conversion failed!

Does anyone have any idea what might be happening here?

I created this guide on how to install Jellyfin as a Podman Quadlet on your server. Enjoy.

I have a series in jellyfin. The first seasons are dubbed german, the later seasons are only in the original dub. Is it possible to force two separate entries for this season (e.g. "Example Series (German)" - containing Seasons 1-3 and "Example Series (English)" containing Seasons 4-6)? Problem is, that not all users that have access to this library are fluent in English and I want to avoid that they think this series is available in full only to switch the language halfway through...

Or is there another way to do/indicate something like this?

I know I could just tell them, but will they remember that in a few months?

Swiftfin doesn't do audio for some reason and VLC doesn't reliably recognize UPmP.

Hello all!

This is my first time doing anything like this so I’m sure it’s some basic technical thing I’m missing but I’m having trouble with this.

I have my server running on Linux mint and I can get that to work just fine but no matter what I do I cannot connect to the server from the Jellyfin app or swiftfin what’s the most likely cause of this and how can I fix it?