FreeBSD server with an appjail for jellyfin. Native ZFS storage, 10 gigabit networking via SFP+ DAC. I just use finamp on mobile for music and the official apps on TVs/chromecasts. UPS keeps everything streamable if the power goes out
I use Jellyfin for movies, TV shows and music.
For music, I use Symfonium as a client on my android phone, as it feels the most feature rich, and has android auto integration.
I'm interested in this too. I have unreleased music that I've made and it somehow generates reasonable similarities to other music in my library. It can't be simply pulling the info from the net since the artist name I'm using isn't out there anywhere. Some kind of spectral analysis maybe?
I really like Jellyfin and push for it, but since last release, it became barely usable. Unfortunately, it made me and all my users switch to Plex again. Where they preferred to buy the respective Plex clients instead of dealing with Jellyfin issues. It is sad, it could be money donated to Jellyfin at some time.
Seriously, if Jellyfin doesn't fix all subtitles issues with their clients, it will be really hard to be taken as a serious competitor in the area. I hope they take this issue seriously and fix it asap before further damage to the project happens.
Anyway, that issue is 1 year old, and subtitles for some reason just keep getting worse with each update. It is not being taken seriously.
It is so easy to reproduce that there must be something more involved to it, explaining why some people dont have the issue.
I tested and validated with these clients: web, roku, android, android-tv, fire and LG
All have the same issue. So maybe some combination of factors with server.
The bugs are different depending on the media, sometimes delayed subtitles and most of times no subtitles at all. Also, trying to switch subtitles to other languages sometimes just dont take effect unless the playback is restarted. Anyway, it is baraly usable.
Plex has a bunch of infuriating issues that have been ignored for years, but I've yet to have an issue with playback.
Looking forward to jumping on the jellyfin train one day. I have tested it in the past, and it's insane how slow the stupid plex ui is on comparison.
Do more people have the problem Jellyfin doesn't continue to play if you choose shuffle? The countdown to the next episode shows but when it reaches 0 nothing happens.
Play next episode was unchecked. But the weird thing is, it was counting down to the next episode and after the countdown it never returned to the homescreen but instead it stayed on the series splashscreen.
This is genuinely one of the most impressive open source projects out there right now. Seems like 10.9 opened the flood gates for all these amazing contributions and improvements. 81 merges in the last 30 days! Great job jellyfin team!
Your hardware is more than capable. I'm running on a ten year old dell optiplex and don't have these issues. I suspect your issue is Windows, more specifically something else on windows, such as antivirus, updates etc. blocking disk I/O
I'm sorry to say but it's Windows. You never really know. Have you considered getting an old optiplex on Amazon Renewed and putting Debian and Jellyfin on that?
Update for the people downvoting:
I am a professional platform engineer. By 'Windows. You never really know' I mean that there are always ten thousand things running, you're never going to have a full grasp of everything that's happening in the way that you could with a stripped down linux environment. My own Jellyfin instance is running on
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590S CPU @ 3.00GHz
8GB RAM
Integrated Graphics
Shipped AUG 2014
Ubuntu 22.04 with deb installation of Jellyfin
All clients connect via Wifi although server is cat5 to switch. Most of my video does not require transcoding. There are plenty of FLAC audio files in my library. I don't see slowdowns as described here.
I have no clue what could be causing that. I'd start looking into each link in the chain and making sure it's working.
But any halfway reasonable config should be able to handle audio playback, no matter how lossless. Audio-only just doesn't achieve datarates that would choke up... Anything.
Essentially, benchmark file transfers, transcoding, etc. Make sure each step of how it works is in fact working. Check drive SMART health... Whatever you can think of.
Also logs. No need to read through thousands of lines, but looking at the lines time stamped around when the issue occurs is always a good idea. FFMPEG logs, JF logs, client player logs, does SMB or whatever network drive protocol you're using have logs? If it does, check em.
Outside of Jellyfin, the computers seem to communicate just fine. Transfer speeds are what I would expect and disk read/write is usually fine as well. Like I mentioned in the post, it self-resolved since I made the post. But my concern is the same: what could be causing the underlying issue? I'll check the logs later and I'll report back
Edit: forgot to mention that I have a few 5.1 SACDs @ 24/192k that have always completely choked my system. Doesn't matter which machine or how extreme the transcoded settings are, it nukes the playback
So I checked the available logs after streaming a playlist for a while, which I've never done before (probably a huge mistake on my part). I have a generic "log_xxxxxxx.log" file that doesn't seem to have any relevant info, but the only ffmpeg logs I have are related to video files from yesterday. Interestingly, the transcoding speeds seem to slow down over time; flac/wav files seem fine at first, but struggle to play after 30 minutes or so in a playlist of constant playback.
Restart jellyfin and take a look at the logs? There may be some useful info there pointing to the issue. Go to your 'dashboard' then click 'Logs' - look through that see if anything stands out. If that doesn't work you may need to enable debug logging: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/troubleshooting/
Well I enabled debugging, restarted jellyfin and performed all three refresh operations and the episodes are still missing thumbnails. There was only one debugging item in the log about a broadcast socket
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