I really don't miss a single thing about Plex. In fact I switched because I was constantly getting playback bugs with Plex where I was getting no video stream. Jellyfin has been a lot more reliable.
Denial-of-service attacks or risk of someone compromising your server and therefore network via a vulnerability. Possibility of an attacker using your server for other malicious activities if they manage to compromise it.
Don't get me wrong, your server would be a teeny tiny fish in the sea of internet connected services and probably of little interest to most hackers. But, if you expose the door, it's gonna at least get knocked on.
Security issues aside, you will now be 'tech support' for this service and they're going to complain at you any time it doesn't do what they want it to. Just make sure you're ok with that.
I'd think so too but this is an at-home network, were the only two there, there is nothing streaming, nothing in the way, and Netflix, for example, is a breeze.
This is the behaviour I'd expect if you were selfhosting and both the client and server were on WiFi.
There might be nothing else, but WiFi isn't fullduplex.
With Netflix, it'd hit your WiFi in only one direction.
With self-hosted, if both devices are wireless, it'd be on the WiFi network twice and performance would drop like a brick.
Your network flow is from your server, to your router, to your android phone, to your router, to your chromecast. If that’s all wifi, then every frame crosses the air 4 times, and you’re doing transcoding on the phone in the middle.
If you use trash guides it will show you how to hardlink and set up your folder structure correctly. Hardlinking is like having the file in two places but there is only one file. That way you can set up your movies/series into seperate folders and seed at the same time.
Not OP but there was a recent controversy because they added a feature that let your friends know what you are watching somehow (don't know details, not using Plex).
Unfortunately this apparently announced some people's porn viewing habits to their friends or something like that.
If your server works, I would just leave it alone. If you have issues, giving Linux a try might help. It's no accident that most of the internet's server infrastructure is Linux-based.
Depending on which Roku you have (and what you'll be watching) you should definitely enable the subtitle burn-in for at least all complex formats. You can do that in the user settings in the web interface.
The person you were replying to was talking about complex subtitle formats. All Roku models only support .srt style subtitles, whereas a lot of anime has .ass/.ssa subtitles encoded and bluray/dvd rips have image-based formats like PGS. Those more advanced/complex formats can't be played by the Roku directly, so your server needs to transcode the video to burn the subtitles in.
Winner winner chicken dinner. It's been a few years since I had to do any real debugging on windows and I totally forgot about the event viewer. Thanks for the tip.
For anyone reading along, looks like there is a problem with my .net installation. That is probably because I uninstalled visual studio recently. It "shouldn't" have caused an issue, but M$....
I had a similar question recently, and ended up going with the free option as the first thing to try out. I already had a Jellyfin server running on an old laptop. I plugged this into the TV (and actually strapped it to the back of the TV since I was wall-mounting the TV at the same time). I also installed a desktop environment as it was running Ubuntu Server.
Then I installed Kodi, along with the Kodi Jellyfin add on. The add on syncs the Jellyfin database to the Kodi one, so you use the Kodi interface to browse the Jellyfin content. This seems to work great!
I also ordered a PC connected remote control so we can control it with a remote instead of a Kodi app on our phones, but it hasn't arrived yet (ordered from Ali express).
It seems to work well, and there are lots of addons you can install to access your other streaming services through Kodi as well.
Then I installed Kodi, along with the Kodi Jellyfin add on. The add on syncs the Jellyfin database to the Kodi one, so you use the Kodi interface to browse the Jellyfin content. This seems to work great!
Which Kodi theme are you using? I haven't really found a satisfying fire-and-forget solution that could deal with 6+ different kinds of libraries and also didn't require me to manually set up every menu option over the course of 3 hours.
Have you found an elegant way to manage multiple different users?
I haven't branched out much, I'm afraid. Using the default Kodi theme, only split by TV/movies, and I just created a new jellyfin account specifically for Kodi.
However, this page says that you create Kodi profiles for each user, then you can log each one in to jellyfin under their own profile. This lets you use the native Kodi users for switching between jellyfin users. But it does sound like a bit of work to set up.
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