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Latest success Jellyfin rocks! (lemmy.world)
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Hey Hosters!

Just wanted to share that I got Jellyfin installed and set up on my Windows 2022 Server, and it’s working great! I didn't even know there was a version for WIndows. How do you like that?

I know this is probably “the usual” for everyone here, but I’m genuinely excited that I managed to get it all running smoothly.

After getting the server up, I went through the basics (users/permissions, library paths, and making sure everything was reachable on the network) and it all just worked. The interface is super clean, playback is nice and responsive, and it feels like I’ve been missing out on this until now.

Huge thanks to the Jellyfin team and the community! This project is awesome!! If anyone is stuck, please don’t give up. keep poking at the configuration and it’ll pay off. Now I just need to spend some time organizing my libraries!

Happy Hosting!

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[–] Damage@feddit.it 0 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Wouldn't Kodi be better suited then? Jellyfin's strength is its ability to transcode

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago

For me Jellyfin's strength is that it can keep track of my wife's place in her shows independent from mine, and also that the metadata and watched state and progress is synced between phone, tablet, and TV.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, I'd still prefer Jellyfin as its a server (we actually use Kodi for playing the content).

Even within the house, you could stream to multiple different devices. If you use something like Findroid you could download stuff for playing offline on your phone, no external access needed.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 11 hours ago

Well, I do use Jellyfin for in-home streaming as my TV has issue with HDR content tinting, and Jellyfin fixes that on-the-fly, but it's certainly more complex setup than pointing Kodi at a network share

[–] GatesMcBalmer@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Wait I don't have a reverse proxy because I don't need one. I just installed the jellyfin for windows version and then you just connect to it.

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Did you set up up the arr suite too? They run the background services for tracking and pulling titles, and qbittorrent downloads the files. They are all docker images and should be able to run on Win. I like Caddy as my reverse proxy, super simple to point router port 80 & 443 to the server ports for Https.

[–] kyTdKZx9PtDQ9e56u06@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 hours ago

Did you?

Holy shit man.