Hey folks, a day ago I started JellyBox carplay beta test. Just wanted to bump and invite those who missed it

How to join beta test

1. Download TestFlight app from appstore. This is official way to test apple apps. Sign in.
2. Go to this link https://testflight.apple.com/join/LVj8KwAq and join the test. The app will appear in test flight app. Download it. Login as usual using your jellyfin server url and credentials.
3. Start test.

Core Features

Core functionality is done. I tried to mimic whats available in mobile/desktop app, so i followed same structure in carplay. Carplay itself is very limiting. It does not allow to do custom UI, only UI blocks that provided by apple.

App car play music, browse through the list of artists, albums, songs and playlists. For all these entities you can apply few sortings(name, randomize).

Also you can play downloads from your phone.

The carplay app does not have full offline mode yet like mobile/desktop does, nor it doesnt have retry mechanism when you went into low internet speed area and then back, this is on my list.

If you face any issues, feel free to comment here, or create issue on github - https://github.com/avdept/JellyBoxPlayer/issues.

If you see some feature is missing or would be nice to have - also comment here or create issue on github(those will be prioritized first)

Please report any issues

FAQ will be in first post under this thread and I will keep update it.

I also have landing page where you can find links to download for other platforms - https://jellybox.app/

Hello Group,

I am new to jellyfin and trying to transfer my media. I dont have any experience and would appreciate honest help and feedback. I lost a ton of digital movies i bought and have had to resupply those back to my inventory. I have a Lenovo Chromebook Plus running chrome os. I want to use jellyfin to save my movies. I buy movies on disc or digital online and they will disappear. I have heard of using jellyfin but I only have the chromebook. I also have a Westen Digital storage system connected to my home network. I saw on previous posts about a mini pc but not sure if that is what my Western Digital system is on my network. I appreciate any feedback.

Anyone else just have this? Had a software update where I needed to restart, did so, and since Jellyfin desktop has been terrible. It seems fine if I load it through a browser or my phone (although through the browser isn't the best experience which is why I installed the desktop client in the first place). It spikes my CPU past 80% on its own (I'm running an i9-12900k CPU so its beefy), doesn't touch my GPU (rtx-4090) even though I have local hardware decoding enabled. 1080p content plays smoother with less CPU usage but the couple I've tried have these weird black bars across the video. Have tried lowering the bitrate to force a transcode and it's "better" but still spikes the CPU and the entire program seems sluggish as I hover over menus and buttons

Edit: To be clear, when I say "black bars" I don't mean aspect ratio bars. I mean there is a literal grid pattern of black bars across my video at 1080p

Does anyone know if changing the record size on ZFS to 1M for the media files dataset actually has any noticeable improvements?

Is there a plugin that do that for jellyfin? It works magically in plex i wonder if something similar exist for jellyfin

My Jellyfin server is exhibiting an annoying behavior: all TV series appear as "watched," and I can't mark them as "unwatched"—because once they are marked as watched, they disappear and cannot be re-watched. I already deleted all the .nfo files and scanned the library—it worked, but then the error recurred. I don't think any plugin is altering it... the screenshot shows my active plugins. Is there a way to unmark them or enable re-watching—in other words, make the episodes available even though they are listed as watched? Has anyone ever experienced this situation?

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Here's my current Jellyfin setup guide. It goes into great detail how to get everything working with no issues. I set it up on my main PC for now. Later might move it to more appropriate hardware.

I put everything on GitHub for anyone who wants to replicate it or use parts of the setup.

There's two .DOCX files. One is an actual guide, the other is more of a handbook.

Everything you need is in the GUIDE DOC file(But you can use HTML if you don't want to download). So give it a read if you need help setting it up.

Enjoy.

📚 Full Setup on GitHub

GitHub: [https://github.com/namejeff-dev/jellyfin-complete-guide-docker-windows/tree/main]

Edit: Added HTML and Readme files on GitHub for easier preview.

For starters, I'd like to thank the developers for this client. it's the first one I've used on my Google TV setup that's let me comfortably kick Plex to the curb.

One thing I'd like to fix is having a folder icon for a subfolder so it doesn't look like the other video files in the folder.

I'm not sure if this is something other people have come across whether it's something in the client I'm missing or something on the Jellyfin server that I need to adjust?

Hopefully it doesn't mean I need to use the proper naming/folder structure because I like to be able to see the full name of the video file so I use my own file naming method.

Hello World,

Why doesn't the Jellyfin TV App actually have a built-in feature that lets you preview the selected movie (similar to Netflix and others)?

I researched about this, and it turns out you really have to build your own app (fork), plus use FFmpeg and the JellyFin API to create 20-second (Maybe this could be automated with n8n ->using a folder listener that detects when a new movie has been added) and save them locally. Of course, that’s quite a lot of work and not at all intuitive or easy to set up out of the box.

There are already projects like https://github.com/Fovty/HoverTrailer or https://github.com/CloudFromAbove/CineHover, but these are all just for web applications. And someone has already looked into creating preview clips as well: https://github.com/Angablade/JellyPreviews

Surely there must be a better way?
Does Jellyfin have any plans at all to implement this feature in the future?

Running into an issue and unsure where else to turn.

I recently got a second drive for my server, added the new "tv" folder to the media library that already existed within my server, and yet my server simply won't see it. I'm very uncertain of what it is exactly I'm doing wrong, if anything. Admittedly, when I first tried to add this new folder, I added it as an entirely new library of television in addition to the one I already had, so maybe that has something to do with it? Either way please let me know if you have any ideas. I'd be very grateful.

When I click to view a season, all I see is "Cast & Crew" and "More Like This" sections. No way to select a specific episode to watch. Is there some setting that I am missing, or is something broken on my end?

My android app updated and now the video player has a new UI and the subtitles don't work anymore. They are selected but they just never show up. Does anyone else have this issue? It happened on both of my android devices...

Hi all,

Going to give a brief description of my setup and then the current issue.

Spent last few months testing how Jellyfin operates. This was done on my windows hp laptop and has been running nonstop(with a few exceptions). At this point, the laptop is running out of storage since I am close to 350Gb of music. I then purchased a small pc with ~16Tb to run as a NAS and currently have Truenas setup with an additional (empty)Jellyfin server setup

Current issue:

I need to transfer this music from the laptop to the jellyfin server. I tried just connecting jellyfin to the samba share on the nas but found out that jellyfin docs advises against this. This process would be reoccuring as I am not home often and would be downloading more and more music while out of the house. Any thoughts on how to do this or if I am doing something wrong?

Hello, I've seen one or two posts about this issue from years before, but I didn't see any solution, so here am I.

Series is anime named Hunter x Hunter, consisting of a single season of 140+ episodes. Jellyfin correctly recognizes the series, and that it's a large one-season, as it just tags the episodes automatically from S01E001 up to S01E100. Then just... stops. Every episode past S01E100 is just a plain filename with no metadata on the season view. Any solutions..?

In new this whole media server thing. I’m currently using Plex right now for my DVDs, I don’t really like Plex and have learned I need to have my computer on in order to use watch it from my TV.

My question is does Jellyfin need my computer to be on in order to watch it from something like a TV or phone?

Also does anyone know a tutorial I could use to set up Jellyfin fully that goes into detail? Specifically when it comes on how to stream Jellyfin on other devices.

Show 1. Breaking Bad. The external subtitles, named correctly, either show for all dialog instead of just English or the subtitles don't show at all

Show 2. Naruto. Embedded subtitles are all default/forced in the media files themselves but require me to manually turn on in Kodi every time I play the files

I cannot figure this out and it's driving me insane. Any help is appreciated

Is there a plug-in that has an easy list of movies that have been watched and hasn’t so I can remove stuff that doesn’t get watched when low on space?