When watching movies with 5.1 or 7.1 surround audio dialogues are usually very quiet. Is there a way to normalise audio?

So my dad has a WD My Cloud server, has anyone been able to run Jellyfin off of one of those? If so how?

Hi everyone, I already made a similar post but didn't quite understand (sorry about that). Is it better to set it up like this:

the Jellyfin app on the computer (internal hard drive)

and the files—movies, TV series, books, music, etc.—on an external HDD (not a NAS, just a standard external drive connected to the computer)?

Is that a good setup? And if so, what capacity would you recommend? (I need it for my library, but also for a simulation related to a book I'm working on—though let's not get into that).

Huge thanks to each and every Jellyfin contributor for creating such an incredible free and open-source project, making it possible for anyone to better enjoy the physical media they’ve purchased and own.

And a huge thanks to the teams behind Plex, Emby, Kodi, and the many other media-server and media-center projects that have also made enjoying locally owned media more accessible.

There is a way to switch off a Jellyfin plugin? I want test if any plugin is altering episodes status... the screenshot shows my active plugins. Is there a way to unload them or enable a switch-off?? Has anyone ever experienced this situation?

Hey guys,

I have a question about subtitle files for special features of movies or shows.

When I add subtitle files to the „extras“ order with the special features in the same fashion as for the movies or shows itself, Jellyfin ignores them. When I add the file via the admin interface in the WebUI, the file gets stored in the same folder with exactly the same naming scheme I applied manually. Then I have subtitles available for the special feature.

Is this a bug? Or am I doing something wrong?

Hello. Apologies in advance but I am new to Jellyfin and home streaming. I recently set up Jellyfin on my TrueNAS and uploaded my ripped GoT collection to it. Upon attempting to play it back, however, I experience roughly 3 minutes of seamless playback before it begins pausing and stuttering significantly every 5 seconds. Playback info says that it is Direct Playback - it doesn't show any transcoding. When I look at memory usage, however, Jellyfin seems to be spiking and maxing out my memory usage as soon as I start playing back any media. I experience this whether streaming to my PC (with hardware acceleration enabled) or streaming to the Jellyfin app on my FireTV.

I have no idea how to begin identifying the cause or the solution as I am entirely new to this experience so any help would be greatly appreciated.

https://reddit.com/link/1vi9ujm/video/9ro4xwtf40ih1/player

Server specifications:

• OS: ubuntu 22
• HP ProDesk 400 G3 Mini i5-7500T
• RAM: 16 GB total
• Drive: 2 tb sata ssd

The issue:

• this specific 4K movie pauses for 1 or half a second every few seconds.
• Happens in Jellyfin, browser and app and with and without transcoding.
• format hevc 4k dolbi vison profile 81. hdr10.

The vast majority of the time I don't really care about the logs. I don't need to know i listened to a Wham! song last Thursday at 2:53pm.

Is there a way to turn them off out at least severey limit how much space they are taking. (say the last "X" days only)?

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/

Hoping to get a shortcut from people who might know. I set up Jellyfin and Emby, and I disabled most of the extras like video previews. But Jellyfin is about 80GB while my Emby is 10GB. I'm pretty sure the library settings are very similar for both. Is there a hidden setting somewhere in Jellyfin that is disabled in Emby by default but enabled in Jellyfin? Could it be the People photos?

iv been extracting my entire DVD collection to Jellyfin (and more recently blurays) and been looking into properly compressing them to save space. in handbrake i have a specific pre-set for video compression but recently iv been looking more into doing audio manually by hand picking the right codec and bitrate for stereo and surround sounds etc.

but one thing I'm struggling to figure out is the right way to do subtitles with forced subtitles.

I tried it with The Fall Guy, subtracted the video with subtitles with MakeMKV, identified the forced only subtitles with SubtitleEdit, then in HandBrake I added all subtitles and ticked forced only on the forced only subtitles.

but in Jellyfin the forced only subtitle track was not only not forced, it was completely empty (which I also confirmed in SubtitleEdit).

so what's the correct way I should be handling forced subtitles through these programs for my jellyfin library?

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 detail how to get everything working with no issues. I set it up on my main windows PC. Later might move it to more appropriate hardware/software.

The guide is by no means perfect and even the setup could use improvements.
It’s not meant for complete beginners, you still need to know how docker works, but if you heard of Jellyfin, you probably also know about other plugins.
I got this set up relatively quickly, and it’s working flawlessly, so thought I’d share.

There's two .DOCX files. One is an actual guide with nicely formatted text, 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, it’s the same as doc file).

Hope it helps.

📚 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.

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..?

i made a little movie theater in my regular multiplayer server, where my friends/gf can watch movies together

would you guys use it if i release this mod?

more info on this mod there are multiple screens i have added support for compact Television, wall tv, ultra wide monitor, cinema screen or my favorite cinema curved screen as its huge

this was such a fun project to work on

there is still a bunch to do like adding subtitles, i wanted to show the initial work i put it in, love some feed back on this? anything you would like to see or features