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Jellyfin is a Free Software Media System that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media. It is an alternative to the proprietary Emby and Plex, to provide media from a dedicated server to end-user devices via multiple apps. Jellyfin is descended from Emby's 3.5.2 release and ported to the .NET Core framework to enable full cross-platform support.

Installation

Visit your Settings page and enable Jellyfin, and then follow the instructions.

Cron automatic restart (optional)

1. Make a file to be used for the script. touch ~/Jellyfin_restart.cron

2. Edit the file and enter the text below. nano -w ~/Jellyfin_restart.cron

    #!/bin/bash
    if pgrep -fx "jellyfin" > /dev/null
    then
        echo "Jellyfin is running."
    else 
        echo "Jellyfin is not running, starting Jellyfin"
        screen -dmS Jellyfin /usr/bin/jellyfin
    fi
    exit
   

3. Save the file with Ctrl+x and the "y" and Enter to accept overwriting.

4. Make the script executable. chmod +x ~/Jellyfin_restart.cron

5. Open your crontab. EDITOR=nano crontab -e

6. Enter the following text

    @reboot /home/user/Jellyfin_restart.cron >/dev/null 2>&1
    */5 * * * * /home/user/Jellyfin_restart.cron >/dev/null 2>&1
   

7. Save the crontab with Ctrl+x and the "y" and Enter to accept overwriting.

Usage

Your Jellyfin web interface will be accessible at http://server.whatbox.ca:19363 Jellyfin will run you through a setup wizard for creating a user and setting up your first libraries. You will not be able to navigate to your slot using the built-in filesystem navigator, so you will need to enter the full path to the directory you want to add to your library, for example /home/user/files

It is strongly recommended to setup authentication on your Jellyfin instance. You can do this in Jellyfin's web interface under the Settings > Users > Your user > Password category. You should not use your slot password here because the web interface does not use SSL. Click Save to save the configuration.

You can attach to your Jellyfin screen session to monitor its output using screen -r Jellyfin , and detach from it again by pressing ctrl+a, d and then enter

IMPORTANT

Jellyfin is much more prone to abusing available resources than Plex. You must limit the CPU threads that Jellyfin may use. Jellyfin processes are shut down if their CPU usage starts to impact other users on the server. These settings can be found in Settings > Transcoding > Transcoding thread count. Guidelines for plans and the threads they may use follows:

• Legacy: 1
• HDD: 4
• SSD: 4
  Click Save to save the configuration.