from GatesMcBalmer@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 28 Jun 15:06
https://lemmy.world/post/48756742
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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its kinda crazy having your own personal netflix, right?
i originally used it so my kids could watch cartoons in school
It truly is!
You used it for what?!? Why the heck would you let your kids watch cartoons in school?
cuz my kids are awesome, and most of the schools sucked. its cool, they were consistently the best performers.
they earned being treated like they might some day be adults.
Didn’t you want them to hang out with their friends instead of watching cartoons during the day? Or maybe make friends?
Windows can run docker, so there’s versions of most things that will run on windows.
JellyFin has a native windows version.
I think that’s the joke^^
There was a joke? That was a joke?
Jellyfin is great! Glad you got it up and running!
Heh! Don’t let anyone dampen your enthusiasm. It feels great when I am toiling away at something and finally all the pieces click together. I might have to walk away a few times and put the project on hold, but I keep whacking away at it. When it does work, it’s always a childish joy that comes over me and always gets a fist-pump.
What equipment are you running that Windows Server on?
Right now its a Thinkpad T480 with 64G ram and 1tb ssd. If it turns out we use Jellyfin enough I plan to get something more powerful for it.
64g of ram is pretty darn powerful already!
Nice! Rock on with yo’ bad self.
Honestly thats already plenty - 8th gen intel igpu is pretty solid, about the only reason to change from that is going to be native AV1 (enc/dec added at meteor lake, tiger lake for dec only).
My setup is basically the same chip thats in my t480, but in a lenovo tiny. Family and friends make use of it, and it doesn’t break a sweat with 6 streams going.
Right on that’s great to hear
Personally, I think that installing it on a bare metal Windows Server system is quite an achievement.
I have it installed using docker compose on Linux. So my setup is rather unspectacular.
Hey you can always set up GPU rendering and like a tmpfs transcoding cache volume if you want your compose to look a little more complicated
Jellyfin is great for single-file movies, but sadly can’t play DVDs properly, unless you rip the movie out into a single file first. I hope they add proper DVD/BlueRay support with menues etc at some point. Because where do you get legal movies and shows other than on DVD or BlueRay?
This isn’t really the usecase, you’d be better off just playing it with VLC from a BD/DVD drive with the menu plugins. Netflix won’t have DVD menus either. Ripping is necessary for this to make your physical copies accessible via Jellyfin. May want to check ARM (Automatic Ripping Machine) to streamline the process. Legally, this is perfectly fine in most jurisdictions, because you are creating a backup of your purchased property.
Even with all the right hardware and community-recommended open source software, there are still plenty of unique hostile choices made in BluRay publishing that means playing my stuff in realtime from the disc before ripping has about a 75% success rate. Many of them scramble playlists and bend the standard to make it unplayable without using their official license.
And that’s if you know where to get the legally grey key files to decrypt them in the first place.
DVDs should be possible in this day and age though.
I don’t see the problem with that. It’s what I’ve done with every single disk I own. Why would I bother with badly-written menus, pointless extra content and tons of ads and copyright warnings I need to sit through before I can watch what I paid for?
Time to setup an arr stack.
Congratulations! I’ve been using Jellyfin for several years now and the quality has consistently improved. It’s a great tool.
My journey began with windows, Jellyfin, and qbit. Nice you have done the same! Only reason I switched to Linux is because I wanted servers and hated unraid
How did you handle the reverse proxy in Windows for remote access?