Jellyfin Questions

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IamNoone

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I finally decided to run Jellyfin on my network.

I did the installation and then set it up to point to the media folders.

It only loads 1 movie for each letter of the alphabet. I thought it was just taking long to scan the media in but after 2 hours it shows the same. The same is happening for TV series. Do I have to add every Movie's folder one by one?


I also added some TV streams to the TV menu. It showed everything once, thereafter it is all blank. No channels listed any more.

What am I doing wrong here?

I added the movie folders as they are on the drive ie. E:\Movies and it added it to the sources list but the issue above is showing only one movie per letter of the alphabet.

The Movies are all in folders named the same as the movie within ie Batman (1989) and inside is Batman (1989).mkv
 
Try changing the meta data providers. Sometimes the default one rate limits and then the scans just time out because it can't find the metadata. One of my biggest issue with Jellyfin is that
 
What made you decide to go with Jellyfish?
ASking just out of interest sake.

I wasn't a fan of the interface and functionality.
Ended up using Radarr and Sonarr to handle movies and series seperately and very happy with how it all works.
 
PsYTraNc3 said:
What made you decide to go with Jellyfish?
ASking just out of interest sake.

I wasn't a fan of the interface and functionality.
Ended up using Radarr and Sonarr to handle movies and series seperately and very happy with how it all works.
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He's using Jellyfin (he got it wrong in the title but right in his post) as his media server, i.e. a plex media server alternative.
 
Roo! said:
He's using Jellyfin (he got it wrong in the title but right in his post) as his media server, i.e. a plex media server alternative.
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I think I got it wrong actually.

I also plex and tried Jellyfin as an alternative to that at some point.
Currently have Radarr and Sonarr downloading, organising my media but using plex as the media server.
 
PsYTraNc3 said:
What made you decide to go with Jellyfish?
ASking just out of interest sake.

I wasn't a fan of the interface and functionality.
Ended up using Radarr and Sonarr to handle movies and series seperately and very happy with how it all works.
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I tried Plex before but moved back to Kodi as the Plex interface annoyed me. There was also the issue of it randomly stopping connecting to the server.

I used to have a Raspberry Pi set up with OSMC and shared it on the network and had Kodi on my MiBox to render in my bedroom. That too started losing the connection for no apparent reason, so I went back to the old fassioned way with the hard drives connected to a powered USB hub plugged into the single USB port on the MiBox.

The problem came when I started having issues with one of the hard drives not connecting to the computer, it would go on and off over and over. When I got it to stay connected I copied all the content to another hard drive. Currently I can not get the previous drive to connect on the computer.

So here we are, trying Jellyfin instead of copying to the hard drive and plugging into the MiBox.

There you have my life story :ROFL: :ROFL:
 
cavedog said:
Try changing the meta data providers. Sometimes the default one rate limits and then the scans just time out because it can't find the metadata. One of my biggest issue with Jellyfin is that
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Did that. Only enabled TheMovieDb and now its working. Thanks.
 
Was tinkering with Jellyfin a while back but was having a problem getting it to show my movies in the Movies folder. Did some reading and it was something to do with the permissions but I never go it to work so I decided to stick with Plex........
 
cavedog said:
Cool. You can add other 3rd party meta searches like fanart. I like that it's fast and works well.
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Is that why it shows no thumbnails or movie posters?

I had a hard time getting the MiBox to connect. Turned out I had to allow connections to the computer via the LAN network in ESET. Took me 2 hours to figure that one out.
 
@cavedog I noticed that with warp on it does not get the Metadata. I turned it off and it started doing the things.

Now just waiting to see if it updates all the TV shows. Currently it only scanned 1 folder with some reality TV stuff like Fast ń Loud and Storage Wars, but so far none of the normal shows.

Thanks again for the help!
 
I see that when I have Warp on and try and log in from outside it does not give access even though port forwarding is enabled. The IP is assigned to the router. Should that not route to the computer when using the port forward to that device inside the LAN?
 
Kosmik said:
Just ensure you secure your server if remote access.
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Any suggestions?

I do run ESET firewall on strict mode and only allowed the port to be open on my LAN but it still allows remote connection from the office.

The router firewall is enabled.

I checked the ports using nmap and no open ports shows up.
 
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Picked up an issue with updating the library.

First it would not add new content added. I removed the locations and added again, the new stuff is added but one show loaded the incorrect details.

I put in the correct imdb, tvdb and moviedb codes and told it to delete and download the Metadata over again but it does not update.

Media scan is getting stuck on 97% and moves no further. Cancel and restart, same thing.

I checked the logs but it does not show errors.
 
IamNoone said:
Picked up an issue with updating the library.

First it would not add new content added. I removed the locations and added again, the new stuff is added but one show loaded the incorrect details.

I put in the correct imdb, tvdb and moviedb codes and told it to delete and download the Metadata over again but it does not update.

Media scan is getting stuck on 97% and moves no further. Cancel and restart, same thing.

I checked the logs but it does not show errors.
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Fixed it. Seems like it is a known issue for the Yellowstone series that it keeps being seen as the 2009 docu series.

If you find a similar issue the fix is to create a txt file like this: seriesname-yearS01E01.mp4 in the series root folder. Rename the series folder to seriesname-year

That fixes it to get the correct details
 
New thing. I moved Jellyfin to a Linux server running Ubuntu. Everything they said to do to transfer everything in the database so you don't have to rescan failed so had to do everything over.

Next problem. I installed a letsencrypt ssl cert and followed the instructions to link it to Jellyfin but when going to https it gives error that it can't reach the server, this is on local and external networks.

Anybody have an actual way to do it right? The server is set up to link to a subdomain (jellyfin.mydomain.co.za)

The SSL certificate installed fine using it but I think something is missing. One tutorial said to install nginx and redirect from there but still the error
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