Jellyfin is not just good... but better than Plex now?!
Jellyfin is not just good... but better than Plex now?!
I've feel like I've used Plex forever. I also feel like every couple years I try Jellyfin to see how it's going. Recently I tried it again because of Plex restriction on more than one user.
Well, I just tried it again and it's substantially improved! This time it actually properly detected most of my library!
Also the Android TV app is AWESOME! No more glitches, lagging, and freezing trying to play my stuff like Plex did. It is butter smooth.
Wow! I'm impressed and I just deleted Plex. Good riddance.
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OK I've installed Jellyfin server. However when setting up my media directories via the web front end, Jellyfin keeps telling me they're not valid paths. Don't know why that would be as they're directly on the server and valid. Checked permissions too, and restarted the server. Any ideas? I haven't rebooted the server, that's shouldn't be required.
Hmm sorry not sure why it would be complaining about an invalid path. Is it all paths that are invalid, or just the ones to your media?
I have my media files in specific folders on a RAID5. It won't take that as a valid path, nor even anything in the ~/ directory. If I use the server root, it will. I don't like that - seems like a poor system design. No way I want it to scan my root directory. Christ it will take forever to scan my entire RAID of 200Tb.
It shouldn't really matter where you've got your files as long as they're mounted on a standard path. Maybe try creating a symlink from where your media is to a standard path like
/mnt/mediaor something?Yeah tried that. It doesn't even recognize standard paths like ~/user directory
Don't set it to your home path, set the path explicitly. That'll be what it's complaining about, the ~.
I've set the paths properly and explicit. This is on Debian Stable. Uninstalled, not going to waste anymore time on this.
Yeah I think your problem was trying to use ~ in a path. That's a bash thing, not a linux thing - slightly pedantic distinction for many but worth knowing about in case future applications give you a similar problem.