Jellyfin Made Easy: Install, Configure, Add Plugins | 2023 Edition

[@glithmasterpro]

Would love it if you could please do a guide to setup Jellyfin for remote access. Would like some security advice about this before attempting. I use a QNAP

[@kevinmoehring8259]

You guys have the best timing. I just built my new pc earlier this week and was planning on making a jellyfin server out of the old one. Can't wait to get started.

[@matthewmorrison5684]

I love all your tutorials Logan. Been following you for over 10 years. Keep it up.

[@uhoh4961]

This is not a complaint, but I think there is a slight audio delay.. just a heads up. Great video!

[@acubley]

Still there, I didn't notice until I read your comment. :-)

[@monolofiminimal]

I've used jellyfin in the past and I really love it for it's simplicity, but man I have a high tendency to mess up it's database. It really does not like when you remove files, for example movies from folders added, even when it rescans the directory it will orphan the movies in the database without removing them. So you'll basically have movies or whatever still displaying although the files have been removed and the only way to remove them from displaying is to go into the database files itself which is a hassle. This was my only qualm with jellyfin (also my database getting fat pretty quick heh - one thing I did for this is to create a symbolic link to the database folder to a drive where I don't mind how fat it gets. You can actually put jellyfin on quite a low end machine as long as it's not set to transcode for you, and only serve the files. Even works on a raspberry pi 4 :) PS - using the client is highly recommended, it's quite fast at loading the media compared to third party video players

[@easymode]

What version were you using? I delete stuff all the time and have never had this issue.

[@training7574]

Super, thanks. Normally, I don't watch YT videos longer than 4 minutes, as the content almost never is worth more. But yours is an exception. Will look at your other stuff. (Am setting up JF on a thin client.)

[@johnjohnson9923]

Dude, You rock ! Now I can go drop a grand on new NAS lol - Thanks the most in depth set up guide I have found utilizing both Jellyfin and ASUSTOR !

[@AyySorento]

If only this video came out like month ago haha. I'll probably be rewatching this video few times to get a grasp on everything.

[@RKfMaster]

Straightforward video. None of the nonsense all of the other guides on here have. Thank you.

[@hopperhelp1]

I absolutely love your media library. Pretty much everything you have are either media I’ve bought or I’m working on getting. So thanks, looks like I have to reference as I go.

[@rjazz1]

Thanks, just jumped from Plex to Jellyfin, it just works out of the box!!!

[@lanpartylandlord6123]

was trying to setup jellyfin on my synology nas with docker and was having a bit of trouble. came to youtube to search and this was uploaded and in my subscriptions lol.

[@xcruell]

Man i finally found you again after realizing you weren't in my subbox anymore... Exactly the video i needed :D

[@Underthanoa]

Thanks for video! It would be cool if you could demonstrate how to set up outside of home network usage.

[@balajim646]

This is Beautiful! It's a great start for someone who's just getting into self hosting and moving to jellyfin from plex. Loved your video about retroarch/retro gaming starter guide too. Keep up the Good work Logan!

[@wesleyson21]

Boom! I knew Logan would know how to fix my anime library in Jellyfin. I did have to delete the library and rebuild it and I'm still working on cleaning things up but it's way better than before. Also you have pretty good taste in anime and gave me a few ideas of things to add to my collection.

[@50shadesofskittles9]

I wish KZbin recommended more of your videos. I love your personality. I don't miss that troll that you worked with but I do miss that kinda show.

[@denvera1g1]

Been trying to move to this from Plex but would like to get TV recordings ironed out first. A nice plugin would be handbrake for recordings, it looks like JellyFin already supports Nvidia NVENC, Intel QSV, AMD VCE/VAAPI, and even Apple Video Toolbox The problem i have with TrueNAS Scale is that Ryzen 7000 is not supported yet for GPU passthrough for kubernetes, yes i can pass it through to a VM, but that leaves me headless in case of any issues, it also robs me of RAM if the VM doesnt need all the RAM Ideally, i'd like to have PCIe TV tuners as well to share with both Plex and Jellyfin

[@brandone7273]

Great tutorial! Had my stream up and running in no time. Thanks for posting.

[@spawn2052]

Awesome guide thank you so much! I got my friend to set up a jellyfin server too with this guide super helpful!

[@decadian]

Nice timing, just as I started looking into Jellyfin this pops up

[@jim7smith]

Nicely done, Logan....earned a like and a sub! BTW, what do you use for your family photos

[@frankenstein3163]

Good stuff. TY for shearing. Can videos be played in a playlist ? And if so can it be random shuffle ?

[@opticpoet]

Very cool, man! I'm on Plex and was thinking about switching to something else. I'm looking at what the others have to offer and I like your video.

[@Flackon]

I'm interested in how one can set up Jellyfin for remote access. Maybe on a VPS, but I tried to install it and I bet it needs a somewhat beefy CPU and maybe a GPU for video transcoding, so it worked horribly. Also, locally I use Kodi. I wish there was a way to seamlessly integrate the two, because I much prefer Kodi's native player than having to use some web browser video player...

[@pdg14]

the jellyfin addon for kodi will populate your jellyfin library in the Kodi movies section

[@hicobra]

Just a heads up the is now a native jellyfin app for Synology nas running DSM7 no need for docker as docker is only on the high end NAS So good for J series and synology play series + the app on LG TV and your set. But I did not know about jellyfin file structure and I'd like to say thank you TS.

[@teksyndicate]

Oh good! I had so many issues with it before on Synology that I just used the asustor... Which is also plenty fast

[@Halauris]

Hmm I may try it on my Synology.

[@the_skotts1110]

At this point the main thing keeping me on Plex is how easy sharing is. Jellyfin has definitely come a long way since I first saw it. I'm sure I'll send up switching to it eventually once Plex does something really stupid.

[@93vxhybridhatchback]

IMO, Plex has already done a bunch of stupid things. I left them years ago and just used vlc connected to a samba share. Couple years ago I found JF through a podcast and although it was like a beta back then, its come a long way.

[@wesleyson21]

Frankly sharing Jellyfin isn't terribly difficult. I use Tailscale to connect the user to my PC and avoid exposing my computer to the internet. Because it's a VPN it has the added benefit of keeping my cell provider from seeing that I'm streaming video and limiting me to 480p.

[@michaelf1303]

​@wesleyson21 this is the way. Tailscale + Jellyfin is lovely.

[@cooltwou]

I have a couple questions: 1. Will this still work if you don’t have a NAS 2. How would you setup Wrestling so that it will find the right metadata

[@tylenoljackson9378]

Channels Plus DVR server will give you live channels, including OTA from your antenna or HD Homerun, as well as incorporating Pluto, Stirr, Sling, Samsung, etc among it's EPG. You can record and schedule record everything on your own HD. It also loads your local libraries, and all this for your local network or remote access. I also use Plex, because I've had it for years, but Channels does everything I need for entertainment.

[@nickfledbetter]

Jellyfin does all of that for live tv and Dvr as well

[@VikingPickles]

Yeah, I've been a long time plex user and I do generally like it. Having recently moved way out in the middle of rural nowhere and having a very spotty internet connection, plex has started to really tick me off. Internet connection down? Better hope a kid wasn't the last one logged into the TV because now you can't switch users until the internet comes back on. Even worse, after so long without a connection it seems to refuse to work at all. Hey, look, I didn't pay $100 for a software that doesn't work. Not to mention that the plex app on my roku TV in my bedroom crashes all the frickin time. So I've been slowly working toward moving toward jellyfin. There's still plenty of features for plex I like better though, and in a world were I still lived with good internet access I may have not even gotten annoyed enough yet.

[@back4more420]

Can you please make a video on playlists please? I am switching from plex and want to have many TV shows shuffel and make a music playlist. Thanks for all the info on Jellyfin

[@didobg87]

Great video , can you make one how to make it accessible not only from home network?

[@87vortex87]

I've the exact same setup as you, and subbed because of good quality content. Now a question. Can you make a video about how to set up the player correctly to play content stutter free for 4k. I've been playing around to get is to work good and use hardware encoding. Got it working good now, but I think people would miss a lot of settings to get it working good, and I can probably improve stuff myself still.

[@teksyndicate]

It's more complicated for this installation because docker is involved. But I've found that my client PC is so powerful it doesn't matter .. however my exercise PC is lacking....I do get stuttering so I don't watch 4k in there. I might do another video on that

[@praetorxyn]

If the media is being Direct Played, it should basically just come down to how powerful the client is. A PC or the Nvidia Shield Pro will Direct Play basically anything in my experience. If you're saying slowdowns, I'd suggest going into the Dashboard and hovering over the i icon on whatever is playing so you can see if it's transcoding or not. If it's transcoding, you want hardware transcoding enabled and set up properly if the server supports it, but it will never be as fast as DirectPlay in my experience.

[@stevenjohnson8736]

@@teksyndicatecan u ask u a question how do I find a server address for jellyfin

[@certefied1]

Hi , love the video. Im using the same nas and wana use hardware encoding. can you make an video about how to enable this? Would be realy helpfull.

[@toons5233]

its nice how jellyfin lets you have more control over your folder, question when in come to movie with anime if its a movie that has to do with show do you just put in same folder (ie the anime show folder) or do you still put it into the movie folder. its funny off hand you the only one who has address anime with the different media programs. side note i got get better for watching out for the anime movies

[@VikingPickles]

I couldn't say for sure as it would probably depend on the series and metadata for that series, but what I would do is say for example you have a movie that slots in between season 2 and season 3, I would title the movie as "Anime Show S02E11 Movie Title" (assuming there are only 10 episodes in season 2). You would probably have to set all the information (description, sort order, poster, etc) manually, but at least it would be in the same spot as the series is and in order.

[@praetorxyn]

That's a good question. While I don't know that, I will say that if you put everything in one library (as in, regular movies and anime movies in the same folder), you have to be more careful about the order of your scanner plugins and the matching rules, because if you don't, you might end up with it mistaking the 2002 Count of Monte Cristo for that Count of Monte Cristo anime with the weird art style.

[@juliovargas9793]

How can i add anime: ONA, OVA and SPECIALS? Are they to be in the same folder or a different one? Category in library like a series or movie database for easy identification? Sorry love how you have your anime library, and I am trying to make one.

[@Lunolux]

great video, damn i just remember i didnt finish yet to watch this slayer anime

[@rickdjkane9370]

Very useful informations. Thank you. Great video!

[@bamosonic]

Will use this guide for my media server 😊

[@itzyaboikdo]

So i did not have a NAS when following this tutorial, I just pointed it to my "media folder" I had saved on my C drive. I noticed if i tried to login to a user account from my phone's mobile network, rather than my wifi, it doesnt allow me to connect to my server. Is it because my pc's ip address is only for devices on the local network? How would I enable outside users to connect to my server?

[@219jujis]

muy buen video felicidades, mi experiencia fue que nunca pude reproducir archivos de musica DSD y la organizacion de los archivos de musica no se muestran en carpetas

[@joeking5211]

17mins and was waiting for Audio info ( Albums ) but nothing seen. Have many blank Album art, but with the same library read with Plex there is not one missing, so was hoping for a clue to that, but nothing found. And as I have the libs setup already I guess as you say tit's now a no no to add any Addons to attempt a cure, albeit I never saw one Addon in that section that seemed to be anywhere near related to audio, they were all video, so does Jellyfin have this cover art finder facility for Audio, maybe not then ?. Brand new Jellyfin user here in the last 2 days and only found your vid now. Kind Rgds.

[@SuuRinn]

@teksyndicate Any plans on making a video about Remote Access with public IP? 4:01

[@dandrevs]

Just what I needed. Thanks!

[@felipealmeida7572]

Very nice video.. but i need some simpler info... Help me please.. i installed on my server computer, on windows. Created libraries and users. Now i simply need to know how to access from the apps om my tvs on the same network...

[@zimbakin]

Jellyfin is incredible.

[@sriramnagarajan4857]

Any instructions on how to use Nvidia for hardware transcoding? Both in Windows and Linux server? Would be really helpful.

[@EmmettMcMullan]

Great tutorial. Also, I love Roujin Z

[@timelesstimesgoneby]

Where’s classic database and internet archive plugin because I would like to use this for my database

[@Aivanello]

Thank you for this video !

[@ScottSchmott]

Can you please do a video on the remote access of Jellyfin please?

[@Luke-en7dh]

I just did a fresh windows install & all my media is a full mkv rip of a disc, but when I try to play a movie on my Roku Ultra it doesn't play. Movies play fine on the server PC. Any suggestions?

[@madoka006]

unrelated to the vid you have excellent taste my friend Taiho Shichau zo and slayers? very cool

[@greenelopez5782]

Thank you the great video. One question when viewing the metadata for the My Collection of videos does it also have the ability to show Rotten Tomatoes scores? Thanks

[@user-jt8qn6bn9i]

Where do you get all of those movies/ shows from? Can we just put them in an old office computer if you don't have a nas?

[@E_Proxy]

I'm a below average nitwit noob. Tried to make an Ubuntu server, installed casaos, installed jellyfin. I have all my media on my synology NAS. Almost died to mount the share on the Ubuntu server. Jellyfin WON'T ADD ANY MEDIA. I'mma burn down everything and keep paying for Netflix

[@africantwin173]

How do i add a USB SSD to Jellyfin on my pi4. I don't know how to mount it with Jellyfin. No auto mount? With OMV everything worked fine.

[@miraiygaming]

Yes. I have watched Roujin Z. It's a fantastic movie. Incredible animation.

[@spaceghostcqc2137]

Yah a real classic imo, great concept too with themes that remain relevant.

[@agassparkle]

thumbs up for focusing on Ninja Scroll

[@phecdu]

love it 😊

[@marcom900]

do u have any clue on why on my ipad i can watch Series but not film?? I do not have multiple user connected just the host one and onm y pc i can watch everything but on my ipad film won't load (do u know where i can download 4k film too, i'm using torrent funk as of now)

[@jenniferlara-rm1gl]

My windows does not show the ip address numbers on the top web page how do i find it too sign in into anthoer device?

[@nin6246]

I'm running five 8 TB drives in Raid-z2 in TrueNAS and have 21.4 TB of usable space. I've held off on installing something like Jellyfin or Plex because I can just stream directly from my NAS just by opening a video. I suppose it would be nice to have a "Netflix-style" interface but I honestly don't need it. I also like knowing that my TrueNAS setup is barebones and doesn't have any additional features installed. I wonder if anyone else has decided to just use the NAS the way I am...

[@michaelf1303]

I did something similar for a while, but it's honestly nice to use jellyfin and it's pretty lightweight. But functionality wise it isn't better, just nicer

[@kylemay6043]

I'm still using iTunes/Apple TV app with Family Share for my media server, but I think I'm ready to switch. Lets say I have Jellyfin set up to keep my media organized for me. How would I add new media in the future? Is it drag and drop like iTunes, or do I create folders on my NAS/server manually? Thanks in advance for any help.

[@skullkid8094]

I have no idea what im doing wrong, I can connect jellyfin on the TV through roku but when I try to connect my phone using the Jellyfin app I cant get it to connect. If you have any ideas I'm all ears sir.

[@michaelmoller9272]

I would love to have a media server that can read RAR fils without having to unpack theme

[@StambaughDesignsBellingham]

My jellyfish on TrueNas won't scan subdirectories. I've given the user 'apps' read access already. Thoughts?

[@SomeRandomYouTuber2024]

I'd like to try it but is there native clients without dedicated hardware? For example, Plex had apps on Samsung Tizen, LG WebOs, Sony, etc. and it's a must for non tech-savvy people, at least in my use case.

[@JoshuaKnab]

There is an app on Roku if that's what you mean

[@praetorxyn]

It's device dependent. The newest webOS TVs running webOS 6 have a Jellyfin app, but my 2019 webOS TV running webOS 5 does not. But whether it's Jellyfin or Plex, the TV apps are pretty garbage compared to dedicated hardware apps. They are the least maintained, always the most out of date, the least feature rich, etc. Do yourself a favor and just get an Nvidia Shield Pro. Both Jellyfin and Plex work flawlessly on it, but I will advise for the Jellyfin app to go into Settings and change the player from the default one to libvlc, as the default player sucks and will force a transcode if you enable PGS subtitles. libvlc will direct play anything you can throw at it in my experience. On the mobile side of things, you have to be careful about native vs web wrapper clients. So for example, on Android you want Findroid instead of Jellyfin and on iOS you want Swiftfin instead of Jellyfin. Infuse will work perfectly on iOS as well, but the lifetime subscription to enable full features is like $100 which is pretty stupid IMO.

[@11ELFs]

how do I host jellyfin and still keep my VPN on, I have been skimming through pages and pages for about 6 hours already with the ocasional getting up and grabbing some coffee and I cant seem to find a solution, ty in advance

[@Sankaritarina89]

hey I have an anime collection but somehow every thing was set up in japanese. I don't know what I did wrong

[@aritjahja]

I have a WD Cloud Mirror gen 2 NAS. My media is saved in /Public/iTunes. A post in WD forum shares a short guide to install Jellyfin trough a docker and the guide include a process to map his media that being place in another drive. I don't understand his guide. Anybody could share a more detailed step by step guide?

[@amirfakhribadri7994]

Where can I get all movies files just for private only .

[@michaelnyansafo7343]

How can I install the app on my Apple TV?

[@Halauris]

Have you tried Kodi for local Library play back vs Jellyfin? I’m somewhat interested in jellyfin, but I suppose I’m wondering why I said switch from kodi.

[@CT-4819]

Does this support real debrid servers? Also how do you come across all this movie and tv show data. Is it like ROMS and it’s kinda hush hush? Im new to all this and have barely scratched the surface. Just trying to understand

[@Sunnygoesbrr]

hey idk if you read this haha but one question: what about animes with many seasons and older seasons? for example fruits basket has season 1 from 2001 and a "remaster" season 1 from 2019 with 2 extra seasons (2020 and 2021) with a movie, how do you manage this in ONE folder? are you making a new folder for every season? example: fruits basket shows one picture for all 4 seasons and movie, and if i go into the "fruits basket" anime (where i can see season 1,2,3) and click the 3 dots it doesnt show "identify" does that mean you cant give seasons their specific anidb id? :c

[@jenniferlara-rm1gl]

Tried 2 two candidates, without success. I get this error messeage when i try to log in my android but i can log in my computer any video on this to fix it.

[@medakabox2015]

hey, Im getting this error ""This client isn't compatible with the media and the server isn't sending with hwa a compatible media format." The format is h264 and I have enabled HWA (nvidia nvenc with 3070) and set a ffmpeg folder. IM getting this error on everything except the jellyfin media player/ Any help with this? im running this on win11

[@whitefata12]

I'm stuck at no available plugins in catalog tab..

[@carlofatico8974]

So how can my friends go on my jellyfin and see my movies from my computers external hard drive?...

[@stargatefever]

I have a smb local drive, connectrd to router and I would like to use something other then kodi. Is this sn option or to I need a pc running

[@karenorgan6203]

If Identify isn't there did I do something wrong, has it been removed? I'm doing version 10.8.13

[@Hawa_Chapal]

Good ebening Count Dracula

[@sd5458]

Too bad installing is the most difficult part. Sitting here trying to install on a Windows machine and it seems like it intentionally makes itself a pain in the ass. About ready to look yet again for alternatives.

[@cdoublejj]

merge version needs a plugin? why don't merge movies by default? one low def and one high def should be in the same movie icon

[@Razos13]

Thanks for this video @Tek Syndicate! i have the problem, when i add new movies or so, my other movie data (metadata and pics) are are chaned again to the wrong pics etc... can someone help me plz? :)

[@toraryugraphiperso3411]

Hi! Did you know why sometimes, when I see an episode, the episode stop at the middle and jellyfin start the next one? Is it hardware issue?

[@fntr]

why do I have localhost instead of an ip address in the url?

[@TotemoGaijin]

I've never touched Plex. How's it fare compared to KODI?

[@jaspartheghost526]

can't get past login on most recent version of jf

[@aaronjohnson1547]

Can you use an external hard drive and run jeelyfin through a ps4 and work the same way

[@woltergrant]

I use realdebrid. Is there a way to configure Jellyfin with it?

[@manos527]

Cant get the subtitles to work even though i followed the steps, when i press the download icon it shows download is scheduled or queued? and nothing happens, also constant audio issues were the voices are almost muted while the background noise is still audible.I dont know if its a video format problem but i have non of these issues on plex.

[@teksyndicate]

Did you get an account on open subtitles and then put your info into the plugin screen?

[@VikingPickles]

Try going to administration>dashboard>advanced>scheduled tasks. Under libraries, you will see "download missing subtitles". I've had to start that several times on mine, but I assumed it was because of my poor internet connection, but still something you could check out. Also, I seem to recall that it can only download so many subtitle tracks per day so if you're bringing a large library it could take some time.

[@manos527]

@@VikingPickles thanks.But now i run into another problem.The CC close caption is shown along with the subtitles i downloaded but they do not show when i play the movie.

[@leonpijudo6875]

it asks me to login but i never registered?

[@GenreFluid]

I am strggling to acces my serever on my android?

[@mawonrs9761]

Where do you guys download movies n shows from

[@SallySpr0ut]

How did you get from the site the host??? for the media player?

[@timhi2558]

All these videos are like "easy install" and then they nerd out with "Im not going to show you windows install but NAS or LINUX install" wtf

[@slop_core]

Just install Linux on your server then

[@emporioalnino4670]

Shut up ​@@slop_core

[@Lil-watermelon-cat]

@@emporioalnino4670 well he’s right

[@TheCRibe]

Great video but you skipped https setup :(

[@centurion8446]

Thanks. This is helpful