evilsmirker
Beginner
Damn, Jellyfin has bugs that bad? Had no idea. Was thinking of using it with OMV on a Pi4 I have.
Any (free) alternatives you would know of?
Storage Solutions Giving up on Jellyfin server, 2nd HDD Failed in 1 year time, what am I doing wrong?
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Any (free) alternatives you would know of?
nsas02
Forerunner
Plex is free, unless you want to do Hardware Transcoding.
Never encountered such bug unless we did an oopsie and deleted/removed some datasets.
It has been rock solid for me (better than plex for few things - direct play on LAN never worked for me, it would default to transcode + stream over internet even when client - server were in same subnet).
no breaking bugs at all, my one issue was PGS subs which they have fixed, been running jellyfin on my seedbox for years now and we have 5-6 devices running on it and there are no issues with streams/transcoding.
evilsmirker
Beginner
I've also never come across any issues while running it locally from my windows laptop, apart from my own stupidity while trying to find the server on my local network from other devices.
Hoping to slowly tinker my way upto running it with tailscale/reverse proxy someday.
evilsmirker
Beginner
The open source idea of Jellyfin makes me inclined to stick with it, somehow.
Although I have heard people saying Plex is better in some respects.
Tailscale is so easy to setup and run! Just install clients on both devices, log in with same account, done!
I have used Jellyfin for over 3 years now with the same portable HDD and never had an issue with the data or HDD. I wouldn't in anyway generalise such issues that some might be facing.
Also I am behind a double NAT environment on account of my ISP but the fact that my Asus router with Merlin has a 1-click Tailscale setup has made my life so much easier.
can you link the router you are using? didnt know about Merlin and am kinda regreting my DLink router now, I coulda used that years ago
You mean you can use tailscale setup in your asus router to access any device connected via that router even if that device itself does not have tailscale client?
You need to install the Tailscale client for the VPN connection with the router as exit node but then it works like being on LAN.
Home | Asuswrt-Merlin
www.asuswrt-merlin.net
GitHub - gnuton/asuswrt-merlin.ng: Extends the support of Merlin firmware to more ASUS routers
Extends the support of Merlin firmware to more ASUS routers - gnuton/asuswrt-merlin.ng
github.com
Pick any on the lists above.
You only need one tailscale instance running in local network to access everything. Not every device that you want to access needs to have Tailscale. That's the beauty of it!