Any changes to the massive memory footprint of JF? I’m basically stuck on Plex because JF eats multiple gigabytes of my very limited RAM.
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Only if either your app requires it to transcode. My cpu is maxed if i try to play off chrome on my phone, but the same file on the jellyfin app keeps it under 1%
You could just upgrade, I assume RAM is cheap, haven't looked in a while, just let me look up memory prices real quick...
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All my homelab uses around 2gb of ram with 20 services, jf one of them.
One thing, I use hw accel with vaapi
If it's direct play, this makes sense, but it sounds like maybe they are transcoding video
JF uses south of 480 mb right now on my rpi4 2gb when idling. It plays fine too, though struggles with transcoding.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SSO | Single Sign-On |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
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Good bot.
Is there a Samsung TV app yet? I’ve heard it’s out for some…
I used this repo to install jellyfin app on my Samsung TV https://github.com/Apps2Samsung/Apps2Samsung
I'm so happy that I got the 253 years subscription.
best money I've ever spent
Ha! Shows what you know. I got a 256 year subscription at only 10x the price!
Wao, I got ripped off. I'm a fucking moron.
Looks like my move to navidrome for music is paying off :)
Seems strange to push books over Audio.
I'm happy to see such a huge list of achievements through. Especially the endpoint hardening.
Sad to see still no 2FA,
Progress is progress; it's still free and open.
Most people I know run it behind a VPN, so 2FA is less critical.
Most people I know use Plex so they don't have to.
I'm hoping we can change that eventually.
Let me guess, another price increase.
Thank you for the reminder to donate to them <3
Please donate to your favorite client maintainer (if 3rd party) or another project.
The core team stated that they already have enough funds.
(Look at the funds that are still unusued): https://opencollective.com/jellyfin
Oh shit. Ok. Thank you for bringing that up. I only really use their official apps, but I’ll find another one to donate to.
I can confidently say that the Jellyfin team intend to raise the price 10x the previous price.
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My wait for OIDC support for sensible client logins continues
I know it’s not the same but quick connect works well. Why not log in that way using a six digit code?
Couple reasons.
- Jellyfin is not security software, and given the inconsistency and general lack of polish of every other aspect of Jellyfin, its raw login page is not something I’d comfortably expose to the internet to begin with.
- Quick connect is a poor, unintuitive imitation of Device Flow. A non-technical user would have to also have a Jellyfin app or bookmark in their phone already, and know where to navigate in it to reach the quick connect function. This on its own is insurmountable.
- It’s not SSO. Jellyfin is yet another username and password they must remember when every single other thing I self host supports OIDC out of the box and they get one user account for everything.
Fair points. Thanks for the lesson. TIL a lot.
Man, I really appreciate so many good folks giving info and not flaming each other. This is a great community.
I agree with you but also about 90% of watching on my instance happens on smart TV's. So even though I would like to have oidc supported for the occasional phone/pc user I would still need something basic that a TV can use.
Smart TVs should be able to support OIDC easily out of the box.
And if it didn’t, you can just use a Device Flow
I had some issues with config changes, but it's working now :)
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