I have a vps where I host a few things and I tried adding jellyfin. It worked and while scanning media railed the CPU/ram, once it was done everything was smooth. However, despite having all dependencies a bunch of videos didn’t play. I also don’t need the music and ebooks side of jellyfin as I’ll be using other things for those (funkwhale for music, still looking into the books and comics ) So, which self hosted alternatives do I have for videos and books/comic books? I need things that only do that but don’t well. The video one needs to have a client I can install on a android device I have plugged ony tv
For movies and tv shows I use Plex
Books/manga/comic books I use Kavita
Kavita is the one I was looking at as well. I hear plex is closed source and I prefer using open.
I would recommend giving kivata a try.
Can’t really speak on open source alternative for Plex though (other than jellyfin, which I haven’t used myself even). Good luck on the search!
There’s always Plex and emby, but if the videos didn’t play in jellyfin I doubt they will play in those two. You are probably lacking hardware support for the codec you’re trying to play.
It’s a vps so maybe I am indeed lacking hardware.
Have you tried installing Jellyfin as a docker container? The official image as well as the linuxserver.io’s image?
Plex and Emby are some alternatives, but these are closed-source solutions.
Have you tried installing Jellyfin as a docker container? The official image as well as the linuxserver.io’s image?
I tried docker, yes. I have to check if I used linuxserver.io image but I did use the official one for sure.
Plex and Emby are some alternatives, but these are closed-source solutions.
Aw heck, I’d prefer foss
Pretty sure Emby is open source since Jellyfin is a fork of it, but that also means you might run into the same issues if you try switching over.
I’d check if you have hardware transcoding turned on. If you have an intel cpu it should be enough to get things to work.
