Any tips for running Jellyfin?

[ekingston]

My home FreeBSD server mostly runs as a media server. Every so often I feel the desire to see what other options are out there. Now it's Jellyfin's turn. Any tips, tricks, or gotchas I might want to know about?

The one tip I learned the hard way (so far) is that Jellyfin uses the same ports as Emby. So if you want them to co-exists, you have to change the ports on one of them.

 

[SirDice]

You could run it in a jail on its own IP address, then you won't have a conflict.

 

[nxjoseph]

You could run it in a jail on its own IP address, then you won't have a conflict.

If you are going to run it in a jail then that thread may help.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/jellyfin-in-freebsd-jail.88918/

 

[Espionage724]

Is there any benefits to using Jellyfin vs a NAS and Kodi?

 

[ekingston]

Is there any benefits to using Jellyfin vs a NAS and Kodi?

Maybe. Jellyfin is a media server (like Plex and Emby). So you can use a client on a smart tv, appletv, firetv, tablet, smart phone, etc. to watch. It can stream to more than one tv/device at a time. And you can connect to it when not at home.

Having said that, my current test is extremely disappointing. Jellyfin isn't picking up most of my library. It's finding about 5% of my movies and 20% of my tv shows compared to Emby.

 

[tetsuo]

I run jellyfin in a jail with its own IP address which also has qbittorrent and navidrome. There does not seem to be any "special consideration" to run jellyfin