Jellyfin / Swiftfin - your own Netflix

Jellyfin Feb 6, 2023

The age of renting CD’s and DVD’s from blockbuster to watch a your favourite movie ended long time ago. Since then we have desperately collected all the movies, sitcoms and even subscribed to many streaming platforms, now you can create your own streaming platform with the media you have collected all these years.

Jellyfin - the same Jellyfin that Linus tech tips mentioned in his video, it has been around for a quit a while building trust in its users with crisp and stable user interface.

Jellyfin is an open source programme that can manage all of your media needs by securely exploring them and letting you access them from anywhere. It also has capabilities like metadata retrieval, transcoding and user access.

With its sync play feature, Jellyfin is a suitable Plex substitute allowing you to stream media in a similar manner to Netflix, prime and Hotstar.

Are you ready to try Jellyfin? Then refer this link. (Sleepysoul.cc)

A dear friend of mine has elaborate and explained the process of installing Jellyfin in your server refer the above link.

docker-compose.yml file

----
version: "3"
services:
  jellyfin:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin
    container_name: jellyfin
    ports:
      - 80:8096
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Asia/Kolkata
    volumes:
      - /path/to/config:/config
      - /path/to/tv/shows:/data/tvshows
      - /path/to/movies:/data/movies
      - /path/to/music:/data/music
    devices:
    ## Refer this: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration.html
      - /path/to/render/devices:/path/to/render/devices
    restart: always
    networks:
    ## Change proxy to the name of your docker network or you can remove this option to use the default bridge docker network
       - proxy
## Skip the below lines if you are using bridge network or replace with your network name 
networks:
  proxy:
    external: true
----

docker-compose.yml

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