Which Media Servers to use?

General Discussion
1

I have been using Jellyfin. However, recently I’ve encountered problems with it not seeing newly added television files. What other media servers are people using?

I have Ugreen’s own Theater, now installed on my TV, which sees the files Jellyfin doesn’t. However playback is clunky compared to Jellyfin - for example having to select audio passthrough for 5.1, for each episode. Perhaps I’m missing a setting here?

2

How did you install Jellyfin and how did you make sure it had access to your directories? I have zero issues with Jellyfin, but I installed it using Portainer.

The “best” way is to install it using stacks. This enables hardware acceleration.

As you can see, I simply point it to my media library on the first volume and haven’t had any issues since.

services:
  jellyfin:
    image: jellyfin/jellyfin:latest
    container_name: jellyfin
    restart: always
    devices:
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri  # Integrated graphics
      - /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128
      - /dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0
    environment:
      PUID: 0
      PGID: 0
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - ./volume1/jellyfin_cache:/cache
      - /volume1/Media_Library:/media #Library location
    ports:
      - 8096:8096/TCP
    network_mode: "bridge"

Once installed, it can be updated via Docker in the Ugreen NAS UI.

Emby is another option of course, I used it for a few years, but they got a bit naggy about paying for the server version and with the database changes Jellyfin did earlier this year, it feels just as smooth to use.

3

If your tv based android..

You can try another jellyfin client for jellyfin server : Wholphin

More customizable :+1:t3::+1:t3:

4

I use minidlna. It took a while to set up but I like the interface a lot better than Jellyfin’s. I just want a list of my media.

It updates as soon as the file is in there. I have it set up to rescan the folders every night in case I change the names of pre existing files. I have a Roku tv.

5

I’ve used Emby for years. Jellyfin is nice, but more limited in configuration where Emby has, I believe, a more mature product with a far more robust ecosystem of plugins. You can install it in Docker easily with these instructions.