Hi

I started setting up a Jellyfin server for friends to allow them watch remotely after the recent changes from Plex.

The experience so far isn’t great. Jellyfin seems to have many advanced features than Plex but the essential ones do not work that well.

The library scan took 3 hours for around 6k files. Plex takes much less time than that. There are many people raising this issue for years now but it is still not fixed.

From the logs I see Jellyfin trying to extract images for chapters even though the option isn’t checked. I already found reports for such issues but they are closed without an answer.

The big problem for me is Jellyfin not starting and getting stuck (without meaningful logs) at startup each time the server is shutdown. I did the reinstall 5 times now and trying the native install now. From the debug logs it seems like Jellyfin is stuck on one sql query.

From what I have seen, many issues are getting closed because of non activity even when the issue is still there.

I know that the project is done by volunteers but I was just wondering whatever I should invest more time on trying to resolve the issues. Maybe my server specs are just not ideal for Jellyfin.

    • Underwire@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      21 hours ago

      The server has AMD Athlon II 2 220 Processor, 4GB of RAM.

      But Plex is running on it without any issues and has no issues doing one transcode with the faster profile. I even ran plex on specs lower than this and was working without issues except of course for the transcoding.

      • ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        7·
        16 hours ago

        Athlon II? What is this? A server for ants? ;-)

        That seems quite underpowered to be honest. Jellyfin per default does quite a lot of things per default during startup or as a background job. Sometimes you need to dig deep into the config settings and also disable certain timed jobs.

        What OS are you running on?

        • Underwire@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          13 hours ago

          Yes it a low spec server but like I said Plex is running on it without any issues and it can even transcode.

          I am using Ubuntu the latest LTS.

        • Underwire@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          13 hours ago

          I started with docker install, first using the LinuxSever image and then the official image.

          Now I tried the native install and will see tomorrow if it is still OK.

          I am using Ubuntu.

          • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
            2·
            13 hours ago

            Can you post your docker-compose.yaml so I can compare it to mine please. Make sure you obfuscate your IP addresses and ports.

  • ShortN0te@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    17 hours ago

    I know that the project is done by volunteers but I was just wondering whatever I should invest more time on trying to resolve the issues. Maybe my server specs are just not ideal for Jellyfin.

    Why do you think they do not?

    If you would look up what they are actually doing, you woulf realize that a lot of work is done to improve the underlying quality of code to make it easier to do major changes to core functionality. Quick and dirty fixes by the previously project, emby, has led to a very shitty code base that makes changes hard.