Jellyfin

FOSS Emby fork.

• Website
• Feature requests

Hardware options

• Selecting Appropriate Hardware SBCs:

Most Single Board Computers (SBC): Most SBCs (Including Raspberry Pis and especially the Pi 5) are too slow to provide a good Jellyfin experience since they often lack proper support for hardware acceleration. If You really want to run Jellyfin on an SBC, please look at models based on the following platforms:

• Rockchip RK3588
  • Multithread: 4398, Single thread: 1477
• Rockchip RK3588S
• Intel Core
• Intel 12th gen N series
  • i.e. casita server with Intel N100
    • Multithread Rating: 5505, Single Thread Rating: 1943
• compared to RPi 4b (ARM Cortex-A72 4 Core 2016 MHz)
  • Multithread Rating: 2192, Single Thread Rating: 607

Parental control

• Good overview of parental control feature requests
• See Television content rating system chaos
• FR: Parental Controls "Allow items with tags"
• FR: Folder based access control
• FR: Who's watching ?

Clients

Desktop client

• Introducing Jellyfin Media Player
• Uses mpv as player
• Supports mosts video and audio codecs: Codec Tables
• jellyfin-media-player
• Install as flatpak

Android clients

• Fintunes
  • Fdroid
• Finamp (FDroid)
• Findroid (FDroid)
  • Last release 2024-10

Stale:

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