Jellyfin from the ground up
A media server you own, built one evening at a time.
2 partsguidesrevised in place
summarylive
the runseries
The first part is the install: the server, the library, the people who use it, and the first film you play. Later parts take the pieces that deserve their own evening: plugins and metadata, transcoding, and getting the server out of the house.
~/series/jellyfin — parts2
part 1Jellyfin in an evening10 NovWhat Jellyfin does that a streaming subscription does not, how a household actually uses it, and the install that gets a library playing tonight. The first part of a series.
part 2The finishing pass: plugins, metadata and subtitles10 NovThe scan gets a library working. What makes it feel owned is the poster, the match, and knowing which two plugins are worth the restart.