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And it's easy to share your server with friends and relatives so that they don't have to go through the same process to watch these shows.
I was sharing my Netflix account with my mom and dad, now that I can't without paying more, I just pulled the plug on that subscription and add the shows they want to my server.
What is the easy way to share jellyfin over the internet? Portforwarding doesn't work for me cause I don't have a static ip address
EDIT: I thank all the answers but none of them seem actually easy
The issue of dynamic IP addresses is solved using a service like DuckDNS. Space Invader has some tutorials on it: https://youtu.be/CS72kN2c6hU
There is also ddns-updater which I like to use in docker
Run Opnsense or pfSense and do that from your firewall.
Purchase a domain and host it with a reverse proxy to your internal net.
You don't even need to purchase a domain, free dynDNS services (DuckDNS or similar) are good enough for Jellyfin and the like.
Free services always have some kind of dubious hidden product they are selling elsewhere about you to someone else, because network hardware is not free, network system maintenance is not free, internet access is not free. Facebook is free, yet we all know what it's true cost is.
I just use a free dynamic DNS provider (ie: DuckDNS), and most home routers are able to publish IP address changes to that DNS, otherwise you just need a small software to publish those change, which you can do ok the server hosting Jellyfin.
The easiest way is to setup tailscale on the server, then share the server with the web interface. Your friends/family simply install the tailscale client, login, and it just connects like magic. No port forwarding or firewall configuration required. There's plenty of how-tos out there.
tailscale.com
VPN. Wireguard is pretty easy.
Is there an easy, free method of doing this securely and privately (as in masked from the ISP) in a way that doesn't involve me having to manage the network of the person I'm sharing with?
For example, I can use Tailscale for free, but then I have to make sure my friends know how to use that, and that's a tall order. Not to mention the fact it won't work on things like Roku.
It gets even worse when a number of anime aren't even licensed for your country so you can only stream them via VPN. Looking at you Crunchyroll
Or when Crunchyroll has seasons 2 and 3 of an anime, but not season 1. Looking at you, FLCL.
I still think one of the craziest examples of multiplatform streaming being required is from Pokemon. They have a whole guide on how to watch every season:
https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-episodes-movies
Edit: oh, and this is AFTER the death of Pokemon TV, their own streaming service lol.
Unbelievable.
Reminds me a bit about how Weird Al was able to get a whole album worth of music videos funded by spreading them out across various platforms.
But that was clever and creative. This is just goofy.
Ooooh....wait... by streaming you mean netflix, etc...
Can we please invent a word for streaming pirated content?
I think it should be streaming.
Netflix etc. should be creaking, like streaming but slower, less content, less pressure, etc.
Plundering, it's petfect
Keelhauling?
I can think of a fine word that also brings to mind flowing water - torrenting!
Streaming would work
Planking.
Sailing
Pirating
I just go to 9anime, whoever runs that site is a golden god. They got all the anime, a shit ton of manga and it's all free.
Heck yeah! Jellyfin FTW!!!
Thank you for giving me just enough curiosity to look up what Jellyfin is. I've been wanting to set up a media server but lost interest quick when I realized Plex seems to have completely moved away from being a media server program. I'm so stoked to give it a proper try.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfin
Website: https://jellyfin.org/
Give it a try.
I was a Plex early adopter. Left Plex for Jellyfin when the Jellyfin project was barely a year old because it was clear where Plex was heading. (Emby was another option then, but they made some decisions I couldn't abide so I skipped right over them)
0 regrets, and even my non-technical spouse and two children have no problem with it.
Everyone's got their opinions, but the one guy slagging off Jellyfin below sounds like he's never actually used it.
Okay, thanks to this post I just discovered Jellyfin and though I haven't even downloaded it yet because I'm on mobile, i tabbed back over here from reading their description page to thank you for this.
I've been looking for other solutions but none of them seemed to be incredibly well supported or implemented
Jellyfin is what Plex should be.
Yea, Plex requiring an internet connect just to stream locally tells me all I need to know about them.
If I understand correctly, it was originally implemented when they made it so you could use ssl to access your media without any configuration or cost: https://www.plex.tv/blog/its-not-easy-being-green-secure-communication-arrives/
I also think you can watch locally without logging in, but, it’s a less than ideal way of doing it: https://www.plexopedia.com/plex-media-server/general/plex-no-internet/
Unfortunately, the biggest red flag about Plex is that they now offer their own streaming media. That means they’re in bed with media companies which is at odds with the goals and needs of the original fans and users of Plex servers.
When I saw the first slow steps Plex’s encruddification, I was relieved to find out Jellyfin exists. I wish it had more features, but it’s being actively developed and totally usable already. Also, I’m not a fan of the name, but that’s a stupid thing to complain about.
I'm still waiting for it to be up to par, I have jellyfin on the server and I check it maybe once a month with the latest version but it still fails miserably with my library.
It's a very clean high organized library managed by sonarr. All Files are in
"series name (year) > Season xx > series name SxxExx (episode title)"
format and yet it still just fails miserably at matching so much of my content (its a rather massive library) especially on anime. Half the time I have to manually match it, and I have to use the Japanese title in order to pull up the English metadata, because that makes sense.
Playback also just... Fails for no reason on tons of my devices. It's been getting better recently but until it's on par with Plex I am not leaving sadly
I finally got jellyfin working and I gotta say the UI is better than Plex in most ways, and it mostly works, but it is just a little glitchy at times. As one example, the auto play next episode feature has never worked in my browser. It will just stay stuck on "0 seconds until next episode starts". That and for some reason I had trouble getting it setup on my streaming device on the same network.. Local hostname wouldn't work. Said it couldn't find any servers locally on my network, so I had to use my IP address. So when (not if) that IP changes I'll have to troubleshoot.
Once they smooth out issues like that, I may ditch Plex even though I paid for it.
it couldn't find any servers locally on my network, so I had to use my IP address. So when (not if) that IP changes I'll have to troubleshoot.
One workaround that I can think of is to use ip reservation to give your devices the same ip address whenever they connect. You might find that setting under DHCP on your router. Or just use a static ip on the server.
Yea I tried jellyfin, but I went back to Plex. Too many specific features on Plex that I got used to, that Jellyfin doesn't have.
I'd encourage you to file a bug report for any issues you have. You are most likely not the only one and it will help all users of the software.
Haha I was so confused until I realized they meant "legally streaming anime". Ri-dicks
Just wait until you find out about news groups 🤯
Spill the tea I want the open secrets
Spill the tea
I guess he’s talking about the Usenet, a way to get your warez via direct download from a Usenet provider. This makes it possible to pirate legally with blazing fast speed (like 5 to 10 min for 4k movies) and with the right Indexers, you can find any release existing in predb 😎
I feel like I've always missed something with Usenet. Like I don't fully understand it. I understand what newsgroups were back in the day I think - basically forums hosted by your ISP and people broke files into segments to spread them across posts or whatever, then you'd combine them and have a file. These would be super fast because it's over your link to your ISP, but I don't get how it's still alive and well and not taken down.