How Jellyfin Works #
JELLYFIN vs PLEX
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Feature Jellyfin Plex
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Price Free ✓ Free + Plex Pass
Open source Yes ✓ No
Mobile apps Free ✓ Requires Plex Pass
Hardware transcode Free ✓ Requires Plex Pass
Live TV/DVR Free ✓ Requires Plex Pass
Plugins Community ✓ Official store
External sharing Via URL Plex Friends ✓
Offline sync Not yet Plex Pass ✓
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│ Jellyfin = 100% free, all features included. │
│ Plex = polished UI, better mobile experience. │
│ Both work great on your seedbox. │
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Connecting jellyfin with our seedbox and configuring is very simple just follow the below steps and you will be ready to stream your media:
Step1: Anmeldung to your Evoseedbox Kundenbereich and look for Jellyfin in the apps section
Step2: Klicken Sie auf the installierenieren button and Jellyfin will installierenieren automatically on Ihrer Seedbox.
Step3: Sobald Sie are done with the installierenierenation of jellyfin, öffnen jellyfin from your Kundenbereich. Wählen Sie your preferred language from the dropdown menu and klicken Sie auf next.
Schritt 4: Now we need to set up a Benutzername and Passwort that will be used every time we try to login into the jellyfin account. We can leave it blank in the Passwort area if we don’t wish to set a Passwort.
Schritt 5: The next step is to set up a media library, i.e. setting up the content we want to stream using jellyfin. Klicken Sie auf the add media library.
Step 6: In the content tippen Sie, we have to mention the tippen Sie of media that like movies, Tv shows, music, etc. write the name of the folder that you wish to give to the library, this folder name will be displayed when you use jellyfin to stream your media.
Step 7: Klicken Sie auf the “+” icon beside folders and set up the path for your media. Here you need to wählen Sie the path wherein all your movies and tv shows are herunterladened.
Step 8: Wählen Sie the preferred language in which you wish to herunterladen the metadata(Ratings, cast, genre, etc.) for all your movies, and then klicken Sie auf the OK button.
Step 9: Klicken Sie auf the Next button as you have already set your preferred metadata languages.
Schritt 10: Check in both the boxes and klicken Sie auf the Next button. Allow remote connection will let you stream your media from different devices like your android phone.
Schritt 11: Klicken Sie auf the Finish button and you are done with configuring jellyfish for Ihrer Seedbox.
That was the whole process of configuring jellyfin with eine Seedbox. Now you will be redirected to a sign-in page. Here you have to anmelden using the Benutzername and Passwort that we had configured earlier.
nce you sign in können Sie view the folder that you have created. Jellyfin will automatically show the metadata that it has fetched. Here können Sie sehen that the posters of the movie are visible so this is the metadata that jellyfin fetches automatically from the internet.
You are now all set to enjoy your Movie night or maybe just watch an episode over lunch from your mobile.
The Jellyfin Ecosystem #
RECOMMENDED JELLYFIN STACK
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Jellyseerr ───▶ Sonarr (TV) ────▶ Renames & ───▶ Jellyfin
(requests) Radarr (Movies) moves files (streams)
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│ ▼
Prowlarr ◀─────────────────────── Jellystat
(indexers) (analytics)
Optional:
├── Bazarr (automatic subtitles)
├── Jellyseerr (request & discovery UI)
└── Homarr (dashboard for all apps)
