Free Mediaserver “Jellyfin”

The podcast Radio Tux reported in August about the mediaserver software Jellyfin. The website can be found at https://jellyfin.org/

The usage is quite similar to Plex but everything is open source and freely available.

The features are:

• Streaming over a webserver with multiple user accounts
• Streaming of movies, series and music
• DLNA provisioning for your home network
• Apps for iOS and Android (even from F-Droid)
• Plugin for KODI
• Integration of Metadata databases like musicbrains or moviedatabase to display pictures and additional information
• On the fly transcoding of music files (nice if you have mainly “huge” FLACs and want to stream in AAC)

On a plane Debian System Jellyfin can be installed with

sudo apt install apt-transport-https gnupg
wget -O - https://repo.jellyfin.org/jellyfin_team.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb [arch=$( dpkg --print-architecture )] https://repo.jellyfin.org/$( awk -F'=' '/^ID=/{ print $NF }' /etc/os-release ) $( awk -F'=' '/^VERSION_CODENAME=/{ print $NF }' /etc/os-release ) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jellyfin.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install jellyfin

In my case Jellyfin is available under https://jellyfin.arvidortwig.de