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[question] what are good alternatives to jellyfin? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by raccoon@lemmy.ml to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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I have a vps where I host a few things and I tried adding jellyfin. It worked and while scanning media railed the CPU/ram, once it was done everything was smooth. However, despite having all dependencies a bunch of videos didn't play. I also don't need the music and ebooks side of jellyfin as I'll be using other things for those (funkwhale for music, still looking into the books and comics ) So, which self hosted alternatives do I have for videos and books/comic books? I need things that only do that but don't well. The video one needs to have a client I can install on a android device I have plugged ony tv

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[–] VerbTheNoun95@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You probably just need to transcode your videos to match whatever client you’re watching on. I run jellyfin from a raspberry pi without any problem once things are encoded properly.

For books and manga I use calibre-web, having used Calibre for a while before self hosting.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

This is what I suspect too. Maybe OP has a weak server or they don't have transcoding turned on and have a file that's incompatible with the client they're trying to play media on.