Hey Hosters!

Just wanted to share that I got Jellyfin installed and set up on my Windows 2022 Server, and it’s working great! I didn’t even know there was a version for WIndows. How do you like that?

I know this is probably “the usual” for everyone here, but I’m genuinely excited that I managed to get it all running smoothly.

After getting the server up, I went through the basics (users/permissions, library paths, and making sure everything was reachable on the network) and it all just worked. The interface is super clean, playback is nice and responsive, and it feels like I’ve been missing out on this until now.

Huge thanks to the Jellyfin team and the community! This project is awesome!! If anyone is stuck, please don’t give up. keep poking at the configuration and it’ll pay off. Now I just need to spend some time organizing my libraries!

Happy Hosting!

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        25 days ago

        Yes, but not everything does. But luckily, Docker exists on Windows. So anything that runs on Docker can be run on Windows.

        Given, Docker’s implementation on Windows is… Uhh… Not GreatTM. Because it’s basically using WSL to trick Windows into supporting a Linux file system. So it has some quirks. But it does technically work.

        • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          25 days ago

          No sane person runs docker on windows. They will run wsl or a Linux Hyper-V vm to do docker.

  • BartyDeCanter@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    27 days ago

    Congratulations! I’ve been using Jellyfin for several years now and the quality has consistently improved. It’s a great tool.

  • JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    5·
    27 days ago

    Asking out of curiosity: is there a specific reason you’re running Windows on your server? I used to do the same on my home servers because that’s what we used to have at work, and I wanted to learn and test some stuff. But it was a difficult road, to put it mildly. Simple things, like getting Docker autostart on boot seemed almost impossible. At some point I just gave up and switched to Linux.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      25 days ago

      You have trouble getting Docker to auto-start on Windows? I thought that was the default behavior… Hell, even if it’s not, you can just add a Docker shortcut to the Startup folder.

      • JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        25 days ago

        It works great when you log in as a user like you normally would on a Windows pc. But on a server you want it to run as a service, starting automatically in the background and/or being managed by the failover cluster without requiring a user to log in.

        The solution back then was to use netplwiz autologon. Obviously a hack and bad for security, but fine for a homelab. After googling it now, it looks like some other “solutions” are documented in the GitHub issue about this.

    • GatesMcBalmer@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      25 days ago

      I use Windows Server because that’s what I know. Though I am curious to learn other OSes when I have more time. I don’t use docker so that’s really not a problem for now.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    27 days ago

    I know this is probably “the usual” for everyone here, but I’m genuinely excited that I managed to get it all running smoothly.

    Heh! Don’t let anyone dampen your enthusiasm. It feels great when I am toiling away at something and finally all the pieces click together. I might have to walk away a few times and put the project on hold, but I keep whacking away at it. When it does work, it’s always a childish joy that comes over me and always gets a fist-pump.

    What equipment are you running that Windows Server on?

  • comrademiao@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    27 days ago

    My journey began with windows, Jellyfin, and qbit. Nice you have done the same! Only reason I switched to Linux is because I wanted servers and hated unraid

  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    42·
    26 days ago

    I’m always going to say Windows is too heavy to be placed in a server environment, simply wasn’t designed for it, but congrats nonetheless.

    • stom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      25 days ago

      Windows server

      too heavy to be placed in a server environment
      wasn’t designed for it

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      25 days ago

      It’s not that bad. A lot of our servers at work use Windows. It certainly took some getting used to as someone who has been using Linux on all their devices, but it does work.

  • inanimate_carbon_rod@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    26 days ago

    Congrats on your successful install! It feels good to take control of your media, doesn’t it? I found it a great project for growing my confidence in deploying my own services. Happy hosting!

  • vinylll04@lemmy.zipEnglish
    21·
    27 days ago

    You have breached the start of an arrStack. A beginning of a rabbit hole

  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    33·
    27 days ago

    Jellyfin is great for single-file movies, but sadly can’t play DVDs properly, unless you rip the movie out into a single file first. I hope they add proper DVD/BlueRay support with menues etc at some point. Because where do you get legal movies and shows other than on DVD or BlueRay?

    • dust_accelerator@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      8·
      27 days ago

      This isn’t really the usecase, you’d be better off just playing it with VLC from a BD/DVD drive with the menu plugins. Netflix won’t have DVD menus either. Ripping is necessary for this to make your physical copies accessible via Jellyfin. May want to check ARM (Automatic Ripping Machine) to streamline the process. Legally, this is perfectly fine in most jurisdictions, because you are creating a backup of your purchased property.

    • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      27 days ago

      Even with all the right hardware and community-recommended open source software, there are still plenty of unique hostile choices made in BluRay publishing that means playing my stuff in realtime from the disc before ripping has about a 75% success rate. Many of them scramble playlists and bend the standard to make it unplayable without using their official license.

      And that’s if you know where to get the legally grey key files to decrypt them in the first place.

      DVDs should be possible in this day and age though.

    • _Nemo_@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      27 days ago

      unless you rip the movie out into a single file first

      I don’t see the problem with that. It’s what I’ve done with every single disk I own. Why would I bother with badly-written menus, pointless extra content and tons of ads and copyright warnings I need to sit through before I can watch what I paid for?

    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      25 days ago

      Interactive media like menus is a nightmare to support. Kodi has some support but only on pc. Also to your last sentence it’s a grey area, if you rip the disk to any format you’re essentially violating copyright because making a copy requires circumventing encryption, which violates the dmca (assuming USA). Might as well just use makemkv then, unless you’re real serious about archiving literally everything

      • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        25 days ago

        In Germany, creating safety copies of media that does not have copy protection is perfectly legal.

        • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          25 days ago

          Basically all commercial dvds with the exception of stuff like some independent releases and essentially all blurays have copy protection (CSS for dvd and AACS for bluray, for bluray it’s built into the spec)

          They’re both fairly trivially defeated (for dvd extremely so because CSS is completely broken, whereas br has key revocation so it’s technically a bit more complex though practically this doesn’t mean much)

          I don’t know much about Germanys laws but iirc they are one of the places that takes piracy and torrenting more seriously, no?