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Jellyfin

Homepage: https://jellyfin.org/

Jellyfin is a Free Software Media System that puts you in control of managing and streaming your media. It is an alternative to the proprietary Emby and Plex, to provide media from a dedicated server to end-user devices via multiple apps. Jellyfin is descended from Emby's 3.5.2 release and ported to the .NET Core framework to enable full cross-platform support. There are no strings attached, no premium licenses or features, and no hidden agendas: just a team who want to build something better and work together to achieve it. We welcome anyone who is interested in joining us in our quest!

Note that Plex, also included in Ansible-NAS, has a very similar functionality.

Usage​

Set jellyfin_enabled: true in your inventories/<your_inventory>/group_vars/nas.yml file. There are further parameters you can edit such as movies_root, tv_root or music_root lower down

Specific Configuration​

The jellyfin web interface can be found at port 8896 (http) or 8928 (https, if configured) of your NAS.

By default, Ansible-NAS gives jellyfin read/write access to the folders where your movies, TV shows and music are stored. To change this to read-only, edit the following lines in all.yml:

        jellyfin_movies_permissions: "rw"
        jellyfin_tv_permissions: "rw"
        jellyfin_books_permissions: "rw"
        jellyfin_audiobooks_permissions: "rw"
        jellyfin_music_permissions: "rw"

so that they end in ro instead of rw. Note that jellyfin will not be able to delete files then, which might be exactly what you want. However, you will not have the option to store cover art in the related folders. Always leave the configuration directory read/write

Naming movies and TV shows​

jellyfin is very fussy about how movies and TV shows must be named to enable automatic downloads of cover art and metadata. In short, movie files should follow how movies are listed in the IMDb, including the year of publication:

        movies/Bride of Frankenstein (1935).mp4

Note the spaces. You should probably remove colons and other special characters TV shows require a folder structure with the name of the series - again if possible with the year of publication - followed by sub-folders for the individual seasons. For example, the first episode of the first season of the original "Doctor Who" could be stored as:

        tv/Doctor Who (1963)/Season 1/Doctor Who - s01e01.mp4

The TVDB is one source for the exact names of TV shows.

Unfortunately, there are number of special cases, especially related to split movies and older series. See the movie naming and TV naming guides for further information.