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

  • BlessedDog@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    There’s always Plex and emby, but if the videos didn’t play in jellyfin I doubt they will play in those two. You are probably lacking hardware support for the codec you’re trying to play.

  • nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 years ago

    Have you tried installing Jellyfin as a docker container? The official image as well as the linuxserver.io’s image?

    Plex and Emby are some alternatives, but these are closed-source solutions.

    • Trash Panda@lemmy.mlOP
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      2 years ago

      Have you tried installing Jellyfin as a docker container? The official image as well as the linuxserver.io’s image?

      I tried docker, yes. I have to check if I used linuxserver.io image but I did use the official one for sure.

      Plex and Emby are some alternatives, but these are closed-source solutions.

      Aw heck, I’d prefer foss

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    2 years ago

    If it doesn’t play it could means that the video codec/format isn’t supporter for streaming and it should be transcoded. But that needs a GPU and a vps doesn’t have that…

    I think you could have the same problem with Plex

  • VerbTheNoun95@sopuli.xyz
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    2 years ago

    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
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      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.