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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!

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[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks 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.de 11 points 2 weeks 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.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.ml 7 points 2 weeks 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.com 2 points 2 weeks 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.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks 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?

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