Ah assumed when you said VLC, you where just plugging the laptop into the TV via HDMI or something.
I also read you mentioned you where able to login but not see files, so wrong route to go down.
If you don’t wanna run a server all the time for movies then vlc might be the better option, though I don’t see why jellyfin shouldn’t technically work.
If your libraries aren’t populating after being setup, maybe check file permissions for the ‘jellyfin’ user?
Plenty are running home servers from laptops, especially here on the fediverse that’s not unheard of…
It should not make any difference what hardware he’s running for jellyfin. Still honestly not a pleasant experience to get it to run from what I recall.
I’m no OS fanatic… I run dozens of rhel servers at work, few windows ones, make music on Mac and play on steamOS and keep a windows on a box due to hardware limitations on music instruments.
So I’m no stranger to Linux.
With that in mind some packages are more of a pain to setup than others… and that one is not a good memory. I rolled back to plex in the end…
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Post your issue on !jellyfin@lemmy.ml. That community is starved for new posts.
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The most active community is !jellyfin@poweruser.forum.
Edit: Also try !selfhosted@lemmy.world, a LOT more people there.
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Are you sure? It has 105 subscribers and all of 3 posts. (The most recent one was from ~10 months ago)
The latest post is 17 days ago. Looks like another instance defederated from yours.
Ahh, thanks 🙃
Try docker compose rather than locally if you are struggling.
https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-jellyfin
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Why are you trying to run jellyfin server from a laptop? I mean you can, just seems like an odd choice.
Also make sure ufw isn’t getting in the way. Wouldn’t be shocked if Ubuntu keeps that enabled for security.
Kubuntu has it off by default, user needs to enable it, I would guess it is the same in Ubuntu
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Ah assumed when you said VLC, you where just plugging the laptop into the TV via HDMI or something.
I also read you mentioned you where able to login but not see files, so wrong route to go down.
If you don’t wanna run a server all the time for movies then vlc might be the better option, though I don’t see why jellyfin shouldn’t technically work.
If your libraries aren’t populating after being setup, maybe check file permissions for the ‘jellyfin’ user?
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Plenty are running home servers from laptops, especially here on the fediverse that’s not unheard of… It should not make any difference what hardware he’s running for jellyfin. Still honestly not a pleasant experience to get it to run from what I recall.
Oh yeah no I’ve seen as home servers with a built in UPS. Their usecase sounded like they where using their daily driver laptop though.
Usually highly energy efficient as well.
Who hurt you, was it windows ? (mostly joking)
I’m no OS fanatic… I run dozens of rhel servers at work, few windows ones, make music on Mac and play on steamOS and keep a windows on a box due to hardware limitations on music instruments.
So I’m no stranger to Linux.
With that in mind some packages are more of a pain to setup than others… and that one is not a good memory. I rolled back to plex in the end…