Why “Jellyfin” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Are you sure? At least with Kodi for specials like Futurama you make a Season 0 with them that the scrapers understand. Seems like Jellyfin understands that too: https:/&#x…
by chocochunks · Sep 8, 2026
Swiftfin, Moonfin are two Jellyfin clients for Apple TV.
by porjo · Sep 8, 2026
Coming from Plex, I gave Jellyfin a try, but returned back to Plex after several months. My biggest gripes were poor subtitle support and inability to differintiate TV shows fro…
by crazybonkersai · Sep 8, 2026
For people that don’t know, Infuse lets you use Jellyfin on Apple TV and it’s very helpful for day purpose
by y-curious · Sep 8, 2026
Not OP, but I've run into similar instances of Jellyfin "going nuts." Mixed media type libraries are depreciated and "broken" according to the documentation[1], which is fair en…
by sfRattan · Sep 8, 2026
Something I've long wanted is something far more minimal than jellyfin that just browses my library by folder but has a web player that can transcode/remux as needed for th…
by smoked-egg · Sep 8, 2026
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "jellyfin" over time.
Jellyfin is a free and open-source media server and suite of multimedia applications designed to organize, manage, and share digital media files to networked devices. Jellyfin consists of a server application installed on a machine running Linux, Microsoft Windows, or macOS; and another application running on a client device such as a smartphone, tablet, smart TV, streaming media player, game console or in a web browser. Jellyfin also can serve media to DLNA and Chromecast-enabled devices. It is a fork of Emby. Read more on Wikipedia