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!

  • Suzune@ani.socialEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    Personally, I think that installing it on a bare metal Windows Server system is quite an achievement.

    I have it installed using docker compose on Linux. So my setup is rather unspectacular.

    • offspec@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Hey you can always set up GPU rendering and like a tmpfs transcoding cache volume if you want your compose to look a little more complicated

      • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        tmpfs is overkill. I just use a crappy old 128G SSD and it’s still way faster than needed for all of my transcodes combined.

        Anyway just my 2 cents.

        • offspec@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          14 hours ago

          Frequent write/deletes of so much data would be rough on my hdds, and I’ve got a couple hundred gigs of RAM, why not tmpfs it?

          • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            1·
            14 hours ago

            I’ve been using the same 10+ year old 128G SSD for transcoding, cache, and metadata storage for like 6 years now across multiple tiny servers (as I’ve upgraded) with limited RAM. My current one has 16G of RAM, which is more than enough for JF, but not enough to store a whole movie transcode, let alone multiple at once. Refycled small old SSDs are a lot cheaper and easier to come by than RAM these days, that’s all I’m saying. No hate of course, your setup makes sense for what you have, I’m just saying my way is cheaper and more than fast enough for people just building their servers now.

            • offspec@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              6 hours ago

              For sure, my memory all together was like $30 when I bought it, the pleasure of old server hardware I suppose