[https443]

Have been using Jellyfin on my synology server for the past 2 years. It's a dream, but you do need to name your files/directories per their naming convention: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows/ -- https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/

[metadat]

I've always wondered why Jellyfin doesn't have better support for parsing Scene release names, which follow strict naming conventions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_(warez)

https://scenerules.org/t.html?id=2020_X265.nfo

99% coverage is achievable via a few straightforward regexes.

Don't get me wrong though, I really like and appreciate Jellyfin, especially on Apple TV with Swiftfin, it's my daily driver for big screen entertainment and it's amazing, 10e9 times better than Chromecasting from a laptop to GoogleTV, which is just a horrible UX (no pause button on the TV) and also would randomly freeze for 5-30 seconds every few minutes.

Plex was nice too, and works great if you are okay with being at the mercy of a closed system for your media center. Though I sure don't miss those pointless forced UI "downgrade in functionality" updates!

[deadbunny]

Jellyfin parses scene naming conventions fine. I have thousands of films and hundreds of TV shows (with thousands of episodes) all in scene name format and I can think of a handful of matching errors on Jellyfish but it's usually due to a commonish film name and a wrong year or something similar.

[snapplebobapple]

You can automate that with sonarr/radarr/lidarr. Works like a dream.

[nicoco]

Add prowlarr and bazarr for the full win.

[BrandoElFollito]

I use the full stack and all very grateful for the products.

The remaining annoyances are:

- lack of multi language support

- there is no connection between the systems when you want to remove a movie (you remove it in one place and everything knows about that and acts accordingly)

- I still did not make to fully grasp how and where to say "I do not want this particular release". I think I saw that in radarr but it never is obvious to me where it is.

[zackify]

I’ve been using it for a year. I don’t name anything in a special way, and it just works.

[quaintdev]

Yup running it on RPi with external hard drive. No need to name anything.

[ufish235]

Which model Synology? I am looking into one of the dual/quad core Celeron models because I heard the iGPU is critical for any kind of transcoding.

[syntaxing]

Not OP, but you pretty much have to run the Celeron ones. I don't think the docker image would work with the Realtek ones (the ones that end in j). I have a DS220+ (J4025 with dual core only). It works ok, you pretty much max out one of the cores running a 4K stream. I would recommend separating the storage and server if you can afford it. The price difference between the quad core (4 bay) and 2 core (has 2 bay) is enough to get a 2 bay + a N95 mini pc that can handle 4 streams of 4K.

[https443]

It worked on my older "DS 216+II". Could not stream more than 1 person at a time though. That was ok for my usage but not sure for yours.

I recently upgraded to "DS 423+" and it's a lot faster - can have multiple streams going if I want.

[coldacid]

It was the same thing with Emby.