Jellyfin

These days I'm running Jellyfin as a NixOS module.

Additional Settings

Allow movie collections within movies Dashboard -> Libraries -> Display panel -> Check "Group movies in collections"

Archive

Saved for archive purposes

Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached. Your media, your server, your way.

Docker

Bellow is my compose file for Jellyfin, be careful as It differs from the original LSIO Jellyfin compose setup.

Note: You can also just pass one large folder to Docker which has all your media. Then use Jellyfin UI to add individual folders as your content sources. Again, my compose is for my use case, and all my shares are broken up ZFS datasets so I'm able to snapshot, rollback, and send/receive smaller datasets without needing to perform tasks on all the HUGE amounts of media data.

Super handy to just zfs send -v tank/media/tv@${DATE}-backup | ssh remoteLocation zfs receive chopper/media/tv

You do not need to follow my naming convention for the Volumes I pass to docker, this is legacy from my Kodi days🤯. Make it more human readable so when you are in the Jellyfin UI setting up your media libraries it is painfully obvious which folders hold which types of media. This way you can propery set your scrapers.

      - /mnt/share/anime/tv:/data/anime-tv
      - /mnt/share/documentary/tv:/data/documentary-series
      - /mnt/share/movies:/data/movies
      - /mnt/share/anime/movies:/data/anime-movies
      - /mnt/share/documentary/movies:/data/documentary-movies
      - /mnt/share/kids:/data/kids

docker-compose.yaml

---
version: '2.4'

services:
  jellyfin:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jellyfin:latest
    container_name: jellyfin
    restart: unless-stopped
    mem_limit: 4G
    environment:
      - PUID=1000 # Set UID of user
      - PGID=100  # Set GID of user
      - TZ=${LOCATION}
      - JELLYFIN_PublishedServerUrl=${FQDN-JELLYFIN}
      #- DOCKER_MODS=linuxserver/mods:jellyfin-opencl-intel
    devices:
      - /dev/dri:/dev/dri
    volumes:
      - ${DATA-JELLYFIN}:/config
      - /mnt/cache:/config/cache
      - /mnt/share/tv:/data/tvshows
      - /mnt/share/anime/tv:/data/tvshows2
      - /mnt/share/documentary/tv:/data/tvshows3
      - /mnt/share/movies:/data/movies
      - /mnt/share/anime/movies:/data/movies2
      - /mnt/share/documentary/movies:/data/movies3
      - /mnt/share/kids:/data/movies4
      - /mnt/share/3d/movies:/data/movies5
      - /mnt/share/3d/documentary:/data/movies6
      - /mnt/share/standup/movies:/data/movies7
      - /mnt/share/standup/tv:/data/tvshows4
      - /mnt/share/tedtalks:/data/movies8
      - /mnt/share/skateboarding:/data/sk8
    ports:
      - 8096:8096
    networks:
      - swag

# Live TV metadata provider zap2xml
#  zap2xml:
#    image: shuaiscott/zap2xml:latest
#    container_name: zap2xml
#    restart: unless-stopped
#    volumes:
#        - ${DATA-ZAP2XML}:/data
#   environment:
#        - USERNAME=${USER-ZAP2XML}
#        - PASSWORD=${PASS-ZAP2XML}
#        - OPT_ARGS=-I -D
#        - XMLTV_FILENAME=xmltv.xml

networks:
  swag:
    external: true

Jellyfin

Folder Structure

There are great docs from the Koid project here that talk naming convention for scraping metadata and artwork. These concepts hold true for Jellyfin.

Theme

Artwork Size

For 4K monitors you should proportionally upscale but keep aspect ratio of background and backdrops.

Name	Size
Background / Drops	1920px x 1080px
Playlist Poster	389px x 389px
Banner	1000px x 185px
Poster	1000px x 1500px
TV Seasons	1000px x 1500px
TV Series	1000px x 562px
Logo	800px x 310px
Thumb Small	500px x 281px
Thumb Alt.	400px x 155px
Thumb HD	1000px x 562px

Troubleshooting

inotify limit

inotify watches limit reached

When checking the docker logs I was throwing this error, as your directory grows the default 8192 will not suffice. You can increase this value on the docker host system to resolve. I found the solution through reddit which pointed me to the Jellyfin docs here.

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl -p