u/KayJune001

I get that it’s a playtest, so of course we’re testing issues, but the sheer amount of issues is wild to me, ignoring the graphical and visual bugs, the voice chat is.. definitely something, I had a helicopter teleport into the ground, and a respawn timer that kept looping instead of completing lol

I’ve got local auth and DLNA setup, yet no access to my own server via any client apps. Yay.

I’ve spent what must be a good few days, 10+ hours, setting up and messing with Kodi, I get that it’s “highly modular and customizable”, but it shouldn’t take as much effort as it does for it to not be entirely shit. Some skins can make it slightly more bearable, but I can’t possibly recommend Kodi to anyone, and the only reason I even still have it installed is to experience Prime Video without ads at this point.

Surely this can’t be user error, there’s got to be some secret trick or configurations that makes Kodi actually enjoyable to use, right?

As a relative newcomer to Jellyfin, running it next to Plex, some of the biggest shortcomings I’ve found with it for me are the lack of sometimes really simple features that require a plugin. At this point I have so many plugins that troubleshooting can be really difficult, not knowing what is causing which issues.

Are there any plans to integrate some of the more essential plugins directly into Jellyfin?

Such as:
• Home Screen sections as a replacement for Jellyfin’s built-in Home sections settings.
• Intro Skipper, seeing as the options for ask to skip are already built into Jellyfin but unusable without this plugin iirc
• GetAvatar for proper pfp selection similar to Netflix and other services
• Plugins for grabbing subtitles for media directly from within that media similar to Plex
• Theme songs. Functionality is built into Jellyfin but can’t be managed without a plugin.

And many more. There are a lot of plugins that make significant QoL changes to the point where they’re required in order to get the same experience as Plex in my experience, and for new users that’s really not viable, or at least I can see why some people stick with Plex despite the increasing paywalls. Would love to know other plugins people are using to seriously improve the experience.

I’m on Fedora 43 GNOME 49 running Sonarr in Docker and qBitTorrent as a native RPM.

I have my media server setup as follows:

Movies, TV Shows, and Music are stored in “/home/kay/Media-Server” in their own folders. I also have external drives labeled ExternalHDD001, 002, etc with their paths being “/mnt/ExternalHDD001/Media-Server” with those same movies, shows, music folders.

All torrent downloads are sent to “/home/kay/Downloads/arr downloads” into either a “Movies”, “TV”, or “Music” folder via qBitTorrent categories.

Sonarr is mapped to “/home/kay/Dockers/Arr Stack/Sonarr” for /config and “/home/kay/Media-Server/Shows” + “/mnt/ExternalHDD001/Media-Server/Shows” for /data/tv and /data/tv2 respectively. I also have “/home/kay/Downloads/arr downloads/TV” mapped to /data/downloads/tv.

Sonarr is able to correctly send my Seerr requested media to qBitTorrent which in turn does download shows into “/home/kay/Downloads/arr downloads/TV” without issue, which are then copied into my “/home/kay/Media-Server/Shows” folder and organized/named properly. However, the original copy remains in my arr downloads folder, it’s not a hardlink or sym link. I understand those can’t really persist across multiple drives, so is the best option to have them delete upon being imported? How would I do this? Sorry for the long uneducated post, the entire arr stack has been frustrating to properly configure.

I’ve a bit of a problem with ASS/SSA subtitles always causing transcoding on all of my devices (mainly Samsung TV and PS5), which isn’t too much of an issue with some of my lower bitrate (5-20Mbps) 1080p anime shows, but with some of my anime movies that are 1080p 60Mbps+ and 4k 110Mbps+, audio & video direct play but subtitles transcoding causes a loss of quality and buffering (my weak little server ;-;). What choices do I have for being able to direct play these subs with all of their styling?

I’m on Fedora 43, GNOME, up-to-date. 2013 Dell Inspiron 660. In my power settings I have set my screen to dim and turn off after 1 minute, and in Privacy/Security I have it set to lock 1 minute after screen goes dark. This worked since the day I set it up, but I noticed recently it just.. doesn’t, anymore. The screen stays on. As it’s for a media server, I’d really prefer if the screen would go off as it seems to unload gnome shell and various other processes, freeing up resources. I should note, I do *not* have and never had auto suspend on.

How do I fix this? I tried shutting off all my extensions, even uninstalling them, I unplugged all external drives and TVs, it simply refuses to go blank.