u/h2ogeek

Hey all! I’m new to JellyFin so sorry if I’m not doing this right.

I’m running JellyFin (ip to date) on my Synology DD-920+ and it’s been work well. (At least once I got hardware encoding set up and working… before that it was really struggling with 4K movies). I’m just using the SynoCommunity version in package manager, and my files are on another volume in the same server. And ffmpeg7 is there, too.

I made one rookie mistake: Before I used an AppleTV for all things, and converted everything to native format with Handbrake. Slow, but I rarely add more than a movie or two per week so time is rarely ever an issue. But as a result, my movies were all named pretty basically, because all the tags were embedded as metadata by MetaX.

Sadly, JellyFin is freaking LOUSY at parsing basic data tags, it seems, and can’t seem to read CamelCase file names very well. And since I don’t have years in the file names, wow did it do poorly picking the right movie when there was more than one with the same name. Or even when there was only one. *gestures weakly*

Long story short: my current annoyance is this: I have a file for Spider-Man. (The first one, 2002)

All the rest were either genuinely detected or at least it left the embedded cover art so I could fix it.

But this one, along with several others in my collection (about 2500 movies and even more TV shows), it just guessed WRONG (WAY wrong in many cases) and applied some other artwork and name to the file.

So I don’t know what to search. I know the filename and path (it’s just Spiderman.m4v for goodness sakes!), but I don’t know where to search to find out what IT thinks this movie is, so I can fix it. ARGH. I’m sure it’s in there somewhere… but my collection is big enough that just finding it through luck (or brute force) seems more than I want to take on. Sure this is recorded somewhere? But where, and how do I even get to it?

Considering how much work I went through to get everything corrected that I could find, fixed, I REALLY don’t want to dump all that and rescan from scratch. And I can’t rename everything (even if I was willing to) because that would break my AppleTV, which still reads from the same files via local sharing. (The internal database would break and I’d need to repoint every file I renamed, no thanks). Or am I really fighting a losing fight on that front, and I should really just give in and use a tool or something to completely rename everything, so I no longer need to fear simply rescanning the whole collection? This is a side thought, though... if I can just find what the heck Jellyfin did with a few missing files, I'm fine for now.

Halp! :)

Hey all! I’m new to JellyFin so sorry if I’m not doing this right.

I’m running JellyFin (ip to date) on my Synology DD-920+ and it’s been work well. (At least once I got hardware encoding set up and working… before that it was really struggling with 4K movies). I’m just using the SynoCommunity version in package manager, and my files are on another volume in the same server. And ffmpeg7 is there, too.

I made one rookie mistake: Before I used an AppleTV for all things, and converted everything to native format with Handbrake. Slow, but I rarely add more than a movie or two per week so time is rarely ever an issue. But as a result, my movies were all named pretty basically, because all the tags were embedded as metadata by MetaX.

Sadly, JellyFin is freaking LOUSY at parsing basic data tags, it seems, and can’t seem to read CamelCase file names very well. And since I don’t have years in the file names, wow did it do poorly picking the right movie when there was more than one with the same name. Or even when there was only one. gestures weakly

Long story short: my current annoyance is this: I have a file for Spider-Man. (The first one, 2002)

All the rest were either genuinely detected or at least it left the embedded cover art so I could fix it.

But this one, along with several others in my collection (about 2500 movies and even more TV shows), it just guessed WRONG (WAY wrong in many cases) and applied some other artwork and name to the file.

So I don’t know what to search. I know the filename and path (it’s just Spiderman.m4v for goodness sakes!), but I don’t know where to search to find out what IT thinks this movie is, so I can fix it. ARGH. I’m sure it’s in there somewhere… but my collection is big enough that just finding it through luck (or brute force) seems more than I want to take on. Sure this is recorded somewhere? But where, and how do I even get to it?

Considering how much work I went through to get everything corrected that I could find, fixed, I REALLY don’t want to dump all that and rescan from scratch. And I can’t rename everything (even if I was willing to) because that would break my AppleTV, which still reads from the same files via local sharing. (The internal database would break and I’d need to repoint every file I renamed, no thanks). Or am I really fighting a losing fight on that front, and I should really just give in and use a tool or something to completely rename everything, so I no longer need to fear simply rescanning the whole collection? This is a side thought, though... if I can just find what the heck Jellyfin did with a few missing files, I'm fine for now.

Halp! :)

I’ve been avoiding Google for email, but I’m finally hitting the capacity ceiling of my ISP. I have over 100gb of email and I prefer to keep it all available via IMAP, but I also want reasonable privacy and performance.

I had planned to move to a business account with Google where is more privacy than the free accounts but I’ve become more and more leery of Google’s commitments to privacy even for the paid accounts.

I was looking at Proton but I don’t think they have the mailbox capacity I need (or at least not at a reasonable price?)

Is there another reliable provider out there that meets these needs? I want my emails encrypted to where the provider can’t read them (yes I’m aware of the metadata issue with Proton’s recent bad press)

Does anyone know if it's possible to remove overlay info (timestamp, camera name) from existing footage? Or is it burned onto the video as it's recorded?

I have a UniFi NVR (OG 4-bay) with a G6 Turret (among others).

I have the overlay turned on in each camera's settings. Today, when I exported some footage from the G6 Turret, I saw that the overlay info appears to be baked into the videos, and I'd like to see something that happened to occur right under that overlay. I can obviously turn off the overlay (and tried that), but I think that only affects new recordings.

It is 100% definitely the case that the overlay is baked in permanently, and there's no way to remove it to see the video right under it?

(I'm not REALLY complaining, since normally I think I would like the info burned in, but this is a once-ever edge case, pardon the pun, where for the first time ever, it would really be helpful to see the sliver of info under that overlay)

Hiya! I make various props semi-regularly, and often use CA glue. I've read recommendations time and again that Bob Smith's glues work great, and sure enough, they DO seem to work great.

Except one problem: Seems like I pay the big bucks ($12 or so?) for like a 2 oz bottle, but I'm seriously only able to use less than 1/4 of the bottle before the thing starts solidifying into the tip, and not much longer before I have a bottle that will hold up my house's foundation.

Anyone have some tips to make them last longer? (I've kept them in the fridge, too, which only seems to help a little) Or something better? I'm tired of throwing money away and buying product I don't get to use, but I'm about ready to give up and go back to the stupid little Loctite side squeeze bottle from the bog box stores.