Jellyfin Home Screen is a Mean Joke (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I must be doing it wrong. It only seems to pick up some recently added shows. Continue watching often doesn't have the thing I've previously watched. Trying to search for a show with a macrōn doesn't work.

It's like it's working against me. It's bad.

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[-] [email protected] 69 points 2 weeks ago

This is not how you raise an issue on Github.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

Have you just installed jellyfin? The scraping for metadata for me took days literally. And the difficult time is that during the scraping, the interface is very slow.

You can monitor the scraping/parsing progress in settings > dashboard > libraries. The libraries have a sort of circular progress bar with a percentage symbol (only visible in this view) when parsing is ongoing.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

You can significantly speed this process up by putting the cache folder on an ssd, instead of the same hard drive the videos are on.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Is that the limiting factor for the UI responsiveness? Or are you talking about the fact that the parsing and metadata querying takes days?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Both. How quickly a server can send a webpage with images (even if they're small) is directly proportional to the storage mediums seeks times. The worse the seek times, the less 'responsive' a website feels. Hard drives are a terrible location to keep your metadata.

The server scan will search for the files, look them up and grab metadata, and then store that metadata in the metadata location. If your metadata location is the same spot as your movie, it will cause some major thrashing, and will significantly increase the scan time for jellyfin. Essentially, it gets bogged down trying to read and write lots of tiny files on the same drive, the absolute worst case scenario for a hard drive to have.

If the movies are on a hard drive, and the metadata on an ssd (or even just a different hard drive) the pipeline will be a lot less problematic.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Have you setup your home screen? You can do that on the dashboard, hiding, grouping, etc.

If what you've watched has nearly ended, it won't show for continuing. I have the opposite issue, some shows has a long outro/preview of the next episode, so I have to either mark it as seen, or fast forward near the end for it not to show on the continuing watching section

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

You may want to change the following setting in that case: Settings > dashboard > playback > resume > Maximum resume percentage.

It will set the threshold of what is considered played (in percentage of video length). Default is 90%. Try lowering it?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I surely missed that setting. I am playing with it, it seems 85 is the sweet spot for me. Thanks!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe I am misunderstanding, but continue watching is only for resuming media. If you stop a show or movie in the middle.

If you want to go to the next episode in a series you want to look at "Next up" section.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It would be nice to see a ui update. Part of what keeps me from using JF is the top bar. It takes up like 1/5th of the screen on my device.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

This is why I moved to Emby. I use a different player on all my devices and all my content is HEVC or H264 with AAC or DTS so never an issue playing. No need for premium either.

Jellyfin is on fumes. They made a call for help a couple of years ago but since then, haven’t had much of any. They found a critical bug last build I think and where supposed to disclose the details around the end of last year and it’s May now. No news.

There’s a ton broken and no one to really fix it. I remember posting about a bug and a long standing contributor just basically blamed the scraper and said well that scraper is shit.

I got the sense most of the older crew just gate keep but don’t actually work towards making the thing better.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

The first major update in over a year is coming out in the next week or two.

Apparently their build pipeline was a major issue for a long time, now that it's fixed they're planning to do major releases a lot more regularly.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

They also said that they would divulge more about the huge critical fault they found “in a couple of weeks” which was like 6 months ago. Colour me skeptical.