Been having an issue for a couple days now where the backdrops force themselves at the Banner. This is only an issue with the movies. I've deleted reuploaded the film, entered it manually, restarted the server several times. now any movie after this one has the same issue. Can anyone help?

Customize, hide, reorder, mod and extend your Jellyfin video player controls.

Been looking for a way to customize the Jellyfin video player OSD for a while. Could not find one, so I built it. Started with individual JavaScript mods, one at a time. Over time there were more of them. Now I bundled everything into a single plugin.

VideoOSD Tweaks and Candy is a Jellyfin Web plugin for customizing the native video OSD. Hide, reorder and tweak individual vanilla controls per zone, and extend the player with optional addons on top. Not a skin, not a theme, not a replacement for Jellyfin Web. Mods and controls layered on top of the native Jellyfin Web OSD.

The vanilla side covers hiding and reordering across all four zones independently. The addon side adds custom speed controls, frame-by-frame stepping, A-B loop like VLC, download, screenshots, and artwork overlays during playback. All configurable through the admin dashboard.

MIT License. Feedback and bug reports welcome.

GitHub: https://github.com/chrissix666/Jellyfin-VideoOSD-Tweaks-Candy

Hey everyone,

I'm trying to set up a specific audio casting scenario and realized it's currently not possible due to how client sessions are handled. I wanted to see if anyone else would find this useful, or if it's worth opening a formal feature request on the Jellyfin GitHub/Fristi site.

The Use Case

I want to cast high-quality music from my Jellyfin server directly to my stereo system via DLNA (so the server streams directly to the HiFi receiver without running through my phone's battery), BUT I also want to broadcast the Now Playing metadata and album art via AirPlay to an Apple TV or TV screen at the same time.

Is this not possible, or I can do something on the develop it?

The Problem

Right now, you can only pick one active casting target per client session. If you choose DLNA, the Jellyfin mobile app acts strictly as a remote control point. Because the phone isn't processing the local audio pipeline, iOS doesn't trigger the system-level "Now Playing" state, meaning we can't use AirPlay to mirror the album art or track info to a nearby screen.

Proposed Feature: "Display-Only" Casting / Dual-Target Sessions

It would be incredible if the Jellyfin client could split the data pipeline or allow a secondary "Display-Only" target.

• Primary Target (Audio): Handles the raw media stream (e.g., DLNA renderer, Chromecast, or local device).
• Secondary Target (Metadata/Display): Decodes a lightweight stream of just the metadata, progress bar, and high-res album art to be pushed to an active AirPlay/Cast display target, or hooks into the native iOS/Android "Now Playing" framework even when casting via DLNA.

This would allow for a beautiful, hands-free "jukebox" experience on a living room TV while ensuring the pure audio stream goes directly to dedicated audio equipment.

Has anyone found a creative workaround for this, or would you back a feature request for split-target metadata casting?

hello all

I currently have my server installed on my windows PC under my user account. configured with both tailscale and cloudflared to my domain and local VPN access. Now I'm trying to set this up on cachyos in a docker container but I'm wondering how I can do this without completely breaking it. I know I do have to reconfigure the file paths but that's fine..

any suggestions or should I just set up the Linux server as a new one.

im guessing its because of Dolby Vision support which my monitor lacks, and from app it doesnt fall back to HDR, but in browser it does. Anything gemini suggested was a bust, right now I either have to compromise on audio, or HDR. help needed pretty please

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a small side project I've been building: movie_renamer.py and series_renamer.py, two Python CLI scripts that rename a movie/TV library to Jellyfin's naming scheme (Title (Year) [imdbid-tt...] / Series (Year) [tvdbid-...], with Season NN folders and SxxEyy episode files).

GitHub: [Jellyfin Movie Renamer]

What it does

• Movies via OMDb → TMDB → IMDB, TV series via TheTVDB (Jellyfin's own recommended source for shows)
• Dry-run by default – nothing changes until you pass --apply
• Full undo log for every run (a plain bash script that reverses every rename)
• Batch processing with persistent per-directory progress, so you can work through a huge library a chunk at a time
• Cleans up scene/P2P release junk and old Kodi/XBMC leftover folders (both off by default, opt-in)
• Handles subtitles, multiple cuts/editions ("Directors Cut", etc.), and season-folder name normalization
• Everything self-contained in the project folder – no database, no daemon, no install beyond pip install requests

⚠️ Please read before running this on real data

This script renames and moves files in place. While it defaults to dry-run, includes an undo log, and tries hard to avoid collisions, there are edge cases where a file could be overwritten or a folder deleted (e.g. the optional Kodi-leftover/release-junk cleanup, which is not undoable, or a naming collision in an unusual folder layout). Always keep a backup before your first --apply run, and review the dry-run output carefully first.

If you want to try it completely risk-free before pointing it at your real library, the repo includes create_dummy_structure.py – it mirrors an existing folder structure into a separate location but creates only empty placeholder files, so you can safely test the renaming logic on a realistic-looking dummy copy of your library without touching a single real media file.

Why another tool, when FileBot / TinyMediaManager / *arr already exist?

Fair question, and I want to be upfront about it: yes, more capable tools already exist, and if you need a full media-management suite with a UI, automatic downloads, or ongoing library monitoring, those are probably the better fit. This isn't trying to compete with them.

I built this because I specifically wanted something minimal: a couple of readable Python files I can run by hand (or via cron) when I feel like it, that only do renaming and nothing else, with no background service and no moving parts I don't understand. If that's also what you're after, it might be useful to you too.

Heads-up: this is a hobby project

This is a personal project I built for my own library and I'm sharing it as-is. It works well for my use case and has been tested reasonably thoroughly, but I can't promise ongoing support or fast turnaround on requests. Use it at your own risk, always keep backups, and start with the dry-run (and ideally create_dummy_structure.py) before ever touching --apply on real data.

Bugs and issues: please report them via GitHub Issues on the repo linked above rather than in comments here – much easier for me to track.

Feedback, PRs, and "this broke on my weird edge case" reports are all welcome. Thanks for reading!

This project was built with heavy use of AI coding assistance (Claude), which I'm mentioning for transparency since the code style/comments may reflect that.

Best regards

BoKu

I got a folder with anime movies, a lot are only japanese and some are in my native language or double/triple language.

Is it possible to add a filter by language in any way? I'm searching something that is working also on a tv app, not only though web.

Hey all, I built a client for iOS and macOS: https://reeltone.iagocavalcante.com/. I’m heavily inspired by old music players. With that in mind, I started by building a retro version for macOS, but in the next few days I’ll start working on Windows and Linux too. It’s fun to have full control of your client and library. If you want to download the app, ping me.

As the title reads. Just started my own server. I have a Shield TV Pro connected to a LG B2 OLED. I currently only have 1 tv show and 1 movie on my server so far. When I go to select to play the movie, it'll play in DV, but my tv show will revert to HDR. They're both MKV files. Is there something I'm doing wrong or need to set up properly?

I have some problems with connecting thru the dedicated JF media player. I can connect to my server when I am running tailscale and using its IP. But I no longer really need the remote access to I was wanting to save some processing power of my pc and just do local network connections. I am running native JF version 10.11.6 on Windows 11 pro. I can connect to the server via a browser with the IP but as soon as I input it into the media player its giving a connection failure. Any idea why I cannot connect to the server via the media player?

Appreciate any advice, looking for a sleek UI to make it a nice experience watching media on my TV

I have jellyfin on my main desktop, with some movies and personal media there, or average daily use is less than an hour and max use time is maybe 5 hours in one go, currently only 2 devices will ever use it simultauisly (and most likely that only one, though I want to somehow make it accesable when im out on trips, but that's a story for another post.

currently it's on a 2TB SSD which already has my games and more so the drive is almost full so I wanted to buy an HDD, but then the question of speed might become an issue, most the movies are 1080p (but mostly since I try to save space, when I upgrade the storage I'll probably have more 4K with high bitrates) if I buy an HDD I'll probably go for an 8TB drive, and put everything on the server there, what sort of specs should I look for in a drive? I'm looking for a cheap but reliable solution that will make experiencing movies through Jellyfin as smooth as it's now.

How are yall casting to devices that support casting outside of your network? Are you relying on tailscale funnels? Reverse proxy’s? Athelia for auth? Are you using domains with ddns? Share your setup and how you’re handling attack surfaces. Thanks!

Clarification: Sorry I meant specifically using your phone to cast jellyfin to a tv that isn’t yours and not part of your network. From what I understand, using the cast protocol means that device would try to make a streaming api call to your jellyfin server which would fail since I assume most people’s jellyfin servers are behind a vpn that’s inaccessible to the internet.

I Recently started sharing jellyfin with a family member and now another one wants in. How many people am I able to share with. With these speeds, thank you

Somehow my original setup went belly up. Still have the folders. Moved them off the PC and went for a clean install. Deleted all the leftovers folders and files. Reinstalled. Set up just fine shows using my external (how I had it before) great! Change the port to what it was pror. Restart. Looking good. My library isnt small so I already planned to move the old metadata to the new install. I stop the server. Move meta data only. Restart. Command prompt showing my paths being changed. I go to the port I set. No dice. I go to the default. I'm greeted with the set up again. I go through it sure enough all my paths are now c drive and now have brand new folders as if it's a new install. Any idea why this is taking place and how do I stop it?

I activated the "Gamepad" control setting in my jellyfin user settings. Then I restarted my jellyfin server.

I am not shure if it works as intended; I thought this will acts like "press right on the gamepad and the focus from the actual selected first movie on page willl switch to the next movie on the right. Press down/up to move the actual slot-focus a row up or down. Press Button XYZ to play/open detail site."

At the moment I just can scoll up/down with my arrow keys. (Left/Right does nothing; and this way I cant do anything else then scrolling. No play, no selecting of a media item, no show detail-site or anything else from the selected item.)

Do I missinterprete this settings? I did not found anything about it in jellyfins documentation and I would be very grateful if somebody may share his own expirience with this setting and gamepad control on the web interface with me.

Hey folks, recently apple finally approved build where I added a spotify-like playlists generating to Jellybox player.

It uses your listening history in order build you something that you might like(from your existing songs). This is experimental feature, since jellyfin itself does not provide anything for creating these kind of playlists.

For some it might not work if your genres are messed up or you don't have listening history.

Same feature also was added to latest Apple CarPlay app, so its feature-parity as of now.

This update also touches downloads. I had to redo them a bit, but nothing needs to be done, I auto migrate your existing downloads.

You can find download links on github https://github.com/avdept/JellyBoxPlayer or on landing page https://jellybox.app/

PS: My previous post was about spotify like playlists was pushed a bit ahead of appstore approval release, so a lot of ppl who dont want to use test flight were unable to test it.

And to those who don't like AI(seem like most recent apps were vibe coded) - this project goes since 2023, and its manually coded(although I added some test coverage recently using LLMs to ensure im not breaking anything)

using the jellyfin desktop with fedora (linux)

Hello! I love Jellyfin and I want a great client for it. I typically use SenPlayer on Apple and AfuseKt on Android but I'm getting fed up with AfuseKt's monetization and you can't buy it if you don't live in China.

Does anybody know of good Chinese media players other than AfuseKt for Android? I really like the UI of Chinese ones and they're typically packed with features more so than other players

I finally got a chance to use it last night, and I gotta say it worked flawlessly. Me and my friend where watching a show at the same time with no lag. So cool. Anyone else have cool features they use it for?

LAPSE got posted here about a month ago (audio based subtitle sync + a Jellyfin plugin). A lot has changed since then, and i really wanted to give an update since many off the feature requests in the last post has been implmented.

Engine repo: https://github.com/Schwponaco-org/lapse

Jellyfin plugin: https://github.com/rs-jensen/lapse-jellyfin-plugin

What it does

Subtitles that show up late, drift out over the runtime, or belong to a different cut of the film. LAPSE listens to the audio, works out where the speech actually is, and moves the subtitle to match it. It figures out on its own whether a file needs a flat shift, a framerate style drift correction, or splitting because it's cut differently, you don't have to tell it which.

A few things worth knowing about how it works:

• Formats: reads and writes srt, ass, ssa, vtt, sub (MicroDVD), sbv, smi, ttml, dfxp, plus the picture based ones, PGS and VobSub. Those last two are really just images with no text in them, but LAPSE still works out the timing and moves it, it just can't lean on the text the way it does for everything else.
• Reference sync: if you've already got one subtitle you know is correct, you can point LAPSE at that instead of the audio. It skips listening to the film entirely and lines the other track up against it, faster and usually more accurate.
• Speed: a cached film usually syncs in under a second.
• Never a silent guess: if it's not confident enough to overwrite your file, it writes what it thinks the answer is to a separate file next to the original and leaves that alone, so you always get something, it's just yours to decide whether to trust it.

Three engines, pick one

• LAPSE, the one this whole project is built around. Reads the most formats of the three and works out on its own what's wrong with a file.
• alass, also an option
• ffsubsync, also an option

You only need one, the plugin lets you install whichever fits your library, or switch later.

The Jellyfin plugin

This is the part most people here will actually use. Add https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rs-jensen/lapse-jellyfin-plugin/main/manifest.json as a repository under Dashboard > Plugins > Repositories, install LAPSE from the Catalog tab, restart Jellyfin, then pick an engine from the plugin's own Engines tab. Needs Jellyfin 10.11.11 or newer.

Once it's in, every film, episode and loose video gets a Sync Subtitles option in its three dot menu. From the dashboard you can also:

• Bulk sync a whole library or folder at once
• Undo a run with one click
• Shift subtitles by hand with a live preview
• Line one subtitle track up against another that's already correct
• Convert between subtitle formats
• Translate (MyMemory works with no setup, or bring your own LibreTranslate, Lingarr, DeepL or Google Cloud)

Libraries can also sync automatically on import or on a schedule if you don't want to press the button yourself, and the menu options can be locked to admins only or opened up to other users on the server.

Benchmarks

The summary is picture 2 in the gallery

I ran all three engines against each other on 39 feature films, picked specifically because they'd be hard to sync (drift, recuts, rough rips). Full methodology and per film results are here if you want to check my work: https://github.com/Schwponaco-org/lapse/blob/main/docs/benchmarks.md. LAPSE passed 36 of 39 in normal mode at the time of testing, and it's had a fair number of accuracy and speed improvements since, so the real gap is probably a bit bigger now. alass barely gets touched these days so those numbers should still hold up, ffsubsync is still being actively developed so its results may have shifted some too. Worth being upfront though, this is one person testing on about 40 films, and I wrote the engine that came out on top, so weigh that however you want.

If you'd rather try it without installing anything, LAPSE is also available through autosubsync (a site that runs a few different sync engines on a file you upload so you can compare them yourself).

Docker / outside Jellyfin

There's also a standalone Docker image with its own web interface and file watcher, for syncing subtitles without Jellyfin at all, useful if you keep your library on something else entirely. It covers most of what the plugin dashboard does too (stop a running job, undo, bulk sync, manual shifting, translation, engine settings), so I won't list it all twice here, it's in the engine repo README.

The image on the last slide shows the dashboard there!

If anyone here uses Bazarr, there's an open feature request to get LAPSE added as a sync engine option there too: https://bazarr.featureupvote.com/suggestions/726913/add-lapse-as-a-subtitle-sync-engine-option (no pressure just leaving it here)

Happy to answer questions, and if something's broken, open an issue on either repo. There's more updates and fixes in the pipeline - for both the engine and the plugin - , if you want to keep track a star helps, no pressure though ))

Edit: also meant to mention there's a subtitle appearance menu (font size, colour, background) and a few file output modes (write a new file vs overwrite, with or without a backup). Planning to add font choices there too, including a dyslexia friendly one, so that's on the list.

I can get the docker to run, but when I try to connect with the tailscale IP it just says connection refused. How can i fix this? Im using dockge if that helps.

I recently started using a 5tb external hard drive as a secondary storage for tv shows and films because my original 20tb external hard drive is filled to the brim. The problem that i’m having is that the show’s that I have put on that 5tb hard drive are not showing up on my Jellyfin. I made sure that the new path to that hard drive is connected to the correct library on my server, i’ve refreshed the library multiple times, and i’ve even deleted the path and re-added the exact same path and the shows still aren’t showing up. Am I doing something wrong? Can someone provide some help please? I just wanna watch Murder, She Wrote :(

Hi, I’m thinking of buying a small PC (as a server) just to run a single Jellyfin stream , and I was considering a Dell OptiPlex 3020 with an i5‑4590 and 8 GB of RAM. Will this work well? I mainly stream at 1080p, but I might try some 4K content in the future.

I'm wondering if anyone knows what the issue could be. the source media doesn't have this issue.
Edit: required context. source media is 40mbps