cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/36389875
Why jump from 10.11.11 directly to 12.0? -> Blog Post
You can find more details about and discuss this release on the official forums.
As always, please ensure you stop your Jellyfin server and take a full backup of your metadata/configs before upgrading!
Direct upgrades from 10.10.7 and 10.11.x to 12.0 are supported; intermediate upgrades are not required. Users running releases older than 10.10.7 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to 10.10.7 before migrating to 12.0.
Installed repository plugins (anything not built-in) should also be removed before migrating. Plugins will likely need time to adapt to the new database changes, so re-adding them afterward is the safest approach for testing.
Official plugins compatible with Jellyfin are available through the stable plugin repository. If you have changed to the unstable plugin repository please change it back.
Go to Dashboard -> Plugins -> Manage Repositories Update the Plugin Repository URL to: https://repo.jellyfin.org/files/plugin/manifest.jsonAfter migrating please perform the following steps.
Perform a full library scan to restore alternative versions Run the "Optimize database" scheduled task___
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New version comes with an easy payment plan so you don’t have to pay everything upfront!
I’m feeling generous, so I’ll pay the first 3 payments for the first 69 people to respond here with a detailed description of their most embarrassing moment in life and a photo of a cartoon character without pants.
Any changes to the massive memory footprint of JF? I’m basically stuck on Plex because JF eats multiple gigabytes of my very limited RAM.
JF uses south of 480 mb right now on my rpi4 2gb when idling. It plays fine too, though struggles with transcoding.
You could just upgrade, I assume RAM is cheap, haven’t looked in a while, just let me look up memory prices real quick…
@german @selfhosted @Mountaineer
All my homelab uses around 2gb of ram with 20 services, jf one of them.
One thing, I use hw accel with vaapiIf it’s direct play, this makes sense, but it sounds like maybe they are transcoding video
@Statick
That’s what I thought…
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters NAS Network-Attached Storage Plex Brand of media server package VPN Virtual Private Network
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 8 acronyms.
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Good bot.
Is there a Samsung TV app yet? I’ve heard it’s out for some…
I’m so happy that I got the 253 years subscription.
best money I’ve ever spent
Ha! Shows what you know. I got a 256 year subscription at only 10x the price!
Wao, I got ripped off. I’m a fucking moron.
Looks like my move to navidrome for music is paying off :)
Seems strange to push books over Audio.
I’m happy to see such a huge list of achievements through. Especially the endpoint hardening.
Sad to see still no 2FA,
Progress is progress; it’s still free and open.
Most people I know run it behind a VPN, so 2FA is less critical.
Most people I know use Plex so they don’t have to.
I’m hoping we can change that eventually.
I had some issues with config changes, but it’s working now :)
My wait for OIDC support for sensible client logins continues
I know it’s not the same but quick connect works well. Why not log in that way using a six digit code?
I agree with you but also about 90% of watching on my instance happens on smart TV’s. So even though I would like to have oidc supported for the occasional phone/pc user I would still need something basic that a TV can use.
Smart TVs should be able to support OIDC easily out of the box.
And if it didn’t, you can just use a Device Flow
Let me guess, another price increase.
Thank you for the reminder to donate to them <3
Please donate to your favorite client maintainer (if 3rd party) or another project.
The core team stated that they already have enough funds.
(Look at the funds that are still unusued): https://opencollective.com/jellyfinOh shit. Ok. Thank you for bringing that up. I only really use their official apps, but I’ll find another one to donate to.
I can confidently say that the Jellyfin team intend to raise the price 10x the previous price.
Those bastards! I knew it!
Plexing their muscles, as usual.
The price increased 4 times over the previous price.
Jellyfin is free. What price? :D
That’s the joke.
Is anyone else experiencing slowness and sometimes freezing after updating? This is mostly happening when I go to my home screen, and the server CPU load spikes.
Did you run the full scan and optimize db afterwards like recommended?
,and.scrub frame-by-frame during playback
That is exactly how MPV does it. But from what I remember, VLC devs claim it’s impossible, so VLC only allows you to scrub forward frame-by-frame, not backward. You can skip backwards in three-second increments or whatever, just not frame-by-frame at all. It’s the main thing that keeps me using MPV as my default video player, because I frequently skip around videos trying to get a screenshot of the perfect frame to use to make a meme or something. Being able to scrub frame-by-frame in both directions is a big deal.
There’s a VLC addon that is able to do it. https://addons.videolan.org/p/1154013/
So, every time I want to go back one frame, I have to open that plugin from the menu and then respond to that dialog window? That is certainly more cumbersome than the way MPV/Jellyfin do it, where scrubbing is just a keyboard shortcut. Even if I assigned a keyboard shortcut to activated that plugin (I assume that’s possible), I still have to respond to that dialog box?
When I scrub through a video to get the perfect frame to screenshot, the experience is usually something like:
- Pause video, no that’s not the right frame
- Scrub back five frames, not right
- Scrub forward one frame, looks closer
- Scrub forward one frame, looks closer
- Scrub forward one frame, that’s almost what I want
- Scrub forward one frame, that’s worse, I guess I went too far
- Scrub back one frame, settle on that one
Using MPV, that’s pretty simple because each step there is just a keystroke that takes zero effort and zero time. But if each of those steps also required me to respond to a dialog box, that would just make the process tedious.
Are there different hardware requirements? I’m running on a raspberry pi 4, and as soon as it tries to load my movies the entire server crashes. This happened with the first release candidate, but seems to still be happening.
Did you report the issue?
Was able to fix it. The initial library scan caused the server to crash (ran out of resources) so every database load would make the server crash since the initial scan never ran. The solution was to turn off the other containers I had running, then run the scan, then turn everything on.
Nice
Not yet. I’ll have to mess with it more when I get home tonight.
How do you get this to work remotely easily for old people on smart tvs?
Domain + reverse proxy. The security issues some people here claim are significantly overblown.
Tailscale is a pretty good option if said old people have an Android or Apple TV, not sure about availability of Tailscale on any other OSs. Run it on your server and the TV client, grab the Tailscale IP from the dashboard and enter [Tailscale IP]:[Jellyfin port] when the Jellyfin app asks for the server address. You could homebrew a VPN too. Only other option would be a domain name and a reverse proxy.
Only other option would be a domain name and a reverse proxy.
This is how I set it up for my family and friends. Works like a charm, especially if you have a dynamic IP. Everyone just signs in through whichever app they want to use.
this is the way imo. I also took the time to disable internal authentication and hook up authentik via the ldap auth plugin. so for my users, I can text them a link, they set up their credentials and verify their email, then they can sign in to jellyfin with the same creds and it automatically creates a profile and everything.
You go and meet them.
Best case if you can set up a s2s vpn.
Now THAT is a changelog.
Really excited about the query performance improvements, and the improvements to subtitle handling.
I’m wondering if this has anything to do with the team lead changing?
A big push in features that had been waiting on the back burner?
Can’t speak to that, I’m not involved. All I know is that,
- Jellyfin server gets significant upgrades in subtitle capabilities and performance,
- Jellyfin AdroidTV just released an RC that finally includes direct play for ASS/SSA subtitles,
- and on Monday, I FINALLY resolved a hardware issue (faulty cable) that made my Jellyfin almost unusable whenever ASS/SSA needed to be played (and only in that situation. Fun!)
So yeah, I don’t know or really care about leadership change, I just know it’s gonna run like a rocket now 😄
I’m so curious what the cable was and how it affected only ass/ssa subtitles?
Haha. Might have slightly exaggerated. But only slightly.
The Proxmox host in question has a 1Gbit connection to the NAS. (Unfortunately. The other hosts don’t have a GPU, but SPF+… Oh well, can’t have everything.)
At some point in the last couple of months, it must have been damaged, and negotiated down to only 100Mbit. This must roughly have coincided with the Jellyfin 10.11 update, since I remember thinking that it must be the cause, due to close proximity of update and first issues.
Anyways. For basically everything in my library, 100Mbit is fine. Streaming an episode NAS->Jellyfin and Jellyfin->TV at the same time basically never saturates the link.
BUT, from what I’ve gathered by digging through Jellyfin issues and PRs, there’s a separate issue where Jellyfin will pull the episode, and if you need subtitles extracted from the episode file server-side (to transcode them in, if the clients can’t play them), it will at the same time pull the episode AGAIN, and together with the Jellyfin->TV direction, that’s frequently enough that it saturates the link.
Symptoms is (was) either a 20-30s wait before the episode would start playing, or complete freeze.
However, I believe this particular issues has been solved for a while. I’m not sure, because I instead opted for the Subtitles Extractor Plugin, which runs nightly and pre-fetches all the subtitles and stores them on the Jellyfin VM itself.
Where it was still noticeable though was if one of [Library Scan/Trick-play Extraction/Subtitle Extraction/Media Segment Scan] ran while playing an episode, the server would completely lock up.
Long story short: cable swapped, 1Gbit, all issues gone.
whoops!! that’s an interesting overlap of issues! glad a new cable did the trick (and that jellyfin fixed that).
The reason is the feedback we got after 10.11.0, which we first raised in January and confirmed in May. A release like 10.11.0 was, by any reasonable measure, a major release - it rewrote the library database - but the version number presented it as a minor update, and people upgraded with expectations to match. The leading 10. never changed and never told anyone anything, so all it did was push the number that actually mattered into the middle position and make “major” releases look minor. Dropping it means the first number moves when the release is big.
lol. All the Jellykins in here lost their minds when this was pointed out.
I dont get why they didn’t just call that update 11.0? Or use that for this update?
I guess if you’re changing the semantics of your version numbers its also a good idea to introduce a deliberate discontinuity to mark the change?
I was confused too, but I guess their logic is that 10.11.x is 11.x.x. They might have been more explicit about that.
This one goes 1 more than 11
My guess is that people would call the 10.11.x update something like .11.x instead of the full version because “they don’t change the first number anyway” and it would cause confusion to call the next update version 11.x.x so they just jumped to 12
