Jellyfin

Jellyfin is a suite for multimedia streaming. It includes a web-interface.

Server

A server can be setup via docker with the linuxserver image.

Add IP-TV

You can add IP-TV under Live TV in the administration panel. To include a m3u IP-TV stream just put the file on the server or copy its URL and add it under Live TV. After that make sure to setup DVR to your liking to record.

Naming schemes of movies and TV shows

This section describes how to name and how to place movies and TV shows and their extras in the directories correctly to get jellyfin to recognize them.

In the jellyfin tv shows documentation and the jellyfin movie documentation are sections on how to name files correctly. This entry uses the conventions based in the documentation and introduces slight changes to indicate different versions and encodings more precisely.

Handling movies or episodes consisting of multiple video files

Jellyfin does not have the capability to seamlessly transition between multiple files of a movie or episode. The easiest way to achieve a seamless movie experience is to concatenate the two movie files. This can be done with ffmpeg.

Naming Subtitles of movies or tv shows

Subtitles can be written into video files. If that is the case an additional naming of the file is not needed. This section especially targets .srt files but the naming conventions translate to other file types aswell. Files containing subtitles are named the same as the video file they relate to The only difference is the file extension. After the name of the file the language of the subtitles is indicated by the two-letter or three-letter country code. This entry prefer the use of the two-letter code - for example .en for the english language. After that .forced can be added, if the subtitles are forced. Lastly the file extension .srt is appended. The complete subtitle file look like this: movie_(1234)_-_brd_uu.en.forced.srt.

Additionally to indicate the encoding and source can be indicated before the file extension. brd for Blu-ray disc, dvd for digital versatile disc. This is followed by an encoding indicator starting with u and followed by your own scheme for encodings.

Naming extras

The following list are set expressions for extras of movies and tv shows. These will be used in the following sections on how to name movies and tv shows. For the exact use of them look into these sections.

behind_the_scenes
deleted_scenes
extras (generic catch all for extras of an unknown type)
featurettes
interviews
samples
scenes
shorts
trailers

Naming movies

In the following slight changes are made to ensure better naming schemes. Different versions of the same movie can be stored in the same folder with slightly different names to indicate the specific version. Inside the movie folder you can create subfolders with names according to the expressions for extras from the extras section.

The movies folder is a folder containing all movies. An example looks like the following:

movies
└── best_movie_ever_(2019)
    ├── best_movie_ever_(2019)_-_brd_uu.mp4
    ├── best_movie_ever_(2019)_-_brd_uu.en.forced.srt
    ├── best_movie_ever_(2019)_-_dvd_u1.mp4
    ├── best_movie_ever_(2019)_-_brd_u1.en.srt
    ├── best_movie_ever_(2019)_-_brd_un_directors_cut.mp4
    ├── behind_the_scenes
    │   ├── best_movie_ever_(2019)_-_brd_uu_making_of.mp4
    │   ├── best_movie_ever_(2019)_-_brd_uu_making_of.en.srt
    │   └── best_movie_ever_(2019)_-_brd_uu_finding_the_right_score.mp4
    ├── interviews
    │   └── best_movie_ever_(2019)_-_brd_u1_director_interview.mp4
    └── extras
        └── best_movie_ever_(2019)_-_dvd_un_home_recreation.mp4

Another way to keep extras in the main folder of the movie is by adding the following suffixes to the files accordingly:

Naming TV shows

Inside the shows folder you can create the season_00 folder as a directory for extras. Files containing multiple episodes at once are named by specifying the first and last episode they include s01e01-e02. Because of the heavily varying the titles of the episodes are not included. Specify the extras inside the season_0 folder with the expressions from the extras section.

The shows folder is a folder containing all tv shows. An example looks like the following.

shows
└── series_(2010)
    ├── season_0
    │   ├── series_-_behind_the_scenes_brd_uu.mkv
    │   ├── series_-_name_interview_brd_uu.mkv
    │   └── series_-_featurette_dvd_un.mkv
    │
    ├── season_1
    │   ├── series_-_s01e01-e02_dvd_un.mkv
    │   ├── series_-_s01e01-e02_dvd_un.de.srt
    │   ├── series_-_s01e03_brd_un.mkv
    │   ├── series_-_s01e03_brd_un.de.forced.srt
    │   └── series_-_s01e04_brd_un.mkv
    │   └── series_-_s01e04_brd_un.en.srt
    └── season_2
        ├── series_-_s02e01_dvd_un.mkv
        └── series_-_s02e02_dvd_un.mkv

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