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Jellyfin

Jellyfin is a suite for multimedia streaming. It includes a web-interface and is mainly used for movies and tv shows.

Setup

The software can be setup via Docker with the linuxserver image.

Usage

This section addresses various features of Jellyfin.

Live TV and DVR

Jellyfin can connect to live TV with different tuners to display and record TV channels - so called DVR - directly via jellyfin.

Live TV with M3U Tuner

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.

Live TV and DVR with TVHeadend

This section explains the steps neccessary to make TVHeadend work with a jellyfin server according to the official documentation. It is assumed a working TVHeadend instance is up and running. In the TVHeadend entry a guide to run an instance is given. In the admin dashboard install the TVHeadend plugin and restart the server. Afterwards create a user with a username in TVHeadend under Go to Configuration > Users > Access Entries > Add. Check the Change Parameters Rights, Channel number range, Channel tags, DVR configurations, Streaming profiles and Connection limits. Check the Streaming Profiles htsp, matroska, pass, webtv-h264-aac-matroska, webtv-h264-aac-mpegts, webtv-h264-vorbis-mp4 and webtv-vp8-vorbis-webm. Check Enabled and Web Interface. Select Basic, Advanced and HTSP under Streaming and Basic, HTSP and View all under Video recorder. Save the user. Create a password via Configuration > Users > Passwords > Add. Check Enabled, select the according Username and fill in the Password. Afterwards save.

Now in Jellyfin under Go to Dashboard > Plugins > TVHeadend > Settings set the TVHeadend Hostname or IP Address, the HTTP Port and HTSP Port, the Username and the Password set in the previous step.

Finally run Refresh Guide Data under Dashboard > Live TV > Live TV to load the guide data for the next 7 days aswell as to refresh the TV channels. Afterwards the channels mapped in TVHeadend should appear in the Live TV Library.

Client

It is possible to use different clients. The following list contains a selection of clients.

  • Feishin will be a free and open-source client for MacOS, Linux that also features a web ui.