[NavinF]

Jellyfin has some serious performance issues. I tried using it on a small 12TB zfs dataset of Linux ISOs and it only indexed ~20% after letting it run for a month. For comparison, my ffprobe scripts only take a day to collect media info about every file and figure out what needs to be transcoded.

The web UI is also a buggy js SPA that doesn't use meaningful URLs with "#". So when it breaks, you can't reload the page and get back to page you were on. It's incredibly frustrating.

Unfortunately, Jellyfin is the only open source video server I could find that kinda sorta works. So this is as good as it gets unless you wanna get your hands dirty and rewrite large parts of it.

nb. I did not try out the online metadata fetching because I didn't want to give it internet access. I assume that enabling online metadata will make the server even slower