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by Imustaskforhelp 102 days ago
Jellyfin is nice but I could never understand how to setup when all I wanted was to watch videos from server for example.

So I used copyparty[0] and used VLC and set a username and password.

I recommend copyparty if you just want something quick and easy actually. Just try it out on cheap VPS and just run it and forget it.

https://github.com/9001/copyparty
2 comments
RiverCrochet 102 days ago
Jellyfin isn't a simple viewer over a filesystem, you have to make a library and give it folders to ingest. It enforces an artist-album-track structure of media, so if you don't like that structure you'll be fighting Jellyfin more than using it.
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Forgeties79 102 days ago
The big thing is being able to stream outside of my home network. Running stuff locally is easy enough with basically any system luckily
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Imustaskforhelp 102 days ago
Yes but you can actually have Copyparty run as a server similar to Jellyfin and have the same thing too?

Am I missing something that I am not looking at? But won't jellyfin have the same issue, I think that plex has servers that you can connect from outside but the GP wanted to move to jellyfin and I was talking about that.

And, you can even have plex like thing by just having Cloudflare Tunnels/Tailscale + Copyparty too.

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