Comment by opendomain | Hacker News Reader

Comment by opendomain | Hacker News Reader

The website looks great, but does not offer a lot of detail.

Can someone explain: "Holds your entire movie collection" - does this mean it rips your DVDs onto a hard drive? Or just catalog them?

"Collect your TV Shows, and have them automatically organized by season." - is this over the air TV? Over the Top (Cable). Does it include Netflix, PrimeTV, Hulu? IS this just a catalog of what you like or does it Copy these to the hard drive as well?

"Enjoy your own music collection. Make playlists, and listen on the go." - Can I transfer songs I bought song on Apple, GooglePlay, or CDs?

"Watch Live TV and set automatic recordings to expand your media library" - is this over the air and/or cable? Can I record from streaming services? Once I record, can I watch it on my mobile?

Thank you for your help!

It, and apps like it (plex, emby) are a fancy front end for all your pirated media or personal backups. It requires the media exist in digital form on a network attached device, be it your PC, NAS or server. It will not interface with any legit streaming services you have like spotify, netflix, et cetera. Think of it as a personal netflix-like UI for your local media, and nothing more.

But how does it support live TV?

There’s native support for HDHomeRun tuners, and M3U files.

There’s other plugins to enable TVHeadend access and more IPTV.

It catalogs and let's you play/transcode to devices. It's a replacement for Plex based off a fork of Emby; however, Jellyfin is completely open source.

I just installed it a few weeks back, and like it a lot. Much less clutter and overhead compared to Plex. The Roku app is what's missing for me, though. When that is finished (it's in development), this will be a great full replacement for Plex, for me.

There is also a live demo available. It sounds like soon the admin features will be exposed too. https://demo.jellyfin.org/stable/

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