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But, this time I though of how do I easiest view movies - and the though of a Media server came to mind.
So, I could have used Plex, but decided to go with JellyFin. Could also have been Emby, Plex or Kodi or a lot of other alternatives... one advantage of Jellyfin seems to be the support for Symlinks.
You should be aware of a few differences:
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Personally I have abandoned Plex totally for Jellyfin after this article as I find it clumsy and wierd. But - there are clients for many devices, including Samsung TVs. Update Marts 2025 - I have actually used plex for it - again - due to having Plex elsewhere, and the being able to share the Camera Libraries with my normal Plex account. But as a stand-alone solution JellyFin is the best. |
Again, very easy to spin up an Jellyfin server in a docker container:
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version: '3.4'
services:
emby:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/emby:latest
container_name: emby
environment:
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
- TZ=Europe/Copenhagen
volumes:
- /data/emby/library:/config
- /tvshows:/data/tvshows
- /ftp:/data/movies
ports:
- 8096:8096
- 8920:8920 #optional
restart: unless-stopped |
Or a Plex:
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version: '3.4'
services:
plex:
container_name: plex
restart: unless-stopped
image: plexinc/pms-docker
volumes:
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
- /data/plex/config:/config
- /data/plex/temp:/transcode
- /ftp:/data
ports:
- "32400:32400"
environment:
TZ: "Europe/Copenhagen"
PLEX_UID: "1000"
PLEX_GID: "1000" |
Where /ftp is where my cameres cameras drops the movies via FTP:
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❯ ls -l total 68 drwxr-xr-x 3 camera www-data 4096 Jan 26 17:24 behindhouse drwxr-xr-x 3 camera www-data 4096 Jan 26 17:04 bigshed drwxr-xr-x 4 camera www-data 4096 Feb 6 14:29 carport drwxr-xr-x 3 camera www-data 4096 Jan 26 17:23 frontdoor drwxr-xr-x 3 camera www-data 4096 Jan 26 13:05 garden |
Start Jellyfin (or Emby), create a user and create 5 Libraries (one pr. cam) to the folders. make sure to select content type: Home videos and photos - to avoid Jellyfin trying to get IMDB metadata etc:
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