I'm pretty thy a newbie when it comes to networking and stuff, but was wondering if it's possible to run jellyfin as a server on my shield. A bit fed up looking at plex and wondering what alternatives I have. Does anyone have any good suggestions?

Edit: thanks all for the replies and suggestions.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think it's practical. Sure, you could install termux and use that to run Jellyfin, but you won't have a pleasant time.

The better play is, to play spend 30 Bucks on a refurbished thin client and use that as your server. If you install Open Media Vault on there you'll never even have to touch the command line. (You'll have to install OMV-Extras on top of Open Media Vault for that).

[–] rotmulaaginskyrim 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

do you have any suggestions for these refurbished thin clients?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm using a Dell t520. That works really well for me.

But honestly: pretty much every client in that price range should work. Just check whether the (embedded) graphics chip can hardware transcode your media beforehand. And you probably won't run the next Netflix on there but it's more than enough for a family usecase with multiple streams simultaneously.