Jellyfin

Jellyfin is a personal media server. The Jellyfin project was started as a result of Emby's decision to take their code closed-source, as well as various philosophical differences with the core developers. Jellyfin seeks to be the free software alternative to Emby and Plex to provide media management and streaming from a dedicated server to end-user devices.

Jellyfin is descended from Emby 3.5.2, ported to the .NET Core framework, and aims to contain build facilities for every platform.

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Feature Requests

While our first priority is a stable build, we will eventually add features that were missing in Emby or were not well implemented (technically or philosophically).

Feature Requests

Building Jellyfin packages

Jellyfin seeks to integrate build facilities for any desired packaging format. Instructions for the various formats can be found below.

Debian/Ubuntu

Debian build facilities are integrated into the repo at debian/.

1. Install the dotnet-sdk-2.1 package via Microsoft's repositories.
2. Run dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -jX, where X is your core count.
3. Install the resulting jellyfin*.deb file on your system.

A huge thanks to Carlos Hernandez who created the Debian build configuration for Emby 3.1.1.

Windows (64 bit)

A pre-built windows installer will be available at The JellyFin Repository.

1. Install the dotnet core SDK 2.1 from Microsoft's Webpage
2. Clone Jellyfin into a directory of your choice. From that directory run in powershell dotnet publish -c Release -r win10-x64 MediaBrowser.sln -o $Env:APPDATA\Jellyfin-Server or in CMD dotnet publish -c Release -r win10-x64 MediaBrowser.sln -o %APPDATA%\Jellyfin-Server
3. (Optional) Copy the ffmpeg binaries into the Jellyfin directory:

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/win64/static/ffmpeg-4.1-win64-static.zip -UseBasicParsing -OutFile $env:TEMP\fmmpeg.zip
Expand-Archive $env:TEMP\fmmpeg.zip -DestinationPath $env:TEMP\ffmpeg\
Get-ChildItem "$env:temp\ffmpeg\ffmpeg-4.1-win64-static\bin" | ForEach-Object {
    Copy-Item $_ -Destination $Env:AppData\JellyFin-Server\
}
Remove-Item $env:TEMP\ffmpeg\ -Recurse -Force
Remove-Item $env:TEMP\fmmpeg.zip -Force

4. (Optional) Use NSSM to configure JellyFin to run as a service
5. Jellyfin is now available in your Appdata\Roaming directory. To start it from a powershell window, &"$env:APPDATA\Jellyfin-Server\EmbyServer.exe"