# Jellyfin opensource Plex/Emby fork **URL:** \ **Category:** Requests\ **Created:** [17 February 2019 22:45 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959 "2019-02-17T22:45:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![johnmierau](https://dietpi.com/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@johnmierau](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/johnmierau)\ **Post date:** [17 February 2019 22:45 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/1 "2019-02-17T22:45:03Z")
Jellyfin is an opensource fork of Emby. They seem to have settled a kerfuffle with Emby resulting in them receiving legalese on Christmas eve, and appear to now be running a GPL-ified alternative to Plex. Please take a look and if it passes your sniff test, please consider including jellyfin in dietpi…which I love, thank you for making such a valuable resource. [https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin) ---
**Author:** ![MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/michaing/32/7_2.png) [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)\ **Post date:** [18 February 2019 10:48 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/2 "2019-02-18T10:48:11Z")
johnmierau Thanks for your request. Does it provide the same (moreless) features than “Emby Premiere” does? Looks similar to ownCloud =\> Nextcloud fork then, besides, Nextcloud has still paid developers, providing support plans for e.g. companies and organisations. Very active development currently, looks like the community-only development works out so far 🙂. Install looks easy via own repo or individual deb package: [https://jellyfin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/administrator-docs/installing/#debian](https://jellyfin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/administrator-docs/installing/#debian) BUT: Only x86\_64 supported. That is a big bumper! > ported to the .NET Core framework to enable full cross-platform support And actually it reduced the amount of platforms 🤣, if you take out Windows. And who wants to run a server on Windows? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![johnmierau](https://dietpi.com/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@johnmierau](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/johnmierau)\ **Post date:** [21 February 2019 16:21 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/3 "2019-02-21T16:21:49Z")
Hm. I can see the relativively thin platform support being a problem for an umbrella ecosystem like DietPi. Thanks for the reply and the great work you folks do here. ---
**Author:** ![MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/michaing/32/7_2.png) [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)\ **Post date:** [21 February 2019 20:19 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/4 "2019-02-21T20:19:43Z")
Yeah, I mean if enough users with DietPi on x86 ask for it, no harm to add it and only enable it for x86\_64. Would be not the only software title like this and the DietPi code allows this easily. But of course interest and user space would be larger with ARM support 😉. ---
**Author:** ![Quizzer](https://dietpi.com/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/58f4c7/32.png) [@Quizzer](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Quizzer)\ **Post date:** [9 June 2019 23:28 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/5 "2019-06-09T23:28:19Z")
Hi I think this was bad wording on behalf of Jellyfin. It’s supported on Arm (I run it on my DietPi server on a RPi B). See the assets section: [https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.3.3](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.3.3) Would love for it to be included as an optimised install option. For both increasing visibility of a good project and ease of install. ---
**Author:** ![MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/michaing/32/7_2.png) [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)\ **Post date:** [10 June 2019 00:19 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/6 "2019-06-10T00:19:30Z")
Quizzer Ah nice, this is new! Feel free to add it to [https://feathub.com/MichaIng/DietPi/](https://feathub.com/MichaIng/DietPi/) for raise priority. ---
**Author:** ![Quizzer](https://dietpi.com/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/58f4c7/32.png) [@Quizzer](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Quizzer)\ **Post date:** [10 June 2019 07:28 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/7 "2019-06-10T07:28:12Z")
Hi, thanks. Looks like it’s already there. [https://feathub.com/MichaIng/DietPi/+63](https://feathub.com/MichaIng/DietPi/+63) ---
**Author:** ![johnvick](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/johnvick/32/16_2.png) [@johnvick](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/johnvick)\ **Post date:** [11 June 2019 01:34 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/8 "2019-06-11T01:34:29Z")
I’ve been trying this out and it looks good - but the Kodi plugin does not seem to work and there is not a lot of activity on the plugin on Github. As I use Emby primarily as a back end database for multiple Kodis I’ll need to stick with Emby. John ---
**Author:** ![Quizzer](https://dietpi.com/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/58f4c7/32.png) [@Quizzer](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Quizzer)\ **Post date:** [11 June 2019 13:23 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/9 "2019-06-11T13:23:32Z")
Hi johnvick , That’s exactly how I use it on a couple of my clients and it works exactly as Emby did (without the annoying nag screens on the Web UI for premium features I don’t want/need as well as some important code improvements): - Fire TV Stick Gen 1 + Kodi - Odroid C2 + LibreELEC Ensure you use the Jellyfin for Kodi add-on (instead of Emby for Kodi): [https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-kodi](https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-kodi). ---
**Author:** ![johnvick](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/johnvick/32/16_2.png) [@johnvick](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/johnvick)\ **Post date:** [11 June 2019 19:28 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/10 "2019-06-11T19:28:36Z")
Yes that was the one I tried - Jellyfin on Odroid C2 and Kodi + plugin on two windows 10 PCs - same on both, did not sync the library. Sounds like you got it working easily? John ---
**Author:** ![Quizzer](https://dietpi.com/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/58f4c7/32.png) [@Quizzer](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Quizzer)\ **Post date:** [11 June 2019 22:07 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/11 "2019-06-11T22:07:33Z")
Hi, yes pretty much exactly the same process as using the Emby for Kodi add-on (GitHub user angelblue05 authored both the Emby and Jellyfin add-ons for Kodi so UI, UX wise they’re nigh on identical). Just double checked by installing Kodi Leia on my Mac and it works there too. I can’t imagine Windows 10 Kodi having a unique issue (can’t confirm as I don’t have a Windows machine). Maybe just a wonky (technical term 😉 ) server install first time around? Worth another try? I connect from a couple of non-Kodi clients LG WebOS Photo & Video app (for HDR) and MrMC app on Apple TV & iPhone successfully. Wary of hijacking this thread so feel free to PM me. Or if you’re on Reddit try [https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/](https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/) - pretty active and the devs respond there too. ---
**Author:** ![johnvick](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/johnvick/32/16_2.png) [@johnvick](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/johnvick)\ **Post date:** [12 June 2019 03:35 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/12 "2019-06-12T03:35:29Z")
Thanks for the encouragement, got it working now on fresh Kodi install on WIndows 10. I’m fine to keep this thread here as there are quite a few DietPi/Emby users that may be interested in this. John ---
**Author:** ![Quizzer](https://dietpi.com/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/58f4c7/32.png) [@Quizzer](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Quizzer)\ **Post date:** [14 June 2019 09:37 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/13 "2019-06-14T09:37:57Z")
No problem, glad it’s working. Yeah sounds like a path I took - Plex from it’s launch to Emby a few years ago and now Jellyfin from early this year. Seems like a decent set of devs on the project so I’m hopeful it has a long future - and they’re always looking for help via pull requests from those with the relevant skills (one of the reasons I thought it would be good to get Jellyfin added to the DietPi software list was for visibility). ---
**Author:** ![johnvick](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/johnvick/32/16_2.png) [@johnvick](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/johnvick)\ **Post date:** [14 June 2019 20:09 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/14 "2019-06-14T20:09:50Z")
Have you had any success with hardware transcoding? ---
**Author:** ![Quizzer](https://dietpi.com/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/58f4c7/32.png) [@Quizzer](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Quizzer)\ **Post date:** [17 June 2019 16:05 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/15 "2019-06-17T16:05:44Z")
Personally no. I’ve seen others report it works. I have DietPi running on lowly a RPi b+ so it’s pointless. Also prefer my clients to do the heavy lifting and direct play everything to Kodi (and I don’t watch away from my home network). I actually turn off transcoding at server level (pretty much the sole reason I ditched Plex- it kept trying to transcode when it shouldn’t and no user configurable way of stopping it). ---
**Author:** ![johnvick](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/johnvick/32/16_2.png) [@johnvick](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/johnvick)\ **Post date:** [17 June 2019 18:38 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/16 "2019-06-17T18:38:23Z")
I’ve ordered a Beelink J45 to try transcoding out as my daughter’s Samsung tablet does not cope well with 265 encoded 1080 files. It has a Pentium quad core and Inter 505 graphics so should do something. John ---
**Author:** ![Quizzer](https://dietpi.com/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/q/58f4c7/32.png) [@Quizzer](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Quizzer)\ **Post date:** [19 June 2019 21:38 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/17 "2019-06-19T21:38:39Z")
Nice. The CPU under Debian based Linux should be compatible with VAAPI. Will be interested to hear how you get on. ---
**Author:** ![johnvick](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/johnvick/32/16_2.png) [@johnvick](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/johnvick)\ **Post date:** [20 June 2019 04:47 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/18 "2019-06-20T04:47:37Z")
I’ll report back here. First job is to get DietPi running and then Jellyfin. ---
**Author:** ![ricardocd](https://dietpi.com/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@ricardocd](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/ricardocd)\ **Post date:** [18 August 2019 17:39 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/19 "2019-08-18T17:39:51Z")
I would like to install Jellyfin using Docker. But I need some tutorial. Someone can help me? ---
**Author:** ![johnvick](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/johnvick/32/16_2.png) [@johnvick](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/johnvick)\ **Post date:** [18 August 2019 19:03 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959/20 "2019-08-18T19:03:56Z")
I haven’t tried but have you seen this: [https://jellyfin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/administrator-docs/installing/#docker-hub](https://jellyfin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/administrator-docs/installing/#docker-hub) [Next page](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/jellyfin-opensource-plex-emby-fork/2959.md?page=2)