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  • I’m pretty sure Firefox doesn’t know how to cast, that’s a chrome feature.
    Secondly, a chromecast dongle can either be targetted locally by an app (such as chrome) or over the internet via https.
    If you are just hosting on your windows laptop, you probably don’t have a domain with TLS, yes?
    From localhost (the laptop itself), if you run chrome, you can probably cast to your dongle whilst on the same LAN.

    If you have one of the newer Chromecasts with the remote, you can simply install the Jellyfin app on it directly, and address your Jellyfin install by IP and port.

    Plex uses some fancy redirection work around these limitations, but it relies on an external service that they provide.



  • When you set up your libraries, it’s important that you point the path at the root folder, jellyfin expects a fairly specific naming convention.
    Here’s how it is suggested to setup your tv shows for instance: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/shows

    Simplistically, lets say you have 2 shows called “Friends” and “The Witcher”, each with multiple seasons, and your NFS mount is /mnt/media.
    You’d create something like: /mnt/media/tv
    That’s where you’d point your tv library, at that “tv” directory. It doesn’t actually matter what the directory is called, but the library should be of type “shows”.
    Under that /mnt/media/tv directory, you would create a directory for each show, and it would be the name of that show, so you’d get: /mnt/media/tv/Friends/ and /mnt/media/tv/The Witcher/
    Then under those directories you would create seasons, to put your episodes in, ie /mnt/media/tv/The Witcher/Season 01/The Witcher - 01x01 - The End’s Beginning.avi
    /mnt/media/tv/The Witcher/Season 01/The Witcher - 01x02 - Four Marks.avi

    If you pointed the root of your library at /mnt/media/tv/The Witcher/Season 01/, it would probably fail to parse the episodes.
    If you create your library as /mnt/media/allmystuff/ and just ram everything in there, it’s unlikely to find anything.
    This may all seem a bit complicated, but there’s lots of tools that are useful to automate this process.
    I personally recommend https://sonarr.tv/

    If you are doing all of the above correctly, we’ll have to dig a bit deeper for more details.

    As for “unsupported formats”, that most commonly happens when you have enabled hardware acceleration and it’s not working properly.
    Whilst there’s several reasons why it may not be working, to rule it out, try temporarily disabling Hardware Acceleration under Dashboard -> Playback -> Transcoding.
    The system should fall back to CPU transcoding which may be slow (hardware dependent), but at least it should function.









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    The annoying thing to me is that it’s taken a further 13 years to reach a point where another social network is feasible.
    I’m not saying there haven’t been attempts like diaspora and the early mastadon etc, but now we’re actually reaching a critical mass of participants where a move is worth it.

    The same is true of Signal. I’ve been using it for nearly a decade, but it’s only in the last 2 years that people haven’t rolled their eyes when I mention it’s my preferred comms app.





  • Threads will mainstream threads.
    Any good content here will be available to the Threads users, who will be oblivious to where it is coming from.
    Eventually, Meta will take steps to break compatability, and lots of the most prolific contributors from here will move to Threads exclusively (for a host of valid reasons).
    When it is no longer in Meta interest to federate, they will stop.

    The fediverse will continue, but it will be weakened by it’s temporary reliance on Threads (who could afford to host large images/videos/etc, have lower latency, etc etc).








  • Absolutely possible.
    The key to simple self hosting is to have a dns record that points to your externally accessible IP, whether that be your real one or an external one hosted at a VPN provider.
    If that IP changes, you’ll need to update it dynamically.

    It’s becoming increasibly common to be a requirement to do so as CGNat becomes more widespread.

    One of the newer ways to do that is with a Cloudflare Tunnel, which whilst technically is only for web traffic, they ignore low throughput usage for other things like SSH.