Jellyfin is a free alternative for Plex (and as you may have noticed Plex has gotten a little top heavy lately)
Unfortunately, the people behind Jellyfin dropped the ball with the latest version - at least for Windows - as it simply doesn't 'auto' install. But fixing it isn't too hard.
Server
1. Download Jellyfin server for Windows - the AMD64 version - from https://repo.jellyfin.org/?path=/server/windows/latest-stable.
2. Run it. Install it as an application.
This may trigger some firewall questions. If so, let Jellyfin through the firewall.
3. Nothing happens next.
It's supposed to do something (open your browser and allow you to play with it), but it doesn't. On my machine I'm running it as an app, under a specific non-admin user. That might be the root cause of my problem, I dunno.
Here's how to continue:
4. Launch "C:\Program Files\Jellyfin\Server\jellyfin-windows-tray\Jellyfin.Windows.Tray.exe"
5. RMB on the new trayicon
6. Stop Jellyfin
7. Start Jellyfin
This may trigger some firewall questions. Allow Jellyfin through the firewall
8. Make sure Autostart is ON
9. Sign out, then back into the account you just used to install Jellyfin
10. Browse (from any machine) to http://192.168.0.7:8096/ or whatever the path to your server is.
You should now be able to configure Jellyfin. Note that you need a username / password combo also for regular clients.
For admin I used admin / secret 🤔
And - obviously - for clients I use user / user 😁
Client
You can use the browser, but if you want a better experience and support for surround sound etc. you can try the official Jellyfin client, or one of the alternatives.
1. Go to https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-desktop?tab=readme-ov-file#development-builds and scroll a little down
2. Download the Windows x64 client
3. Unpack it somewhere. There isn't an installer, so you just have to copy the contents to a convenient plate.
For this purpose, I tend to keep a folder c:\software around, in which I install anything that doesn't follow the Windows app installation rules. So, I placed all the contents into c:\software\jellyfin_desktop
4. Start it.
The app to start would then be c:\software\jellyfin_desktop\jellyfin-desktop.exe
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