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plex uses a centralized service for this kinda of nonsense. most of us are using standalone server products.
this use case calls for either centralized storage (s3 bucket) or access mechanism(all them vpns) to distributed channels (ala plex)... but friends dont let friends use plex.
im curious about ipfs as distributed file systems sound like a new kink i should have
I would love to get rid of Plex, but jellyfin failed the spouse test last summer and it never really liked my GDrive mount
Plus, Plex clients are everywhere, so it's all but guaranteed that whoever I decide to onboard is going to have something compatible. I've even had early smart TV's from like 2013 with that weird Yahoo app store thing that had a Plex app that still worked even when the Netflix app didn't lolol
Funnily enough, my wife is the only person who likes jellyfin. It works perfectly for her. Everyone else? I've never had it work even once. And I have no damn idea why.
ha, i feel ya on the spouse. in the house i use local kodi on pis with a shared backend. that same source runs jellyin for the kids/outside the house
ive had the same interface for the wife on kodi/xbmc for probably 10 years
ive found kodi+jellyfin fits all my use cases
Can you not just use a reverse proxy for your jeyllfin server and add multiple servers to the same client?
jellyfin addresses files locally. i dont know how you could stitch together remote machines
I'm surprised the client doesn't support switching between servers. When I had jellyfin running I exposed it through traefik to allow external playback. Figure it would make sense that you could just show multiple servers in the UI. Add several reverse proxied addresses and boom.
Then I have multiple jellyfin servers in the app.... That's not what I want, I want a single mount where all the media of all nodes is accessible
You definitely can. Idk why the commentor above you thinks its local only?
I have two severs I swap between exactly like you describe.
Thats what I thought.
yeah, that might work for what op is tryin to do, maybe, assuming jellyfin fits his client needs
tell me why i shouldn't use plex as I'm always tempted by it whenever these threads come up and everyone who uses it is so happy.
But free/libre is so much more delicious.
But don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.