I can never go back, I can see why torrenting is so popular in Canada

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And it's easy to share your server with friends and relatives so that they don't have to go through the same process to watch these shows.
I was sharing my Netflix account with my mom and dad, now that I can't without paying more, I just pulled the plug on that subscription and add the shows they want to my server.
- What is the easy way to share jellyfin over the internet? Portforwarding doesn't work for me cause I don't have a static ip address
  EDIT: I thank all the answers but none of them seem actually easy
  
  The issue of dynamic IP addresses is solved using a service like DuckDNS. Space Invader has some tutorials on it: https://youtu.be/CS72kN2c6hU
  
  Purchase a domain and host it with a reverse proxy to your internal net.
  
  I just use a free dynamic DNS provider (ie: DuckDNS), and most home routers are able to publish IP address changes to that DNS, otherwise you just need a small software to publish those change, which you can do ok the server hosting Jellyfin.
  
  The easiest way is to setup tailscale on the server, then share the server with the web interface. Your friends/family simply install the tailscale client, login, and it just connects like magic. No port forwarding or firewall configuration required. There's plenty of how-tos out there.
  tailscale.com
  
  VPN. Wireguard is pretty easy.
  
  I wouldn't bother with a paid dynamic DNS. Most domain registrars let you change your DNS record with an API call (I know GoDaddy does because I use them.)
  Then you just set up a cron job to fetch your IP and then change your DNS record to match. I use a subdomain because my main domain hosts a blog and some other stuff on a VPS, while my jellyfin server is at home.
  A good search would be "[registrar name] dynamic DNS script"
  
  Ddns is your answer, check your router and see what it can support or just go with whatever you feel good for you and install their updater on your server.
  
  Run a VPS as a VPN server with ports forwarded. Run a VPN client on your router to forward Internet facing traffic from Jellyfin to said VPN tunnel. Essentially, open ports on the VPS instead of your own router. This is conceptually similar to Cloudflare tunnels.
  
  I've set up a cloudflare tunnel, all you need is a domain. It forwards my local Jellyfin instance to the public web, and is easy to get started with. I'm not sure how secure it is though, so I would appreciate any advice from more enlightened pirates.
  
  Doesnt matter if you have dynamic or static.
  But it will matter once CG-NAT comes into play.
  Sincerely a dynamic IP jellyfin user with a reverse proxy.
- Is there an easy, free method of doing this securely and privately (as in masked from the ISP) in a way that doesn't involve me having to manage the network of the person I'm sharing with?
  For example, I can use Tailscale for free, but then I have to make sure my friends know how to use that, and that's a tall order. Not to mention the fact it won't work on things like Roku.
  
  VPN and have them punch in to a cheap or free cloud instance that acts as a hub router.
  You give them a config file and they feed it to their device or router, use a private subnet in the 10.0.0.0/8 range because everyone is on 192.168.1.0/24 and then they just hit it at 10.0.0.1 or whatever.
  I like Wireguard but you might have to use something with layer 2 support if you want service discovery to work for true zero config.
  
  You have to expose it to the internet if you don't want your users to have to configure a vpn. Ensure good passwords and consider running a rate limiter.
  Too keep hidden from ISP, you can use tailscale funnel.
  
  It isn't free, but I use a seedbox for running my Plex server. That way none of the media downloading is done on our local internet, all the ISP should see is that we are streaming data from a Plex server. They'd have no knowledge on if we own that data or not. I'm sure Jellyfin can also easily be run from a seedbox
  Having a seedbox is also helpful because our internet has a pretty low upload speed, which would make watching anything outside the house a massive pain.

It gets even worse when a number of anime aren't even licensed for your country so you can only stream them via VPN. Looking at you Crunchyroll
- Or when Crunchyroll has seasons 2 and 3 of an anime, but not season 1. Looking at you, FLCL.
  
  I still think one of the craziest examples of multiplatform streaming being required is from Pokemon. They have a whole guide on how to watch every season:
  https://www.pokemon.com/us/animation/where-to-watch-pokemon-episodes-movies
  Edit: oh, and this is AFTER the death of Pokemon TV, their own streaming service lol.
  
  A huge part of that is season 1 of FLCL is two decades and entire production companies apart. It's likely entirely down to a matter of how difficult it is to get rights for anime. Cartoon network was involved in the two new HD seasons, and is much easier to deal with that Gainax.
  
  Crunchyroll's UI on Roku and other TVs also sucks balls, and is prone to crashing on the slightest whim.
  
  TIL there's more than one season of FLCL - loved that show back in the day. Is the new stuff good?

Ooooh....wait... by streaming you mean netflix, etc...
Can we please invent a word for streaming pirated content?
- I think it should be streaming.
  Netflix etc. should be creaking, like streaming but slower, less content, less pressure, etc.
- Plundering, it's petfect
- Keelhauling?
- I can think of a fine word that also brings to mind flowing water - torrenting!
  
  But ironically that isn't the same as streaming
- Streaming would work
- Piraming 💀
  
  preaming
- Planking.
- Pirating
- Sailing
- Strailing could work well. A combination of streaming and sailing, as in sailing the high seas.
- Oceaning or seaing. Because pirates don't sail streams.

I just go to 9anime, whoever runs that site is a golden god. They got all the anime, a shit ton of manga and it's all free.
- Isn't 9anime called aniwave now?
- I got like 100 sites like 9 anime .... They all source their anime and manga from like 5-6 sources ... I have so many cos I like trying out new UIs and many of them are quite creative with their website design (I use UBO so no ads or popups tho)

Heck yeah! Jellyfin FTW!!!
- Thank you for giving me just enough curiosity to look up what Jellyfin is. I've been wanting to set up a media server but lost interest quick when I realized Plex seems to have completely moved away from being a media server program. I'm so stoked to give it a proper try.
  Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfin
  Website: https://jellyfin.org/
  Github: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin
  
  Give it a try.
  I was a Plex early adopter. Left Plex for Jellyfin when the Jellyfin project was barely a year old because it was clear where Plex was heading. (Emby was another option then, but they made some decisions I couldn't abide so I skipped right over them)
  0 regrets, and even my non-technical spouse and two children have no problem with it.
  Everyone's got their opinions, but the one guy slagging off Jellyfin below sounds like he's never actually used it.
  
  I setup jellyfin plus the arr stack on an rpi4 and man has that little thing changed my life, all the content I could ever want just for the cost of a Usenet provider. Hope you enjoy man!
  
  realized Plex seems to have completely moved away from being a media server program
  It is still a great media server no mater what the Jellyfin fanclub says. Jellyfin is great, but from a user experience perspective it's just not in the same league as something as polished as Plex and if your userbase is not just IT workers and FOSS enthusiasts (or you enjoy a good looking and working UI) Plex is the place to go.
  
  No, thank you for making me get out of bed to set it up on my server.
  The mobile app is so much better. Plex works better on LG WebOS, but I'd say it's on equal footing on Google TV.
  Tailscale also seemed to work perfectly fine for remote access.

Okay, thanks to this post I just discovered Jellyfin and though I haven't even downloaded it yet because I'm on mobile, i tabbed back over here from reading their description page to thank you for this.
I've been looking for other solutions but none of them seemed to be incredibly well supported or implemented
- Jellyfin is what Plex should be.
  
  Yea, Plex requiring an internet connect just to stream locally tells me all I need to know about them.
  
  I'm still waiting for it to be up to par, I have jellyfin on the server and I check it maybe once a month with the latest version but it still fails miserably with my library.
  It's a very clean high organized library managed by sonarr. All Files are in
  "series name (year) > Season xx > series name SxxExx (episode title)"
  format and yet it still just fails miserably at matching so much of my content (its a rather massive library) especially on anime. Half the time I have to manually match it, and I have to use the Japanese title in order to pull up the English metadata, because that makes sense.
  Playback also just... Fails for no reason on tons of my devices. It's been getting better recently but until it's on par with Plex I am not leaving sadly

I finally got jellyfin working and I gotta say the UI is better than Plex in most ways, and it mostly works, but it is just a little glitchy at times. As one example, the auto play next episode feature has never worked in my browser. It will just stay stuck on "0 seconds until next episode starts". That and for some reason I had trouble getting it setup on my streaming device on the same network.. Local hostname wouldn't work. Said it couldn't find any servers locally on my network, so I had to use my IP address. So when (not if) that IP changes I'll have to troubleshoot.
Once they smooth out issues like that, I may ditch Plex even though I paid for it.
- Yea I tried jellyfin, but I went back to Plex. Too many specific features on Plex that I got used to, that Jellyfin doesn't have.
  
  What was it missing?
- it couldn't find any servers locally on my network, so I had to use my IP address. So when (not if) that IP changes I'll have to troubleshoot.
  One workaround that I can think of is to use ip reservation to give your devices the same ip address whenever they connect. You might find that setting under DHCP on your router. Or just use a static ip on the server.
  
  I'll try. Unfortunately my ISP showed up to connect my service and claimed I had to use their router so I'm a little stuck with whatever it can do
- I'd encourage you to file a bug report for any issues you have. You are most likely not the only one and it will help all users of the software.
  
  You know what’s nice about Plex? Im not expected to be a free QA for them.
  I swear 2/3 of this thread is people saying “Jellyfin is so much better than Plex. You should switch! You just have to do 30 hours of maintenance and another 50 of tweaking and it works almost exactly like the software you already use!!”
- One other thing that sucks is lack of cast support on finamp and 90% of the time when I reopen the app it's lost the progress of what I was listening to. Ui is worse than plexamp but a long shot imo.
- Same
  Next, add jellyseerr to the setup for a even more convenient setup 😉
- Static IP that shit.

Haha I was so confused until I realized they meant "legally streaming anime". Ri-dicks

Yo ho ho
- Me when I find that perfect rip: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ivzSZ9FzsFk
  
  Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
  https://m.piped.video/watch?v=ivzSZ9FzsFk
  Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
  I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
  
  Hahaha not bad

Oh Canada
- You're no fan of us? Cause our movie and TV shows are so amateur?
  Edit: I guess they're aren't many Classified fans on Lemmy
  
  Our home and native land
  
  Movie singular?
  
  I mean...tbh...half the shit I find on our local networks isn't that interesting tbh...

Just wait until you find out about news groups 🤯
- Spill the tea I want the open secrets
  
  Spill the tea
  
  I guess he’s talking about the Usenet, a way to get your warez via direct download from a Usenet provider. This makes it possible to pirate legally with blazing fast speed (like 5 to 10 min for 4k movies) and with the right Indexers, you can find any release existing in predb 😎
  
  Newsgroups go over an encrypted connection so no need to mess with VPNs and torrent boxes etc. subscribe to one or two nzb sites, a news group host and wire it up with somarr locally.

I still have disney and amazon prime from somewhere, I sure as fuck didn't pay for Disney. But i still just rather sonarr that shit.
- I currently have a prime sub, but anything I watch on prime I just pirate instead. I'm on linux so torrenting gets me better video quality.

Ok but what about streaming them in the seas media group?

I hear a lot about Jellyfin, may I ask what it exactly is?
Is it like a library of the things, you have downloaded?
I currently just download shows and put them in folders like “MHA S6” and then proceed to watch with VLC.
- It's like Plex but free and open source

How do I grant Jellyfin access to an external drive on Ubuntu?

Anyone know how to get subs to work properly on jellyfin, specifically on a Google TV client? About half of my content has nonnembedded subs with the sub file in its own folder, I can't use subs for those shows, they just don't appear
- AFAIK the subs have to be in the same folder as the video and bear the same name:
  s03e01.mp4
  s03e01.srt
  
  Thanks ill try this out, think my file names differ

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