Jellyfin
The free-software media system: stream your movies, TV, music and photos.
Jellyfin is the Free Software Media System: a self-hosted media server that lets you collect, manage and stream your own movies, TV shows, music, books and photos to any device, with no tracking, no subscription and no phone-home. It is a community-driven, fully open source project (GPL-2.0), forked from Emby and independent of any single company.
Key features
- Stream your own movie, TV, music, book and photo libraries to a web browser, mobile and TV apps (Android, iOS, Android TV, Fire TV, Roku, Kodi and more)
- Automatic metadata, artwork, subtitles and organization for your media
- Hardware-accelerated transcoding via the bundled jellyfin-ffmpeg so streams adapt to each client and network
- Multi-user accounts with parental controls, per-user libraries and watch state
- Live TV and DVR with a compatible tuner and guide, plus SyncPlay for watching together
- No license fees, no premium unlock and no telemetry: every feature is free and open source
Use cases
- A private, ad-free alternative to commercial streaming for your own media collection
- A household or team media server placed in the PoP nearest your viewers for low-latency playback
- Self-hosted music and photo streaming under your own control
- On-premise media for venues, offices and events without a cloud dependency
Why run it on the NetActuate edge Deploy Jellyfin into a NetActuate PoP near your audience to keep playback paths short and transcoding responsive. The appliance boots straight to Jellyfin's first-run setup wizard on port 8096: create your administrator account, add your libraries, and start streaming. Your configuration and cache persist on the VM disk across reboots.
Upstream project: Jellyfin by the Jellyfin contributors, https://jellyfin.org (GPL-2.0). This appliance packages the unmodified official jellyfin/jellyfin release image (Jellyfin 10.11.11) on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Jellyfin is a project of its upstream authors and community; NetActuate packages and distributes it under the GPL-2.0 license and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Jellyfin project.
Frequently asked questions
How do I deploy Jellyfin on NetActuate?
Use the Deploy on NetActuate button to talk to our team. We provision Jellyfin on a NetActuate virtual machine in the point of presence you choose, close to your audience. Each deployment runs in the single location you select.
What does it cost to run Jellyfin?
Jellyfin is open-source software and free to run on the marketplace - you pay only for the NetActuate compute (virtual-machine size and location) it runs on, at standard rates. There are no usage-based software fees.
Where can Jellyfin run?
Jellyfin can be deployed in any of NetActuate's 45+ points of presence across every continent, so you can place ingest, transcode, delivery and caching close to your contributors and viewers.
Who supports Jellyfin?
NetActuate operates and supports the underlying infrastructure - the virtual machine, network and edge platform. The application itself is supported by its upstream open-source project.
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