Not OP but I used

https://yams.media/

which I thought was pretty easy to setup.

Oh! In addition, if you want to access it from a tv or mobile device you install the client on those devices and point them at the same IP and port. My lg tv has jellyfin in the store, firesticks have it, play store (i assume apple app store too) amd the server can be managed from there too.

You can set up users and allow each user to acces different content in the settings which is good if you have kids and want to keep them from watching john wick 😜

I've had trouble getting Jellyfish to stream anything. The error message it gives you in the client GUI make it sound like the problem is client-side, but it always ends up being permissions on the server (for me, anyway).

I ended up having to move my media drive into /mnt/ (rather than /mnt//) and allow Jellyfin to access that folder - the Jellyfin service needs permissions.

The Jellyfin log files will show you that is having trouble accessing the files of this is the issue.

Perhaps its been made easier now as i don't think i did much more than running the installer. My pc is on windows though, my server will likely be using some version of linux. I want to learn linux but need my main pc too much to make it a daily driver.

I used these instrctions for the windows installer

https://jellyfin.org/docs/

(Click the windows link there)

Run the installer (can set it as a service but thats only necessary if you want to run it on boot instead of after login. Afaik.)

Once installed you can access it via your local ipaddress:8096 (eg http://192.168.1.100:8096/)

From there you can head to management in the menus and set up your folders for movies/tv shows etc. You just make some folders somewhere on your pc and point it at those. Download all your content and organise it in there. Jellyfin is quite good at dividing things up into individual series and uses meta data to fill in names and thumbnails etc. And you can select the 3 dots when hovering over any thumbnails to edit the metadata or add custom thumnails etc.

I just tinker with it though. Decide what settings you want to use. I still need to set up https but need to look into self signed certificates and stuff first.

Hope that helps.

Need to stream at home or away from home?