Tips, updates, and guides from the JellyWatch team.
Add a Netflix-style Skip Intro button to Jellyfin. This complete guide covers the correct repository, installation, the settings that matter, the initial analysis and its CPU cost, client compatibility, and how to fix detection that fails.
Subtitles drifting or off by a few seconds in Jellyfin? Learn the difference between constant offset and frame-rate drift, fix it instantly with the player offset, resync the file permanently with ffsubsync, and automate everything with Bazarr.
Jellyfin dashboard taking forever to load? Library browsing feels sluggish? This guide covers the real causes - slow metadata storage, EF Core 10.11 regressions, large library enumeration, plugin overhead, and database bloat - with proven fixes.
Cannot connect to your Jellyfin server? This troubleshooting guide covers firewall rules, Docker networking, port conflicts, SSL certificate errors, DNS issues, and reverse proxy misconfigurations - with step-by-step fixes.
Jellyfin playing video but no audio? This guide covers every cause - unsupported codecs like TrueHD and DTS, wrong audio track selection, client compatibility, transcoding failures, and passthrough settings - with fixes for each scenario.
Jellyfin library showing empty after adding media? Movies not appearing after a scan? This complete troubleshooting guide covers every cause - file permissions, naming errors, Docker volume mapping, NAS mount issues, and metadata scan failures - with step-by-step fixes.
Can you cast Jellyfin to a Chromecast? Yes - but with caveats. This guide covers Chromecast support in the official Jellyfin apps, Google TV native app installation, casting from Android and browsers, codec compatibility, and how to fix the most common casting issues.
Wrong posters, misidentified movies, missing episode info metadata issues are the most common Emby frustration. This complete 2026 guide covers TMDB and TVDB matching, NFO files, custom artwork, bulk refresh strategies, and how to lock metadata to prevent overwrites.
Wrong posters, misidentified movies, missing episode info - metadata issues are the most common Jellyfin frustration. This guide covers TMDB matching, NFO files, custom artwork, and bulk metadata fixes.
