Tips, updates, and guides from the JellyWatch team.
Turn your Jellyfin library into a private 200-inch VR cinema. This guide covers dedicated Jellyfin VR apps like JellyVR and JellyQuest, VR players such as Skybox over DLNA or SMB, and Bigscreen for watching together, plus the network setup that makes it smooth.
Serve your Jellyfin library to users worldwide with low latency using Cloudflare R2 for storage and Workers for edge logic. This advanced guide covers uploading media to R2, creating STRM files for Jellyfin, building a Worker that handles range requests and authentication, cost analysis vs traditional VPS hosting, and the honest limitations of this approach.
Go beyond basic webhooks. Build a Discord or Telegram bot that shows what is currently playing on your Jellyfin server, lets users search your library, request media, and receive rich embed notifications with poster artwork - all from a chat message.
Jellyfin handles music libraries alongside video - but getting the best experience requires the right folder structure, metadata plugins, mobile clients, and scrobbling setup. This complete guide covers everything from FLAC organization to Last.fm integration.
Jellyfin runs dozens of background tasks that can spike CPU and cause buffering during playback. This guide explains every task, which to disable, how to reschedule heavy tasks (Trickplay, Intro Skipper, chapter extraction) to run overnight, and how to monitor their impact.
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.
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.
Correct file naming is the foundation of a working Jellyfin library. This complete guide covers naming conventions for movies, TV shows, anime (absolute numbering), music, multi-version files, extras, specials, and collections - with copy-paste examples for every edge case and common mistakes to avoid.
Build a fully automated Jellyfin media stack in 2026. This guide covers Radarr for movies, Sonarr for TV shows, Bazarr for subtitles, and Jellyseerr for user requests all wired together with Docker Compose so new content appears in your library automatically.
