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.
Hardware transcoding in Docker requires passing your GPU into the container. This guide covers Intel QSV, NVIDIA NVENC, and AMD VAAPI passthrough with verified Docker Compose configurations, driver checks, and troubleshooting for every common failure.
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.
Set up Live TV and IPTV on your Jellyfin server completely free. This guide covers free legal M3U sources (Pluto TV, Samsung TV Plus, Stirr, Plex FAST channels), XMLTV EPG setup, HDHomeRun OTA tuners, DVR recording, and troubleshooting - no Premiere license or paid IPTV subscription required.
Is Jellyfin using 100% CPU? Learn every cause of high CPU usage in Jellyfin - transcoding, metadata scans, plugins, and idle spikes - and how to fix each one.
