Tips, updates, and guides from the JellyWatch team.
Protect your Jellyfin server with two-factor authentication. This guide covers the official TOTP 2FA plugin from the Jellyfin catalog, SSO-based 2FA with Authelia and Authentik, and step-by-step setup instructions for securing every user account on your server.
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.
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.
Master Jellyfin CSS customization in 2026. Install Ultrachromic, KefinTweaks, and the JellyFlix Netflix theme with one click via Skin Manager, or write your own CSS to change colors, hide elements, and build a fully personalized interface. Includes 15+ ready-to-use snippets.
A complete guide to installing Emby Server in 2026 Docker Compose setup, hardware transcoding with Intel QSV and NVIDIA NVENC, Caddy reverse proxy, library configuration, and Emby Premiere activation. Everything you need to go from zero to streaming.
Everything you need to install Jellyfin in 2026 Docker Compose with hardware transcoding, reverse proxy with Caddy, library setup, and first-run configuration. The fastest path from zero to a fully working self-hosted media server.
After the turbulent 10.11 release, the Jellyfin team is considering a major versioning change - dropping the "10" prefix entirely and jumping to 12.0. This article explains the community debate that triggered it, what the new versioning signals, and what features are planned for the next major release.
A detailed technical comparison that went viral on the Emby community forums: after weeks of side-by-side testing, one long-time Emby user concluded that Jellyfin now outperforms Emby in transcoding quality, HDR tone mapping, AV1 support, and codec flexibility. Here is what the data shows.
Hundreds of users hit database migration failures, library loading times of 30+ minutes, and broken Home Videos libraries after upgrading to Jellyfin 10.11. This is the full post-mortem - what went wrong, why, and how the team fixed it across six point releases.
