Tips, updates, and guides from the JellyWatch team.
Jellyfin buffering ruining your streams? This complete 2026 guide covers every cause - local network, 4K transcoding, CPU overload, and remote access - with step-by-step fixes.
Optimize your Emby server for smooth 4K streaming. Learn hardware requirements, bitrate control, and monitoring strategies.
Fix Emby buffering, high CPU usage, and slow performance with this step-by-step optimization guide.
Complete Emby server setup guide for 2026. Learn hardware requirements, installation steps, performance tuning, scaling strategies, and monitoring best practices.
Discover the best Emby plugins in 2026 to improve metadata, subtitles, performance, and user experience. Complete guide with setup tips and monitoring advice.
Create a professional-grade monitoring dashboard for your Jellyfin server using Grafana and Prometheus. Track streams, transcoding, CPU, storage, and user activity with beautiful real-time graphs.
Jellyseerr and Overseerr are both deprecated - Seerr is their official successor. This complete guide covers Docker, Unraid, Windows, and Kubernetes migration, how to back up your data, and how to avoid losing your entire request history.
Choosing between Jellyfin, Plex, and Emby in 2026? This definitive comparison covers pricing (free vs $119 vs $249), privacy, hardware transcoding, 4K HDR support, plugin ecosystems, mobile apps, remote access, and scalability - with a clear recommendation for every type of self-hoster.
Build a Jellyfin server from scratch in 2026 - hardware selection, Docker installation, plugin setup, 4K HDR configuration, reverse proxy, and monitoring. Everything you need to go from zero to streaming in one guide.
