Tips, updates, and guides from the JellyWatch team.
qBittorrent 5.2.1 patches a high-severity SSRF vulnerability and fixes startup crashes, on top of the major 5.2.0 feature update with free disk space display, tracker status filters, and reboot automation. Here is what to know before upgrading.
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.
Dispatcharr is a self-hosted IPTV stream proxy and connection manager that sits between your IPTV provider and Jellyfin or Emby. It manages concurrent stream limits, provides automatic failover between providers, offers real-time stream statistics, and eliminates the buffering caused by exceeding your provider connection cap. Complete Docker setup guide with Jellyfin and Emby integration.
qBittorrent 5.2.0 is a major release with category-level share limits, WebUI performance improvements, async piece calculation, and a long list of crash fixes. Here is everything that changed and what Jellyfin admins running Radarr and Sonarr need to know before upgrading.
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.
