Tips, updates, and guides from the JellyWatch team.
The NVIDIA Shield TV remains the best Android TV streaming device for Jellyfin in 2026. This guide covers Direct Play setup, TrueHD and DTS-HD audio passthrough, Dolby Vision configuration, Match Content settings, and how the Shield compares to Apple TV, Fire TV, and Mini PC alternatives.
Three operating systems dominate the homelab space for running Jellyfin: Unraid (flexible, user-friendly), TrueNAS SCALE (ZFS, free, Docker-native since Electric Eel), and Proxmox (hypervisor with LXC and VMs). This comparison covers Docker support, GPU passthrough complexity, storage architecture, backup capabilities, community size, and total cost of ownership for each platform.
TrueNAS Electric Eel replaced Kubernetes with Docker Compose for apps. This complete guide covers installing Jellyfin on TrueNAS 25.04 with the new Apps system, Intel QSV GPU passthrough, ZFS dataset configuration, and automated snapshots for bulletproof backups.
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.
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.
Run Jellyfin on Proxmox with hardware transcoding in an LXC container or VM. This guide covers Intel QSV device mapping (3 lines of config), NVIDIA PCI passthrough, NAS storage mounting via NFS/SMB, performance tuning, and the community helper script that automates the entire setup.
Deploy a complete Jellyfin Docker Compose stack with hardware transcoding in 2026. Copy-paste configurations for Intel QSV and NVIDIA NVENC GPU passthrough, Caddy reverse proxy with automatic SSL, Radarr, Sonarr, and Jellyseerr - from zero to streaming in under 10 minutes.
