Tips, updates, and guides from the JellyWatch team.
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.
Run and optimize Jellyfin on Windows 10/11 in 2026. Covers installation as a Windows Service, Intel QSV and NVIDIA NVENC hardware transcoding, firewall rules, Windows Defender exclusions, sleep prevention, and remote access via Cloudflare Tunnel or Tailscale. Not to be confused with Windows Server - this guide targets home desktop PCs.
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.
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.
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.
