🪼📺 How to Set Up A Jellyfin — A Media Server

Installing The Jellyfin

Download Jellyfin at https://jellyfin.org/downloads/windows/
Install as usual
Setup your media server, descriptions, library, and other details
Go to Dashboard→Playback→Transcoding→choose your hardware acceleration and save.

Setting Up Cloudflared

1. Auth your Cloudflare

cloudflared tunnel login

2. Create the Tunnel

This will output a tunnel ID

cloudflared tunnel create jellyfin-tunnel

3. Create a File Config

Create this file C:\Users\<Username>\.cloudflared\config.yml and paste this

tunnel: <YOUR_TUNNEL_ID>
credentials-file: C:\Users\Rohim\.cloudflared\<YOUR_TUNNEL_ID>.json

ingress:
  - hostname: tv.yourdomain.com
    service: http://127.0.0.1:8096
  - service: http_status:404

4. Create the DNS Record

cloudflared tunnel route dns jellyfin-tunnel tv.yourdomain.com

5. Run the Tunnel

cloudflared tunnel run jellyfin-tunnel

Known Issues

#1 Long Buffer When Accessing Through Domain

Using cloudflare to route your local jellyfin would cause the cloudflare to cache the whole file before streaming it to client
The solution was to disable by using Cloudflare cache rules. Set “match against” to “Hostname equals yourdomain.com”

#2 Incorrect Anime Metadata

Sometimes anime metadata doesn’t match and quiet incorrect
The solution was to use AniList instead. Enable it in the plugin section in Jellyfin server settings.
Set the folder & file naming convention as follows:

—Anime
——Shingeki no Kyojin
———Season 01
————Shingeki no Kyojin S01E01.mp4

#3 Subtitle Missing

It was bad if your subtitle were in AAS format and MKV video. Extract the AAS subtitle into SRT instead.

winget install ffmpeg

And run this in the folder containing the mkv

for %i in (*.mkv) do ffmpeg -i "%i" -map 0:s:0 "%~ni.srt"