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reference Jellyfin Jellyfin media server on Dankserver — quadlet unit, entropy-volume data layout, ports, client access, and hardware-transcode status.
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Jellyfin

Jellyfin is the free media server on Dankserver — a podman quadlet service (jellyfin.service, generated from dankserver/jellyfin/quadlet/jellyfin.container) serving music, movies, and shows over LAN. It replaced the earlier research brief; it runs alongside Plex, which remains the primary server for some clients.

Host: Dankserver (192.168.0.235) — Access: http://192.168.0.235:8096, public vhost jelly.franksdank.cloud behind the Anubis guard chain → Authentik outpost (post-auth route proxies localhost:8096).

Facts (verified from the live unit, 2026-09-03)

Item Value
Unit ~/.config/containers/systemd/jellyfin.container → jellyfin.service (user manager), Restart=always, RestartSec=5
Image ghcr.io/jellyfin/jellyfin:latest
Network dankserver_appnet; publishes 8096/tcp, 8920/tcp, 7359/udp, 1900/udp
Data roots /home/dank/Containers/jellyfin/config:/config, /home/dank/Containers/jellyfin/cache:/cache
Media Volume=/mnt/entropy:/data:ro — the whole Entropy Volume mounted read-only; nothing automated writes to it
GPU none — no AddDevice; CPU decode only (jellyfin-ffmpeg path)
Env quirks DOTNET_SYSTEM_IO_DISABLEFILELOCKING=true, LD_PRELOAD=libjemalloc.so.2, MALLOC_TRIM_THRESHOLD_=131072 kept verbatim from the compose-era container (zero-drift cutover)
Health curl -f http://localhost:8096/health every 30 s

Data layout

/home/dank/Containers/jellyfin/config   -> /config   (JELLYFIN_DATA_DIR)
/home/dank/Containers/jellyfin/cache    -> /cache    (JELLYFIN_CACHE_DIR, XDG_CACHE_HOME)
/mnt/entropy                            -> /data     (read-only media volume)

Library folders point at /data paths; because the mount uses the same absolute path as on the host, library paths survive container recreation.

Ports & access

Port Proto Purpose
8096 TCP Web UI + API (JELLYFIN_PublishedServerUrl=http://192.168.0.235:8096)
8920 TCP DLNA/UPnP root device control
7359 UDP service discovery (client auto-discovery)
1900 UDP SSDP discovery

Client access paths and the public-exposure policy (auth wall required before any public vhost; Plex-style claim tokens do not exist here — Jellyfin uses its own users/API keys) follow the fleet Authentik/Anubis chain pattern.

Configuration workflow

  1. Create libraries pointing at /data folders (movies, shows, audio).
  2. Set metadata/language preferences (LANG=en_US.UTF-8 pinned in the unit).
  3. Configure clients to use http://192.168.0.235:8096 or the guarded vhost.

See Also