Tips, updates, and guides from the JellyWatch team.
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.
Jellyfin runs dozens of background tasks that can spike CPU and cause buffering during playback. This guide explains every task, which to disable, how to reschedule heavy tasks (Trickplay, Intro Skipper, chapter extraction) to run overnight, and how to monitor their impact.
How much CPU, RAM, and storage does a Jellyfin server actually need in 2026? This guide covers minimum and recommended specs for every use case - from a single-user home setup to a multi-user 4K server - with real-world transcoding benchmarks.
Is Jellyfin using 100% CPU? Learn every cause of high CPU usage in Jellyfin - transcoding, metadata scans, plugins, and idle spikes - and how to fix each one.
Jellyfin buffering ruining your streams? This complete 2026 guide covers every cause - local network, 4K transcoding, CPU overload, and remote access - with step-by-step fixes.
Create a professional-grade monitoring dashboard for your Jellyfin server using Grafana and Prometheus. Track streams, transcoding, CPU, storage, and user activity with beautiful real-time graphs.
