Tips, updates, and guides from the JellyWatch team.
Arvio unifies Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, and Stremio into one Android TV interface. Discover the best addons to extend its capabilities: media servers, IPTV, tracking, metadata, and utility addons explained.
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.
Dolby Vision comes in 8 profiles and they don't all play on every device. This guide explains every DV profile (5, 7, 8, and the others), which clients support each, how to identify the profile of your files, and how to convert Profile 7 Blu-ray remuxes to Profile 8 for wider compatibility.
The Jellyfin dashboard is where everything happens - users, libraries, plugins, transcoding, networking. This complete admin reference explains every section, which settings matter, and how to configure them for a real-world setup.
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.
The Raspberry Pi 5 with an NVMe HAT finally solves the Pi storage bottleneck. But does it make the Pi 5 a viable Jellyfin server in 2026? We benchmarked library scan speed, metadata loading, Direct Play performance, and compared it head-to-head against the Intel N100 mini PC. Includes NVMe HAT installation, Docker setup, and honest recommendations for when the Pi 5 is enough and when you should spend $50 more on an N100.
Autopulse is a lightweight file-watching service that triggers targeted Jellyfin library scans the instant a new file appears. No more waiting for scheduled scans. No more full library rescans that spike CPU. A movie finishes downloading and appears in Jellyfin within seconds. This guide covers Docker setup, filesystem monitoring, Jellyfin API integration, and how Autopulse replaces the need for Radarr/Sonarr Connect notifications.
Dispatcharr is a self-hosted IPTV stream proxy and connection manager that sits between your IPTV provider and Jellyfin or Emby. It manages concurrent stream limits, provides automatic failover between providers, offers real-time stream statistics, and eliminates the buffering caused by exceeding your provider connection cap. Complete Docker setup guide with Jellyfin and Emby integration.
Real stories from the Jellyfin community: corrupted databases after power outages, lost watch history from failed 10.11 migrations, drives dying with no backup, and accidental rm -rf on config folders. Each story includes what went wrong, what could have prevented it, and the exact recovery steps. Plus a complete disaster recovery playbook you can implement today.
