Jellyfin SyncPlay Fix
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bugs69bunny · 2023-12-14 06:14

I spent the last few days pulling my hair out trying to get Jellyfin
SyncPlay to work. I finally figured out that it doesn’t work well at
all with the jellyfin/jellyfin image, but if you use the image from
linuxserver.io, it totally works. Gamechanger for movie night with
friends!

I couldn’t find that anyone else posted this anywhere, so I thought
I’d post this for people who encounter the same issue as I did in the
future.

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lannistersstark · 2023-12-14 07:46

What were the issues you were encountering? The weird stuttering mess?
I get that issue the moment I click SyncPlay, and I'm using the
lscr.io image lol.

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bugs69bunny · 2023-12-14 12:19

Joining groups didn’t work. I would make a group on one device and it
wouldn’t show up on the other device. From what I’ve read (including
your experience), it sounds like even with the lscr.io image syncplay
isn’t a perfect feature, but at least setting up the groups works lol.

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krysztal · 2023-12-14 12:26

Still broken, huh? I remember fighting with making it work on my
setup, iirc my problem was about the feature generating too long links
that would be blocked somewhere on the server side or something...