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How to setup a media server with Jellyfin on CentOS

April 12, 2020 by Sina Jahangiri·0 Comments

Jellyfin is a free software media system that lets you build your own home media system (you can think of it as your own personal Netflix!). You can read about it more here at https://Jellyfin.org

But I found it struggling to set it up on CentOS 7, since there are no official instructions for CentOS.

Here are the steps I took:

1. Install FFmpeg

Run this commands in the CentOS terminal:

sudo yum install epel-release
sudo rpm -v --import http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/RPM-GPG-KEY-nux.ro
sudo rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install ffmpeg ffmpeg-devel

2. Install Jellyfin

Find out that what is the name of the latest stable version here!

At the time of this post, the latest build is jellyfin-10.5.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm. So download it:

wget https://repo.jellyfin.org/releases/server/centos/jellyfin-10.5.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

and install Jellyfin:

sudo yum localinstall jellyfin-10.5.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Enable and start Jellyfin on every reboot:

sudo systemctl enable jellyfin
sudo systemctl start jellyfin

Check and see if it is running:

sudo systemctl status jellyfin

Now, you need to add the original Jellyfin access port (8096). This will open the access for public (any IP):

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=8096/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload

You can also limit the IPs who can have access to your Jellyfin website.

Now you can access your Jellyfin website at:

http://YOU_SERVER_IP:8096

Now you should be able to go through the setup wizard for Jellyfin!

ReferHire: Avoid it!

October 11, 2017 by Sina Jahangiri·3 Comments

ReferHire claims itself as a website that brings “peer-to-peer social hire networking”. Right after you sign up, you receive tens of invitations from CEO of companies, and Senior Engineers of IBM, and etc. So, it does not take much to realize it is a scam to steal your and your Gmail/Facebook contacts’ information and emails. The moment you figure this, you probably want to close your account, its connection with your Gmail/Facebook, and get rid of it. If ReferHire has already archived some of your info, you cannot do anything about it. But still you can close its future access. I tried more than 10 times, using different browsers to close my account, and it just does not work. It is designed this way, and you are trapped. Well, not really!

So here is the steps you need to take to get rid of ReferHire:

Go to your Profile and remove all the information you provided about your location, education, and etc.
If Gmail was used to sign up, go to Sign-in & Security settings, find “Apps with account access”, click on “Manage Apps”, and remove access of ReferHire.
If Facebook was used to sign up, go to Apps Settings, find “Logged-in with Facebook” and remove the access of ReferHire.
Go to Temp-Mail and get a new temporary email address. keep the page open since you will shortly use this address.
Go to Account & Settings on ReferHire, and add a new email address (right! use the temporary address you just obtained). Click on “Verify” to verify this new address.
After few minutes you should be able to see the verification email sent by ReferHire to your temporary email address on Temp-Mail. Go ahead and verify your account.
Go back to Account & Settings on ReferHire and make this temporary email address as your primary email.
Now you can easily remove your original email used when you signed up.
Great! now you have all your info removed from the site, and your account is not tied to your Gmail/Facebook and your email account.

PS: I usually look up the reputation of such sites before signing-up, But this time, I was just too impatient.