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Starting the container

CLI:

docker run --rm \
    --name jellyfin \
    -p 8096:8096 \
    -e PUID=1000 \
    -e PGID=1000 \
    -e UMASK=002 \
    -e TZ="Etc/UTC" \
    -e ARGS="" \
    -e DEBUG="no" \
    -v /<host_folder_config>:/config \
    hotio/jellyfin

Compose:

version: "3.7"

services:
  jellyfin:
    container_name: jellyfin
    image: hotio/jellyfin
    ports:
      - "8096:8096"
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - UMASK=002
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
      - ARGS
      - DEBUG=no
    volumes:
      - /<host_folder_config>:/config

In most cases you'll need to add additional volumes, depending on your own personal preference, to get access to your files.

Tags

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release (latest) Releases version build
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You can also find tags that reference a commit or version number.

Configuration location

Your jellyfin configuration inside the container is stored in /config/app, to migrate from another container, you'd probably have to move your files from /config to /config/app. The following jellyfin path locations are used by default.

JELLYFIN_CONFIG_DIR="/config/app"
JELLYFIN_DATA_DIR="/config/app/data"
JELLYFIN_LOG_DIR="/config/app/log"
JELLYFIN_CACHE_DIR="/config/app/cache"

You can override these locations by setting them to a different value with a docker environment variable.

Hardware support

To make your hardware devices available inside the container use the following argument --device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri for Intel QuickSync and --device=/dev/dvb:/dev/dvb for a tuner. NVIDIA users should go visit the NVIDIA github page for instructions. For Raspberry Pi OpenMAX you'll need to use --device=/dev/vchiq:/dev/vchiq -v /opt/vc/lib:/opt/vc/lib, V4L2 will need --device=/dev/video10:/dev/video10 --device=/dev/video11:/dev/video11 --device=/dev/video12:/dev/video12 and MMAL needs --device=/dev/vcsm:/dev/vcsm or --device=/dev/vc-mem:/dev/vc-mem.

Executing your own scripts

If you have a need to do additional stuff when the container starts or stops, you can mount your script with the volume /docker/host/my-script.sh:/etc/cont-init.d/99-my-script to execute your script on container start or /docker/host/my-script.sh:/etc/cont-finish.d/99-my-script to execute it when the container stops. An example script can be seen below.

#!/usr/bin/with-contenv bash

echo "Hello, this is me, your script."

Troubleshooting a problem

By default all output is redirected to /dev/null, so you won't see anything from the application when using docker logs. Most applications write everything to a log file too. If you do want to see this output with docker logs, you can set DEBUG to yes.