I have set up a file server with the current TrueNAS SCALE version.
I also have an SMB share with videos and films on it.
I was actually planning to mount this share on my TV and then be able to play videos directly from there.
Without a streaming server, just like when I insert a USB stick, only via the network.
Unfortunately, I realised that my LG TV with webOS sadly can’t do this and there is no easy way to retrofit it.
What the LG TV can do is find and integrate media servers.
I have already looked up what is available with Plex & Co.
With Plex it somehow wanted to load a streaming server and with the other programmes my share was not found.
And Plex is actually far too extensive for this.
Isn’t there a small DLNA app?
Or what is the easiest streaming server to install with SCALE?
Or is there a good guide for Plex with SCALE somewhere?
What version of truenas scale are you running?
With the upcoming electric eel release all apps will be using docker.
Theres Plex and then there is Jellyfin
You dont have to pay for plex. Just without paying you will not have hardware transcoding or the ability to use there app on devices.
Jellyfin is FREE hardware and apps.
They have instruction on how to run there docker version for servers.
I am using Dragonfish 24.04.2.3
I tried Jellyfin, but it won’t find my smb shares.
…and also Emby. And maybe others (I think I saw Logitech Media Server in there as well).
…and there’s no reason it should. Mount the relevant paths to the app as storage.
The same with Emby, did not find my shares
It shouldn’t “find your shares.” You should instead
Okay, I tried it again with jellyfin.
This time I included the shares directly when installing the app and jellyfin found them.
But my TV can’t find the jellyfin media server.
I also installed the DLNA plugin and restarted it.
But the DLNA plugin does not say Active but NotSupported.
What am I doing wrong?
After many attempts, I managed it with Emby.
Under Windows the media server is not displayed and in TrueNAS the app is constantly displayed with deploying, BUT it works.
My webOS shows the server and also plays from it without any problems.
It also looks like 4K 