#18
B+
Rank #63
Jellyfin
A free, open-source media server for streaming your own movie/TV/music library with hardware-accelerated transcoding. Standout trait is a fully open alternative to Plex/Emby with no phone-home requirement.
75.3
/ 100
⚙ Full Stack
.NET/ASP.NET Core backend handling library scanning, metadata, and transcoding; SQLite for the media library database; native clients across web, mobile, and TV platforms.
📈 Scaling Analysis
Transcoding is CPU/GPU-bound per stream on a single server process, so Jellyfin is designed around vertical scaling of one instance rather than horizontal fan-out; the SQLite library database is fine at personal/small-team scale but is a single point of contention at higher concurrency.
🚀 Running on Nexlayer
Single jellyfin pod with a PVC for the media library and SQLite config/db files; GPU passthrough is needed for hardware transcoding, which Nexlayer would need to expose via nodeSelector on a GPU-capable node pool. Official image is Docker Hub library — mirror via mirror.gcr.io/library/jellyfin.